@finnzo said in [Signing Suggestions & Rumours](/post/1173643) said:
Go and watch the hole video of him talking to ref gives you a hole different look at it I really don’t get all the hate towards Cameron Smith I’m gonna be sad when I no longer get to watch him play week to week the blokes unbelievable
Nice to see some pro-Smith comments around here.
Guy is a freak, skilled and extremely smart footballer. Wouldn't happen, but would absolutely take him for a year.
Don't understand the hate at all either, there was a beautiful moment the other week when Momo made his debut where Smith wondered up to him after the game and asked to point out his family and gave them a big wave and smile.
Smith is certainly a polarising character. In all his interviews he comes across as a genuine bloke, imo and I know he does a lot to help out players and others behind the scenes.
On the field though he can seem very arrogant and belligerent at times. People have criticised some of his tactics and those of the Storm, in general, over the years and perhaps rightly so. He goes to great lengths to get his way with refs, and it will usually work in his, and his team's, favour - if only we had such a captain!
He has also used some pretty dodgy tactics in the ruck, Melbourne have become famous for chicken wings and holding players in tackles to slow play down yet somehow still getting away with it. As captain, Smith has played a big part in creating and implementing all this and I think these are the main reasons people dislike the guy.
Can't deny his incredible talent and football brain though. At 37 he is still out there controlling games and playing as well as he did when he was 27! He has the physical presence of a nerd and plays each week against hulking behemoths yet is rarely injured. Maybe one day after he retires (if I'm still alive lol) we might all find out that he wasn't actually a human being after all, but rather some genetically engineered prototype of a rugby league playing robot ?
