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Message: [QUOTE="Morkel, post: 3232646, member: 8215"] Even if his form changes, I don't want MIlford here at the Broncos. There have been too many instances that, while seemingly minor (and explained away by myself at times) add up to paint a certain picture. [B]Refusing / rejecting Lockyer's mentoring:[/B] He may just want to be his own player and saw Lockyer's mentoring as trying to mould him in to a Lockyer-style player. Or he may have seen that Lockyer's way of doing things is ultra-prep, being meticulous in everything, doing extras, taking no shortcuts, and always striving for improvement, and thought that it's not for him. [B]Benji calling out his training:[/B] Was it really just bullshit made up by a journalist to get clicks? Benji himself denied saying it and Bennett publicly backed Milford. Or did Benji actually say it, in whatever context / circumstance, and he and Bennett publicly denied it / took a pro-Milford stance for the sake of the team and not denting Milford's confidence? [B]Lack of development:[/B] Most will concede that in terms of skillset, Milford seems to have worked hard to develop his kicking game, and if credit is to be given, both his short kicking game and hard-to-take spirals are miles ahead of where he was when he first came to the Broncos. But has he improved in any other important area that is required by a half? Game management is about zero, working to a game plan or set structures seems about the same. And if anything his running game has gone backwards, he is nowhere near the tackle-breaking elusive tearaway he started out as. And it doesn't seem to be fitness or ability related, it seems to be more a case of teams figuring him out and easily containing him. I've been a defender of Milford on here, accepting his limitations in organising because he was never that kind of half. Neither was Lockyer to be fair, he needed a calm, steady halfback beside him to guide the team, move the pieces, and he would then strike when the opportunities presented. But for his running game to stagnate and decline, couples with the possibility that he showed little interest in developing, improving, or show the sort of no-stone-unturned work ethic of the game's best players, it appears to me like he just wants to play his natural game, and believes it to be sufficient enough to get him by (it's clearly not). By his age, if he was going to show some kind of maturity or awakening, it should have happened by now, and it's not worth the risk investing in him further in the hope that he just one day switches on. So yeah, long post, TLDR, I don't think Milford is worth holding on to, even at $500k, or even $350k, he doesn't seem like he'll ever be the sort of player we need in such an important position, and that's one who strives to improve and is never satisfied that they are as good as they could be. [/QUOTE]

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