Ayshford WOW

[biggest_tigers_fan]

Geez I think origin player is stretching it. For two reasons

1) Honestly there are better centres. Lets see him produce form like this for longer than a few games. He really hasnt offered anything in attack as a centre up until the last few weeks. Always been solid, and a good defender though.

2) **Ayshford can not play centre**. Looked horrible vs brisbane.

Rubbish,hes in our top 5 players most weeks and im a fan of him and his runs. :mrgreen:

thats my bad i meant LEFT centre

yes hope youre watching ayshford today :laughing:

 

[hadds75]

Geez I think origin player is stretching it. For two reasons

1) Honestly there are better centres. Lets see him produce form like this for longer than a few games. He really hasnt offered anything in attack as a centre up until the last few weeks. Always been solid, and a good defender though.

2) **Ayshford can not play centre**. Looked horrible vs brisbane.

Rubbish,hes in our top 5 players most weeks and im a fan of him and his runs. :mrgreen:

thats my bad i meant LEFT centre

yes hope youre watching ayshford today :laughing:

Yes watching him run down the RIGHT hand side of the field with the BALL in his RIGHT hand, using his LEFT hand to palm, really prooves im wrong?

He looked lost vs Brisbane on the wrong side. You clearly dont understand the game.

 

[biggest_tigers_fan]

yes you are wrong and yes i understand the game.It was you who said ayshford couldnt play centre :crazy

 

[hadds75]

and i told you i meant LEFT centre and you told me to watch todays game where Ayshford played right centre.

Hopoate is left centre in origin for those thinking blake should be there. Same reason they wont pick Idris.

 

[underdog]

:roll

Geez I think origin player is stretching it. For two reasons

1) Honestly there are better centres. Lets see him produce form like this for longer than a few games. He really hasnt offered anything in attack as a centre up until the last few weeks. Always been solid, and a good defender though.

2) **Ayshford can not play centre**. Looked horrible vs brisbane.

Rubbish,hes in our top 5 players most weeks and im a fan of him and his runs. :mrgreen:

thats my bad i meant LEFT centre

yes hope youre watching ayshford today :laughing:

x2 - thats up there with "Moltzen is our best fullback"

es watching him run down the RIGHT hand side of the field with the BALL in his RIGHT hand, using his LEFT hand to palm, really prooves im wrong?

He looked lost vs Brisbane on the wrong side. You clearly dont understand the game.

yeah, watching him run down the RIGHT side with the ball in his RIGHT hand, using his LEFT hand to palm, skipping out of tackle after tackle, stepping defenders, and calmly offloading a brilliant ball to marshall for the match tying try proves that you are clearly correct about him being a horrible centre as well.

The guy constantly draws two and three defenders, give him a clear offload, and BAM the winger is away. He tackles like a brick wall, CONSISTENTLY brings down larger back-rowers ONE ON ONE, e.g today he cut down meteo today FROM BEHIND about five metres out from the line. If those examples above aren't the moniker of a great young centre, then please explain to me o wealth of rugby league knowledge what is? :mrgreen:

 

[Centaur]

SMOKED it in the second half.

 

[Moh]

I love how this argument all came about from a simple typo.

In other words, there is no argument.

 

[farahfan]

those 2 strong runs he made which led to tries got us back in the match

awesome performance

 

[hadds75]

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yeah, watching him run down the RIGHT side with the ball in his RIGHT hand, using his LEFT hand to palm, skipping out of tackle after tackle, stepping defenders, and calmly offloading a brilliant ball to marshall for the match tying try proves that you are clearly correct about him being a horrible centre as well.

The guy constantly draws two and three defenders, give him a clear offload, and BAM the winger is away. He tackles like a brick wall, CONSISTENTLY brings down larger back-rowers ONE ON ONE, e.g today he cut down meteo today FROM BEHIND about five metres out from the line. If those examples above aren't the moniker of a great young centre, then please explain to me o wealth of rugby league knowledge what is? :mrgreen:

Read the thread. People said Ayshford should be in origin instead of Hopoate. I said Ayshford can not play left centre.

Switching sides like he did vs the Broncos, eliminates his fend, his pass, offload etc and makes it easier for defender to wrap the ball up as he holds it on the right hand side while moving to the left.

 

[PYMBLEPETE]

There is NO WAY that Blake would look out of place playing for the Blues on Wednesday given the injuries. I rarely come on here and wax lyrical about our players but this guy has been sensational for the past year or so.

And another thing; apparently re-signed long term without testing his value - give me 17 of them.

 

[biggest_tigers_fan]

There is NO WAY that Blake would look out of place playing for the Blues on Wednesday given the injuries. I rarely come on here and wax lyrical about our players but this guy has been sensational for the past year or so.

And another thing; apparently re-signed long term without testing his value - give me 17 of them.

well said pete

 

[Leroy_The_Tigers_Fan]

For a player that doesn't seem that interested in being out there he's let his ability do the talking, Gus & co. were raving about Inu and without knowing the result in the dying stages of the game I knew we had it won when they announced the MOTM so close to 6.00pm, I Knew then that it wasn't a Golden Point game

 

[supercoach]

Good player but not SOO standard yet, today was up against a second rower. Lets reserve or judgment till after a couple hard games but I do concede he is in good form

 

[king_sirro]

Lol. Hadds u wont make another typo will u? How many times did u have to explain u meant "left" centre? hahaha. And u have a valid point.

 

[MacDougall]

He has one skill and it's a beautiful skill. He can't be tackled.

 

[citizen_cub]

I have NEVER rated Blake Ayshford. I thought he was alright, "solid" without being spectacular but that was close to the best game ive seen from a Tigers centre since McGuinness vs Dragons (Rd 2, 2001).

His really coming on, that fend is very good.

Can't believe you've never rated him. I remember when he made his debut back in '09 against the Broncos and he scored a try on debut. He, for mine looked potent in the backline almost immediately and played a key role in our success towards the back end of '09\. Had to be our rookie of the year that year.

 

[citizen_cub]

Not to mention his HUGE improvement in defence. I remember last year against Canberra in round 4 when he was really exposed on the right edge. Came back the next week against the Cowboys and shut down Willie Tonga the whole game, gave him nothing.

He hasn't looked back since then.

 

[Vicious]

Ayshford has had two blinders in a row and if he played like that on a consistent basis he would establish himself as an elite player and would put himself in the frame for rep jerseys.
BUT his first 12 round this season were average at best with atleast 3-4 shockers, his game against Brisbane marking up on Hodges was terrible to say the least.
He proved he is capable in last seasons finals series and again over the past two weeks, he now needs to back this up week after week and particularly in some of our big upcoming games against some of the best centres in the game.

 

[CocaCola]

What Ayshford is doing now is why I was shocked to read peoples opinions of him on here.

The kid has looked like a champion since he debuted and just continues to improve.

+1

He has always been breaking the defense lines with good solid runs. Dont know why people think todays game was any different. His speed is also deceptive because he is tall & has that long stride.

He was M0M ahead of marshall imo

 

[senexx]

You've been blind then mate :laughing:

Ayshford has been improving week in, week out. Why someone with 14 first grade games worth of experience is playing centre for NSW over someone like Ayshford is beyond me

That was my thought after watching the televised game, worthy of an Origin Centre.