Pearce

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My view, which will be at odds with 90% of this forum, is that we see how he goes with a decent 5/8th next to him next year, just hope he's not totally demoralised by the SOO experience, c'mon Mitch show us that you've got something, best time to start is against your drinking buddy next Monday, time to come of age Superboy!!

I'm with you there mate.

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his missus went back to LA a week or so ago.... maybe that was partly a reason for his poor performance

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Did anyone consider that he had the qld forwards running at him all night? Our big boys went to sleep last night1

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Did anyone consider that he had the qld forwards running at him all night? Our big boys went to sleep last night1

Tend to agree a bit there SC. I was wondering why we didnt emply the same tactic against Thurston, Cronk or even to a degree against Smith. Inglis targeted Carney, and the forwards went at Pearce. I thought we had a good shot at smashing Thiaday out of the game as he was absolutely smashed time after time for the first 15 then they stopped running at him and just let him recover. I reckon he was badly rattled early as was shown by Morris running through him to set up the first try.

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I have been saying for a while that Pearce is still learning the game you dont become really good till you are around 27 to 30. Bird Cronk Thurston Myles Watmough Lewis all prove that.

It's people like Ricky Stuart & the selectors that think he is the best NSW 1/2 back, for me it's obvious that he is not up to playing 1/2 back for NSW, he does not have the ability at this stage of his career. IMO Pearce cannot read the play, he has no individual brilliance, no short kicking game & no ability to get repeat sets of 6. And last night he was rag dolled.

He seems to get so much lenency, alot of people will say when he is playing at the Roosters that he doesn't have good enough players around him but for the 3 games this year in SOO he has had the best NSW players around him & really he has played no different than what he does for us.

Is he overrated? Yes he is.
Will he become a champion player? IMO No
To me Luke Walsh Jarrod Mullen Trent Hodkinson are all on par with Pearce. The best NSW 1/2 back is Peter Wallace.

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I have been saying for a while that Pearce is still learning the game you dont become really good till you are around 27 to 30. Bird Cronk Thurston Myles Watmough Lewis all prove that.

It's people like Ricky Stuart & the selectors that think he is the best NSW 1/2 back, for me it's obvious that he is not up to playing 1/2 back for NSW, he does not have the ability at this stage of his career. IMO Pearce cannot read the play, he has no individual brilliance, no short kicking game & no ability to get repeat sets of 6. And last night he was rag dolled.

He seems to get so much lenency, alot of people will say when he is playing at the Roosters that he doesn't have good enough players around him but for the 3 games this year in SOO he has had the best NSW players around him & really he has played no different than what he does for us.

Is he overrated? Yes he is.
Will he become a champion player? IMO No
To me Luke Walsh Jarrod Mullen Trent Hodkinson are all on par with Pearce. The best NSW 1/2 back is Peter Wallace.

Even though comparisons are odious, I think that talent wise, Pearce is on par with Mullen and Walsh but he beats them out because he is a competitor, the other two drift in and out. Even last night Pearce was in there competing all game, even though he was well off the pace (mind you so was Carney and he seems to be avoiding criticism).

On Wallace, I don't reckon there is much between them and to me they are similar types of players - not the individual spark types. Wallace is is four years older than Pearce and I reckon that's why Pearce gets picked over him - there is more scope for development.

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I have been saying for a while that Pearce is still learning the game you dont become really good till you are around 27 to 30. Bird Cronk Thurston Myles Watmough Lewis all prove that.

It's people like Ricky Stuart & the selectors that think he is the best NSW 1/2 back, for me it's obvious that he is not up to playing 1/2 back for NSW, he does not have the ability at this stage of his career. IMO Pearce cannot read the play, he has no individual brilliance, no short kicking game & no ability to get repeat sets of 6. And last night he was rag dolled.

He seems to get so much lenency, alot of people will say when he is playing at the Roosters that he doesn't have good enough players around him but for the 3 games this year in SOO he has had the best NSW players around him & really he has played no different than what he does for us.

Is he overrated? Yes he is.
Will he become a champion player? IMO No
To me Luke Walsh Jarrod Mullen Trent Hodkinson are all on par with Pearce. The best NSW 1/2 back is Peter Wallace.

Yep!

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Tend to agree a bit there SC. I was wondering why we didnt emply the same tactic against Thurston, Cronk or even to a degree against Smith. Inglis targeted Carney, and the forwards went at Pearce. I thought we had a good shot at smashing Thiaday out of the game as he was absolutely smashed time after time for the first 15 then they stopped running at him and just let him recover. I reckon he was badly rattled early as was shown by Morris running through him to set up the first try.

too many ppl posting shyte on here that tackle that Pearce missed was not a straight forward one on one miss, it was near imposible in actual fact. One of the telling factors in that game was that fact we had 100 backrowers and not enough props imo. I thought snake was soft in thye back we should have played Hayne and the morris boys should have been there from game 1. We had no structure we were spent and bunched up.

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I have been saying for a while that Pearce is still learning the game you dont become really good till you are around 27 to 30. Bird Cronk Thurston Myles Watmough Lewis all prove that.

It's people like Ricky Stuart & the selectors that think he is the best NSW 1/2 back, for me it's obvious that he is not up to playing 1/2 back for NSW, he does not have the ability at this stage of his career. IMO Pearce cannot read the play, he has no individual brilliance, no short kicking game & no ability to get repeat sets of 6. And last night he was rag dolled.

He seems to get so much lenency, alot of people will say when he is playing at the Roosters that he doesn't have good enough players around him but for the 3 games this year in SOO he has had the best NSW players around him & really he has played no different than what he does for us.

Is he overrated? Yes he is.
Will he become a champion player? IMO No
To me Luke Walsh Jarrod Mullen Trent Hodkinson are all on par with Pearce. The best NSW 1/2 back is Peter Wallace.

Good post Mick - I mostly concur.

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too many ppl posting shyte on here that tackle that Pearce missed was not a straight forward one on one miss, it was near imposible in actual fact. One of the telling factors in that game was that fact we had 100 backrowers and not enough props imo

Which missed tackle? Why did you need to quote me to make that point? Im talking about the tackle that Thiaday missed early on.

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Even though comparisons are odious, I think that talent wise, Pearce is on par with Mullen and Walsh but he beats them out because he is a competitor, the other two drift in and out. Even last night Pearce was in there competing all game, even though he was well off the pace (mind you so was Carney and he seems to be avoiding criticism).

On Wallace, I don't reckon there is much between them and to me they are similar types of players - not the individual spark types. Wallace is is four years older than Pearce and I reckon that's why Pearce gets picked over him - there is more scope for development.

He hasnt he has copped a bagging on the talk back.

On Pearce theticket I hope & wish that he does become a champion but I really doubt he will reach those heights. Good 1st grader Yes thats it. IMO

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Which missed tackle? Why did you need to quote me to make that point? Im talking about the tackle that Thiaday missed early on.

Because I love you mate, I got my ticket ticket to Barcelona I will be there on the 28th lol

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He hasnt he has copped a bagging on the talk back.

On Pearce theticket I hope & wish that he does become a champion but I really doubt he will reach those heights. Good 1st grader Yes thats it. IMO

I blame Stuart for the loss and Bozo

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Because I love you mate, I got my ticket ticket to Barcelona I will be there on the 28th lol

Well come a little further north and we can sit in the pub for a bit and bitch with the other Dutch Rooster fans. There were 7 of us in the pub for Origin yesterday btw!

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He made Seven tackles and zero linebreaks that's unacceptable at that level. The problem is he was afforded the belief by many at this club and started thinking he was a much better player, than the reality of his true ability. Then soo selectors bought in on it, and voila a legend in his own mind was born. How many times have I heard we are building a team around a guy who at the time was only 19... That's just ludicrous for someone who at no time showed the promise as someone like DCE showed for Manly right from game 1 of his nrl debut.