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Message: [QUOTE="Ari Gold, post: 2656405, member: 1917"] Oates has never, ever looked out of place in first grade. He was exceptional as a rookie and though he was limited in his appearances last year I never thought he looked out of place. To put him back into QLD Cup now doesn't really strike me as being incremental development. More like backwards. With our backrowers, I can understand why he might not give our 17 the best balance, but I don't agree that this is helpful to his development. IMO he's well and truly proven he is above QLD Cup. Bennett seems to me to have a blanket policy of not playing forwards under 21 in the first team. His initiation of Thaiday into the team was far too slow for mine and I don't really need to go on about how stubborn he was in playing any young forwards at the Knights. In fact, I can only ever recall him successfully developing two forwards in the last 5 years - Merrin and McKinnon. As for Reed, I don't think he's that bad a players. He's slow and falls over his feet too often but he's safe under the high ball, scores the tries he should and even occasionally scores a try he's no right to. Add in his defence and he makes for a strong squad player if nothing else. Frankly, he's everything that Maranta should be but isn't (save for being safe under the high ball). For the life of me I've never seen Maranta show speed or confidence in anything except defending kicks. [/QUOTE]

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