Being the best player in a side that lost more games than it won is hardly a lot to crow about though. His form may have been good relative to a lot of his team mates, but it still wasn't particularly good.
I was talking about 2018. We were 15/9 last year.
He was better last year, but he's been on a general decline since probably 2016 and last year was easily his worst season for us. I'm not laying the blame on him for that entirely, or his decline on him entirely, but if he doesn't arrest that decline and turn it around in 2020, it's hard to see us not looking for a better value for money prospect to replace him.
I'm assuming you mean last season. And yeah I agree. He was actually very good for us last year (2018), just not in the way he was earlier in his career. When milf wasn't controlling the team, people on here, people in the media etc were all saying he needs to control the game more and work on his kicking game, he goes and does that and people complain he's not running the ball.
He played origin in the first season of his million dollar contract.
Excuses. He was never trying to play three positions. When he was fullback he only had the responsibility of a fullback and he made a very average job of it. He was moved from 5/8 because he was making a very average job of it. He gets a million a season, we expect he'll do a good job anywhere but he hasn't done that.
He did last year. He only had the responsibility of the fullback? How many other teams relied on their fullbacks to be their primary kicker AND play maker?
To be fair, I think he was mostly moved because Boyd was so busted at Fullback, not because of his own form at 5/8, although that form I'd agree was hardly world beating.
He's on his last chance by virtue of the fact his contract is up for renewal. Ideally we'd have given him a proper Halfback when Hunt left, but we didn't and now he's spent two years being largely wasted. A chunk of that is his fault and a chunk of it isn't, but it just so happens to be that his final contract year is also the first one he'll have alongside a genuine Halfback, so yeah, the pressure is on now for him to show that's all he's been missing. I accept that it's not totally fair, but the situation is what it is and we have to make a call inside the next 12 months about whether he has a real future at Brisbane beyond this current deal.
Actually I think you may be right. He obviously has a contract for 2020 but I can't recall if it's a player or club option for 2021.
Err,nope. When he was fullback he wasn't the playmaker. He actually seemed to do fuckall most of the time. He did come up for tge occasional kicks but it wasn't like he had a huge workload. As I said, he was average as a fullback and as a 5/8. Sorry, I know you want to defend him but your million dollar man in any team should be a star most of if not all of the time. No one could say with any honesty that Milford had a red hot go every single game.
I'm hardly one to defend Milford or say he had a great year, but honestly, saying he had the 'occasional kick' is just completely factually incorrect.
