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Message: [QUOTE="WASSHHH, post: 2920974, member: 9424"] No vendetta at all - I just don’t agree with offering up other players as excuses for the ongoing poor performances of another just because they’re your favourite player. Your view on Gillett smacks of double standards and hypocrisy. Somehow his continual decline in attacking form is entirely and utterly someone (everyone?) else’s fault? As you say, it’s been going backwards since 2014. The only consistent factor in that equation is him but somehow you believe it is the 6 or so halfbacks he’s had inside him at the Broncos that are the problem. That is such a narrowminded and shortsighted view to have. As just one example; Cordner was damn near unstoppable in the World Cup last year, Gillett just participated in comparison. They had the same halves giving them the ball. Now, if you don’t like that comparison, just consider that I’m simply using your yardstick when judging Sims the other night. If Cordner can do it, Gillett can to - so it’s what should be expected of him. But he simply didn’t deliver the same performances as Cordner at the World Cup. Why? It obviously wasn’t Gillett’s fault, so who’s fault was it? That, and you still haven’t said who should be getting the ball at the Broncos on 4 and 5. Clearly you don’t think it should be McGuire, despite the fact that no one else seems to put their hand up, but you can’t or won’t say who it should be. Anyone can highlight a problem without providing a solution - that’s the easy part. I’m all for people having different opinions or seeing the game in a different way, but not when they’re based purely on bias. And finally, I just can’t let this slide without further comment. Lodge has played 3 games of NRL in the last 3 years - way to lump ridiculously high expectations on him. Added to that, he’s had such extraordinary scrutiny placed on him (more than I can recall on any other player), has exactly zero runs on the board in terms of NRL match fitness and is putting up great numbers in attack and defence - numbers we’ve been in dire need of for far too long. Give him time to improve the other areas of his game!! Honestly, I get the impression Lockyer would have only ever played one game for Australia if you were coaching when he stunk it up deluxe in his debut. [/QUOTE]

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