Has your Origin team changed after that series?

Which is the the exact same thing Soward has done but with less support, and more than Mullen has done.

 

I assume you'd be defending Hindmarsh at lock to start the game?

Watmough was awesome in attack in Game III but defending him at lock was always a retard move and the jersey grabbing **** missed seven tackles.

 

Yeah, who was the stupid **** whinging when he wasn't the one called in for Game II when Jennings pulled out again... ?

 

Yeah, because Monaghan missed/"incompleted" five tackles per game in his two Origin games in the centres.....

Morris may have more raw potential than Monaghan (and I think even that's pretty debatable, but it's a fair enough thing to say) but if you look up "purple patch selection" in the dictionary, you'll see his photo (and Antonio Kaufusi's). He was playing in the local 'Gong comp for about a quarter of last year and was terrible in general for half of the season whenever he had a crack at first grade. He finally strung a few fluky games together and landed himself a Dogs contract, and now he's been lucky enough to stand in the centres for one of the best teams in the competition, finishing off simple plays and having people ooo and arr because he's big, strong, fast and plays in the backs for a top four team. He has virtually no ball skills at all, has hands like zebra feet and for someone with a reasonably good defensive technique, finds himself in the wrong spot a hell of a lot.

He's a player with some potential, but he's only quite recently convinced me he should be in first grade every week. He's not an Origin player's arsehole.

Monaghan's no star in the centres but he's solid and you know what you're going to get. The experience and general decision-making abilities he has over Morris are huge, let alone his bomb-contesting and ability to actually throw a pass to his winger that isn't completely telegraphed for ten minutes before he lets the bastard go.

Blokes like David Williams and Josh Morris just aren't special enough to pick on such little established first grade experience. If you get an Inglis then yeah, sure, but they're no Inglises. Williams in particular is someone I think could have been Origin standard in the future if we actually let him get the requisite first grade experience to improve his game first, but now we've probably ruined the guy for life.