There is a difference between a forced retirement due to injury and the player getting an insurance payout of their contract (outside of the cap), and retiring because you've had enough.
I do get your point Morkel and you make a few good points, but I don't think Darius has ever fallen off tackles like he has this year. Nor do I recall him watching loose balls bounce while the opposition simply reacted first and pounced on them. His lack of ability to stretch out due to his hammies is plainly obvious and he has said himself in pressers after games that he thinks he's getting better with each game and now it's more a mental thing where he has to start trusting his body again. So he is well aware his performances are below par. There is no denying his organisational skills and his ability to play in the line at specific times earned him his test and origin spots. Now he is just plainly well below what is expected and indeed what is required from him to be our captain and full back. He said himself at the last presser 'I just need to work on my game so that I play for the full 80 minutes as 30 is not good enough'. He also said he was disappointed with his performance on Sunday, well so are a great many Bronco followers coz he just ain't cutting it like he used to and furthermore it's obvious to blind freddy that he's not got his heart in it. If he looked to be genuinely having a dig it would be an entirely different story, but to admit he had to 'work' on being switched on for a full 80 minutes well that just ensured any support I previously had for him was finally snuffed out. There may well be other health reasons we are not privy to, but if we are not told we can only judge him on his work ethic at present and it sucks big time. Perhaps Bird was brought into eventually replace him at fullback. I'd give him a go now and give Darius a serious rest to get his hammies and his mind fully rejuvenated.
Jedhead of course he can improve and of course he thinks he could improve. He still made mistakes, even the situations that came down to the refs fucking us over (him being bundled out in that second effort), he'd consider that as an error and look to not be in that situation again. But I'm sure throughout 2015 he thought he could improve too - he was making errors then too, and he was being criticised then too.
Not me! I loved that lanky ranga. :thebadmantookbaxter::thebadmantookbaxter:
If you want to see how good he could be, there is a compilation of someone's idea of the 50 best tries in nrl ever. His in the video is right up there with the best of them.
I am not looking to incite an argument, but have to disagree.
That is true. As far as I know, the main problem with the insurance not being paid was the question of why pay the fucking insurance companies at all if they aren't going to pay out? Though I wasn't aware it was also an issue with the Manly players.
