Quote: fat faced fan "no. you're not alone. his tackling is very good, but my subjective view is that he goes in third man in to the tackle an awful lot a la monty "can't play for toffee but look at my stats" betham.
i don't see the point in bringing a plodder half way round the world. it's no more complex than that. whether he plays 20/40/60/80 minutes isn't the point, the point is that he's a plodder from what i've seen.'"
Really?? Amazing how people see things differently and I cant remember his stats ever getting mentioned??
If the rest of the team tackled like him one on one we wouldnt be conceding the mass of points we currently are. He hits hard and low and his tackling technique is by far the best in the side. Its just a shame we arent seeing it for more minutes.
In attack, he may not make the yards of others but he finds his front on most occasions. 15 yards and an age to play the ball or 10 yards and the chance of getting a roll on. I know which id take.
He's a good player, we just need to get more minutes out of him and looking at him i think he would like to be doing more.
On a similar theme, playing Ali for 70mins a game is great in the short term, but long term he will be shot. At his age, with his physique and previous track record he needs managing better surely??
he hurts players in the tackle but we do need to see more of him.
