I'm actually really gutted for Jamayne. I've always been a big fan, lately against justification as well as popular opinion. While I follow our guys no matter their nationality or allegiance, being a Kiwi it's always meant something to me to have some Kiwi players in the squad, even though with the exception of the odd Kodi or Benji the majority of them have been marginal at best lol. So having Jamayne here, a potential world beater with seemingly all the tools, rookie of the year, big things ahead... I was looking forward to having a genuine Kiwi superstar in our team to really get behind.
So yeah, I've sat through his up and down form over the past few years, quietly willing him on to get over the hump and fully break out. Then there was the situation with his dad which I could somewhat relate with him on, and it made me feel confident that once he got over it and moved on he'd get back to his best with that added inspiration but... it's still just been up and down. Fans have turned on him in a big way and I've chosen to sit quietly while people are calling him "Isucko" (someone was on here last night almost crowing that they'd been saying that for ages now, like coming up with a playground nickname for a player is really something to be proud of? Hey we all deal with stress and pain in different ways so you do you, but jeez) and here we are, easily the worst performance of his career and one of the all-time worst for the Broncos fullstop.
So I don't know what to do, I still really like the guy and he seems like he should be a superstar but he just can't put it all together for one reason or the other, no matter how much I and decreasingly few others want him to. After last night I feel like I might need to move my eggs to the Riki or Robati baskets though... so as I said, gutted.