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Adsy

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The kid lived for looking like a decoy runner then getting hit by a great pass from Joey just as he is flying through a gap. His hands let him down many a time though.
 
keeney

keeney

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If by lived you meant, did for 6 games at the beginning of 2006. His hands, defense, and positional play were negatives that far outweighed his threatening running, something that had a shorter lifespan than a fruitfly.
 
Adsy

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keeney said:
If by lived you meant, did for 6 games at the beginning of 2006. His hands, defense, and positional play were negatives that far outweighed his threatening running, something that had a shorter lifespan than a fruitfly.
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Yeah that's what I ment.

His only highlights were courtisy of the Director. A Johns.
 
Jono078

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Lol I was about to say! :lol:

What's with all the Thaiday hate all of a sudden?

Watch our game against the Dragons in '06. The thing that stood out most to me were his decoy runs, they were that good it let us get good overlap which led to Brian Carney getting his 16 tries that year.
 
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Surely we're not going to start on Thaiday again now :lol:

I decided way back then that anyone who couldn't see just what an incredibly gifted player he was (who barring injuries would easily have been one of the best 4 players at the club and one of the best fullbacks in the game) - would be someone that I never EVER trusted in terms of their opinion of a player's talent, class, or benefit to the side.

Anyone with half an eye for rugby league could tell how good Thaiday was. The Billy Slater example is an excellent one.

As for crediting his efforts to Joey, oh please! Thaiday was absolutely on fire for a while there, it had nothing to do with Joey.
 
Serc

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I get the Thaiday love...but was a massive fan of Seage at the time as well...thank goodness it wasn't up to me to pick the fullback each week!
 
Jono078

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I think most of us liked Seage aswell.

In the end the injuries on his legs took their toll and he just wasnt up to scratch.

When it comes to selecting them though it was the ultimate case of choosing one of the best attacking fullbacks or one of the best defending ones.

PS. Sorry if none of that made sense, I typed it up before and hit send but firefox stuffed up so I hit back and the post was gone.
 
keeney

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K-Man said:
Surely we're not going to start on Thaiday again now :lol:

I decided way back then that anyone who couldn't see just what an incredibly gifted player he was (who barring injuries would easily have been one of the best 4 players at the club and one of the best fullbacks in the game) - would be someone that I never EVER trusted in terms of their opinion of a player's talent, class, or benefit to the side.

Anyone with half an eye for rugby league could tell how good Thaiday was. The Billy Slater example is an excellent one.

As for crediting his efforts to Joey, oh please! Thaiday was absolutely on fire for a while there, it had nothing to do with Joey.
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Thaiday was a gifted player in attack, he was a good broken field runner, albeit very slow after the first 10m, he had good acceleration and hit holes well.

He also caught about 2 balls on the full during his tenure at the back (a number of misses leading to surrendered possession and/or opportunities that shouldn't have been offered), he attempted shoulder charges on flying players as the last line of defense and his positioning was rubbish.

He was a confidence player, and an absolute liability in the latter stages of 06 without many of his positives coming into play.

If anyone can dispute that - or have the gall to say such an incomplete player was in the top 4 fullbacks in the game - is a judge preoccupied with offense, and accordingly myopic/skewed/one-eyed.
 
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another thing - after having a look at the parramatta team sheet... i'm about 10 times more confident this week.
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Got to say, I'm just the reverse. I am confident, but much less so than against Souths. Well, if Mateo plays that it is.

I would have been stunned had we not beaten the Bunnies by at least 20, especially with Luke out for them and Bedsy back for us. Luke is very important to them, and I don't rate them anyway. Most of the games they've won were largely on sufference and being underestimated. On top of that, all the noises coming out of our camp suggested we were respecting them--more than they probably deserved to be honest but that's the way it should be.

Now certainly the Eels have also looked diabolical the past month or so, and I know Souths beat them. But their best form (which I acknowledge they haven't produced very often) is leagues ahead of Souths'. About 5 or 6 weeks ago they went through a period where they walloped Canberra and the Tigers (who were admittedly depleted) and had a narrow, somewhat unlucky loss to the Sharks. That is not the form of an easy-beat; and if Mateo plays and they rise for this occasion we could be in trouble if we underestimate them.
 
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Johns Magic

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keeney said:
Thaiday was a gifted player in attack, he was a good broken field runner, albeit very slow after the first 10m, he had good acceleration and hit holes well.

He also caught about 2 balls on the full during his tenure at the back (a number of misses leading to surrendered possession and/or opportunities that shouldn't have been offered), he attempted shoulder charges on flying players as the last line of defense and his positioning was rubbish.

He was a confidence player, and an absolute liability in the latter stages of 06 without many of his positives coming into play.

If anyone can dispute that - or have the gall to say such an incomplete player was in the top 4 fullbacks in the game - is a judge preoccupied with offense, and accordingly myopic/skewed/one-eyed.
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And if anyone can dispute that the best we've looked in the last 5 years was with him in the side, then quite frankly, they don't know how competitions are won.
 
keeney

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Johns Magic said:
And if anyone can dispute that the best we've looked in the last 5 years was with him in the side, then quite frankly, they don't know how competitions are won.
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I don't dispute that, but did that have everything to do with him? Or was he a functional member in a team with an absolutely dominant Johns? I think the latter, He was in the team for larger parts of the season than those we dominated, which were about 1/5th of the season, and even then he looked shaky in defense.
 
Bring it home Knights

Bring it home Knights

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keeney said:
I don't dispute that, but did that have everything to do with him? Or was he a functional member in a team with an absolutely dominant Johns? I think the latter, He was in the team for larger parts of the season than those we dominated, which were about 1/5th of the season, and even then he looked shaky in defense.
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Most fullbacks that played on two seriously injured ankles would be shaky in defence.
 
Joker's Wild

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Milton had alcohol problems and issues with his missus that had an obvious effect on his onfield concentration and performance. Couple that with his injury toll and he was always going to struggle to improve his game. Sad such talent was wasted really.
 
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