Grats Quade

[Scoey]

He didn't work the ref because no sooner had the whistle blown than him or Frisby had tapped and gone already! ;-)

 

[something]

Personally I wouldn't select him and I doubt many of the top 5 countries would, probably France. I saw PB posting above, but I struggle to see how the Boks would select him?

really? i reckon most teams bar NZ & obv australia would love to have someone with quadey's skillset in their artillery.

South Africa have Steyn < QC (Quade Cooper)
England have Farrel < QC (Quade Cooper)
Wales have Biggar and Patchell (i think?) <QC (Quade Cooper)
Frenchy's have michelak and that new guy lopez who was on debut against NZ the other night. <QC (Quade Cooper)

You get my point. In my opinion pretty much everyone would have him as their first choice fly except NZ. He wasn't chosen as first choice in aus and the whole country is going nuts over it. He is in the five best 10's in the world (in my opinion at least)

 

[RoffsChoice]

He is in the five best 10's in the world (in my opinion at least)

Depends on the game plan. You want to take risks to try and turn nothing into a try? Quade's your guy.

 

[qwerty51]

There is absolutely no way England and South Africa would prefer Quade over Steyn and Farrell.

 

[something]

Man, Farrell is nothing special. Steyn more so but he also goes through patches of just playing like absolute shite

 

[qwerty51]

They kick 85+% goals. What does Quade kick?

 

[something]

i dunno, like 70% probably. If i were to put him in the international team i wouldnt have him as a goal kicker.

 

[qwerty51]

They also kick in general play better, much better.

 

[RedsHappy]

They also kick in general play better, much better.

q51: how many mods' warnings do you think you are going to need to prevent your unfathomable obsession with QC (Quade Cooper) spiraling out of control and destroying general goodwill towards you, perhaps irreparably?

 

[Paradox]

qwerty51

Have a read of an objective view

Fairfax Media has teamed up with Accenture for the duration of the Lions tour, and they are supplying us with an array of statistics and graphs after each game. Additionally, they have come up with a player index, which we will let them explain: ''The performance index is a function of each player's actions and position on the field. A value is assigned to the multitude of actions (kick points, metres gained) and positive play yields positive values while negative play yields negative values. These values are then weighted based on the importance of the action and its impact on the game. A player's performance index number is the total of these values at any point in time. Therefore the better they play the higher the performance index and vice versa.'' So, the player with the highest player index number on Saturday? It was Quade Cooper, followed by Ben Youngs, Luke Morahan, Owen Farrell and Nick Frisby.

Read more: http://www.smh.com.au/rugby-union/union-news/do-brumbies-have-white-stuff-to-pin-down-lions-20130610-2o054.html#ixzz2VoyCDfCe​

 

[qwerty51]

What classifies positive play? Is running from your 22 positive and kicking out of it negative? Vital questions.

 

[southsider]

^^^

seems very opinion based and open to human interpretation, never good for cold hard statistics

 

[Gnostic]

QWERTY51 are you cutting and pasting from your set of replies that you gave all through our two year argument regarding the Tahs mind numbing boring playing the statistics game plan. These arguments seem to be very familiar to me.

 

[TOCC]

This was about Quades captaincy people, there is already a multitude of threads debating Quades super rugby performances and wallaby test potential..

 

[emuarse]

I still can't work out if Qwerty51 is Richie McCaw's dad or a Nomme de Plume for Robbie Deans.
As for Quade's efforts as a captain on Saturday - he's a highly experienced player and as such did a reasonable job as the skipper.
He got on with the game and concentrated on the backs.
I assume a forward was vice-captain (was it AWH)? It would have been his job to march the forwards

 

[Ash]

What classifies positive play? Is running from your 22 positive and kicking out of it negative? Vital questions.

I'd say it would be outcome based. If you read the article, that was fairly clear I thought.

So if the clearance kick was good, positive. If running out of your 22 was the right option, positive.

If running out of your 22 lost the ball, then negative. Bit of simple logic.

But castigating Cooper for running out of his 22 when it was clearly a game plan set by the coach is a touch harsh, don't you think?

 

[Ash]

Anyway, this should be taken to the Reds v Lions thread.

This thread also seems to be reaching it's natural life expectancy. I don't think there's much more to be said about QC (Quade Cooper) and captaincy than has already been said.

 

[youngone]

Look at the replay, who is geeing up the boys before kick off?
It was Robinson.

Not all leadership styles mean yelling at players and psyching them up. What about in the dressing room when QC (Quade Cooper) is having quiet words to Frisby and on the field reassuring and encouraging the forwards after getting punished in the set piece?

Despite the small bits of pump-up footage to the contrary, Horwill is not the jump up and down and make a big deal captain either. Sharpe had that role with the Wallabies.

Genia has held that role with the Reds regardless of who the captain has been (Fainga'a, Slipper, Horwill...)

 

[daz]

I agree this thread has come to it's natural conclusion. All that is left is for it to become yet another QC (Quade Cooper)-focused spank-fest and frankly, there is enough of that elsewhere on the fora.

Well done on the honour of captaining your state, Quade.

Closed.