Gould on Pearce today

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I'm not refering to you John.

New definition of everyone means only people that agree with you?

[TDK]

Really?

The older I get, the more objective I'm becoming about football.

And I can't see how people don't rate Adam Reynolds.

He's pretty much got it all.

The main difference between Pearce and Reynolds in poise, if you watch Reynolds he takes the pass on 5th tackle than he pauses for a moment to assess the situation than he acts, this is very rare for a young player, he makes it look like he has all the time in the world but in reality he is doing this in literally seconds. With Pearce, as good as many on here thinks he is, he doesn't have poise, and seems to rush his decisions which often ends up as the wrong decision.

[Guest]

I would offer you a hand Coggy, but you are taking them down one by one.

Thanks for the Entertainment

[Guest]

There is little point in wasting time arguing with nitwits like the chook pen personality Ray Stehr who has a clear vendetta against a certain player and is unable to see reason or the truth in the games he watches just like that other idiot that constantly blames Mitchell Pearce for everything.

[Rooster_6]

Really?

The older I get, the more objective I'm becoming about football.

And I can't see how people don't rate Adam Reynolds.

He's pretty much got it all.

Except a ball playing game...

[Guest]

Except a ball playing game...

yet you rate " The Teflon Kid"

maybe you dislike winners lol

[Rooster_6]

yet you rate " The Teflon Kid"

maybe you dislike winners lol

Pearce doesn't have an excellent ball playing game by any stretch of the imagination but he's effective when he plays direct and has second rowers running good overs/unders off him. His continual placing in the top 10 for line break and try assists proves this to be true.

Adam Reynolds has ONE linebreak assist to his name in his career.

[Guest]

Except a ball playing game...

that's one of the odd things about you 6, you latch onto something you believe or a single stat or harp on about the difference between this and that, and you think it answers everything. You look at things as black and white, when they're grey. Now you've found a stat that says Reynolds doesn't produce try assists, and so you've convinced yourself that the guy can't do anything with the ball. Maybe look a little deeper, and rely a bit less on just bland, isolated statistics. Maybe it's because, with the increasing emphasis on playing a structured ,Melbourne-like game at Souths, maybe it's not his role to be trying to put guys through holes? Maybe he's a step removed, and he's creating space for someone else to put someone through a hole. He may not have try assists next to his name, but I've seen him play, and he absolutely has a running game. But above all else, the game he has fits into the plan Souths have at the moment. Who's to say if he was playing at a different club, he might not play an entirely different role?

Whatever his role, for a guy with so little experience, he's stood up when it's mattered more than Pearce, who's probably played 4 or 5 games to his 1. But no, 6 can't see that, he'll just quote you a stat

[Rooster_6]

that's one of the odd things about you 6, you latch onto something you believe or a single stat or harp on about the difference between this and that, and you think it answers everything. You look at things as black and white, when they're grey. Now you've found a stat that says Reynolds doesn't produce try assists, and so you've convinced yourself that the guy can't do anything with the ball. Maybe look a little deeper, and rely a bit less on just bland, isolated statistics. Maybe it's because, with the increasing emphasis on playing a structured ,Melbourne-like game at Souths, maybe it's not his role to be trying to put guys through holes? Maybe he's a step removed, and he's creating space for someone else to put someone through a hole. He may not have try assists next to his name, but I've seen him play, and he absolutely has a running game. But above all else, the game he has fits into the plan Souths have at the moment. Who's to say if he was playing at a different club, he might not play an entirely different role?

Whatever his role, for a guy with so little experience, he's stood up when it's mattered more than Pearce, who's probably played 4 or 5 games to his 1. But no, 6 can't see that, he'll just quote you a stat

He plays his role exceptionally well but my assertion of him not having a ball playing game isn't based on a statistic, it's based on watching him play in both the 20's and now First Grade. Statistics just serve as the back up of my assertion.

Watch him closely, he has good second rowers running off him but he refuses to play into the line he always plays well before it. Reminds me of Soward during his peak with the Dragons during the Bennett era. Everything he does is well before the line and that's fine because it works for the team he plays in as the creative duties fall on other players.

Reynolds is a good club player but I disagree with those who suggest he's got the quality to be an origin player or that he's a complete player. He's very one dimensional and Mcguire has been smart enough to fully utilise that.

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Pearce doesn't have an excellent ball playing game by any stretch of the imagination but he's effective when he plays direct and has second rowers running good overs/unders off him. His continual placing in the top 10 for line break and try assists proves this to be true.

Adam Reynolds has ONE linebreak assist to his name in his career.

Yet has single handedly won more games than The Teflon Kid in that short time frame.

Sadly he will win a premiership before The Teflon Kid

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He plays his role exceptionally well but my assertion of him not having a ball playing game isn't based on a statistic, it's based on watching him play in both the 20's and now First Grade. Statistics just serve as the back up of my assertion.

Watch him closely, he has good second rowers running off him but he refuses to play into the line he always plays well before it. Reminds me of Soward during his peak with the Dragons during the Bennett era. Everything he does is well before the line and that's fine because it works for the team he plays in as the creative duties fall on other players.

Reynolds is a good club player but I disagree with those who suggest he's got the quality to be an origin player or that he's a complete player. He's very one dimensional and Mcguire has been smart enough to fully utilise that.

Soward had no running game in 09 and 10?

[Guest]

I would offer you a hand Coggy, but you are taking them down one by one.

Thanks for the Entertainment

It's pointless talking to a retard.

Chook.

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Yet has single handedly won more games than The Teflon Kid in that short time frame.

Sadly he will win a premiership before The Teflon Kid

He hasn't single handedly done squat and you know it.

[Guest]

Yet has single handedly won more games than The Teflon Kid in that short time frame.

Sadly he will win a premiership before The Teflon Kid

Given up on Soward have you? Reynolds is now your mister master?

Chook.

[Guest]

He hasn't single handedly done squat and you know it.

Which says alot about the Teflon Kid doesn't it

How many field goals has this bloke nailed to get them home, at least 3 or 4

Pearce's attempts are closer to the corner post.

Some of you blokes need to extract your hand from his pants and smell the roses