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franklin2323

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So look at Wallace's stats from the weekend.

18 tackles, 8 missed. 0 line breaks. 1 hitup. 0 metres. 1 handling error. 16 kicks

Walsh did similar was bagged. Yet certain people say Wallace played well... Sort of proves the point that I would of kept Walsh over Wallace & Walsh was bagged because people didn't like him.
 
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It was his first ever game with just about every player in the team and he was on par with the average Luke Walsh game. It was also only Round 1. He just needs to put on solid and consistent performances allowing Soward to work his magic with his kicking game. Soward is the bloke replacing Walsh despite a different number. He's the one with similar strengths and weaknesses.

Our kicking game was pretty good against Knights. Soward getting us a 40/20 and a try from his kicks. We also have a left and right footed kicker now. Helping with goals from either sidelines and in field kicks. I wouldn't say Wallace was great, but he did his job. He should get better too
 
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Stats. He didn't miss a costly tackle, held his position in the defensive line, didn't let anyone through him. He may get attributed with a missed tackle but he hits the ball runner and stops their progress. Walsh would sometimes let people run straight through him. His pass is sweeter and hits people nicely on the chest out in front whereas backline plays with Walsh looked disjointed.

He offered nothing running and kicking was just solid, overall if he keeps doing what he did he's easily ahead of Walsh, but not particularly inspiring.
 
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Proves nothing mate. Stats do not measure everything for one thing, just watching Wallace he looked better at running the team and this is a silly thread to make after 1 game, thats a terrible sample size. You may end being right but that game did nothing to prove it.
 
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Team looked so much more fluent and he was probably hard done by not to have had a try.
Kicking game was controlled rather than lofting little chips.
You can read stats all you like but watching the game tells the real story.
 
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He was good enough for us to win the game by 22 points against a team that made the GF qualifier last year.

Honestly, some people are already looking for the successor to Franze-Purtell-Walsh.

It's not a source of pride following this club that some of us do this to our players.
 
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The weak link is Kingston IMO. Even then he's not that bad, it's just that Segeyaro is that good.
 
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Yeah Segs is bouncing back from an injury and it could be a few weeks before he is back to his best.
 
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Yeah, in time he should begin to start, with Kingston moved to the bench and then eventually play the whole 80 minutes.
 
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TheFrog said:
He was good enough for us to win the game by 22 points against a team that made the GF qualifier last year.

Honestly, some people are already looking for the successor to Franze-Purtell-Walsh.

It's not a source of pride following this club that some of us do this to our players.
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For which he was credited with 0 try assists. We won on the back of a good team performance not one through dominate halves helped out by injuries to the other team. Lets see how we go this week
 
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mxlegend99 said:
The weak link is Kingston IMO. Even then he's not that bad, it's just that Segeyaro is that good.
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Last week 4 players had over 5 dummy half runs if that becomes habit we have no need for a 2nd hooker. Bring Manu in for Kingston if Seg needs a rest Taylor, Brown and Peachey can cover
 
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To be fair were we expecting to have dominant halves? These two are just supposed to do a "good enough" job and put some decent kicks in. Anything better is gravy.
 
Maroon4life

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chrisD said:
Stats. He didn't miss a costly tackle, held his position in the defensive line, didn't let anyone through him. He may get attributed with a missed tackle but he hits the ball runner and stops their progress. Walsh would sometimes let people run straight through him. His pass is sweeter and hits people nicely on the chest out in front whereas backline plays with Walsh looked disjointed.

He offered nothing running and kicking was just solid, overall if he keeps doing what he did he's easily ahead of Walsh, but not particularly inspiring.
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That's a very good summary. He's the sort of player you won't remember after a game because he didn't do anything wrong nor did he do anything memorable or game changing, the only time you'll mention him is when you wonder why there's no points in your team. He gave us several years and all i remember him for is the guy that kicked a field goal in golden point against us. Good clubman though.
 
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I thought he did ok on the weekend. Nothing Spectacular but he isn't that sort of player.

If he can get clean early ball to Whare and Idris throughout the season he will be half way to doing his job IMO. He also has a decent short kicking game which will come in very handy with the new 20m tap rules. Has a good cross field kick that lands just before the try line which will work well with Idris and our more athletic backrowers when they sub on.
 
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