jonh wrote:
Fair enough, that’s your opinion. I don’t want to focus on the negatives because he did come up with the key plays but they happened.
After watching it again I would have given it to Smithies (over McQueen) who I thought was superb. The 2 high shots probably cost him that chance too added to the fact we were behind at the time it was decided.
Huge effort in defence and the offload was fantastic for Smiths try.
Smith and Smithies are without doubt the biggest 2 improvers under the stewardship of Peet.
Fair comment on Smithies. If you take away the swinging arm he was superb. Oppo fans are predictably focusing on the high shot but the irony is he's pretty much cut all that out of his game this year but let the old Smithies resurface when, had he not done, people would be seeing the player he's become.
The reason I put Smith way above either him or McQueen can be best illustrated by that last play. Can you imagine the stick he'd have received had he not executed that perfectly? Had it been even a fraction off everyone would have been slating him. The fact that, as a young half who wasn't even first choice a few games ago, he had the courage to do that in the 77th minute of a Challenge Cup final is next level to anything Smithies or McQueen did.
You're also going overboard on his mistakes too in my opinion. Halves don't have mistake free games. If they do they aren't trying hard enough.
