OFFICIAL Terrell May #296

TheEnz said:
With Haas out it was more important to have May in the team, he can punch out 80mins of decent quality if required and therefore it means you have more flexibility in your prop rotation. With Haas back its less critical as he is a big minutes middle, however he would still be handy on the bench.
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QLD have speed in their forwards and quick PTB's. This keeps the momentum flowing.
I can't recall Terrell ever providing a quick bustling run followed by a quick PTB. He is not suited to SOO.
Stay with the TIGERS.
The other point of note was QLD usually had 3 forwards defending in each tackle. This allowed a slow PTB by NSW as they were slow to get off the NSW forward------time for the QLD defence to reset. And their quick line speed meant the NSW backs never seen the ball in the 1st half.
Remarkable how we kept them pointless after the first 20 min.
NSW certainly worked their butts off, scrambled well. Never give up.
 
wstigers11 said:
Did you see the front row last night? They picked Max King last year ffs
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So other poor performers and selections vindicates May as an origin player? He had an unbelievable opportunity to lead us against Manly and he didnt turn up. He lacks aggression and the rawness to smash blokes to play Origin. Very good player and I love having him here, but just because Barnett and King played doesn't mount an argument for Terrell...in fact I'd say it supports the fact he isnt the right style for it
 
king_sirro said:
So other poor performers and selections vindicates May as an origin player? He had an unbelievable opportunity to lead us against Manly and he didnt turn up. He lacks aggression and the rawness to smash blokes to play Origin. Very good player and I love having him here, but just because Barnett and King played doesn't mount an argument for Terrell...in fact I'd say it supports the fact he isnt the right style for it
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No. But you can’t mount a case that you need aggression & to smash blokes to be an origin player when Stef & King were the ones chosen. It was clearly a politics thing that he wasn’t selected last year
 
TheEnz said:
With Haas out it was more important to have May in the team, he can punch out 80mins of decent quality if required and therefore it means you have more flexibility in your prop rotation. With Haas back its less critical as he is a big minutes middle, however he would still be handy on the bench.
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Agreed. Plus, Terrell has so much heart, that he could bring whatever the coaching staff asked of him and more if chosen, as his running of a marathon last off-season showed.

Give him the same 40 odd minutes that AFB and Barnett both had and he would have brought close to the output of their some 80 minutes combined for mine.
 
batboy said:
I agree with you on AFB, his hearts not in it, but I don’t think his hearts really in anything, Footy is just his job.

To be fair though,
- their situations are chalk and cheese.
Fonua Blake spent most of his life and Junior Footy in NSW. The Kiwis got early dibs on him as a kid and swayed him to play a game for them way back,
he probably got shafted a bit there.

Hughes was a kiwi kid that only came to Australia to play footy - has played more than a dozen games for them and the Māori.

Fonua Blake got picked based on discussions they were having about him 3 years ago - not on anything he’s done in the last 18 months.
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I was surprised Fonua Blake was picked. He's been mid this year, nothing like he's been in previous years.
 
king_sirro said:
So other poor performers and selections vindicates May as an origin player? He had an unbelievable opportunity to lead us against Manly and he didnt turn up. He lacks aggression and the rawness to smash blokes to play Origin. Very good player and I love having him here, but just because Barnett and King played doesn't mount an argument for Terrell...in fact I'd say it supports the fact he isnt the right style for it
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It also depends on the game plan.

If you want your front rowers to do one out hit ups then definitely AFB, Barnett and Saifiti are better but if you offload that job to your outside backs than you need your front rowers to now just tackle, move quickly to marker and go again. Then, provide running options when Yeo or Cleary are running the bottle.

Tino and Flegler didn't run the ball that well yesterday, they just supported and provided genuine options.

May is super strong up top and won't be easy to bring down helping our PTB.

Post contact metres don't matter as much anymore because defenders drop off quickly, so that aggression isn't rewarded anymore.
 
GNR4LIFE said:
Him jumping all over Origin after the rule change made me respect Jahrome Hughes more. When the rule change was first announced and AFB put his hand up, Hughes said no. He said you need pride in the jersey, and for him if he played it would just be a money grab.
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Can’t judge all those who are now eligible, depends on the person. AFB often seems disinterested. How did Casey McLean go? Hughes not eligible even now either way
 
mtd#2 said:
May is the is the polar opposite of AFB and the furthest thing from lazy.

AFB - 9 runs, 80metres, 24 tackles
Barnett - 10 runs, 82 metres, 25 tackles

Both played roughly 40 minutes.

What sort of numbers do you think May produces if given the chance? And do you think that extra work will help the players around him be more effective?

NSW need big Props that are hard to bring down and can scrap that extra 2-3metres every tackle. May might not be the fastest, but we get that with Haas. Then you throw in a Brailey sniffing around the ruck and it starts helping the halves find opportunities for the edges
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As much as I thought both props were ordinary I'm not sure May would have had better numbers.
NSW had minimal possession for their first stint.
 
GNR4LIFE said:
Him jumping all over Origin after the rule change made me respect Jahrome Hughes more. When the rule change was first announced and AFB put his hand up, Hughes said no. He said you need pride in the jersey, and for him if he played it would just be a money grab.
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Easy for Hughes to say when he still doesn't qualify. AFB has been saying his whole career he'd love a chance to play for NSW. It was a junior rep game for Kiwis that made him ineligible under old rules. He has spoken about he wouldn't have played it if he knew it made him ineligible. From memory it all came out after he was wrongly selected to play in a city country game.
 
gregjm87 said:
Easy for Hughes to say when he still doesn't qualify. AFB has been saying his whole career he'd love a chance to play for NSW. It was a junior rep game for Kiwis that made him ineligible under old rules. He has spoken about he wouldn't have played it if he knew it made him ineligible. From memory it all came out after he was wrongly selected to play in a city country game.
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How doesn’t he qualify? The rules changed
 
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