Re: quotas for next season : Thu May 21, 2009 11:22 am  

Rob from Erith wrote:

Apart from the tries he's got (including another one on Sunday) what has Luke Dorn ever done for us?? (apologies to Monty Python's Life of Brian!)

Priceless.

You've pointed out why nobody was that concerned when he left us the last time.

At the start of the season, people were crowing "oh he's so much more than just a support player and a try scorer". It was like the messiah had arrived. He's scored 8 tries - wow! You don't mind that he creates very little in attack, has a woeful kicking game and generally spends his game hiding and panicing?

Re: quotas for next season : Thu May 21, 2009 11:39 am  

Dave Lister wrote:

:lol:

Priceless.

You've pointed out why nobody was that concerned when he left us the last time.

At the start of the season, people were crowing "oh he's so much more than just a support player and a try scorer". It was like the messiah had arrived. He's scored 8 tries - wow! You don't mind that he creates very little in attack, has a woeful kicking game and generally spends his game hiding and panicing?

Sorry mate, putting in Dorn comment like that - bit of a light the blue touchpaper and stand well back moment! But I couldn't resist!

: Thu May 21, 2009 11:46 am  

didnt howell score off a dorn kick in the wakey game

: Thu May 21, 2009 11:50 am  

Luke dorn = Poacher and support runner/player, but not playmaker.
Didn't Big Mac say at the forum that a certain Curtis Melling was a playmaker??? Maybe the solution is already at the club, but I know Dorn isn't it.
Still, 8 tries is a fair return (3/4 every game) and better than his results in 2006 before he went to Salford to win trophies

: Thu May 21, 2009 11:55 am  

ed2 wrote:

didnt howell score off a dorn kick in the wakey game

Once from a Melling pass after gathering a Dorn kick and once from a Dorn offload following a Randall kick.

Re: quotas for next season : Thu May 21, 2009 12:09 pm  

Rob from Erith wrote:

Sorry mate, putting in Dorn comment like that - bit of a light the blue touchpaper and stand well back moment! But I couldn't resist!

: Thu May 21, 2009 5:23 pm  

PTB wrote:

Once from a Melling pass after gathering a Dorn kick and once from a Dorn offload following a Randall kick.

Dorn has 8 tries and 9 assists. I don't see too many #6's with better stats at this stage of the season.

: Thu May 21, 2009 5:41 pm  

jbuzza wrote:

Dorn has 8 tries and 9 assists. I don't see too many #6's with better stats at this stage of the season.

I don't see too many 6's with a worse kicking game. 9 assists means nothing either.

: Thu May 21, 2009 5:54 pm  

Dave Lister wrote:

9 assists means nothing either.

Hmmm, I thought they led to tries...

: Thu May 21, 2009 6:04 pm  

jbuzza wrote:

Hmmm, I thought they led to tries...

A dummy runner leads to a try. Doesn't mean it is recorded as an assist. If Orr puts Dorn into a nice gap and Dorn offloads to Melling in support, who gets the assist? The statistic is irrelevent in RL. Much more complicated than simply passing the ball to the scorer. Further, imagine Orr chips over and Howell collects, flicks it inside to Dorn, who gives it to Sharp who scores. I'll let you think about the rest...