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Message: [QUOTE="Big Pete, post: 2684897, member: 1899"] I totally get the Brent Tate hate. He had a lot of Michael Hancock about him. Just that competitive streak where he comes off as a hot-head who hated being tackled. Also had a bit of Nate Myles as well where he'd often save his best footy for the rep arena and would look completely unco at club level. Never in the history of the game have I seen anyone slip over as much as Tate. No wonder he struggled to get Nike or somebody of that nature to sponsor him. But that's what made it so fun to support him. Because you could weasel people into thinking he was terrible and then out of no where he'd score a try like he did in that Tri Series game SF posted and look like an absolute world beater. The defining moment of his career was the 2012 series. Going in, I thought he'd be our biggest liability and really worried how he'd fair under the high ball. As it turns out, he was by far the safest player on the field and his runs from dummy half were invaluable and I'd nearly go as far to say he was the Player of the Series, he was that good. One thing a lot of fans gloss over with the Bird incident is that Tate endured a king hit in Game I (which Blues fans whinged about, how can you bin a bloke for king hitting a bloke? are you kidding me?) and that he copped a massive swinging arm from Grant and had Gal try to throw hands until King Grub fell on his peptide ridden ass like a big dummy. Tate's compromise redeemed him somewhat because if it had have been full blooded I would have found it difficult to support him but he found a reasonable and hilarious medium. [/QUOTE]

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