strider said:
frankly i think this is a f**ked thread .... tim smith might not have had a blinder but he wasn't utterly sh*t either ... infact if a extremely marginal pass from timmy which put j smith in under the sticks wasn't called forward just before halftime things could have panned out very different.
1) Tim Smith DID run a few times tonight - broke the line once and could have setup a try with another run IF someone had supported him
2) No halfback is gonna look good when his team is f**king up like we did tonight .... yeah timmy f**ked up a few times himself, but lets not crucify him alone
3) We've gotta stick with him and live with some poorer games .... he's still our best 1/2 option ... and if the team lifts he'll get some more time to do his stuff
Its a case of what came first, the chicken or the egg???
Is the team's bad form the cause of his problem, or is he the cause of the team's bad form? Is it from the lack of direction he should be providing?
I think the latter. He shovels passes out INSTEAD of running to the line and then delivering. He looks scared to me..His kicking options are very ordinary - and without his kicking game he's got nothing.
PJ Marsh came to the Club as a half back. He was signed to work the scrum when he came back from New Zealand. Give him the opportunity. He was the Eels best in the final series of 2001 when he played half back.
