MacDougall
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I feel that he has played multiple different games recently, bear with me here.
He recently played a fantastic game at fullback (can't remember which but I made a thread that said it was his best ever fullback performance) but I recall in that game he was hardly tested with attacking kicks and was not really forced to run the ball back with any vigour. His good display was by chiming in with backline plays, not making any defensive errors and taking reasonably good options. Since then he has been very mixed. The match against the Dragons, even I lampooned him for a poor performance in the positives and negatives thread but upon a couple of replays, I noticed some things that were out of character for Tim.
1) He ran the ball back. Not dynamically but he hit the defense with some power and didn't seem to be afraid to be tackled.
2) Despite one dropped bomb that lead to an error he took at least one very comfortably and other than that one mistake, was faultless in defense, both in covering tackles and in handling kicks.
3) He was seen at least once, supporting someone other than Benji Marshall, but still not quite enough.
4) His decision making when chiming into the backline was very ordinary, which is unlike him, as it's usually his greatest strength.
The reason I feel he's due for a blinder is because to me, he seems to have worked on his negatives to the detriment of his positives. Being that I'm sure we all agree, he's a confidence player, the decent performance he put in against the Dragons, when tested more than he has been this year to be fair, should bode well for him finally putting paid to the reasons we don't rate him as a fullback. Once his confidence with his deficiencies is put to bed, he shouldn't be under so much inner pressure to deliver on his positives.
I feel that with Luke Walsh in their team, Tim is going to finally come of age as a fullback. I'll unhappily take it on the chin if I'm wrong, but something tells me he's about to click and slay the Panthers well and truly.
He recently played a fantastic game at fullback (can't remember which but I made a thread that said it was his best ever fullback performance) but I recall in that game he was hardly tested with attacking kicks and was not really forced to run the ball back with any vigour. His good display was by chiming in with backline plays, not making any defensive errors and taking reasonably good options. Since then he has been very mixed. The match against the Dragons, even I lampooned him for a poor performance in the positives and negatives thread but upon a couple of replays, I noticed some things that were out of character for Tim.
1) He ran the ball back. Not dynamically but he hit the defense with some power and didn't seem to be afraid to be tackled.
2) Despite one dropped bomb that lead to an error he took at least one very comfortably and other than that one mistake, was faultless in defense, both in covering tackles and in handling kicks.
3) He was seen at least once, supporting someone other than Benji Marshall, but still not quite enough.
4) His decision making when chiming into the backline was very ordinary, which is unlike him, as it's usually his greatest strength.
The reason I feel he's due for a blinder is because to me, he seems to have worked on his negatives to the detriment of his positives. Being that I'm sure we all agree, he's a confidence player, the decent performance he put in against the Dragons, when tested more than he has been this year to be fair, should bode well for him finally putting paid to the reasons we don't rate him as a fullback. Once his confidence with his deficiencies is put to bed, he shouldn't be under so much inner pressure to deliver on his positives.
I feel that with Luke Walsh in their team, Tim is going to finally come of age as a fullback. I'll unhappily take it on the chin if I'm wrong, but something tells me he's about to click and slay the Panthers well and truly.
