well well well, i got smashed from pillar to post about bagging Hodkison by all the niff nuffs on here over the last week.
looks like Moore has had enough also when he was hooked tonight.
not is he the potential worst buy he IS the worst buy of the season and we are stuck for the next 2 and 1/2 seasons with the slowest and worst attacking half back in the comp. he has nothing, absolutely nothing and if you want to keep your heads in the sand, go ahead.
All these calls for give him time blah blah blah , reynolds killed him tonight and even Williams killed him, a under 20's player. sure his defence is good, but u dont buy a half back for defence.
the only time we scored points was when keating was half and reynolds at 5/8, i think that says enough.
he has got nothing, which i dare say i pointed out BEFORE the season started on his efforts last year.
Gus just put Reynolds price tag up a few thousand also tonight, lets hope he stays or we are doomed.
Mate i have read alot of your posts, and i agree with most of the points you make, in this case im not entirely sure.
Yes i agree tonight hed had an ordinary game, but to say because he was hooked was the reason we scored points is a little over the top.
I also agree there is something very wrong with our backline, whether thats hodkinsons or keating or moores fault im not sure, we stand way to flat, no depth at all with no one running on to the ball, when we do go to our backs its slow, passing along the line to the next bloke who is standing still going no where, the passes are never in front of the man, usually behind or up high so they have to jump for it losing any pace or anything to the move.
As with most of our trys this year they are steming from an offload from our forwards or Barba brilliance, last year we couldnt get any offloads, now it seems its the only way we have a chance to score.
Never back us to be first try scorer, because until Corey Payne comes on we dont start to even try to play, he seems to be our main ball player and to me seems to spark us into attack.
Then theres our kicking game, i dont think i have ever seen so many kicks go straight down the throats of opposing wingers and fullbacks, it gives the opposition at least an extra 20m run back, he was a really good kick for Manly, this seems to have dropped off, not just him though, Keating is just as bad.
I hope Hodko and Moore can sort this out, as i really like Hodko as a player, and obviously we need him to run the show, but he needs his outside backs to help hime out, stand deep run onto the ball, if you have a look at it now when he gets the ball and has a look, not many options out there, no one moving, he was tackled more than ever tonight due to being no better option???
Anyway as i said i read most of your posts, because i think your pretty spot on, i just hope your wrong with this one
