Ben Hunt

[BroncosFan_Corey]

Looks like Farah got his bench spot back from Hunt.

 

[Mitch06]

Fmd, Sheens is an actual retard if he plays Farah on the day.....

 

[Battler]

Looks like Farah got his bench spot back from Hunt.

He said in his press conference that we "lacked size up the middle" with Hunt in the team. Hunt: 89kg, Farah: 88kg.

Maybe it was a Freudian slip in reference to his shit house prop selection.

 

[bazza]

Sheens just went full retard. This is a deadset joke. Hunt deserves his spot in the team again. Without Hunt the Kangaroos wouldn't even have a chance of making the final. We'd be two losses from two games. He changed the momentum of the match and helped the Kangaroos get back into the game. His introduction into the match was very smooth, especially considering it was his debut game. In comparison, Farah just complicates things. Everything just feels clunky and out of place when he comes on. There's no point playing Farah. He doesn't provide a point of difference off the bench, whereas Hunt will, and in fact did against England.

 

[Danoz Direct]

Sheens just went full retard. This is a deadset joke. Hunt deserves his spot in the team again. Without Hunt the Kangaroos wouldn't even have a chance of making the final. We'd be two losses from two games. He changed the momentum of the match and helped the Kangaroos get back into the game. His introduction into the match was very smooth, especially considering it was his debut game. In comparison, Farah just complicates things. Everything just feels clunky and out of place when he comes on. There's no point playing Farah. He doesn't provide a point of difference off the bench, whereas Hunt will, and in fact did against England.

Yeah Sheens is on something.

 

[Ari Gold]

Perhaps Farah is able to put something up Tim Sheen's middle, and that's what he's been missing?

 

[Morkel]

He said in his press conference that we "lacked size up the middle" with Hunt in the team. Hunt: 89kg, Farah: 88kg.

Maybe it was a Freudian slip in reference to his shit house prop selection.

I think it was more in terms of sacrificing a specialist forward to put Hunt on. Normally your bench guy would sub for the hooker or they'd do a bit of a backline reshuffle.

 

[Battler]

I think it was more in terms of sacrificing a specialist forward to put Hunt on. Normally your bench guy would sub for the hooker or they'd do a bit of a backline reshuffle.

Hunt and Farah would basically play the exact same role (barring injuries), except Hunt provides far more in attack within the opposition ten. He also covers DCE, who seems to always be under an injury cloud, whereas you can count on one hand the amount of times that Smith has been forced from the field via injury throughout his career.

 

[gordjw]

I think it was more in terms of sacrificing a specialist forward to put Hunt on. Normally your bench guy would sub for the hooker or they'd do a bit of a backline reshuffle.

Yeah Thaiday for Hunt was a strange sub. But that's what you get for picking a reserve half I suppose.

I really don't think much of Tim Sheens, but I understand where he's coming from. It's up to Benny to show that he's better than the incumbents now.

 

[Danoz Direct]

Yeah Thaiday for Hunt was a strange sub. But that's what you get for picking a reserve half I suppose.

I really don't think much of Tim Sheens, but I understand where he's coming from. It's up to Benny to show that he's better than the incumbents now.

He already has.

 

[gordjw]

He already has.

Oh, when?

He has to follow up last season if he wants to be the first choice Australian halfback. You shouldn't get that just for one decent season. He'll get there if he keeps working hard though, definitely talented enough.

If you mean he's better than Farah, then I'd say they're different types of players. Hunt's a specialist, and there's really no room for a specialist half on the bench. Playing all three at once last week was insane.

 

[bazza]

Oh, when?

He has to follow up last season if he wants to be the first choice Australian halfback. You shouldn't get that just for one decent season. He'll get there if he keeps working hard though, definitely talented enough.

If you mean he's better than Farah, then I'd say they're different types of players. Hunt's a specialist, and there's really no room for a specialist half on the bench. Playing all three at once last week was insane.

Farah's also a specialist 80 minute hooker like Cameron Smith. There's no room for a 80 minute hooker on the bench when you've already got one. Same thing...

As for playing all three at once being insane, it seemed to work very well. Far better than whenever Farah has come on off the bench I might add. Hunt just offers a lot more, as he can move from a playmaking role to a dummy half role, as well as just float around where needed in attack. Farah is only confined to hooker, and it get's awkward when Smith's there. It just doesn't work as well.

 

[Ari Gold]

The 3 halves thing didn't turn out to be a mess like I thought it might. It also acts as a pretty good decoy. If it were a Chris Walker like playing coming on instead of Hunt I bet that Cam Smith grubber doesn't work, but the Poms just ignored Hunt as a kick chaser and it allowed him to score.

 

[gordjw]

Farah's also a specialist 80 minute hooker like Cameron Smith. There's no room for a 80 minute hooker on the bench when you've already got one. Same thing...

As for playing all three at once being insane, it seemed to work very well. Far better than whenever Farah has come on off the bench I might add. Hunt just offers a lot more, as he can move from a playmaking role to a dummy half role, as well as just float around where needed in attack. Farah is only confined to hooker, and it get's awkward when Smith's there. It just doesn't work as well.

I wouldn't have picked Farah either. I'd pick another prop or a real utility back.

Hunt didn't do anything wrong btw, he played well, but I wouldn't have picked him on the bench last week, and I still wouldn't. Your halves need to play 80 or not at all. If DCE was so risky that we needed cover for him, he shouldn't have played, and then I'd pick Hunt in the run-on side, just like what should have happened in Origin.

 

[broncos4life]

Yeah Thaiday for Hunt was a strange sub. But that's what you get for picking a reserve half I suppose.

I really don't think much of Tim Sheens, but I understand where he's coming from. It's up to Benny to show that he's better than the incumbents now.

Which he has...

 

[broncos4life]

Oh, when?

He has to follow up last season if he wants to be the first choice Australian halfback. You shouldn't get that just for one decent season. He'll get there if he keeps working hard though, definitely talented enough.

If you mean he's better than Farah, then I'd say they're different types of players. Hunt's a specialist, and there's really no room for a specialist half on the bench. Playing all three at once last week was insane.

By your reasoning how is there room for Farah? A guy that can only play hooker who is understudy for an 80 minute that virtually never gets injured.

You say that playing all three at once was insane, however without that insanity Australia would have missed the finals for the first time ever and the match on the weekend would be a dead rubber.

I don't get it Tim

 

[gordjw]

Maybe you should read all the way to the bottom of the thread before replying. I specifically said I wouldn't have picked Farah either.

And Hunt playing at dummy half for 20 minutes is the reason we won? Come on man.
If he had replaced DCE and won the game by putting on a grubber or a bomb or by slicing through the defence, I'd be agreeing with you.

Same question I asked Danoz, when and how has he proved to be better than the three halves ahead of him for an Australian jumper (Cronk, Thurston, DCE)?

 

[broncos4life]

Maybe you should read all the way to the bottom of the thread before replying. I specifically said I wouldn't have picked Farah either.

And Hunt playing at dummy half for 20 minutes is the reason we won? Come on man.
If he had replaced DCE and won the game by putting on a grubber or a bomb or by slicing through the defence, I'd be agreeing with you.

Same question I asked Danoz, when and how has he proved to be better than the three halves ahead of him for an Australian jumper (Cronk, Thurston, DCE)?

So you honestly don't think hunt coming on changed the game? We would have won anyway? You don't think the three halves gave us attacking opportunities we didn't have for the whole game prior?

As you said, come on man