: Sat Feb 28, 2009 2:00 pm  

6Iestyn6 wrote:

Platt, Sheriffe, Jeffries, Newton, Godwin, Langley and Solomona are all dead wood in our team.

Platt, Sheriffe, Jeffries, Newton and Solomona I definatley agree are dead wood. Platt and Sheriffe would be more suited to the lower leagues. Jeffries is a border line super league standard player and Newton and Solomona are past it eack by a few years.

However I disagree with your choices on Langley and Godwin. Langley's work rate is phenominal and matched by very few in our side, he's got unbelieveable fitness and can carry on working for 80 minutes. Personally, I think he is being used incorrectly. He shouldn't be played down the middle like he has been asked to recently. The edges are where he is best. I think Godwin still has something to offer though, unlike Newton, Godwin can play 80 minutes and he has some quickness around the ruck area, sure his passing isn't spectacular and he isn't a monster in defence, but he's a hard little worker and on performances this and last season I would be selecting him in front of Terry Newton.

: Sat Feb 28, 2009 6:26 pm  

Bullpower wrote:

Didn't see the game . . . . didn't get to listen this week either , but . . .

. . . do you think it's because his heart isn't in it?

Could that said of some of the others turning in poor performances - regardless of what they may actually be saying in the press???

Perhaps. In fact, I dared to suggest that McNamara had lost the dressing room on another thread. What you are suggesting is a mighty similar suggestion indeed.

: Sat Feb 28, 2009 7:56 pm  

I'd better stop that straight away then.

Can't be doing having people think I'm you

: Sat Feb 28, 2009 10:58 pm  

martin @ bulls wrote:

Platt, Sheriffe, Jeffries, Newton and Solomona I definatley agree are dead wood...

However I disagree with your choices on Langley and Godwin. Langley's work rate is phenominal and matched by very few in our side, he's got unbelieveable fitness and can carry on working for 80 minutes. Personally, I think he is being used incorrectly. He shouldn't be played down the middle like he has been asked to recently. The edges are where he is best. I think Godwin still has something to offer though, unlike Newton, Godwin can play 80 minutes and he has some quickness around the ruck area, sure his passing isn't spectacular and he isn't a monster in defence, but he's a hard little worker and on performances this and last season I would be selecting him in front of Terry Newton.

Tend to agree with all that, but would add Deacon, Nero, Tadulala and Tupou to the list of dead wood.

: Sun Mar 01, 2009 7:27 am  

Bullpower wrote:

Can't be doing having people think I'm you

Why not? It would get you more respect on here?

: Sun Mar 01, 2009 9:27 am  

mystic eddie wrote:

Why not? It would get you more respect on here?

You reckon . . . . .

On a personal level, I don't crave the respect of others, nor acceptance, nor do I need to remind other posters of "positive"(?) things that others may have said about me

: Sun Mar 01, 2009 9:50 am  

Bullpower wrote:

nor do I need to remind other posters of "positive"(?) things that others may have said about me

That is because there has never been any.

: Sun Mar 01, 2009 12:05 pm  

How times, have changed we said he was inconsistent at best and had a great game once every blue moon, you in general responded well when he has a proper pack to work off, he will excel thanks for taking us off our hands, btw can we have halley

: Sun Mar 01, 2009 2:54 pm  

Newton has increasingly become dead wood in our side, and his performances this season have typified that.

He looks lazy, he's supposedly lost weight in the off-season but he looks even more sluggish. One of our key problems is speed around the ruck, and Newton does not give us that. I don't see any sparks of brilliance I used to from Newton, and his trademark flat-pass is horrific, just causes even more problems.

: Sun Mar 01, 2009 9:07 pm  

mystic eddie wrote:

That is because there has never been any.

....if you say so ME, if you say so