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Message: [QUOTE="heartly87, post: 3081897, member: 8651"] Very astute observation mate. It was a terrible call to not play him. It comes down to Smiths ego and Bellyache making rash calls to get another dong before him and Smith retire. Smith thought he could put another game together like that origin one a few years ago but he doesn't have the juice for it these days. A balanced spine is what is required these days to win footy games. You need multiple threats to break a class defensive line and the Roosters have that in spades. You look at their spine and not one bloke is playing out of position. When they have, it also hasn't gone well for them this year. Interestingly people can point out stats and say Croft wasn't the most potent ball player for the storm. That would be true, but what i would love to know is the difference in stats of the players around him when he was there opposed to without him. Munster looked castrated against the Roosters and Smith was not much better. Croft has copped it but the bloke was part of a team who ended the year 6 points ahead of the comp. Our best patch of footy this year had 9 playing 9 a 7 playing 7 a 6 playing 6 and 1 playing 1. For me the Storm lost it when they pulled their link man from the team in favour of ball runners. Thats on Smith thinking he can play 7 and 9 at once and Bellyache believing he can still do it at his age. [/QUOTE]

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