why? You're literally just weakening your team to fit a player in who whilst good isn't a genuine x factor. Just to remind people Luai is a premiership and origin series winning 5/8th who incidentally has established combinations with Cleary, Api, Yeo, Martin, Burton and To'o.
you can say JAC is a better winger for sure but they're 2 different players with completely different strengths, Tupou was obviously chosen for 2 reasons being high ball and metres, and based on how game 2 panned out it was the right tactical decision, the NSW back 3 all made over 200m and was pivotal in establishing the NSW territorial dominance, the middles didn't have to waste their gas tank getting on side and taking tackle 2 and tackle 3 hit ups off their own line, Tupou's aerial threat also resulted in Holmes giving away that escort penalty which kind of turned the game on its head. You can argue JAC should've been there to start with but how do you possibly justify dropping a player who ran for 200m, 70 PCM, 10 tackle breaks, a try and a line break in a game where you won by 32 points?
We would've won by more if JAC played instead of Tupou. JAC has a better history than Tupou in Origin.
in what way would we have won by more? JAC has a better history because he played in better teams. Tupou played alot of his games during the Qld golden era, thats not to say JAC isn't a better winger Tupou isn't the scrub you're trying to paint him as. As I said JAC doesn't have the same strengths as Tupou and Tupou's strengths were a big reason why NSW were able to be so dominant
Tupou playing had literally nothing to do with us winning. I could name 5 wingers who would've done at least as goood a job. I'm not responding to anymore of your messages because your opinion is terrible.
you mean you're not responding because you're a petulant child who can't handle it when someone disagrees with you and lets not pretend this is the 1st time you've thrown your toys out of the cot on here
He will 100% be picked. Luai will select Samoa also.
I don't doubt that, I just think it's wrong
I think it's great that Origin players are opting for the 2nd tier counties for the world cup. It makes it a much better comp. I think they should go further that if you meet the criteria for NSW or QLD and also NZ or England you can do both as well. I'll be cheering for Australia, but I still want to enjoy a good contest.
I was not discussing fault, simply players that failed to live up to their potential and when it came to Hayne (who could have been the best player in the game), wasting 2 years in the US trying to make it in the NFL was a waste to that extent of his league potential
Tomorrow.
Wighton was the only shinning light in a very average performance game 1
So he was above average of a very average nsw performance
Wighton played left centre in game 1 and Burton played left centre in game 2. Burton played WAY better than Wighton in the same position.
