100!!!

I think Radford is a good player. I think O'Meley is world class, Moa is good with the potential to be world class, Dowes is average and Cusack is poor this season out of our props.

I think Lauaki when he applies himself has the ability, size and strength to also be world class. He seems to be a bit lazy though and doesnt really do what he has the ability to do consistently enough for me. Which i guess is where my frustration comes from.

I do dig my heels in particularly around Radford because i think he gets a hard time from a lot on here that miss the point about him generally. He has been named at 13 for most of his FC games and was the captain in a poor team. He got stick on the back of this for not been a loose forward and for been a poor captain, both of which are unfair imo. When named at prop this season he is getting more positive reviews. I just think previous critiscisim is overly harsh for the job he does. On the flip side i've said for the last couple of years that Radford is a better back rower than Tickle. I'm now happy to admit that i think in a better side Tickle is starting to look the real deal.

We'll disagree on this point. Players with good mental strength wouldnt allow themselves to be the victim here, they'd go out and perform and maybe change the way that they play accordingly. Maybe thats the problem for Lauaki that he's struggling to adapt his game to the British style.

Fair enough, but with just one point. It's you that is making out Lauaki is considering himself a victim, and creating your own ammunition with which to tear him down on this point, on the basis of one other poster's comments. I've read the same comments and only see them as someone being wary of getting properly stuck in for fear of being penalised, which does lend itself to what I've been seeing in his performances.

I'm just not convinced that it's an issue with mental strength, personally, which is where I think you're being unreasonable. If he's being warned as soon as he enters the field of play that he's being watched, there's simply no other option for him than to curb his actions.

The silly penalties borne out of frustration are the ones he needs to get rid of, those from mis-timed tackles and the like are fine by me, they're part and parcel of a player like him, Morley, etc. That the referees seem to have a particular interest with him on this and not others in SL is the crux of the issue.

and you have just showed the board your true level in life!!

shame on you for using sensible stats and views on a Hame bashing thread shame on you, I believe you should be barred from this site for letting facts get in the way of a good player dismantling !!

But your right , and those who play around him love him to bits and look upon him as one of the UKs best impact players

We already know they are thick, we don't need you to confirm it

your an embarrasment to your club

Hmmmm abit like when you said this about a Rovers player earlier in the thread you mean




Whoopsie

I'm no member of the MrPhilb fanclub, but I'd rather read a hundred of his posts than one of yours.

but you just cant resist can you

Can't resist what? Reading your posts? I've read a few today - I've nowt better to do. Don't think I've ever replied to one of your posts before a couple of hours ago. I normally skim past them as they contain 99-100% nonsense.

you crack on and go back to that plan again because I have enough pets at home to deal with..
simple , as you think my posts are dross then dont read them and continue to skim past them rather than stalking me at all times with your anal quips

Stalking? Don't flatter yourself. I just happen to have a bit of time available to point out what a cretin you are. Incidentally, you were going to stop responding to my posts two hours ago. And yet you're still here.

Get a room you two

still reading his posts though

they love each other really!!!!

I never made some grand gesture to say that I would stop reading his posts, I just said that I usually don't. I have a bit more time on my hands than usual today. Maybe the old saying is true, and the devil really does make work for idle hands.

To test the theory, I'm off to do something that will occupy my hands for ten minutes or so.

Maybe so. Forgetting all of that for whatever reason i dont think we are getting the best of Lauaki.

We have the stats debate on here fairly regularly and they can pretty much be interpreted in whatever way they want. Whats a tackle bust for example? I believe a tackle bust may be when a player drops off a tackle but without making a clean break. Lauaki's handoff is therefore going to give him loads of tackle breaks. Doesnt mean it's the best stat though. I'd rather he ran his weight and topped the clean breaks stat.

He beats willi on that stat!! So although stats are not the be all and end all,they can make good points,ie hame is difficult to tackle,therefore usefull to the team as a whole. Even if he isn't firing on all cylinders at the mo! Which makes it exciting to think about when he is! Hopefully in time for playoffs!

Deary me, they don't allow a sense of humour in your ward?

100% agree, and it's still true of a few players despite our improvement this season (imagine how good we could be!). I think Lauaki is one who definitely deserves a bit more time though.

I think I've somehow logged on to this board in some sort of parallel universe.