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Worst player you have ever seen

Ronnie Dobbs

Coach
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Mitchell Pearce makes Shane Perry look good.

And Perry was lambasted as shit. He has a ring though.

Pearce has got there on name alone.

He is barely a first grader, let alone a 10 game Origin player.

Forget Merritt last night - that rests solely on Pearces shoulders. Cronk & Thurston keep their team going when the chips are down. They take control. Pearce doesn't even know what he's doing, let alone having the responsibility of team under the pump in Origin game in Queensland.

I hope they pick and stick though. Whats one more series loss if it finally gets rid of this imposter?
 

miănfèinàn

Juniors
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50
Have a top class fullback wouldnt have saved the dogs in 94. They still have marty bella, and he's the real villian in that game. They never recovered from his mistake off the kick off

Also having a new fullback, and front rower and who ever else you picked wouldnt have kept big 'Ozzie' off the park!
Of course it wouldn’t, but how many tries could the Raiders have scored with a proper bomb-catcher at the rear?? They would never have been in a position to score their first, and Nagas’ second would have been out as well - that’s ten points as a start. More than that, how bad Wilson was as a fullback (except of course as a broken-field runner) was seen in how he missed the tackles that led to Daley’s and to some extent Nagas’ first tries. That’s twenty points for you, plus the psychological effect of such mistakes which could be worth a lot more still.

As I have hinted, the Raiders almost certainly knew before the 1994 Grand Final that if they could bomb the Bulldogs they would crush them - as they did. When Steve Martin at North Sydney in 1991 played Wilson as fullback he played Paul Conlon in the centres and let Conlon take the bombs.

The Bulldogs, however, had been playing non-specialists at fullback for a long time before acquiring Wilson from the Bears. The success of Allan Langer-sized but dreadfully injury-prone Jason Alchin (who left the Bulldogs because he wanted to play halfback) in that role during 1988 undoubtedly gave Canterbury a false impression that a specialist has no value with the “handover” rule placing fullbacks more into the threequarter line.
 
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