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Message: [QUOTE="Spooky1013, post: 3142553, member: 10388"] Alrighty, I’m going to try actually posting on here and not just lurking in the background, god help me. Personally, I don't think Oates and Boyd really get along anymore at least when they’re playing together. The amount of times I saw Boyd set something up for Oates over the last few years to score a try only fumble it by being out of position or just drop it was infuriating. I also noticed that Boyd seemed to be constantly yelling at shit for brains. After a while that is got to be taxing for both of them. You either have a dude yelling at you all the time, or you play alongside someone that can’t seem to use the thing between his ears. I know people have also said oh Boyd doesn’t pass the ball to Oates so that’s why he’s terrible. Maybe Boyd doesn’t pass to Oates because he has one of two choices, run forward a couple of metres or pass it to Oates and take a gamble on whether he either drops the ball dead or manages to get pushed into touch. In a side that seems to have poor resilience to things not going our way I would also not pass to Oates. People seem to want to see what Oates would be like with a decent centre beside him, I feel like it should be the other way around. I would like to see a decent winger beside Boyd and hopefully, provided Staggs is playing and Farnsworth is on the wing, I will get to see that this weekend. I do not rate Oates anymore; he had a few good years and for whatever reason has been out of form for the last two years (likely the injuries and weird infections). At this point I doubt he will ever be the same player he once was. He seems to be caught up with the player he used to be and lacks insight into the player that he currently is. What I saw on the weekend was a left side that worked far better without Oates than with him in there. I will take a stance that is contrary to a lot of people on here in that I do not think having Boyd out there is a bad thing. The young guys like him and that is a good thing for this young side, even if we're not getting the wins at the moment. He is not the attacking weapon he used to be, but honestly with the team in its current state, he is a problem that is somewhere down the middle of the list to fix. If he is decent defensively and our problem is defence, I am failing to see why he should be booted off the island just yet. Sure, that stat does not paint a complete picture, but it still is a good stat. [/QUOTE]

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