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Message: [QUOTE="McHunt, post: 3493992, member: 9853"] Yes, he was "good enough" to not let us down and get the job done. It would seem miserly to deny any of these players credit after such an emphatic win and our position on the table. No one deserves our scorn. But, if you're forced to sift through and rate them or look for areas to improve, then you inevitably need to nitpick. I'm not going to bother looking for weakness in Billy's game, and certainly not this week, but if I had to rate him he wouldn't be in the top tier. I'd compare him more to Corey Jensen. Who also had a "good" game. Corey, in general, is a fair comparison to Billy. He's great value, gives his all, occasionally does enough that puts him on Fatty's radar and you think, he's not bad this bloke. I like him. But he's not in the same conversation as Payne, Patty, Capewell or Flegler. And no one is expecting him to be. Because we have those guys. If you took them out and Corey become our leader of the pack, the best we had, we'd be saying something different. But his role is not meat. It's filler. A fair indication of how good a player is travelling is how often he's gushed about in commentary. Callers rarely bag a player other than for a dumb action, preferring to dish out compliments every couple of minutes. And if they're really standing out, they'll reach for hyperbole and talk about Origin. Like they did with Walsh. Do you recall much gushing over Billy? I don't. That's why he was merely "good" and not one of our best. [/QUOTE]

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