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Ive suggested plenty of solutions in many threads recently. Reed out, maranta out, Blair out or to the bench, mcguire playing 60+ minutes, Milford to fullback, buy gagai, buy Jake friend and dump mccullough, go after a young top level prop like burgess or graham, go hard after folau, Thaiday...

Noone said anything about wingers making hitups in the middle of the field. They are supposed to take hitups from the kick return and the ensuing 2-3 plays while the props get back on side and in position. This is how it always has been and noone has said any differently, apart from you right...

Thaiday is at least a better prop than Blair, and that's saying something to how bad Blair is as a prop.

A props main job, unquestionably, is to make hitups in the middle of the field to roll the team down field. Anyone denying this does not know rugby league in any way shape or form. Blair has never done that. Last year he made less than 10 hitups in like 14/24 games iirc. This year he has...

Re: Round 3 - Broncos vs Cowboys Only a terrible coach would drop your second best player who made more metres than anyone in the entire team the previous year. Only a terrible coach would play a lazy second rower in prop. Bennett didn't get Blair off the free market, he actively recruited...

We wanted ball playing props, not terrible lazy second rowers parading as props shirking their workload and just passing instead of doing the hard yards and helping the team by doing their job. Blair is not a prop, he doesn't do any more tackles than any other prop, he doesn't have some sort...

Re: Round 3 - Broncos vs Cowboys So either Bennetts game plan is shit, Blair is shit, or both are shit. Gotcha. I bet you would be unable to find another starting prop in any game of NRL in the last 5 seasons who has only made a single hitup in even 20 minutes of game time. Blair is nor a...

Lol the stats don't tell the whole story. Defending a prop doing 1 hitup in 40+ minutes is a new low. If Bennett wants his props to be second rowers then hes showing just how bad of a decision it was to get him back.

Why is blairs tackle count being used to excuse his poor hitup count? Like I said before, mcguire made more tackles than Blair and made 12 hitups. Most props these days make 30-40 tackles and 10-20 hitups every week of the season. It is inexcusable. There is no defense for his lazy effort. He...

Lets be honest though - who really didn't see blairs efforts coming well in advance? The guy sucks. He has sucked for 3 years. Hes not a hard worker, and is most definitely not a prop. For some reason Bennett bought him to play prop. He now is the worst prop in the game. I don't think I have...

Lol so we cant judge Milford off 2 games but Granville who is playing off the bench can be judged and has already been judged as crap? Pull the other one. McCullough wouldn't make the starting team of many, if any, other teams in the nrl.

Cronk doesn't break his arm last year and QLD are gunning for 10 in a row this year. He's the 7.

On barba/hancock - they were completely different situations. Hancock was told that he was being dropped and if he put his head down and bum up and worked hard he would be rewarded with a starting spot. Barba was told he wasn't in the top 17, and that he should find another club because hes...

This doesn't hold up. Mcguire made 41 tackles compared to blairs 33, while also doing 12 hitups. James graham made 24 tackles, 20 hitups, and is the poster boy for ball playing props. There is no way anyone can defend blairs stats.

Yeh I wasn't impressed last week either. At the start queenslander and I basically messaged each other at the same time saying Blair is actually getting involved, had a fair few tackles in the first 20 minutes, but then his fantasy league points basically dried up after that. This week I...

So is the stat of 1 hitup not indicative of how many hitups Blair, one of our prop forwards who's main job is to do hitups in the middle of the field, did? Am I missing something here?

Didn't see the game, but I see Blair did a single hitup in the entire game? Is that right? Didn't take him long to revert to his *awesome* west tigers form. Great buy Bennett. People saying it was a brilliant defensive effort - again, didn't see it, but are you sure you're not mistaking poor...

Guess well see who's saying I told you so in a years time.

So basically, nothing bad about the broncos can be waynes fault?

A few games in 2013 were very good, not great. What's he done since?