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Yeah, I haven’t watched to much cup this year but I think the perfect way to describe his play style so far especially running is shy. I haven’t seen the recent games so I’m probably not the best to comment so I guess how has his defence been? And I see the errors are creeping up, are they handling or more just an over playing his hand issue?
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I agree but I can't help but think there's something up with cobbo fitness-wise at the moment. Last 2 games he seems to have gotten a little bit quicker and been more involved but the 1st 4 games he looked like he was running on a treadmill a few times and he stayed out of the play. He's either come back underdone in preseason and is playing catch up, or maybe covid hit him hard.
I would much prefer TMM be the scape goat over Cobbo who just isn’t clearly ready. Although I think everyone has given up on finals realistically and developing Cobbo and maybe even Mam (once we are mathematically out of the equation not just yet) for that matter at this level might be the right thing to do. Cause at the moment Cobbo just isn’t going to go back to Q-cup and his ball playing and defense needs some serious work. It’s a tough one. I don’t think their is a clear cut pathway that will obviously work with Cobbo but lets hope he is god later down the track cause he is causing more headaches than he is solving.
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He at least deserves the opportunity, especially when the alternative is Martin.
I'd much rather pick the best candidate than tank a position because we're worried about a player's long term future who may or may not come good.
I probably worded it wrong. I genuinely view it as a 50/50 on who you go with like I can’t say how disappointed and how poor Cobbo has been with his opportunities at fullback so I would possibly go with TMM just because he can probably handle these pressures a bit better whilst actually being possibly more serviceable without being electric. Because we see what happened with Tesi and he is currently a million times better at fullback than Selwyn and only a year older and he got chewed up and spat out. I don’t think I have felt that bad for a 20 year old with the amount of slander he received because of his performances which really I put on the back of the club not himself for 2 reasons. Not having anybody better, and not developing him properly. Wasn’t Tesi’s fault that he was the best option of a bad bunch.
It’s not blooding him for a game and all will be well. This bloke has to play at fullback for realistically months. He can’t do that, I’m sorry. He isn’t fit enough for the wing let alone FB, his attack is 1/5th as potent as it was in cup, and his structural play on both sides of the ball is horrible. He is not ready and you are going to ruin the poor bastard. Take one hint and one look at Tesi the 20 year old is at a cross roads in his career because none of you have patience and have the highest of expectations he shits on Selwyn in just about every facet of FB except high balls.
yep and i reckon that will probably be the way it will go, Cobbo gets first crack and Martin trains as the back up
Like you are all jizzing yourselves that we are going to play this bloke who tee’d off against cup teams last year. TMM don’t get me wrong won’t be amazing. But Selwyn at this stage in his career is atrocious (at FB). Like new level ATROCIOUS at that position. He has no lateral movement, no ball playing ability, little support play, no game awareness, no ability to play within a structure both defensively and offensively and the inability to set and communicate about defensive structures in the line. The only thing Tesi doesn’t do of them is defend well structurally. He doesn’t do any of them amazingly but he does them. I can tell you TMM does a lot of those things better than Selwyn. We have the most error prone player in the comp from the wing at 19 years of age and you guys want to chuck him at fullback. Poor **** isn’t ready and won’t handle it and in a matter of weeks TMM will likely be up to speed.
