Should have been 'dropped' five years ago, I would rather have kept Robbie to be honest. I was hoping beyond hope Noble would take him to Wigan but never happened.

How do you mean his kicking game is poor NOW?? He has been kicking down opposition full backs throats for about four seasons. If there were only one opposition player in their half of the field, and oceans of open space to find, Deacon would find the man EVERY TIME.

Useless.

This explains why we've been well up near the top of the tree for all those years, then, and Deacon at or near the top of every kick stats list there is. But I'm sure the league tables and the records are all wrong, and you are right.

Deacon was awful on sunday, Jeffries wasn't bad. I'd seriously consider dropping him for the time being.

I don't pay any attention to stats.

Nor anything else, unless it contains alcohol, and comes in a glass vessel.

Well if the season finishes on points difference, how are you going to know who's top?

You'd never know anyway, seeing as 87.35% of all statistics are wrong.

Anybody can have a bad game Tigs

What about all the games he has won for us ??

(Hope you did not find my response insulting, offensive or in bad taste - I have to be very careful

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Just name me ONE half back in the Superleague who is better than Deacon ??

Please - only serious replies & please provide evidence.

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Rob Burrow-Appearances 1, Tries 1, Try assists 2, Offloads 2, Meters 152.

Chris Thorman-Appearances 5, Tries 1, Try assists 5, Meters 269.

Thomas Leuluai- Appearances 6, Tries 1, Try assists 2, Meters 497, Tackle busts 15, Runs from Dummy Half 26, :3a0wrje6Errors 1

(Apologies once again for not reading the thread, so if I repeat anything, sorry!).

I can't for the life of me understand what's happened to Deacon. I used to rate him pretty well. Never a flashy or highly skillful player, but always a dependable type. Rarely threw bad passes, tackled well for a small player etc.

However lately he seems to have massively suffered. The last 2 games have shown, where he seems to have thrown loads of bad or awful passes and missed tackles that you would normally expect him to get, despite his size.

Perhaps he's suffering from the confidence loss that seems to be affecting a few players, but I'm finding it very hard to defend him at the moment, as he's been playing REALLY badly.

Unfortunately, as I'm sure has been said, the lack of depth in our squad for halfbacks means that we don't have a real option to drop either Deacon or Jeffries. No matter who you put in from our current squad, I can't see them being any better there.

Top post of 2009 so far - I agree matey



Come on Tigs & you other doubters - who are ya

Opinions differ but FACTS do not lie