Okay I'll indulge.
9th minute: Ran side ways to be taken into the right side touch line.
16th minute: kicked on 3rd tackle when we were on the attack.
27th minute: danced around Ben Turbo while he scored Manly's first try
47th minute: bamboozled my Manly's back up centre who sets up DCE for a long range try
60th minute: tackled no one as Ben Turbo scores again
If that's not enough for you, he leads the NRL in try causes and line break causes despite not playing 80 minutes every week:
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As I said, a liability.
Ok, had my dinner and checked what you "indulged"
First of all Gildart is traditionally a right side centre and was in the first few minutes thrown onto the left wing because Ken was belted. Kepaoa stayed on the right with a crook leg which hampered him for pace and played poorly.
9th minute,
after a previous good run, Gildart makes another run across field looking for a runner or a gap to straighten himself, manly's defense was good and pushed Gildart towards sideline, Gildart realises the danger of the touch line and body language indicates he was begging Kepaoa to come back inside, Kepa kept running sideways and would have run into grandstands, more dumb play from a supposedly sound winger..not
16th minute,
after another great run down the sideline, Gildart looks for support and he sees infield Hastings waving his arms about signalling to kick, so he does with his wrong foot and kicks poorly but makes the effort to make the first tackle on DCE who had caught the ball.
Yes, he kicked on the third and will learn from that, but as I've highlighted there were mitigating circumstances.
27 minutes
Already covered that, not his fault.
Kepaoa lets in soft try, sorry we're just bagging Gildart!
47min.
After coming back to his side of the field he is faced by Manly's speedster, Gildart is mindful not to get burnt on the outside so he ushers him to turn into 3 WT defenders, good.. manly winger spins around and Gildart makes a good tackle but the other defenders drop off especially Peachey, noone chases. Kepaoa with his bung thigh left hobbling infield. Peach will his experience should have reacted and covered that inside play to DCE.
As I watched all that again, I picked up more good effort things from Gildart and more poor form from others.
Once again you've found your scape goat.