Billy in the 4N Final / Tournament

[CentralParkWigan]

His errors especially the dropped bomb will no doubt get highlighted BUT even without the latter part of the game I have never seen Billy so quiet. Looking at the Aus backline weakened by losses like GI, Izzy the team IMO had to rely heavily on Billy. Yet for whatever reason nothing seemed to be played through him/at him to the point that was probably his quietest game in the Green & Gold. Any ideas why? The little moment of magic for the try was Billy Slater. The lack of energy / involvement for much was not Billy.

[The Eagle]

His errors especially the dropped bomb will no doubt get highlighted BUT even without the latter part of the game I have never seen Billy so quiet. Looking at the Aus backline weakened by losses like GI, Izzy the team IMO had to rely heavily on Billy. Yet for whatever reason nothing seemed to be played through him/at him to the point that was probably his quietest game in the Green & Gold. Any ideas why? The little moment of magic for the try was Billy Slater. The lack of energy / involvement for much was not Billy.

Because its his last,he knows who will be back in contention next year

[CentralParkWigan]

Duggan? Hayne? Boyd? Gidley?

Cannot think of anybody else

[The Eagle]

Duggan? Hayne? Boyd? Gidley?

Cannot think of anybody else

The man with a better game/try strike rate than anyone in the current game ofcourse

[CentralParkWigan]

William Hopoate



The injury prone FB with off field drama is not a bad player but Slater is so much better it isn't funny.

[The Eagle]

William Hopoate
The injury prone FB with off field drama is not a bad player but Slater is so much better it isn't funny.

Id rather William than Slater anyways,but at Manly we have even better
Oldfield is faster than both of them and can only get better in time,probably end up as a winger though
because somehow Hopoate is rated higher

Stewart's strike rate > Any other fullback

My order of fullbacks would be

1 Stewart
Equal 2nd Slater,Dugan,The Count
Equal 3rd Boyd,Hayne,Hopoate,Coote
After 3rd they become less fullback and more fullhack

[simo]

nah.. its just a heap of judgment put down on slater because he dropped 1 ball..

What did locky do.. nothin.. what about the forwards? they got dominated..

Billy will be back.

[The Eagle]

nah.. its just a heap of judgment put down on slater because he dropped 1 ball..

What did locky do.. nothin.. what about the forwards? they got dominated..

Billy will be back.

Its not just the dropped bomb,he made little to no impact,nor did the forwards,Lockyer went alrightish
but Cronk seemed to play outside him,theres a lot of others who didnt perform

[CentralParkWigan]

Lockyer is living on borrowed time and IMO had a very poor game even allowing for the lack of dominance. I do think Cronk guides a team around the park well enough to add more danger and flair at 6.

Billy, I have never seen him so lack lustre. He is normally the Energizer Bunny.

[simo]

nah.. its just a heap of judgment put down on slater because he dropped 1 ball..

What did locky do.. nothin.. what about the forwards? they got dominated..

Billy will be back.

Its not just the dropped bomb,he made little to no impact,nor did the forwards,Lockyer went alrightish
but Cronk seemed to play outside him,theres a lot of others who didnt perform

the whole team was luck lustre and made no impact.. no one was good.

there was worse then Billy..

[CentralParkWigan]

Cam Smith was very good, Brent Tate whilst on the field was very good, Greg Bird was very good, Paul Gallen was decent. Cronk was decent.

[superstar5677]

The majority of the Aussies weren't up to the challenge, they probably focused on keeping Benji quiet for the game, and then the Kiwi forwards came in and flattened them. Billy just had one bad game, and he's probably already beating himself up about it enough so that we don't even have to talk about this.
And coops has been awesome
And Cam's had a great tournament, probably his best ever

[scriptyx]

Duggan? Hayne? Boyd? Gidley?

Cannot think of anybody else

The man with a better game/try strike rate than anyone in the current game ofcourse

hahahahahahaahhahahahahah I love how you think Stewart is better than Slater.....atleast Slater can get through a season without getting injured every 2nd game

Sorry mate don't wanna be harsh on you but if you really think Stewart is better than Slater than you have no idea about what makes a class footballer.

Before you mate can think about dethroning Slater he needs to worry about getting his origin spot back from Hayne (both hayne and gidley are ahead of him in the pecking order) that makes him the 4th best full back in the game

[CaptainKlutz]

I don't get it.

Billy was always there to be used but wasn't.

He got smashed a couple of times and took a while to regain composure but before and after was always there abouts..
Many times he was at dummy half getting the team going.

Was easily one of the better players for Oz.

[CentralParkWigan]

IMO Klutz that was not the Billy Slater we all know out there. From minute 1 to 80. Ignoring the mistakes he was just not involved how he normally is. I gave it some thought and think either Sheens instructed the team to play a certain way or so many players not being in the NRL play offs took their sharpness away.

Billy, Cam and Cronk are almost telepathic at their best. Given the absences for Aus I would have built my attack in the backs around Billy more than ever.

I actually think lack of ambition / fear of being bold with ball in hand typified the final and increasingly typifies big games. It was only when the Kiwis were staring defeat that they tried to be bold and ambitious. Interestingly and I fely he had a good game, Aus 6-0 up ball goes to Cooper. NZ after the previous week dropped their wings behind all the time. Man less in the line. Aus 3 men over, Cooper kicks a grubber and gets a repeat set but a simple play as you see it play and a try / 6 more points. Aus leading 12-0. I thought Cronk was unlucky with the chip and grubber kick play.