Opinion What a coach ... i love Dean Pay

[Dave0175]

Imagine being 5ft8 weighing in at 60kgs wringing wet and being asked to play on the wing against Daniel Tupu and Latrell Mitchell...
A dream come true for a young half / fullback changing clubs to forge a career

Also how good would it be to be an up and coming hooker to be told your playing half back ... albeit he did himself proud.
Imagine that
Do you think the players play spin the bottle for their positions at training

 

[doggieaaron]

But hes a good kid lol

 

[Scoooby]

Imagine being 5ft8 weighing in at 60kgs wringing wet and being asked to play on the wing against Daniel Tupu and Latrell Mitchell...
A dream come true for a young half / fullback changing clubs to forge a career

Also how good would it be to be an up and coming hooker to be told your playing half back ... albeit he did himself proud.
Imagine that
Do you think the players play spin the bottle for their positions at training

Yup, and pay is the one spinning that fucking bottle..!!!

 

[c-b-b]

Imagine how much confidence Meaney would have lost after that game. He would have been better in Canterbury Cup.

 

[Dave0175]

Imagine how much confidence Meaney would have lost after that game. He would have been better in Canterbury Cup.

I agree 100%
Poor kid
He's a good football player with a good career ahead of him

 

[Mr Invisible]

Meaney doesn't have confidence.

There are three things about Meaney I drew attention to when he first signed at the club (and was told "Oh you have to give him a chance Mr I .. don't write him off so fast"):
1. Defence - He cannot tackle and just tries to bump off attackers. Does not put body on line.
2. Attack - Doesn't inject himself in attack enough, sniff for offloads, or during support play.
3. Confidence - He's not a confident player.

The good parts about him was his speed and his handling (very safe under the high ball).

14 rounds in and it's starting to show. He's exactly the same as he was at the Knights, and it's easy to see why Knights were happy to release him and Flogger at the same time.

 

[silva]

I dont think meaney has a future in fg tbh. Dud signing. Hes too soft to play nrl. Technically hes very good but this is a collision sport. Maybe he should try oztag

 

[turveys asthma puffer]

I agree 100%
Poor kid
He's a good football player with a good career ahead of him

At 187cm he actually is around 6’2 in the imperial. I agree 90kg is too light to be playing wing in the modern game but he is good enough to play right centre and swap with Hoppa who has won a premiership at right wing.

 

[sgodllubsti]

meaney doesn't show enough..want to be in the game for mine.. like gas been mentioned previously, he wont put his body on the line, and he doesn't go searching for the ball, or be in any position should a line break be made, hes an ok player, but slightly short of being in the goid category

 

[gibbo2]

Why are people bagging Meaney ? The guy has been one of our more consistent performers. Hasn’t been outstanding , but has been reliable and solid. I would rather us be pointing the finger at our guys who are on the big coin that are not performing. Jackson and Tolman are not worth what we are paying them anymore. Great servants but ,lacking impact and sucking up a lot of cap space.

 

[The DoggFather]

I dont think meaney has a future in fg tbh. Dud signing. Hes too soft to play nrl. Technically hes very good but this is a collision sport. Maybe he should try oztag

All of pays signings apart from DWZ and maybe CHN are fucking rubbish panic buys. Waste of money from a stupid **** pretending to be a coach.

 

[GA45]

All of pays signings apart from DWZ and maybe CHN are fucking rubbish panic buys. Waste of money from a stupid **** pretending to be a coach.

I think the signings have been solid for what we have paid for them. 1.6million over 6 players was the figure someone mentioned. Now that’s impressive for a 1/5th of your squad for 2020. And there is a State of origin player and an International in those figures. The board is not wasting money as badly as some think and definitely not compared to the old board.

Patience is needed and Pay needs to go ASAP.

 

[The DoggFather]

I think the signings have been solid for what we have paid for them. 1.6million over 6 players was the figure someone mentioned. Now that’s impressive for a 1/5th of your squad for 2020. And there is a State of origin player and an International in those figures. The board is not wasting money as badly as some think and definitely not compared to the old board.

Patience is needed and Pay needs to go ASAP.

Calling Crapa an Origin player is a reach bro. **** is soft and lost his mongrel. Still surprised we got DWZ.

The rest of the money spent on the 4 players, we could of got 1 or 2 quality players.

Rushed panic buys bro.

The new board lost me by re-signing pay and letting him drive the club even more under.

 

[_G-Dog_]

Meaney doesn't have confidence.

There are three things about Meaney I drew attention to when he first signed at the club (and was told "Oh you have to give him a chance Mr I .. don't write him off so fast"):
1. Defence - He cannot tackle and just tries to bump off attackers. Does not put body on line.
2. Attack - Doesn't inject himself in attack enough, sniff for offloads, or during support play.
3. Confidence - He's not a confident player.

The good parts about him was his speed and his handling (very safe under the high ball).

14 rounds in and it's starting to show. He's exactly the same as he was at the Knights, and it's easy to see why Knights were happy to release him and Flogger at the same time.

And thats not enough for FG.. needs to spend time in lower grades to further develop..

 

[Mr Invisible]

Why are people bagging Meaney ? The guy has been one of our more consistent performers. Hasn’t been outstanding , but has been reliable and solid. I would rather us be pointing the finger at our guys who are on the big coin that are not performing. Jackson and Tolman are not worth what we are paying them anymore. Great servants but ,lacking impact and sucking up a lot of cap space.

It's easy to be consistent when you do nothing on the field but catch bombs.

Hopefully the idea is playing alongside DWZ he will learn the skills of a decent fullback.

 

[doggieaaron]

Meaney just aint strong enough he is a year away needs to hit the gym hard then he will be a weapon

 

[TalDog]

At 187cm he actually is around 6’2 in the imperial. I agree 90kg is too light to be playing wing in the modern game but he is good enough to play right centre and swap with Hoppa who has won a premiership at right wing.

That was HOPPA MKI

HOPPA MKII is faulty

 

[Novdoggie]

We'll when our kicker is a fat lazy bastard on the bench we need another goal kicker. Only once or twice a game though.

 

[shaun5150]

I like Meaney. He has a lot of toughness about him. But fucking him around like Pay does will not help him at all.
Pay has to go. Dallin can play centre and Montoya and fuck off

 

[Mr Invisible]

Theres one thing you can't teach a player to do... and that's to put his body on the line.

If you don't put your body on the line you'll always be a powderpuff who gets manhandled by stronger players.

If Nick truly is 90kgs, most players would bench that easily. After seeing Nelson Asofa-Solomona absolutely man handle Kayln Ponga the other night, if this happened to Nick on the wing he'd be in Row Z.