Bombertalk

Gimps wrote:Pears played well, down back, in the 2's on the weekend. Surely he could replace Steinlager this week?

I always wonder how Steinberg gets a gig ahead of pears. if hes still on the list give him a crack. he has showed he can play and his best is better than Steinberg.

DC2 wrote:

Gimps wrote:Pears played well, down back, in the 2's on the weekend. Surely he could replace Steinlager this week?

I always wonder how Steinberg gets a gig ahead of pears. if hes still on the list give him a crack. he has showed he can play and his best is better than Steinberg.

Three words
Age
Injury
Favourites

F111 wrote:Steinberg has unfortunately been mismatched with talls that Fletcher might otherwise had taken, eg Brown from Norf and Ryder last weekend. Both well exploited by the opposition. He wasn't to bad in that circumstance for 3 quarters last weekend.

He's been able to get his hands on the ball, and occasionally butchered the delivery, but that aspect has improved.

Pears has been overlooked and pillaged forever in this and other forums. I too would like to see how he goes now though, because before all his nasty injuries he was looking like a future champion.

The last memory I have of Pears playing in the Seniors was him getting absolutely destroyed by Jeremy Cameron, in a game which the Giants lead for a large amount of the game and got very close to beating us despite still being fairly rubbish at that point in time.

Unfortunately, it is long way away from the memories I have of him lighting it up in 2009 and making me laugh about the fact that Richmond took Alex Rance at 18 when they could have had Pears who looked a far superior player at that point in their careers.

Yet another example of the damage long term injury problems preventing a bloke from playing at any level and having the game and the developments in the game pass them by while they are on the sidelines, joins the likes of Johns and Gumbleton for us.

Gimps wrote:Pears played well, down back, in the 2's on the weekend. Surely he could replace Steinlager this week?

Yep I thought this also, or maybe for Gwilt, who's been pretty good recently, but still makes some horrible mistakes.

Sismis wrote:Totally agree, Hooker is a monster. Even two on one he is making a lot of the contests a 50/50. Defenders are absolutely shitting themselves when the ball is coming in to him at the top of the square.

I think sometimes he goes for marks too often in defence, when a punch is the safer option, but he still rarely got outmarked and that practice will be (is) great for his forward line work.

DC2 wrote:

Gimps wrote:Pears played well, down back, in the 2's on the weekend. Surely he could replace Steinlager this week?

I always wonder how Steinberg gets a gig ahead of pears. if hes still on the list give him a crack. he has showed he can play and his best is better than Steinberg.

Pears hasn't been at his best for years and that's sad because he had so much potential. His body let him down. Mark3 Gumby model.

mdso wrote:

DC2 wrote:

Gimps wrote:Pears played well, down back, in the 2's on the weekend. Surely he could replace Steinlager this week?

I always wonder how Steinberg gets a gig ahead of pears. if hes still on the list give him a crack. he has showed he can play and his best is better than Steinberg.

Pears hasn't been at his best for years and that's sad because he had so much potential. His body let him down. Mark3 Gumby model.

Watch him in the ANZAC comeback game, he was a titan in defense that day!

I cannot see the point of hanging on to Pears if we won't give him a game in the Ones.
Everyone including the bootstudder is getting a run at the moment, (except Giles for some reason) so with all the current experimentation, FFS give him a run.