I think Elliott is the most marginalised player in the team. He tries hard every week. He makes a few mistakes, but he does it by trying to do something.
He's only 23 so there is a lot of improvement in him. Holland suffered the same treatment on here but now he's every bodies hero.
Everyone expects these fresh first graders in an already dyfunctional team atmosphere to play all good with no errors. I bet you these same people would have been saying to get rid of thurston back when we had him...
Ive seen people bag Frawley....he made them eat those words
bag jmk...ditto
bag holland....ditto
Bagging big money players is fair game (woods, foran etc) as you would expect them to be leaders and lift the new players up. But bagging out the new players? eh, disagree.
We had many games (Broncos, Bunnies, Raiders, Roosters) that were so close, where we had either solid enough defence (Roosters to only 1 lucky try was excellent) or attack to win, but either got reffed (Broncos, Rabbitohs) or just plain unlucky/just fell short. We have not been blown away 40-0 like we did last year. I think this win might be the start of something good. I love the current 6/7/9 combo with Holland bringing that absolute rapid energy off the bench we saw in the Broncos and Eels games. Finals or not, our team is definitely getting better, one little change at a time.
We are not playing as bad as many may believe. Of course we have problems, no doubt about that. But after watching our Eels and Broncos games, I think we are on the up.