Re: Luke McGuane = Guts
CptJonno2Madcow2005 said:
You don,t agree that Mcguane is not the only one guilty of what you have stated?
He was easily the worst offender. Easily. He somehow mistakes late spoils and bumps for toughness/aggression when it is simply dumb. Has always played that way. And his lack of comp[osure when coming out of defence is second to none. That piece of play in the last when he ran the ball out through the middle of the ground, drew a player and then didn't handpass to his teammate and got tackled and pinged was priceless.
Thursfield got the run around from Milne but was quite good defensively against the bigger guys. He is a great spoiler. Unfortunately he does not have much else to his game.
In terms of dumb free kicks, lax checking, poor decisions who else was up there with McGuane?
White was a disgrace with his tagging efforts on Goddard in the 2nd half, refused to stick to him. Don't understand what he was doing. Numerous times I watched White give Goddard a 5-10m start when the saints had possession.Goddard was the springboard for most of the saints attacks in the second half, and White was tagging him. Just a terrible effort from White, although Goddard is a beast and very hard to match up on. Jackson was probably missed in this regard.
Others I thought were poor -
Nahas - doesn't convert his chances, and the saints ran the ball out of defence too easily.
Morton - his lack of pace and defensive ability may be fatal, although he needs to be the 3rd or 4th target.
Webberly - samll, weak and poor disposal. Give him more time but jeez how many small players can we carry.
Edwards - very ordinary first half, slightly better in the 2nd but a poor game
Simmonds - the usual clunked marks (I counted 4 he seemed in the perfect position to take and he somehow conspired to drop them)
Collins - kicked 2 nice goals but he handballed to stationery target twice when a clearing kick was required. He likes doing u-turns. Hopefully with more games he comes back to his better form.
