The uncomfortable truth about Schoupp

[Flanagun]

Just because a number of people have agreed with you doesn't make your view any more sensible - it just makes their view as nonsensical
as yours. It's good you have a go, I'm all for more comedy on the Kennel !!

If you like comedy, maybe I’ll put together an Aaron Schoupp defensive highlights package - complete with Benny Hill theme.

 

[bullpup71]

If you like comedy, maybe I’ll put together an Aaron Schoupp defensive highlights package - complete with Benny Hill theme.

Then after you do that maybe you could do one on Eliot I’m sure it would go for quite some time

 

[rwalker999]

If you like comedy, maybe I’ll put together an Aaron Schoupp defensive highlights package - complete with Benny Hill theme.

That would be nice !
I like Benny Hill.
I see you haven't quoted your source for Schoupp's defensive summary from last weekend.
Please tell me it wasn't you doing the count !

 

[Flanagun]

That would be nice !
I like Benny Hill.
I see you haven't quoted your source for Schoupp's defensive summary from last weekend.
Please tell me it wasn't you doing the count !

It's all there on zero tackle and nrl.com ..... come on, Mr Walker....it's easily verifiable public information. Get on Google, my friend.

 

[Flanagun]

Then after you do that maybe you could do one on Eliot I’m sure it would go for quite some time

Elliott has been playing for a lot longer and averages well over 30 tackles a game.....of course he will have more missed tackles.....but he has never displayed as much highly concentrated ineptitude as Schoupp has....particularly over the past 2 weeks....and he doesn't constantly run up off his line to create tries outside him either. Schoupp is our MVP of dud defence.

 

[craigo]

If he is shit in defence what is averillo in attack

 

[rwalker999]

It's all there on zero tackle and nrl.com ..... come on, Mr Walker....it's easily verifiable public information. Get on Google, my friend.

Well, that's great.
Someone told me recently that you can't believe everything the NRL tells you, so perhaps we shouldn't trust their stats.
As for zero tackle, the poor under funded thing, they probably get their stats from nrl.com. So your finally presented sources
could be in fact resourceful less and arguably not factual.

Anyway, I think my initial point was to consider cutting Schoupp a bit of slack at this embryonic stage of his career.
I think it's a bit premature to start critically judging him about aspects of his game. Time will be the judge and I'm sure sensibly you'd
agree.

 

[El Padrino]

Elliott has been playing for a lot longer and averages well over 30 tackles a game.....of course he will have more missed tackles.....but he has never displayed as much highly concentrated ineptitude as Schoupp has....particularly over the past 2 weeks....and he doesn't constantly run up off his line to create tries outside him either. Schoupp is our MVP of dud defence.

Fake news

 

[COVENS]

Anyone remember Elliott's debut season?

What was averaging, 3 handling errors a game?
From the bench?

 

[Flanagun]

Anyone remember Elliott's debut season?

What was averaging, 3 handling errors a game?
From the bench?

Can't have been all bad. he played rep footy the following year.

 

[COVENS]

Can't have been all bad. he played rep footy the following year.

Was that year everybody dropped out and they struggled to field teams?

 

[speedy2460]

Has anyone seen the defensive results of the other centre. I know which one I would keep.

 

[Flanagun]

Was that year everybody dropped out and they struggled to field teams?

Nope, not everybody dropped out....just a few big names....if Elliott had really been as bad as you suggest, they could have gone with many other options.

It's not my fault Schoupp can't tackle, read a defensive line or sidestep. Don't shoot the messenger

 

[Flanagun]

Has anyone seen the defensive results of the other centre. I know which one I would keep.

Hoppa has been better defensively that Schoupp. That's why Okunbor had a much better defensive game playing outside him last week.

In any case, Hoppa is gone.....hopefully after next year, Schoupp will be too.

 

[The_Chimpster]

I'm clearly in a minority here, but a number of people have agreed with me on this thread alone.....the bloke can't defend and is almost as lacking in skill as his barber.

I think the circle jerk about him is a tad too much, and he does have a lot to work on obviously as he's played less than 10 games in a side that would probably get flogged against a 2017 knights team.

He's shown glimpses of potential, so give him time

 

[Flanagun]

I think the circle jerk about him is a tad too much, and he does have a lot to work on obviously as he's played less than 10 games in a side that would probably get flogged against a 2017 knights team.

He's shown glimpses of potential, so give him time

Of course he's not all bad.....I just think the hoopla is way over the top and deserves a proportionately hyperbolic counterpoint. But shhh, don't tell anybody I said that. His d really does need a lot of work and I don't see him as a long term centre for us unless he fixes it and develops a step.

 

[COVENS]

Nope, not everybody dropped out....just a few big names....if Elliott had really been as bad as you suggest, they could have gone with many other options.

It's not my fault Schoupp can't tackle, read a defensive line or sidestep. Don't shoot the messenger

It was also the final year of City vs Country from memory? Was Elliott directly responsible for the end of the institution that was City vs Country??
Hard to say.

 

[Flanagun]

It was also the final year of City vs Country from memory? Was Elliott directly responsible for the end of the institution that was City vs Country??
Hard to say.

Oh come on, now you're just being hyperbolic. If there's one thing i would never do, it is engage in a hyperbole war

 

[COVENS]

Oh come on, now you're just being hyperbolic. If there's one thing i would never do, it is engage in a hyperbole war

Am I though? Look at the facts. Elliott played one game of City vs Country, the same year they end it. Pretty damning stuff

 

[Flanagun]

Am I though? Look at the facts. Elliott played one game of City vs Country, the same year they end it. Pretty damning stuff

They ended it because Bulldogs officials threatened to withdraw Elliott from eligibility in 2018 so he could focus on club footy. The NSWRL realised Elliott was the heart and soul of that country team and that without him, the scoreline could get really ugly.