www.superleague.co.uk/preview/8788 Murphy Broughton Gibson Gleeson D Williams Sneyd Griffin Godwin McPherson Ashurst Dixon Wild Howarth McGoldrick Boyle James Gledhill Foran Mauro

www.superleague.co.uk/preview/8788 Murphy Broughton Gibson Gleeson D Williams Sneyd Griffin Godwin McPherson Ashurst Dixon Wild Howarth McGoldrick Boyle James Gledhill Foran Mauro

I’m not Veivers bashing at all, I’m simply questioning his choice to play Murphy over Evalds.

Niall was outstanding against Swinton and set up a cracking try with a chip and gather (Granted it was Swinton). He then stepped up against Wigan in the next friendly and defended manfully making some great one on one tackles and looking safe under the bomb. Against Catalan he scored a cracking individual try, then against Leeds he set up one try and scored a length of the field effort.
Murphy has been pretty poor, ok he showed glimpses against Hull KR, his try and last minute tackle were outstanding, but his attempt at catching the bomb, not for the first time was shocking.

I personally think form should dictate if a player gets picked and not age, but hey ho what do I know?

'but hey ho what do I know?'

Don't set your self up like that!!icon_smile.gif

Agree with all this. Murphy has improved to be fair but find it strange how he is ready for superleague every week at the same stage of his career as Evalds, who is apparently not yet ready.

Sneyd would have 30+ games under his belt by now if he was at a different club imo.

I agree wholeheartedly that a player should be selected on form,but Veivers was put into a very difficult situation when the Murphy display was below par v.Wigan
Should he drop/rest the player until he regains his form or should he test his mental strength in 2 away games where our own supporters,once again,predicted a defeat ?
When far more experienced players than Murphy have dropped high balls,at Wembley in Challenge Cup Finals,they have very quickly disappeared from the sport or their form has plummeted completely.
I think Murphy will look at this action by Veivers as helping his career enormously when it could have gone the other way.Murphy himself has shown some courage by wanting to play some testing fixtures - I hope he can show his real quality tomorrow night.
With the try that HullKR had disallowed,and the bounce of the ball for Danny Williams try,I now think the hard work is about to be rewarded.I also remember the Mom leaping for a high ball in the closing moments,last Sunday,and making an error.
I hope he is given his 3rd game on the bounce.

I didn't mean you mate and you make perfectly valid points and are quite correct in saying that form should be paramount in selecting the team. I meant more this effort about Veivers-bashing.