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I've had enough of this crap.
Pearce was one of the game's most promising half-backs in 2008, when the Roosters made the top four.
He used to break the line regularly, take intercepts, get repeat sets of six with a clever short-kicking game, and was the fastest in the club over 40 metres.
Think back even to 2007 and that pass from Wingy at Penrith Park, and the speed and skill shown by an enthusiastic young Pearce. While we didn't cover ourselves in glory in the 2008 finals, Pearce had a great year for such a young halfback.
What has happened to the player some Roosters fans called "Superboy" in the intervening years.
Coach Smith decided he needed to bulk up, put on the kgs, so he would become the "New Joey". Even in the last couple of weeks, this drooling idiot we have as a coach was saying how Pearce is about to "dominate" like the "new Joey".
Ahh, last thing I recall, is that the "Old Joey" hates Smith's guts, and was happy Sonny Bill smashed his head and neck into retirement, so he would no longer have to play under Mister Psychobabble Textathon.
Roosters fans... tonight was a classic example of what has happened overall to Pearce's game under Smith... despite the faith Stuart has shown in keeping him in the Origin team, let's be totally honest.
Pearce was rubbish, nowhere near Origin class. Peter Wallace is a much more Origin class halfback than the imposter we saw out there tonight. I can no longer defend the indefensible.
You can only look terrified for so long in the face of on-coming defence, you can only throw the inside pass so many times (as quickly as possible) and you can only kick down the throat of Queensland defenders, without ever once having positioned yourself or planned when you want to receive the football to kick it on the last...
You can only for so long let the classy number 9 do all the playmaking, or let the brilliant yet not-playmaking number 6 do all the line-breaking stuff...
Tonight Pearce unfortunately showed that he is not a representative class player, and with a heavy heart, I have to say his club form is very questionable these days.
St George or Balmain can have him I now reckon.
PS - oh and Smith is not off the hook either. While it's too late to save Pearce whose career has been ruined, it's not too late to save the entire rest of the Roosters squad, by dispensing with the current coaching staff and starting afresh.
Pearce was one of the game's most promising half-backs in 2008, when the Roosters made the top four.
He used to break the line regularly, take intercepts, get repeat sets of six with a clever short-kicking game, and was the fastest in the club over 40 metres.
Think back even to 2007 and that pass from Wingy at Penrith Park, and the speed and skill shown by an enthusiastic young Pearce. While we didn't cover ourselves in glory in the 2008 finals, Pearce had a great year for such a young halfback.
What has happened to the player some Roosters fans called "Superboy" in the intervening years.
Coach Smith decided he needed to bulk up, put on the kgs, so he would become the "New Joey". Even in the last couple of weeks, this drooling idiot we have as a coach was saying how Pearce is about to "dominate" like the "new Joey".
Ahh, last thing I recall, is that the "Old Joey" hates Smith's guts, and was happy Sonny Bill smashed his head and neck into retirement, so he would no longer have to play under Mister Psychobabble Textathon.
Roosters fans... tonight was a classic example of what has happened overall to Pearce's game under Smith... despite the faith Stuart has shown in keeping him in the Origin team, let's be totally honest.
Pearce was rubbish, nowhere near Origin class. Peter Wallace is a much more Origin class halfback than the imposter we saw out there tonight. I can no longer defend the indefensible.
You can only look terrified for so long in the face of on-coming defence, you can only throw the inside pass so many times (as quickly as possible) and you can only kick down the throat of Queensland defenders, without ever once having positioned yourself or planned when you want to receive the football to kick it on the last...
You can only for so long let the classy number 9 do all the playmaking, or let the brilliant yet not-playmaking number 6 do all the line-breaking stuff...
Tonight Pearce unfortunately showed that he is not a representative class player, and with a heavy heart, I have to say his club form is very questionable these days.
St George or Balmain can have him I now reckon.
PS - oh and Smith is not off the hook either. While it's too late to save Pearce whose career has been ruined, it's not too late to save the entire rest of the Roosters squad, by dispensing with the current coaching staff and starting afresh.
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