I'm happy to persist with Milford for the remainder of the season, purely because I don't think Marshall or Nikorima will be an upgrade. One thing I will not persist with is the price tag of $900,000. He's dreaming if he thinks he's worth that, my offer on the table would be a 2 year deal worth $600,000 per season.
Until he's capable of proving that he can put in 100% effort to the jersey on the field AND off the field every week, I can't see any scenario in which he's worth nearly $1m a season. He's more or less been an overweight Mitchell Moses for the last 20-25 games of his career.
And I can't believe you guys are saying things like "At least he's trying".. Get real, did you watch the game? Every time he touched the ball he either dropped it or completely ruined our momentum by being so fat and unfit that he can barely get up to play the ball..
That's bullshit. He's without a doubt been poor for the last 10 or so games, but it's not by lack of effort.
And the fat label is just another "factoid" people throw around to make themselves look smart. Milford has always had a typical islander body, and has never, ever looked like a trimmed low skin fold body builder type.
I don't know what's going on, but his confidence is shot and so is his x-factor. People used to jump on Hook for killing any creativity our players had, but that is exactly what is happening now with Bennett ball, where defense is awesome, but we are super boring in attack, and just expect our stars to conjure enough points to win.
This has been Bennett's signature footy for ages, just look at the Dragons and ourselves when we didn't have the god of rugby league pulling constant rabbits out of his hat, with 2015 being the exception (Walters takes most, if not all credit for that).
We may well win a premiership, because good defense wins titles. All it takes is for us to go on a run at the right time, while our stars fire up at the business end of the season, but don't expect us to be entertainers under WB. It will not happen, because we don't have a Darren Lockyer to perform magic on the field, and Milford is nowhere near acomplishing that... yet (hopefully).