Re: For the live of God,Allah or whoever-McDermott GO!!! : Wed Sep 20, 2017 8:36 am  

tvoc wrote:

Think Millington is marginally the better of the two but it's a close call, both are very good. Had he been at Leeds the last couple of seasons he'd have played stand-off and done a better job than any of Sinfield's successors.

TBH I think Cuthbertson is a magnificent player. I'd love him at Cas. Like most of his team mates he has been poorly used at times.

[Ex-Swarcliffe Rhino]

Re: For the live of God,Allah or whoever-McDermott GO!!! : Wed Sep 20, 2017 8:53 am  

Ex-Swarcliffe Rhino wrote:

Thing is Millington just keeps getting better and better

Re: For the live of God,Allah or whoever-McDermott GO!!! : Wed Sep 20, 2017 10:22 am  

tvoc wrote:

Think Millington is marginally the better of the two but it's a close call, both are very good. Had he been at Leeds the last couple of seasons he'd have played stand-off and done a better job than any of Sinfield's successors.

I have watched plenty of Cas games over last three years, along with the Rhinos. Millington is an excellent player, quality. Cuthbertson is better though, very much. We have a quality player in Cuthbertson that could easily have been one of the best, had he been here at the right time. Cuthbertson however is very reliant on the dummy half, the difference in him with a quality dummy half is massive. You only had to see Friday night for that, Burrow in himself was very good, but not for Cuthbertson, they brought Parcell on and it was like a switch was pressed. It was the same with Aiton, and how we struggled when he wasn't replaced.

Re: For the live of God,Allah or whoever-McDermott GO!!! : Wed Sep 20, 2017 10:54 am  

tigertot wrote:

A poor man's Grant Millington.

I love this!

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Re: For the live of God,Allah or whoever-McDermott GO!!! : Wed Sep 20, 2017 11:15 am  

BrisbaneRhino wrote:

My mistake, forgot he started 2015. I don't remember too many other games, but IMO he was bog average in the 2015 GF (dropped the ball almost with his first touch IIRC) - Garbutt was better.

For all the hype about his offloading game I just haven't seen him make any difference in the key games.

CC semi against St Helens at Warrington

Re: For the live of God,Allah or whoever-McDermott GO!!! : Fri Sep 22, 2017 2:36 am  

So one game? In any event he was anonymous in the more recent cup semi (along with the other forwards).

I'll openly admit I may be biased against Cuthbertson BTW, as he was an absolute plodder in the NRL. He's probably not as bad as he appeared at times for the Knights, but equally I really think he was overhyped in 2015.

Re: For the live of God,Allah or whoever-McDermott GO!!! : Fri Sep 22, 2017 5:52 am  

BrisbaneRhino wrote:

So one game? In any event he was anonymous in the more recent cup semi (along with the other forwards).

I'll openly admit I may be biased against Cuthbertson BTW, as he was an absolute plodder in the NRL. He's probably not as bad as he appeared at times for the Knights, but equally I really think he was overhyped in 2015.

Depends what you are classing as big games. If you are meaning finals and semi finals then that would only amount to a handful of games in his Leeds career so far. The semi final against Saints was just one that came to mind.

Re: For the live of God,Allah or whoever-McDermott GO!!! : Fri Sep 22, 2017 6:42 am  

BrisbaneRhino wrote:

So one game? In any event he was anonymous in the more recent cup semi (along with the other forwards).

I'll openly admit I may be biased against Cuthbertson BTW, as he was an absolute plodder in the NRL. He's probably not as bad as he appeared at times for the Knights, but equally I really think he was overhyped in 2015.

So it's gone from he hasn't done anything in big games dating back to 2014 when he wasn't even here to he didn't do much in one recent cup game in a game where the whole team were out played. Cas players were also outplayed by Hull in the previous round so we should write them off also.

In 2015 he should've been MOS ahead of Hardaker but forwards hardly ever win it nowadays.

Re: For the live of God,Allah or whoever-McDermott GO!!! : Fri Sep 22, 2017 1:42 pm  

BrisbaneRhino wrote:

So one game? In any event he was anonymous in the more recent cup semi (along with the other forwards).

I'll openly admit I may be biased against Cuthbertson BTW, as he was an absolute plodder in the NRL. He's probably not as bad as he appeared at times for the Knights, but equally I really think he was overhyped in 2015.

I can well imagine that Cuthbertson in the NRL would not go well, especially in a Bennett side. As an up and down prop he just isnt very good. His offload, which is a lot more prominent in SL, changes the entire way defenses have to respond to him which makes his actual 'prop' work much easier for him

Re: For the live of God,Allah or whoever-McDermott GO!!! : Sat Sep 23, 2017 7:34 pm  

PrinterThe wrote:

So it's gone from he hasn't done anything in big games dating back to 2014 when he wasn't even here to he didn't do much in one recent cup game in a game where the whole team were out played. Cas players were also outplayed by Hull in the previous round so we should write them off also.

In 2015 he should've been MOS ahead of Hardaker but forwards hardly ever win it nowadays.

Really? The current Steve Prescott Man of Steel is Danny Houghton