A new thread as some people have trouble once we hit 1000 posts.

As you were...

Regarding that picture on the previous thread, that was an awful tackle by Chase and he deserved more punishment than he got.

Still a better defender than Dobson.

Someone I work with is mates with Rob Crossland, apparently the current plan is to sell Dobson to Hudds.

Poor wovers!

Holdsworth to play 7 for me. Hope we get Chase still, no news is good news?

Swap for Brough?

Thought Dobbo was on a fortune. Can't see Hudds paying out a bigger salary for Dobbo for someone whose possibly not as good. Can't see it but stranger things have happend.

Totally disagree Chase is one of the worst if not the worst in SL imo, he made 102 tackles so far in the full season! and 25% of those he has missed, the only tackles I recall from Chase are high cheap shots. Now don't get me wrong Dobson is also a poor tackler however at least he makes more and misses less.

who gives crap wether he can defend. some of the best half backs have been shocking defenders... long being a classic example.... lets be fair,dobson,chase,and afew others wont be topping the tackle completed tables, but they'll all be there at the top of the assist table, and thats waht we need, a creator not a tacking machine, we had one of them in dave webber, but he was turd with ball in hand... cant have it all im afraid...and anyways, if dobson and chase could tackle, theyd both be in the nrl probably

Biggest myth going that, Long was a fine defender for a h/back and we even witnessed that during his very short time with us, as is Danny Brough.

I'd rather have Chase defending than Dobson, time after time you see Dobson at fault for tries. It's not just about the stats and missed tackles, positioning also comes into play.

Anyway I judge a half on what they create.

Agreed, I couldn't give a toss about the defensive stats of a halfback, that can be sorted by the structure of those around him.

Edit: Just seen the try assist stats, Dobbo's played 9 more games, yet created only 3 more. They're the stats I'm most interested in.

I don't disagree and I think they both offer a lot in that department and I would not be disappointed with either, however if I personally had the choice of either I would choose Dobson, for me he offers a more rounded game with his kicking ability, his try assists are actually above Chase at them minute but nothing in so both offer what we need in that dept.

Nor do I to a certain degree, however I was responding to a poster who claimed Dobbo is a one trick pony & the worst defender in SL, and the bare facts are he is not either of those things.

Dobson's played 9 more games though.

No he isn't, that's fair enough.