Re: Scott Grix : Tue Oct 17, 2017 7:31 am  

I think the worry for me with Max is that he seems to have stagnated over the last year. Whether that’s because he hasn’t had the game time or not I don’t know.
Grix was good for us last year, but I don’t think Chester got the rotation between him and Max right and it felt that Max was been thrown into the deep end a little. Let’s be honest going from playing at Oxford to super league is a bit of a leap by any standard.

Re: Scott Grix : Tue Oct 17, 2017 10:59 am  

musson wrote:

On reflection Grix is the best full back we've had at the club in god knows how long, (feel free to name a better one in the last 15 years) I think the few mistakes he's made and they are few were just massively obvious and costly (sadly)

I don't see how any one can't be happy with re signing though, minus the howlers he's class, If Jowitt is good enough and clearly he has talent he will come though when the time is right, he'll learn from Grix too, its all to the benefit of Grix, Jowitt and ultimately Wakefield

'minus the howlers he's class'

Re: Scott Grix : Tue Oct 17, 2017 11:06 am  

RWB wrote:

'minus the howlers he's class'

One mistake in a season that cost us a game, what about all the stuff that won us games.

Players who don't make mistakes aren't trying.

Re: Scott Grix : Tue Oct 17, 2017 11:09 am  

4foxsake wrote:

I think the worry for me with Max is that he seems to have stagnated over the last year. Whether that’s because he hasn’t had the game time or not I don’t know.
Grix was good for us last year, but I don’t think Chester got the rotation between him and Max right and it felt that Max was been thrown into the deep end a little. Let’s be honest going from playing at Oxford to super league is a bit of a leap by any standard.

I don't think you can rotate F/B in the way you can with the forwards tbh. It's just a fact that bar a couple of games mid season Grix form has meant he's remained first choice. Bad luck for Max and TBH I don't suppose CC ever expected it to be so cut and dried.

Re: Scott Grix : Tue Oct 17, 2017 1:26 pm  

RWB wrote:

'minus the howlers he's class'

He's made a couple of bad mistakes but his contribution to the team is massive

So yes other than that, yes he is a class fb

I note you are quick to jump at grix there but don't take me up on picking a better full back at trin the the last 15 years

Re: Scott Grix : Tue Oct 17, 2017 2:52 pm  

RWB wrote:

'minus the howlers he's class'

Howlers suggest more than one, other than the well documented one against Saint's how many more can you remember?

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Re: Scott Grix : Tue Oct 17, 2017 3:29 pm  

I remember Billy Slater doing a 'howler' that cost them a game against New Zeland. Was it a final?

Is he not still class?

It happens. Anyone that has watched Wakefield this year can see the value Grix brings. Some choose not to think about it because it doesn't fit their agenda......but it is still so.

Thinking about it, what I like most about Grix is that he never goes missing. We've had some class players at Wakefield that on their day are all class....but it's not always their day.
With Grix he is the personification of Wakefield Trinity. He may not be perfect all the time but he tries to be. When its working hes always the last pass and the first to celebrate. If it's not working he tries harder. And if we are getting battered he gets battered.
I'm glad he's here for the next 2 years.

Re: Scott Grix : Tue Oct 17, 2017 4:08 pm  

Great post.

Spot on.

Re: Scott Grix : Tue Oct 17, 2017 6:11 pm  

Agreed I think you have to be pretty hard of thinking to come up with Grix being poor, as for better fullbacks, my fave in SL would have been Colum Halpenny but he wasn't as good as Grix for me.

Re: Scott Grix : Tue Oct 17, 2017 6:50 pm  

For his short spell ! Steve prescott