POST GAME Round 16 - Roosters vs Broncos

like or hate boyd as 1910 has said its so clear that he has lost his balance and reaction time and is not up to nrl standard these last 2 seasons. hell id even wager he would struggle in intrust.

so that begs the question why do the broncos and boyd himself persist with playing on?

im not sure if i have ever seen anything like it in nrl were a player is so far past it and is embarrassing himself yet the club and the player continue on.
im sure there has been cases but none that come to mind.

would really love to know the inner politics on why this has been aloud to drag on this long. surely the conversation has come up?
 
If the Broncos wish to regain any credibility they’ll make a big press conference celebrating Darius and his career, and also announce they’ve given him the rest of the season of fully paid as a reward. Let him go not put his body on the line on a beach.
 
Huge said:
Yes, I totally get it and sure, get the opinions that support a narrative you're (the writer) pedaling. I mean, if I were writing a piece and wanted to hammer a direction I'd probably do the same thing.

What's weird though is the team missed 39 tackles and in that piece of crap ONLY Boyd is mentioned by name. I don't know how you cannot see this kind of spiteful 'journalism' is simply a regurgitation of the muck written on this forum. I'd argue some of bhqs posters wrote this tripe. Phrases like 'phoning it in' and 'not putting his body on the line' sound familiar because the intellectual giants simply cannot string a sentence together without parroting another.

Boyd has played quite well this season and most certainly did not 'have a shocker' yesterday. Some of his team mates did though. Also just yesterday the Titans won in the dying moments and guess how the last try was scored? Someone breaks through and before you know it the fullback has to try and stop multiple attackers. Result, he gets a touch on the tryscorer, whoopdedoo! So what, he didn't stop the try and THAT try was the matchwinner. It wasn't the 11th try though. Silence. Crickets. Oh, **** no. Let's write about an absolutely inconsequential try which has zero bearing on a match.

Is there such a thing as a 'complex right step'? I mean they way it's written you'd have to assume there's such a thing, right? The writer infers that beating Boyd ONLY required the simple version of a right step and it might have been understandable and acceptable if Butcher was forced to employ the 'COMPLEX RIGHT STEP'.

The tone of a piece can be set by using the right words in just the right manner. So we have such great luminaries of the game , Mark Gottlieb, Jelisa Apps and Christian Nicolussi, all journos quoting one another with EXACTLY the same garbage we read on here. The only one with a shred of credibility is Jimmy Smith who simply asked the question 'will Gentle drop Boyd'. By the way, no he won't is your answer.

The team had 58 points points scored on them and what's the focus? Boyd slipping over trying to cover two defenders after repeated failures from his team mates. One fucking lousy try, after 50 points had been blasted past the Broncos and what's the article focused on? Absolute garbage journalism. How about talking about the players who missed 2, 3, 4, 5 tackles? Putrid.
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The fact that nearly every player was shit does not excuse, nor mitigate Boyd from being shit.
 
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TevitaPaperbagJunior said:
If the Broncos wish to regain any credibility they’ll make a big press conference celebrating Darius and his career, and also announce they’ve given him the rest of the season of fully paid as a reward. Let him go not put his body on the line on a beach.
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TBH, I think Boyd would say no, he wants to play out the last games in his career, why don't we just let him do it.
 
Huge said:
Nope. I was referring to the article as quoted. I read unbreakable's twaddle and thought how laughable it was that an internet warrior felt qualified to criticise an ex international on fullback play. I just pictured this Neville standing in front of a seated DB and the other 29 squad members with his pointer and telestrator explaining to DB where he went wrong.

I'm sure they'd all just stand and applaud, looking at DB and saying, "see Darius, that's what you should have done" whilst distancing themselves from DB and huddling around @Unbreakable and waiting for the next pearls of wisdom to drop from his lips. "Please, please Unbreakable, tell me how I can be a better halfback" says Dearden, "do me next" would shout Haas. Oh what a day, Unbreakable is finally here to teach us all.
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I feel the same about your twaddle as that you ascribe to @Unbreakable only his post was not twaddle.

We are all "internet warriors" on this Forum including you, and we all have the right to criticise those players whom we perceive as warranting that, as you do, often, like Milford. It's the very point and purpose of this Forum, or at least, a core one. The fact that a player who is subject to a poster's scrutiny is an "ex international " is IRRELEVANT to a poster's right to criticism him, unless it is to justify your moralistic homilies on what we are allowed and not allowed to do on here, particularly your self appointed role of arbiter on posts about Boyd and other protected species in your, IMO, myopic weltanschauung
 
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lynx000 said:
TBH, I think Boyd would say no, he wants to play out the last games in his career, why don't we just let him do it.
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(A) Because we have no choice and (B) because it is the right thing to do, although, referring to (A), it should have been done at the end of the 2017 season - my personal opinion of course as an internet warrior on this Forum, criticise it by all means, although I am sticking to it.
 
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MrTickyM said:
I would argue that that particular incident is the focus in this thread because you asked for a specific breakdown of what he was supposed to do. Boyd cops a bad wrap in particular because his defensive issues have been a theme over the last couple of years. I will concede that the spotlight on him intensifies because he is a whipping boy on these forums.
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Our teams defensive issues have been an issues for the past couple of years. If Boyd is repeatedly put into positions to look foolish by his teammates it’s going to occur.
 
broncsgoat said:
Our teams defensive issues have been an issues for the past couple of years. If Boyd is repeatedly put into positions to look foolish by his teammates it’s going to occur.
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Of course the front line isn't helping but it's the way he's missing them not that he's missing them. A fullback can miss a tackle, or even the attacker go over to score while you're on him but to fall over and end up on your arse all the time?

You can get outpaced and he score with you around his ankles too- all honourable deaths. When Tedesco went one on one with Sivo- did he fall over or get knocked out trying to tackle him?

I have never seen a player lose their balance so much.
 
rnabokov said:
The fact that nearly every player was shit does not excuse, nor mitigate Boyd from being shit.
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But more often than not, Boyd being shit does mitigate the fact that every player was shit. Not sure what some people are going to do in 4 weeks when Bennett, Hunt, McCullough and Boyd are finally gone from the Broncos.
 
broncsgoat said:
Our teams defensive issues have been an issues for the past couple of years. If Boyd is repeatedly put into positions to look foolish by his teammates it’s going to occur.
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That's a good point and entirely relevant. However for mine, a bit of context is required, at least as explaining why I apply my critical blowtorch to him as I do on here.

I look at Boyd's performances not in just the context of him being just a player in the 17. Rather, I look at his performances in the context of him having played over 330 games, being an ex-international, SOO veteran, a player who for many years, was a seriously good winger and FB, who repeatedly says he loves the club which gave him a chance to be a star (and have a big bank account - nothing wrong with that of course), and, who, on that basis, was signed to lead, mentor, help our coach, and inspire a relatively young and inexperienced roster.

For mine, based on the above special status Darius enjoys, a status richly deserved, his performances ought to be subject to more scrutiny than those of his less privileged teammates, in both defence and attack, and certainly more than if he was signed just to be our FB as we ventured into an uncertain future given our suspect recruitment and retention record, although that is a whole other story, in part alluded to by @Cult3 above.
 
Cult3 said:
But more often than not, Boyd being shit does mitigate the fact that every player was shit. Not sure what some people are going to do in 4 weeks when Bennett, Hunt, McCullough and Boyd are finally gone from the Broncos.
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It’ll be Milfs turn
 
Cult3 said:
But more often than not, Boyd being shit does mitigate the fact that every player was shit. Not sure what some people are going to do in 4 weeks when Bennett, Hunt, McCullough and Boyd are finally gone from the Broncos.
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Well, we don't really know that about Bennett.
 
Skathen said:
He's not played in a couple of weeks, just look at the posts before then, mountains of vitriol already exists for him.
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Possibly due to the size of his contract vs his output and the relation between that and signing other players.
 
Just listening to Gordy and Kent talk about how there has been no improvement whatsoever in the Broncos at all. In fact, they’ve gone backwards. Couldn’t be more correct.
 
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