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Message: [QUOTE="Huge, post: 2440537, member: 1992"] Just on Hodges. Stepping up to dummy half and taking a run himself is predictable to the point that even Channel Nine commentators have noticed it. In my opinion he should shelve it. It has been unproductive for the last month or more and probably a little longer. I admit I have seen him shrug and step, push and spin his way to some great metres over the years but, just in the last few months he has seldom broken free. No matter what is said by the players, they take on board a lot of the criticisms leveled at them. A couple of months ago there was a fair bit said in the various media some of which implied Hodges, as a senior player had to step up. In the games following Hodges got into dummy half whenever a chance presented and not a single solitary break has been made by him since using this method. One person in Melbourne from the arts community didn't know what Hodges planned to do but he was the only person in Australia who was unaware !! Veteran sportsmen and women are just as easily influenced by a little snippet of information as any other people are. If doubt can be created or you can get someone thinking along a certain line then they can easily be manipulated. We see that in those mind freak type shows. A couple of days ago one of the finest examples of screwing with someones head played out on Fox Sports. The final of a professional snooker tournament (Goldfields Open) in Bendigo saw a highly credentialed veteran pro playing a somewhat lesser revered veteran. Peter Ebdon is his name. Former World Champ and multi tourney winner famous for his deliberate and careful (read dull and boring if you wish) style. I think he's won over 12 million Aussie dollars in prizemoney. No mug in other words. He's tall bald thin and real close to 40. One of the young pros( early 20s judd Trump ) tweeted about him a day or so before the final. Basically calling him dull and boring and downgrading this current achievement. Trumps young gung-ho and handsome with a glorious head of hair. He is also very very good, world top ten. Ebdon replied via twitter saying Trump was totally entitled to his opinion but pointed out he had won the World Title already and many other tourneys as well. Ebdon plays a certain way, cautious considered and seldom taking risks.Very effective. That's not how he approached the final, he tried to be something he wasn't. Without conscious effort he tried to be more Trump than Ebdon. Headf.c.ed by a smart-arse with a mobile. It was a seed planted and Ebdon was powerless to stop watering it. Ebdon should never have read what others were thinking because none of it matters. Hodges is in the same boat. He should jump into dummy half and simply spin it out, I know we have others for this but insanity is doing the same thing over and again ,each time expecting a different result.He is too predictable. [/QUOTE]

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