@cultured_bogan said in [The 2nd Half Hooker Change](/post/1423722) said:
If Mbye apparently made the difference imagine if, ooooo I dunno, we had a specialist hooker in the lower grades who could come off the bench?
Yep I can’t imagine why Simpkin isn’t getting a run.
I think Mbye should be dropped. He doesn't offer enough to make the team. I get why Madge keeps picking him. He makes it easier to manage injuries during the game. I just think we need to get the 9 position firing and LIddle/Simpkin is a much better choice than one that includes Mbye.
If Simpkin was ready to play NRL,I think Madge would have him in for sure....Madge obviously knows more than us....
I wouldn't say he knows more than us.
It's just that his eyes work well enough to see that when he was given an extended opportunity he wasn't up to it.
He is however preferable to Mbye, but then again so is Kerrie Ann Kennerly.
So you would say you know as much as Madge ?
I know more than Madge about horse racing and gambling.
I know more than Madge about telecommunications engineering . Doesn’t make me a first grade coach though . He’s forgotten more than I’ll ever even try to know I reckon . God even guys like Jason Taylor would know collectively more than all of us combined .
Knowing and doing are two different things. Knowledge is useless until it is used and shared. I’ve seen people with very little knowledge gather a team together, and achieve great things that they otherwise would/could not achieve on their own. The type of specialist knowledge required from an nrl coach is evolving and having less to do with fundamental play.