edabomb said:
The way I see it Carneys had plenty of chances to stamp his mark on the game in the opposing 20. Jason Smith has taken a back step (to the detriment of the side) to allow this. Bottom line is all of the superstars of the game show a lot more promise than Carney has at any stage of his first grade career, hes been hyped as a future Australian half. I'll go on the record and say he'll never play rep footy.
Carney has half of the season in what on form has been one of a handful of players who have shown any spark recently in what has been the worst side in the competition since Johns came back for Newcastle. How do you expect him to show much more than he has in such a side? Especially when players seem reluctant to run off him when he has the ball, in a team which lacks any concept of attack.
If you put Benji Marshall, Tim Smith etc into our team we would not improve much as our players arent coached to play attacking football, very few guys run good decoy lines, we lack bodies in motion in the opposition 20, meaning a lack of options for our halves and our game plan focusses on 5 rucks up the middle, then kick, ignoring the other aspects of football. Our problems go much much deeper than a 19 year old halfback, who people seem so keen to lay the blame on, of course he isnt our saviour yet, our problems are entrenched in the culture that has been implemented by elliot an want be fixed until he is gone. Sadly no player (Johns excepted) could fix our woeful attack and blaming Carney for it continued misfiring is misguided to say the least.
Next year we will truely know if Carney has it or not (assuming Elliot isn't using Withers there).
