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Message: [QUOTE="HarryAllan7, post: 3449164, member: 9372"] 150m per game is impressive, but it does not paper over his suspect defence, where he provides absolutely no venom, starch or aggression and is instead often lazy, ineffective and outright poor. It’s also important to consider that the majority of those 150m per game come from post contact metres, where he is wrapped up and spend 4 or 5 seconds pushing forward for 5 extra metres but in doing so, then must play the ball in an agonisingly slow manner - to completely stifle our attacking momentum. It makes his stats look impressive, but it’s holding the team as a whole back. In today’s game, a prop who averages half as many metres per game, but consistently finds his front for fast play the balls and is rock solid defensively is 10x more valuable than a pillow who would rather pad his own stats than help his team win. 15 years ago, in the days of Webcke and Civo, Haas’ performances would have been the benchmark for a front rower… now his style of play is becoming more and more worthless. Singular individual stats aren’t enough to assess a player’s performance and value to the team… don’t let the big run metres and media attention convince you he is anything more than an average asset to this team [/QUOTE]

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