lol I wouldn’t go that far. The guy can play no doubt about that. He’s just very overrated and overpaid.
He was at centre for a lot of their back-end failings anyway, and he's fine there. Overpaid, but fine.
He is definitely not worth the money he has been getting. He's a shithouse fullback and an OK centre, yet he is getting huge dollars. That's not even considering what a piece of shit he is.
The dollars don’t aggravate me nearly as much as his presumptive inclusion in rep sides. Wtf is he doing in the test side? Wouldnt even pick him for NSW. He can’t pass. Whether it’s fullback or centre, he couldn’t lay on a try/line break as well as some blokes who are on a third of his money. And he can’t read opposition attacking play for shit on the wing.
I'm okay with him playing for NSW at centre. I probably wouldn't pick him anymore, but it's not a disgrace. NSW don't have a glut of centres who'd be particularly well-suited to Origin. Definitely shouldn't be in the Test side though.
NSW centre spot he should be behind Bird, Hayne, Roberts, Peachey, Mitchell, Leilua, Croker, Jennings, and I'd take an out of position Trbojevic there too.
Yeah, almost as bad, hence he's better. Don't get me wrong, the cunt has way too many derp moments for me to pick him; he's the very definition of rocks/diamonds, but he at least has exceptional moments from time to time. He can lose you a game but he can also win you one ala Game 3, 2016 when he moved into centre and beat Inglis to make the break that won them the game. I'd certainly pick him ahead of someone like Jarrod Croker.