lacks effort, doesn’t want collision, reads numbers poorly in attack and defence and is a slow decision maker.
I don't really agree with any of this. He hits fairly hard IMO so I don't know what you mean about the collision, and this was proven doubly to me when he played Origin and was mostly tasked with defending.
I also don't see him beaten defending at centre, or making huge mistakes? Last week Eels peppered his LHS defence but for me Jennings was mostly the man caught in no-man's-land.
The thing for me is Mbye is competent to average in different aspects across the park. I'd hardly say he's poor at anything specific - it's reasonable first grade, often unexciting, standard. In that regard, I will not argue that he's not overpaid, because eventually we are paying him higher-end money (i.e. he was much better value when Dogs were taking more freight).
I understand people's frustration - that Mbye sometimes shows much better form, which isn't brought to that level every week. I don't think it's for fear of contact or being able to read the game, it just seems his intensity and concentration isn't equal week on week.
We see it differently and I was a fan of his. He got caught with the ball on attacking plays numerous times at fullback when all he had to do was hit the centre. **Numerous feeble efforts defending the try line also**. Played better at centre but you can’t have the highest paid player and captain turning up when he wants to has to be every week especially at centre. Hopefully I’m proved wrong but I reckon I’ve seen enough.
That was the final straw for me. The lack of willingness to put the body on the line to save the try. He doesn't seem like a big talker on the field, so as a captain you have to lead in some way and i would have thought without talk, that it would be through actions. In his defence, he has on occasion thrown himself at it, but too few and far between for me.
