How do you explan him as our halfback taking us to the finals every season, and him not being the half back we miss out. We had the likes on hayne, inu and hindmarsh to and still mamanged to miss the finals.
Im not saying he can do it all on his own, put good players around him and he fires. You got tim smith with the options of hayne, inu, mateo, grothe, hindmarsh. With his talent and the finishing ability of these guys. He is what we need.
Tim Smith had a great rookie year, but then fell away after that, for whatever reason. Even in 2007, he did not have a great year. Ill argue that finch and hanye had alot more to do with us making the prelim then smith
Look back at 2005, he did lead the try assists category, but isolate them and tell me how many were from kicks? Id say prob 70% or more and ill tell you now that you cannot forge a career from that. 2 examples:
The roosters last year forged into the top 4 based on tries from kicks, but fell away the last few weeks of the season and have gone backwards last year.
Israel Folau burst onto the scene mostly because of his leaps, but this year already he has been so much less effective, because teams have worked him out and are now running blockers in front of him.
basically a good halfback these days needs more then a good short kicking game to be successful - they need to run the ball...look at the last 3 premiership teams - orford, cronk, brisbane in 2006 im not sure but they had lockyer. We bring tim smith back and he might find some form like in 2005, but he aint going to find this electric speed!!
I was super super impressed with what keating showed this year, he looked dead set electric everytime he touched the ball and always looked dangerous. similarly, ive been very encouraged my mortimer so far. my only concern there is that they are both quite small and will both become targets in defence. other then that, id sign robson as a backup for wennie, or id b happy 2 give smith a go at wennie if he wanted that - morts/kk's form would have to be disastrous for me to give him a go ahead of them!!
