Prince Discussion

[Mr Fourex]

Re: It's time to go...

Wallace fan bots lol, thats rich coming from the guy who has done nothing but bad mouth him at every opportunity yet never recognises when he does well, but when it comes to his precious Norman he can do no wrong.

I've given Wallace credit when credit is due.......that's a lot more than I can say about others here when it comes to Prince and/or Norman.

 

[Kimlo]

Re: It's time to go...

Well Prince has been close to our worst player this year this season, there's really not much to give him credit for.

 

[Mr Fourex]

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I gave him credit for Marantas try tonight ....also gave him some credit for how the back line is getting deeper and wider, particularly against the Titans.

I'm not and haven't said he hasn't been very ordinary in some aspects tonight and in earlier games.

 

[Burg]

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Mr Fourex, I will support you on this one. If anyone has bothered to check out the stats, let me enlighten you.
Runs TB Tackles MT LB Assist T Assist
Wallace - 1 1 17 3 0 0
Prince - 3 2 25 2 1 1
Thurston - 7 1 11 3 1 1

No wonder some animals eat their young, geeze. What are you looking for, did Locky ever miss tackles or drop a ball? Thurston is in the top 3 players in the game and the stats showed who had the better game. I mean we won for goodness sake. Our wingers are finally scoring tries, our direction in attack and the width is the best I have seen since Locky, do you think that is coming from Hunt or Wallace? Hunt has had a number of games at halfback, I guess that's why we brought Prince.

 

[Kimlo]

Re: It's time to go...

Stats are not a useful way to determine halves performances.

 

[Jeba]

Re: It's time to go...

Stats are not a useful way to determine halves performances.

Not always.

But look at the difference with this team so far this year in attack. Prince hasn't been perfect so far this season but since he arrived we've been playing straighter and giving our backs more opportunities to score tries. A couple have mentioned his involvement in the first try. The pass was a beauty. But the second try he was instrumental as well. Rushed over from the right side to the left of the ruck to instigate an attacking raid. We got on the front foot following that play and it ended with a try to Hoffman.

His defensive woes in the second half were brought about by his injury. There was a set that we were defending our line and when he got injured he looked gone. Hook probably should've taken him off at that point.

Hunt had a few games in the halves last year hey? Did our attack look any better in those games than it has so far this season? Didn't think so.

 

[Kimlo]

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Don't get me wrong here, I really like Princey, I'm a big fan of him but his defence is shocking and he gets caught with the ball in hand far too often. Maybe he just needs time but if we're past origin time and he's still playing like he is now, I'd much prefer to see him in reserves. We don't owe him anything.

 

[Big Pete]

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Our best offensive performances last season coincided with Hunt playing in the halves.

 

[Jeba]

Re: It's time to go...

Our best offensive performances last season coincided with Hunt playing in the halves.

Which ones?

 

[Mr Fourex]

Re: It's time to go...

Stats are not a useful way to determine halves performances.

Yeah well ...I guess not, when it doesn't suit your argument. :biggrin:

This week alone I have seen the "stats wars" on half backs like Reynolds V Pearce ....Reynold V Walsh ..... Reynolds V the field.

TBH ....our backline movement in the last 2 1/2 games hasn't looked as good since we had locky playing last. Somewhere out there the penny's dropped with someone. Wallace has had long enough to work it out for himself.......and failed, so I you can't realistically put it all down to him.

 

[Mr Fourex]

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Our best offensive performances last season coincided with Hunt playing in the halves.

Alongside Norman .....

 

[Big Pete]

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Which ones?

vs. Canberra
vs. Manly
vs. Canterbury
vs. Melbourne

Alongside Norman ....and Wallace.

 

[Burg]

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If they don't prove your point no and if they do then yes. It's just that I get frustrated at listening to some of the comments. There has always been an agenda by many people on this forum to bring in Ben Hunt, I'm starting to wonder if his mom is here. Yes he has had a couple of better games recently, but then so has most of the players in the team. Last year I was screaming for more width in our attack, our centers and wingers were getting frost bite waiting for clean air, now they are scoring quality tries, where was Hunt then? Give me experience over youth any day.

 

[pennywisealfie]

Re: It's time to go...

Big Pete is right, Prince is shit.

Mr Fourex is right, Wallace is shit.

Lets all be friends. Negative friends.

 

[Kimlo]

Re: It's time to go...

As long as we're winning I'm happy to see no changes to the halves, but Prince needs to step up big time. With the ball in hand, besides that beautiful pass which I admit I screamed the house down when he threw it, he hasn't done much.

If he gets better/back to his best that'll be great, but if he doesn't we can't afford to keep him in, we need to do what's best for the club not the individual.

 

[Mr Fourex]

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Last year I was screaming for Hunt & Norman ......no no no, **** off fourex. Wallace beats Hunt

This year I'm screaming for Hunt & Prince .....no no no, **** off fourex. Wallace beats Prince

As you can see...I'm not anti-Hunt.

TBH....I'm quite happy for now to let Wallace and Prince be.

 

[Big Pete]

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You know that wasn't me saying that.

 

[Jeba]

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vs. Canberra
vs. Manly
vs. Canterbury
vs. Melbourne

Alongside Norman ....and Wallace.

Yeh, the combo worked so well that we reverted back to putting Norman at 5/8th.

If you really think any of those performances were better than what we've done for the last 3 weeks, you're judgement is just clouded by your agenda.