Re: Jamie Foster.... And James Roby : Tue Apr 26, 2011 3:44 pm  

LovesToSpooge wrote:

Mcgilvray played basketball until he was 18, and tuck up rugby league after that. In comparison Foster has been playing the game since the age of 14. I'd say that's a pretty big difference in experience between the two of them.

Wow, I didn't know that! That's pretty impressive, fair play.

LovesToSpooge wrote:

Mcgilvray has been the standout winger in SL for me so far, so his stats don't surprise me one bit. The fact that Jermaine's stats hold up so well against Pat the best winger in SL, just goes to show what a good player Mcgilvray is. The same however can't be said for Foster when compared to either Pat or Jermaine, his stats are far less impressive. Well apart from the goal kicking one's, but you'd expect that from a goal kicking one trick pony.

LovesToSpooge wrote:

I don't want this to appear as though I've got something against Foster because I haven't. Although his hair is pretty gay. I simply asked the original question wondering if you tuck Fosters superb kicking game off him, does he posses anymore strings to his bow. And to be honest I got the answer I expected, solid in all departments but superb in none. But hell you can make a career out of that, just ask Ade Gardner or our own Darrel Goulding.

I'd say from what I've seen he's a superb finisher and goal kicker, solid elsewhere. Superb finisher is a pretty good start for a winger IMO.

He's a better rugby player than Gardner/Goulding - he has very good hands and reads the game well; I can see him as a SL centre or full back in years to come, especially when he fills out. I wouldn't say the same of Gardner/Goulding who are limited wingers who couldn't really perform elsewhere to any decent standard IMO.

We'll see I suppose, but he's making a good fist of it at the moment.

Re: Jamie Foster.... And James Roby : Tue Apr 26, 2011 3:49 pm  

FearTheVee wrote:

Wow, I didn't know that! That's pretty impressive, fair play.

I didn't know it until a couple of weeks ago, but they mentioned it before the Giants Wire game. So I saved it to the memory bank.

Re: Jamie Foster.... And James Roby : Tue Apr 26, 2011 4:03 pm  

pound for pound roby is easily the best player in the league and is one of the very few that does not go down easy, it always seems to take a least 3 to 4 players to take him down

Re: Jamie Foster.... And James Roby : Tue Apr 26, 2011 4:04 pm  

LovesToSpooge wrote:

Mcgilvray played basketball until he was 18, and tuck up rugby league after that. In comparison Foster has been playing the game since the age of 14. I'd say that's a pretty big difference in experience between the two of them.

Mcgilvray has been the standout winger in SL for me so far, so his stats don't surprise me one bit. The fact that Jermaine's stats hold up so well against Pat the best winger in SL, just goes to show what a good player Mcgilvray is. The same however can't be said for Foster when compared to either Pat or Jermaine, his stats are far less impressive. Well apart from the goal kicking one's, but you'd expect that from a goal kicking one trick pony.

I don't want this to appear as though I've got something against Foster because I haven't. Although his hair is pretty gay. I simply asked the original question wondering if you tuck Fosters superb kicking game off him, does he posses anymore strings to his bow. And to be honest I got the answer I expected, solid in all departments but superb in none. But hell you can make a career out of that, just ask Ade Gardner or our own Darrel Goulding.

If I had to pick between McGilvary & Foster I'd pick Foster. No bias at all. If you only rate a player on how many times he goes the full length of the field then you're about 12 years old or a bit simple.

Re: Jamie Foster.... And James Roby : Tue Apr 26, 2011 6:15 pm  

LovesToSpooge wrote:

Mcgilvray played basketball until he was 18,

Actually, that was put to him on Boots'n'All one week and he said he played soccer, not basketball.

Not that it matters, but I just thought I'd say ...

Re: Jamie Foster.... And James Roby : Tue Apr 26, 2011 7:30 pm  

SaintsFan wrote:

Actually, that was put to him on Boots'n'All one week and he said he played soccer, not basketball.

Not that it matters, but I just thought I'd say ...

He did, I saw it myself.