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Message: [QUOTE="Ari Gold, post: 2637073, member: 1917"] [b]Re: [RUMOUR] Ben Barba to Cronulla[/b] Brett Stewart shits on Boyd. After Tomkins and Hayne he is easily the next best passer. Pretty sure he came close to the top of line break and try assists this year? He's also generally very safe and supports well. The latter is where I criticize Boyd the player. Wing play doesn't really count as the whole job in attack is to support your centre, but as a fullback, he rarely ever supports the play. I understand he's primarily a link man, but so too is a guy like Brett Stewart these days. In his six seasons playing fullback for the Knights or Dragons, Boyd has only got 10+ tries once, and in 4 of those seasons he scored 3 tries or less. Excluding last year, where he played 14 games, those 3 tries or less came over at least 22 games. Link man or not, those numbers suggest to me a player who doesn't support very well. Compare that to say a guy who creates a lot more like Cooper Cronk. He's often supporting breaks and I can remember far more Cronk tries from support play than Boyd. [/QUOTE]

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