altofts wildcat wrote:
I really dont understand the stick that Bill gets, he is good defensively, is a strong runner who is difficult to put down and has good pace.
I appreciate he cant always put his winger away but if he could do that every time he wouldn't be playing for us.
Of course not because it's the typical scapegoat b*llocks peddled on here by the same old posters.
Tupou was a Winger when he arrived not a Centre. However he has the perfect build to be a centre but converting him will take time and wasn't helped by a lengthy injury which I'm sure Belly will tell us was faked.
Defensively he's OK and he runs the ball out well. He's big and strong and he tires out the opposition and gives the pack a rest. People say he doesn't feed his Winger which again is utter crap. When a Centre feeds his Winger it's usually because an overlap has been created. It is not the Centre who creates the overlap, that happens far earlier in the piece. The classic job of the Centre is to spot this and draw the opposition Winger and release the ball. Can someone tell me who was doing this for Bill and his Winger? It certainly wasn't Miller who is the ultimate when it comes to a player who can't release the ball at the right time. Nor was it the mechanical Finn, decent at what he does but no Wally Lewis with the booming pass.
None of our Centres have had much oppurtunity to feed there wingers this year because in most games our ball movement has simply been to slow and easy to read. Only when Moore has been on the pitch which was not often enough did the ball ever go out wide quickly enough - as it happens Moore and Tupou have not been on the pitch at the same time often enough.
As both Tom, BJB and Brown get better this year and with the addision of Williams I expect to see the pacy and powerfull Tupou do very well in all respects even if he never ends up being a Neil Fox.
