What???? You have been watching the Tahs play this year? You did watch the June tests and last Saturday right? What ever Barnes has, it's not steadiness or decision making ability.
Too true. Decision making ability? Here's how it looked on Saturday. "Fuck, what should I do? I know, I'll kick it the most in form fullback in the world and let him run it back 60 meters and we can defend our gain line."
Barnes is shit. End of story. If you disagree, I think you're high. He stands flat footed, 15 meters behind the gain line, passes the ball to no one. His fellow team mates are standing still, because if they run, he'll be a quarterback not a flyhalf to be able to pass it to them. This style of play has nothing to do with how good or how poor the forwards are contesting the breakdown.
Barnes has the ability to place kick very well and also look like a kid that got a shit prezzie at Christmas with his pissed of Sookface. He used to be a great player, but now he blows, so much so, he should quit rugby, go raise his child and let his missus go get a job. Well maybe don't go that far, but you know what I mean. He is the reason the backline sucked on Saturday. Ant Finger knows how to run great lines. He was a great center for the Reds in 2011. He didn't spend too much time on the field this year. Quade runs onto the ball and has pin point accuracy with his passes with his whole backline running at the defence creating confusion as to whom will get the ball and where are they going to run.
I'd go as far to say, if Quade gets picked for Saturday's game, keep Rob Horne in the side, because I think Quade can even make him look good.
Quade just seems to be a different player this year. He seems to have humbled and is really ready to show everyone that he is much better than the QC (Quade Cooper) from the WC. His tackling has vastly improved and he seems to be reading the game a lot better and it seems to me that he understands that it is a team game now and not all about the razzle dazzle that he is very capable of. I say give him a shot. He's got a point he wants to prove and that's the mentality you want going into this do or die affair this saturday.
FYI, I'm not Quade's mum, girlfriend or publicist. Just a Wallaby fan that REALLY, REALLY, REALLY wants to beat those kiwi bastards from across the dutch. I want those bastards to be flogged and to be flogged by a record score. I can't wait for the day.