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Message: [QUOTE="Pub Steak, post: 3100129, member: 9581"] I agree that players should only ever be picked on form. I also agree that the trials will be a good place to choose our best 17. I do also think that Boyd's form slump is not as much down to his body as it is to his mind. If he's training the house down and "faster than ever", yet gets on the field and just doesn't look like he's trying too hard, to me it points to his mind not allowing his body to commit. This is a common psychological problem with sports people returning from serious injuries. Add to that a player towards the end of their career with contract options, possible a mortgage or other financial commitments, a new family and a clearly influential wife (we all know wife's care more about money and having fun then what the other lads think or whether we are letting down the team), and you end up with a player who's subconsciously afraid to injure themselves. He probably wants to commit his body but mentally just can't. His only chance at a form reboot in my opinion, is to realise it's his final year of professional rugby league and that he will still get paid for the year if he injures himself. If he doesn't get injured and plays like 2015 Boyd the he might even get another year of big coin coming in. The gamble is an obvious one. Hopefully his subconscious will figure that out. [/QUOTE]

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