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Message: [QUOTE="Kooly87, post: 3202231, member: 9326"] That's the thing about Milford though. You want to earn the million dollar contracts, you want to be the marquee man, you want to tell Darren Lockyer you don't need his help (in the one thing he is apparently qualified for and actually good at), then you damn well better deliver, and not just when the conditions are 'just so', but deliver week in, week out, like the other million dollar or marquee guys out there. There is a saying in football and they use it a lot with Leo Messi: "sure, but could he do it on a cold Tuesday night away against Stoke?" In short, they're asking if he could still be the same player when the conditions don't favour him and he's got his back up against the wall and his team is under the pump. The answer in Milford's case is a fairly emphatic 'no'. For mine, Milford is the epitome of a flat track bully. He's great at playing off the front foot when his Forwards are rolling over the advantage line and Corey Oates remembers how to catch and TPJ is throwing him offloads etc. He's as good as anyone at serving it up to a hapless Titans, or Knights, or Warriors when they're just not in the contest. Some might actually say he's one of the very best at that on his day. When it's a Melbourne, or a Roosters, and they need to be chipped away at methodically, and you have to stay constantly 'on' so that you can sniff out any of the small opportunities to pounce, Milford just isn't your guy, at least not consistently. Those are the sort of games where he's behind dozens of other players in terms of who you'd rather have steering the ship. My argument is then, for the money, surely we could buy one of those dozens of players we'd rather have for those big moments and big games, because that's what wins Premierships, and outside of a golden period in 2015 where the rest of his side was playing out of it's skin, Milford just hasn't, even at his best, looked like one of those guys with ice in his veins who you just know you can turn to to get the job done. He's not terrible, or the worst player out there, and on his day in absolutely ideal conditions where everything goes in his favour, he can be brilliant, but he's woefully poor value for money when it comes to consistently winning games and Premierships, and for the money, I sincerely believe the Broncos can do better. [/QUOTE]

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