roopy wrote:
I hope you don't get to see how Sandow goes on his own.
He'll be gassed after 30 minutes, miss 12 tackles, and won't have the energy to run when an opportunity comes.
I'm not hating on Sandow - or Gidley - they both are what they are. Gidley is a workhorse who isn't much of a playmaker, and Sandow is a good playmaker who doesn't have much of a motor.
You have to remember this is SL and not the NRL Roopy. Most of our players work down the pits on game day morning, then kit up and get on the 'field' for the afternoon game. At Leigh the supporters have to help put up the posts before the match begins as their ground is shared with a professional girls handball club. At Wigan they need to take the cars of the pitch and smooth out the mud before a game. We are really just a league of semi-professionals over here. For instance, we are not very much into tackling. We prefer high scoring games with players whizzing through defences and lots of tries. Most games finish with scores like 54-46 and are played at 3.00am in the morning to fit in with the Sky TV programmes.
But anyway, I digress, what I was going to say was that Most Australians that come over here are either over 38 or have been convicted of a string of homicides. So you see we are quite happy with crappy old Gidley, even if he can barely pass the ball. And Sandow directing traffic rather than tackling the man is a shoe-in for us - providing he can kick for touch and accidentally put the ball into Currie's hands for a match winning try. We will struggle on with what we've got.
