I've been watching you comments about Connors WP and I am becoming quite confused. You seem to be watching a different player to me. It's almost as if there's something personal going on here.
I normally ignore these sort of things but I'm interested because you are a poster I respect and the Connors thing comes up a lot and often unprompted.
I'll put a disclaimer on the bottom - I'm a fan of Connors and enjoy watching him play.
I haven't hidden the fact that I am not a Connors fan. Is it a personal thing? No
As I have explained previously I think Dan Connors has all the talent in the world therefore his ability isn't the issue for me. I think he is very fortunate to still be on the RFC list after his continual stuff up since he's been the Club.
The main issue I have is about he goes about things on the field. IMHO he can be a very selfish footballer and it gets up my goat.
When Dan plays TEAM ORIENTATED footy he is very good. The problem is every game without fail there is the non-team stuff that undoes his good things. When the Dimma mantra is TEAM FIRST then I expect a bloke who was given a reprieve by Dimma to do it the Dimma way
Here's a couple of examples -
Last week against Melb (2nd qtr IIRC) in the Melb F50 he received a handball and his team-mate kept running to receive a handball back. What did Dan do? Handball it over the top and keep runnng himself? Nah Dan decided to try and baulk around the Melb guy and got pinged. This wasn't team first footy. This was selfish
Against Freo who could forget his squib kick of 15 metres that resulted in a turnover in the final qtr? It was a costly mistake that could have cost us the game. It was not only a poor skill execution but a poor decision again IMHO it bordered on a selfish act
Watch the tape of the Sydney game and you will see him chose poor options because he seemed intent on having to show us all the big wind-up and 50m long kick when 30m pass to a team mate free was the team thing to do
I think the past few weeks the bad habits have really started to creep back into his game. I believe that this has been caused in part by his lack of fitenss which I find staggering when you consider he did a full pre-season.
If he sticks to playing team footy he'll win me over but until he does it consistently I don't enjoy watching him at all
