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Message: [QUOTE="Porthoz, post: 2956101, member: 2221"] Oates was "dropped" because Slater was selected for game 2 and Boyd was moved to the wing. You could argue that Boyd should've been dropped instead, and I would agree. This year, despite his value for the team, I have no issue with Holmes or Gagai being selected ahead of him. In hindsight though, it might have been better to move Gagai into the centres, maintain Holmes on the right, and select Oates on the left wing. The Bennett of old would definitely have done it (except to Boyd, but that's a different discussion). The current Bennett possibly not... which I would definitely have disagreed with. Whether Meninga would've done it is a good question. He wasn't quite put in such a position at any time during his tenure. There was no better player than Cooper for the left backrow edge available (including Papalii, who was in dreadful form, all the way to being demoted to reggies). Slater, Morgan, Ponga, Holmes, Gagai, Oates are far superior to the current Boyd. This shouldn't even be a discussion. Likewise with Thaiday, pretty much any other forward I listed above would be a better selection than him imo. These are your assumptions, but as I said, I don't think the selections were that bad to start with, although I don't agree with everything. After a disastrous game in Melbourne in terms of defense, and arguably a pretty dire use of Milford, Walters team came out firing in game 2, was overal the better team in that game despite all the circumstances against, and I struggle to find anything to blame Walters for. More importantly, the selection panel seems to have got the message that Hunt isn't a halfback. Although I believe selecting DCE is a step backwards (he isn't made of the fabric necessary to be an Origin player imo), it could be a genius move and give us what we've lacked after losing Thurston and Cronk. We keep going in circles, but it seems what we have vastly different opinions on how important certain selections are, the coach's approach to those, and what the team does on the field, which is by far the most important aspect of a coach's job in my opinion. I expected Qld to be overal much worse than they have been, even in game 1, and that is definitely Walters' merit. [/QUOTE]

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