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Message: [QUOTE="BroncosFever, post: 3354674, member: 8670"] When Turpin came into the NRL, it was one of the more promising beginnings to an NRL career, he spent time in the halves too from memory, that's how good he was doing. He copped a few injuries and suddenly last season especially, he offered us nothing and you can usually say "well you know, if the forwards aren't giving him time and space".. however, he's got Payne Haas running wild and he still can't make the most of it, that's what hurts us a lot I reckon. Payne Haas can break half a dozen tackles and make a 20 metre carry but if the bloke passing it from dummy half is in full robot mode and just wants to hand it off to the next bloke for another carry, we're not only getting nothing from Turpin but we're not getting a whole lot out of Payne either. It has to be an individual effort whilst Turpin is our hooker because he kills the momentum with his play after someone like Payne Haas creates carnage in the middle. I know he's probably the benchmark dummy half but you look at what Cook does for Souths when he gets a bit of momentum in the ruck, imagine if we had that off the back of Payne Haas. The only thing Turpin has going for him (which is a pretty big thing) is that he's a fantastic defender but we need more from him, we need a creative dummy half to ease the pressure off of our 1 and 6 specifically. It's Macca all over again. [/QUOTE]

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