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NOT since a washed-up old Balmain front-rower picked up $725,000 at the height of the Super League war have we seen a more overpaid player in rugby league.
The terrible form of $500,000-a-year Wests Tigers forward Adam Blair brings back memories of the infamous Steve Edmed deal back in 1995.
The Balmain prop was paid $725,000 from John Ribot's Super League chequebook for what turned out to be just one year at the North Queensland Cowboys.
Blair's form - or lack of it - has been one of the game's biggest NRL talking points in recent weeks.
His 2013 statistics are shocking - just one linebreak and 24 missed tackles in 10 games.
The linebreak was against the Knights in round one - and he hasn't made one in the nine matches since.
The stats from the South Sydney game - a 54-10 humiliation last Friday night - are even more embarrassing. Six missed tackles, zero tackle busts, zero linebreaks and four runs for just 34m in 72 minutes.
One missed tackle was a hopeless, half-hearted effort on a player half his size, Souths halfback Adam Reynolds.
The Tigers are in a training camp in Kiama this week.
The Kiwi forward is not keen on discussing his issues. "Tell them I'm not interested," was his message that came back via the club's media man, Wayne Cousins.
His form has been so bad there has been speculation the Tigers want to offload him to a rival club, even if it means paying part of his contract.
They are already paying for three other former players at other clubs as part of this year's cap.
Telecrap
NOT since a washed-up old Balmain front-rower picked up $725,000 at the height of the Super League war have we seen a more overpaid player in rugby league.
The terrible form of $500,000-a-year Wests Tigers forward Adam Blair brings back memories of the infamous Steve Edmed deal back in 1995.
The Balmain prop was paid $725,000 from John Ribot's Super League chequebook for what turned out to be just one year at the North Queensland Cowboys.
Blair's form - or lack of it - has been one of the game's biggest NRL talking points in recent weeks.
His 2013 statistics are shocking - just one linebreak and 24 missed tackles in 10 games.
The linebreak was against the Knights in round one - and he hasn't made one in the nine matches since.
The stats from the South Sydney game - a 54-10 humiliation last Friday night - are even more embarrassing. Six missed tackles, zero tackle busts, zero linebreaks and four runs for just 34m in 72 minutes.
One missed tackle was a hopeless, half-hearted effort on a player half his size, Souths halfback Adam Reynolds.
The Tigers are in a training camp in Kiama this week.
The Kiwi forward is not keen on discussing his issues. "Tell them I'm not interested," was his message that came back via the club's media man, Wayne Cousins.
His form has been so bad there has been speculation the Tigers want to offload him to a rival club, even if it means paying part of his contract.
They are already paying for three other former players at other clubs as part of this year's cap.
