Reliable enough IMO.

I'll have to dig out the dictaphone.

What you do in the privacy of your own home is you business.

I'm glad you admotted it in another thread as I cant find the dictaphone.

It's always balanced though.

Why can't you use your fingers like everyone else?

Considering his form has only ever dipped when his coach has shown lack of confidence in him, I doubt contract situations would have anything to do with it.

He has always looked a class above a lot of players. What you would call a matchwinner.

I know I am like a stuck record, but it is hardly coincidental that its only when he is dropped from the team that his form dips.

Have a sit down and think about the difference between not rating a player and criticising him.

Physically sick because he was worried Atkins was going to get him more like

Nonsense. His form dips were often to blame for his coaches lacking confidence in him. His failure to grasp the full back role in 2006 being gone example and Tansey finishing that season as a much safer option.

Always? When being ousted from the 17 by jordan tansey and Ryan Hall?

Eh? If he's not in the team his form dips? How does that work?

You see, this is why I love the whino fekkwittism. A player plays well in a few and we have revisionist history. Same thing if a player plays badly.

Personally, I prefer realism. Smith is in a rich vein of form over a short, very short period of time covering this season and last. Prior to that he;s been in and out of the team for varying reasons and shown indifferent form in a few positions.

No doubting the lad had potential and that is why the club has stuck with him. Its' beginning to pay off for player and club. I hope he therefore sticks with it and doesn't have his head turned.

However, you claiming he's always been a class above simply isn't true and if he leaves, we'll get Webb fit and continue to groom BJB, or whoever is next in the production line.

So thats now 3 in a row - Man of the match awards in competitive games

Grand Final, Celtic & Wakey.

Smith is a confidence player, and when you show faith in him he repays you. I don't think he's one of these players that needs a kick up the backside by dropping him, because it just knocks his confidence. There have been times from '06-early '08 where Smith has been dropped whether he's had a good game or not.
He hit a woeful patch at Fullback in 2006, the CC semi at Odsal being one of the worst, but what young player hasn't had a dip in form upon breaking into the side.
Apart from that patch his performances have been on a consistent high standard for us, including scoring some very important tries.
It's not tism (sp?) because I've always rated him and knew that given an extended run in the side, he'd be an excellent player.
A similar situation to you with Jamie Jones G1?

I'll be frank and admit no. I didn't rate JJB at all until 2004. Smith really transformed him.

Criticising a player is the same as doubting him.