Adam Blair

[TigersFan4Life]

I have a feeling that he just doesn't fit in with the ad lib style played by the Tigers. Also, Sheens didn't use him the way Bellamy used him, which is unforgivable considering how much we paid for him.

 

[bonstonker]

TBH he wasn't a dud at Melbourne and wasn't made Kiwi vice captain (in a strong team) without having some talent.

he was an expendable piece from a team that has one of the most experienced and successful spine in the comp.

 

[innsaneink]

If Bell performed as Blair did I'd be disappointed.

The fact we started the season favourites indicates to me that our recruitment retention team did a good job.

Intersting statement

Ive always thought the bookies just didnthave a clue, too many ????s at the start of the year…we had no established 1 or 7.

The fact we knew we were losing four top level forwards, and only replaced them with two, only to act once the horse had bolted a third of the way into the season (Cashy) indicates to me that our recruitment retention team did a crap job.

 

[bonstonker]

If I was the CEO, this would be one of the many questions I would be raising with the person/s, who chased Blair.
Did Melbourne try to hang onto him or was he not rated high enough by them to make him a priority?
The recruiting of players for the NRL team has not been a strong point for the Club.

At the beginning of the year, everyone thought it was an amazing signing. No doubt he underperformed, but harsh to blame the recruitment team.
The fact we started the season favourites indicates to me that our recruitment retention team did a good job.

I've said it before and I'll say it again, people on here only deal in extremes, either awesome or pathetic, in truth, almost everyone falls in between.

I expected more from Adam Blair, and was disapointed with his season, but he was far from as bad as people have said on here, people also factor in the the highly inflated reported price tag as the barometer of his performance, he is not on $500k a season.
The negatives revolve around him giving away too many penalties and missing to many tackles which is undoubtedly true. However he did offer some positives, he does work well from the inside, he gets quick play the balls and often slows down the speed of the opposition play the balls. He had some good games and some poor ones. He was far from great, but he was also far from pathetic.
Hopefully he has a better year next year.

not everyone goose.a few of us actually bothered to just focus on his game and what it would bring to the tigers that we needed.i value chicken wings lower than most i guess.

but let me get this straight,everyone thought he was an amazing buy,the v/c for the kiwis,an actual so-called marquee signing,played on a great team,yet left that great team for a pay day that never happened.

then add the fact the players we got rid of including moltzen,and trying to offload fulton like a bunch of morons we paid nowhere near the reported figure.

yeah right.

 

[dermo]

If I was the CEO, this would be one of the many questions I would be raising with the person/s, who chased Blair.
Did Melbourne try to hang onto him or was he not rated high enough by them to make him a priority?
The recruiting of players for the NRL team has not been a strong point for the Club.

At the beginning of the year, everyone thought it was an amazing signing. No doubt he underperformed, but harsh to blame the recruitment team.
The fact we started the season favourites indicates to me that our recruitment retention team did a good job.

I've said it before and I'll say it again, people on here only deal in extremes, either awesome or pathetic, in truth, almost everyone falls in between.

I expected more from Adam Blair, and was disapointed with his season, but he was far from as bad as people have said on here, people also factor in the the highly inflated reported price tag as the barometer of his performance, he is not on $500k a season.
The negatives revolve around him giving away too many penalties and missing to many tackles which is undoubtedly true. However he did offer some positives, he does work well from the inside, he gets quick play the balls and often slows down the speed of the opposition play the balls. He had some good games and some poor ones. He was far from great, but he was also far from pathetic.
Hopefully he has a better year next year.

not everyone goose.a few of us actually bothered to just focus on his game and what it would bring to the tigers that we needed.i value chicken wings lower than most i guess.

but let me get this straight,everyone thought he was an amazing buy,the v/c for the kiwis,an actual so-called marquee signing,played on a great team,yet left that great team for a pay day that never happened.

then add the fact the players we got rid of including moltzen,and trying to offload fulton like a bunch of morons we paid nowhere near the reported figure.

yeah right.

If you believe everything the media says about player payments you have to be a mong.

Benji, Robbie and Lote are all on nearly 500k, there is no way we would also be paying Blair that much and have nearly half our cap invested in 4 players.

 

[bonstonker]

yet you quote figures you got from the media.

well played scholar.

 

[dermo]

yet you quote figures you got from the media.

well played scholar.

No actually, I recall a post from Smoking Gun explaining the situation and seeing as he is supposedly some club insider i figure he may have some knowledge of the pay set ups

 

[cktiger]

What he is paid makes no difference to the fact he didn't play as well under Sheens as he did playing for Melbourne and the Kiwis.
He may have been expendable outside of the spine at Melbourne (as is the rest of their team) but he certainly made a bigger impact as a player before coming to us.
There is something wrong at the Tigers and like the old saying goes "A fish rots from the head down"

 

[innsaneink]

…and mongs dont get player salarys from net forums, particularly from members with a penchant for wearing tin foil hats and creating conspiracy theories about the NRL and how teams have been told to tank final round games to make the semis series more "TV attractive"

http://www.weststigersforum.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=14907&p=345784#p345784
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Yeh right

 

[bonstonker]

yet you quote figures you got from the media.

well played scholar.

No actually, I recall a post from Smoking Gun explaining the situation and seeing as he is supposedly some club insider i figure he may have some knowledge of the pay set ups

:roll

and i'm the mong.
you believe what you read on a forum from someone you don't actually know.
the same person who had no idea how 3rd party payments work.

hilarious.

 

[bonstonker]

What he is paid makes no difference to the fact he didn't play as well under Sheens as he did playing for Melbourne and the Kiwis.
He may have been expendable outside of the spine at Melbourne (as is the rest of their team) but he certainly made a bigger impact as a player before coming to us.
There is something wrong at the Tigers and like the old saying goes "A fish rots from the head down"

i never saw it.
and neither did bellamy last year,who admitted his form was down.
how did he play for the kiwis this year.
the same for us.

when the team plays bad he plays bad 90% of the time.
that is not marquee.
good players,form players play above the rest when the going gets tough.
blair doesn't

 

[kh_canada]

I know it was one game and it could have been the fact we played his old club, but when he took a breather and came back out he seemed to hit a stride.
I know it most likely was his old club putting on the pressure. But would Blair benefit from playing prop and rotating with bench players?
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[bonstonker]

I know it was one game and it could have been the fact we played his old club, but when he took a breather and came back out he seemed to hit a stride.
I know it most likely was his old club putting on the pressure. But would Blair benefit from playing prop and rotating with bench players?
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what he would benefit most by in attack is stop shuffling at the line and turning on impact.
defenders are holding him up allowing the line to get into position.

a quick play the ball after they have held you up then turned you over is useless after 6 seconds.
we have one of the best hookers in the game, yet he rarely even took a step out of dummy half and ran it only a handful of times after a blair run.
this isn't coincidence.

 

[Snake]

The first thing Adam has to do is put the weight on that he lost last off season to get back the mojo and strengthen up.
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[barra]

Then the second thing he needs to do is play with the same effort of the last round. I'd be happy with that.

 

[gold_on_black]

Just a funny stat
Blair has scored 3 tries this season with tigers
Blair scored 5 tries with Melbourne in 5 years

I think sheens has him playing the wrong role as they drat shows he was a defensive tight specialist st Melbourne
He is obviously adjusting to playing a new role as that stay alone shows that he has not been much of an attacking player
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