: Sat Mar 21, 2009 7:36 pm  

wardleyred wrote:

if i turn up at a reds game for the rest of the season and seeing ratchford on the wing when he should be playing along side myler instead of mr smith i shall walk out!!!

nice knowing you then see ya next year he wont play ratchford at six because is big foreign import will sulk i mentioned this in a post in december smith not good enough replaced at souths by a 17 kid only played 25 plus games in the nrl not the quality we expected

: Sat Mar 21, 2009 7:42 pm  

fooook our big foreign import!!my gran could conjour up more magic and get involved in the game more than smith......bigger dissapointment than dorn from what i have seen in six games so far!

: Sat Mar 21, 2009 8:16 pm  

I would go with the following 17 :-

1) Wilshere
2) White/ Fitzpatrick
3) Henry
4) Talau
5) McGilvary
6) Ratchford
7) Myler
Stapleton
9) Turner
10) Cashmere
11) Adamson
12) Swain
13) Alker

14) Paul
15) Littler
16) Leuluai
17) Parker

: Sat Mar 21, 2009 8:36 pm  

there are over 5000 Smiths in the Sydney phone book we must have got the wrong number.

: Sat Mar 21, 2009 9:09 pm  

Bigpev wrote:

there are over 5000 Smiths in the Sydney phone book we must have got the wrong number.

he needs to start showing some sort of class seems to be just another body around the park, saw a little what he can do if he can be arsed he has a bit of pace he just needs a slap to get him intrested.

: Sat Mar 21, 2009 9:31 pm  

wardleyred wrote:

fooook our big foreign import!!my gran could conjour up more magic and get involved in the game more than smith......bigger dissapointment than dorn from what i have seen in six games so far!

Difference is, Dorn was and still is a class player and we made him look shi.te.

: Sat Mar 21, 2009 10:15 pm  

I thought Smith was better last night. Set up both tries.

Needs a kicking game though!

: Sun Mar 22, 2009 6:37 am  

Far be it from me to defend Smith in any way but as with Dorn in 2007 he's quickly becoming a scapegoat for the rest of our team's shortcomings. It's very hard for a stand-off to impose himself on a game in which his pack is getting beaten. That has been the case so far in every game except Celtic. In that match, behind a domiant set of forwards, we saw Smith run the show & look every inch a quality half-back.

If, and it's a very big if, our pack can get on top in a game & we still don't see anything from Smith then without doubt everyone will have been proved right. However, for the time being at least I'll reserve judgement.

: Sun Mar 22, 2009 9:02 am  

Yorkshire_Red wrote:

Far be it from me to defend Smith in any way but as with Dorn in 2007 he's quickly becoming a scapegoat for the rest of our team's shortcomings. It's very hard for a stand-off to impose himself on a game in which his pack is getting beaten. That has been the case so far in every game except Celtic. In that match, behind a domiant set of forwards, we saw Smith run the show & look every inch a quality half-back.

If, and it's a very big if, our pack can get on top in a game & we still don't see anything from Smith then without doubt everyone will have been proved right. However, for the time being at least I'll reserve judgement.

Yorkshire-red - spot on - at the start of the season I was actually optimistic that our forwards looked capable of competing and creating space for the backs to work in - against Wigan esp. 2nd half we spent most of the time in our own half - of the forwards can't drive the ball upfield then you're never going to se the best from the backs.

: Sun Mar 22, 2009 9:14 am  

Yorkshire_Red wrote:

Far be it from me to defend Smith in any way but as with Dorn in 2007 he's quickly becoming a scapegoat for the rest of our team's shortcomings. It's very hard for a stand-off to impose himself on a game in which his pack is getting beaten. That has been the case so far in every game except Celtic. In that match, behind a domiant set of forwards, we saw Smith run the show & look every inch a quality half-back.

You have to be joking. If you think that he ran that game, you haven't got a clue about RL. Even for the 20 minutes we were dominant, Smith was hardly involved. IIRC, Alker was MOM, closely followed by Stapo, Myler and Cashmere.