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I prefer when you use this kind of language. :)
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I prefer when you use this kind of language. :)
- Aug 25, 2018
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You must be seeing something I haven't in Macca. Here's just one clip of Jake Friend. In what parallel universe can Macca pass like this?
- Mar 7, 2008
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Oh, that's not how I would express it, I was using the direct quote from page 1, paragraph 1, line 1.
- Mar 7, 2008
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This is so on the money. I've watched McCullough from the beginning and I've never seen that skill.
- Apr 26, 2008
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Friend is better than Macca. In general there is a lack of good 9s in the comp
Smith is quite easily the best. Comparatively he is easily the best in the comp. I can't think of another player who is that far ahead of everyone in his position.
In the really good tier I'd have
Cook
Farah
Hodgson
After that in the okay to good tier
Friend
Peats
Macca - kind of
Then the rest are bog average or pretty shit.
It's definitely one of the weakest positions competition wide and it's why Macca hasn't been replaced, not because he's particularly good but because there simply is no good replacements out there and once a club finds a good 9 it's very hard to sign them away, no one has depth there.
Smith is quite easily the best. Comparatively he is easily the best in the comp. I can't think of another player who is that far ahead of everyone in his position.
In the really good tier I'd have
Cook
Farah
Hodgson
After that in the okay to good tier
Friend
Peats
Macca - kind of
Then the rest are bog average or pretty shit.
It's definitely one of the weakest positions competition wide and it's why Macca hasn't been replaced, not because he's particularly good but because there simply is no good replacements out there and once a club finds a good 9 it's very hard to sign them away, no one has depth there.
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It's a position where it seems as though there is a correct size, a goldilocks size. They all seem similar or am I just imagining that?
- Oct 17, 2013
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Friend is currently better than Macca, but he wasn't when the Origin teams were selected last year. Friend's worst is way worse than McCullough's worst. Macca is not even close to being the worst in the comp and anyone who says he is has to be trolling
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His workrate is exceptional but his passing game is by far the worst. He also seems to suck all the life out of our creativity. You would think his absence would leave a massive hole in our defence, but the games he missed last year didn't reflect that, and of course, our attack suddenly morphed into us looking like contenders.
Big Pete
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- Mar 12, 2008
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That video sums up my view of Friend. Jake backs himself on every play and while it can look spectacular, he has a tendancy to overplay the situation and doesn't trust his team-mates enough. In that situation, the 15m pass behind the play was unnecessary and ultimately resulted in a turn-over. Not content to leave things the way they were, Jake then has to give Souths a penalty and invite them down his end.
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Against the Titans. A team that would have struggled against a reserve grade Broncos team last year.
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Except for that time they beat us when McCullough happened to be playing.
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Except that has nothing to do with how terribly they played on the day. Also we were also good with Alex Glenn at hooker for that game.
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The trouble with Macca is his stats flatter him. He leads the comp's tackle count week after week, and he makes few mistakes. On paper, he's like the first guy picked.
Which means he's not someone you can tell to try harder or send to the lower grades to get his act together. He is what he is, and unfortunately, it's not the full package. It's a brutal coaching decision to tell a guy who consistently busts his guts week in, week out, and does nothing wrong, he's surplus to requirements.
It doesn't help that neither Kodi nor Milford seem capable of calling the shots either. If we had an alpha playmaker in the halves maybe we could carry's Macca's deficiencies ball in hand.
We beat Souths, Roosters and Manly convincingly during Macca's absence. You saw what happened when he returned.
- Oct 17, 2013
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The Damien cook highlights go for 1:05.
Old Mate
NRL Player
- Jul 5, 2008
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I wasn’t ripping on Macca, would legitimately like to watch a highlight reel of his. Every other Tom, Dick and Harry has one.
- Oct 17, 2013
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Bullshit. The trouble is simply that there is nobody at the club better than him and telling him that he’s surplus to requirements would be a blatant fucking lie. A hooker doesn’t call the shots. Cameron Smith does but nobody else can or should. If we are judging players on how similar they are to Smith, every single player in the game is shit.
McCulloughs passing is fine. He doesn’t throw the ball to nobody like Granville does and he doesn’t throw the ball to people’s heads like Nikorima does. He’s even obviously worked on it since last year. The fact that we are talking about him after the game on Thursday is bullshit because we did not lose because of him and he didnt do anything wrong in that game
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