G&GR Wallaby player of the Year: ENG

[RugbyReg]

3 Genia
2 Palu
1 Cooper

Honorable menion to Jim Horwill who I thought had his best game for ages, and Steven Moore.

I would've preferred if Gits and Rocky decided to play from the kick off to the first half, rather than the 2nd.

Palu dropped some ball, but showed some desperation.

Smith poor?

 

[Pfitzy]

3 Genia
2 QC (Quade Cooper)
1 Palu

Honourables to TwoDads, Fat Cat, Jimmy, and Ioane

 

[Epi]

3. Sanchez
2. Earl
1. Fat Cat

Special mentions to Palu, Howill, Chisolm, Cooper, Diggers.

Gits good kicking under pressure - but what's with the non-passing??

 

[matty_k]

Genia, AAC (Adam Ashley-Cooper), Cooper

 

[Newb]

3. sanchez
2. quoooade
1. the earl

several blokes vying for that last point in my opinion. similar to views above with horwill, fat cat, palu, moore, and palu in the mix.

 

[Reddy!]

3. Genia
2. AAC (Adam Ashley-Cooper)
1. Robinson

AAC (Adam Ashley-Cooper) is now my favourite Wallaby, I love watching him play. His try reminds me of a Chris Latham try against the Highlanders at Ballymore. Not quite as good, but still impressive and desperate.

I thought Digby was good also, but wasn't used effectively at outside centre. I'm also convinced Giteau is a hopeless flyhalf, he doesn't know when to make the right decision and cannot bring players, like our wingers or Digby, into the game.

Finally, it seems like Burgess might go 0minutes in test game time this tour...

 

[waratahjesus]

3 - quade
2 - Palu
1 - AAC (Adam Ashley-Cooper)

 

[Utility Back]

1. Genia

2. AAC (Adam Ashley-Cooper)

3. Q coopers

special mention jimmy horwill
go qlders!

do votes count if their bias?

 

[Moses]

3. Benn
2. Palu
1. AAC (Adam Ashley-Cooper)

It's tough to not give Genia points, but a tighthead at Twickenham will always be a 3 for me, and AAC (Adam Ashley-Cooper)'s man-try secured the game for us..

do votes count if their bias?

All votes are biased, so yes!

 

[louie]

3. Genia
2. Cooper
1. AAC (Adam Ashley-Cooper)

mentions:
Chis, Palu (if you could catch you'd be on the list), Horwill, Fat Cat, Mitchell, Hynes, Moore and Rocky (lead well)

- Giteau: only time i was impressed with him was a couple of moments when cooper played a ball to him from the inside. When he had that scrum 5 out and he just trucked up said a lot about his mind set and why he shouldn't be no. 10. I thought he was very unimpressive tonight.

 

[Ishmael]

3. Genia
2. Palu
1. Robinson

Honourable mentions to AAC (Adam Ashley-Cooper) and Diggers.

 

[Inconceivable]

3. Genia - Keeps showing he's a very quick thinker, e.g. the try, and the long kick to the corner behind Banahan
2. Palu - Was the standout for 40 of the 55 or so minutes he played
1. AAC (Adam Ashley-Cooper)

Honorable mentions to most of our forward pack.

Gits was good in many areas as usual, but made some average decisions, e.g. running at Wilkinson twice in their 22, with men outside, and getting turned over both times.

 

[Major Spliff Biggins]

3 Genia
2 Robinson
1 Palu

Quade and AAC (Adam Ashley-Cooper) looked sharp, despite AAC (Adam Ashley-Cooper)'s occaisionally aimless kicking.

Looked better with Cooper directing traffic than Giteau

 

[Scotty]

Looked better with Cooper directing traffic than Giteau

That is an oxymoron. Giteau does not direct traffic, he takes the inside step and the most obvious (to the defensive side) option everytime. He is officially in the worst form of his career. Looks a few steps behind the play, and lacking instinct in what he is doing. Deans just needs to keep him in the 12 position and let him find form out there. If it wasn't already completely fucking obvious what we were missing by having Giteau at 10 this year, surely it is now.

3. Genia
2. AAC (Adam Ashley-Cooper)
1. Cooper

Special mention to Ioane, Hynes, Horwill (shit I am biased as well?), Robinson, Moore, Palu and Elsom (in the 2nd half anyway). Thought Smith, Mitchell and Giteau were pretty average.

 

[Scotty]

Oh, and I'd like to direct another rant at the posters on this board, mainly Tahs fans who had blind faith and support for Burgess. I haven't heard anything from any of them for a long time. Do you feel a bit silly now?

 

[jason]

3 - Quade
2 - Sanchez
1 - The Earl

 

[Juan Cote]

3. Genia
2. QC (Quade Cooper)
1. The Rock

 

[waratahjesus]

Oh, and I'd like to direct another rant at the posters on this board, mainly Tahs fans who had blind faith and support for Burgess. I haven't heard anything from any of them for a long time. Do you feel a bit silly now?

i'd like to hear from the people who have blind faith in genia, mainly reds fans.
still believe in burgess, but as many of my posts said, i think burgess is best in the last twenty, still think he can create more than genia if were under pressure, thankfully, the little guy hasnt been under as much as burgo was during the start of the tri nations and genias passes that cause giteau to check his run and the fact that quade had to jump to catch pretty much every pass he threw at him, well that dont mean nothing. australia under robbie deans has turned into south africa, you just ignore genias problems cos he is black!

 

[Scarfman]

3. Genia
2. Qwayde
1. Robbo

 

[fatprop]

3 Palu
2 Elsom
1 Genia


Smith & Gits were average

Oh, and I'd like to direct another rant at the posters on this board, mainly Tahs fans who had blind faith and support for Burgess. I haven't heard anything from any of them for a long time. Do you feel a bit silly now?

Genia is playing well, but if it was Burgess out their slinging some of those passes, the critics would be right on him. Genia shovels out some rubbish as well.