: Tue Feb 17, 2009 1:12 pm  

Gordon Gekko wrote:

Clint is a lazy defender and time and again he was defending outside Welham and he regularly was defending no one as we were 3 on 2 in defence. He made a great break in the first half then ran away from his support and threw a poor inside pass against his angle of run. He also got dominated in most of his carries. I'm not just having a pop for the sake of it but i'm afraid i just don't subscribe to the Newton fan club and he has plenty to prove if you ask me.

He's not a bad forward just not as good IMO as some think he is.

I tend to agree with the lazy defence, plus his attempts at outrageous offloads let him down. However if he sorts this out I thing he has the potential to be a top player.

: Tue Feb 17, 2009 2:11 pm  

How people can slate Clint

: Tue Feb 17, 2009 2:41 pm  

joburg wrote:

I tend to agree with the lazy defence, plus his attempts at outrageous offloads let him down. However if he sorts this out I thing he has the potential to be a top player.

He made 36 tackles against Bradford.

: Tue Feb 17, 2009 3:11 pm  

[quote="Rupert Pupkin"]I thought he was solid defensively along with the rest of the team.
Our forwards had a real hard time against one of the best packs in the division. I was worried about our go-forward at times and the speed of the play of the ball but we were dominated in the forwards and found it hard going. It never helps when you have on of SL's best forwards missing for a fair period.[/quote

Yeah they definatley missed Solomona when he had to go off injured!

: Tue Feb 17, 2009 6:21 pm  

to be onest i think the referee was a joke and gave bradford every reason to come back!

: Tue Feb 17, 2009 6:23 pm  

GJB wrote:

He made 36 tackles against Bradford.

Yeah, but the lazy B'stard could've made 50

The guy is solid and I would have him on the teamsheet every week

: Tue Feb 17, 2009 6:30 pm  

Alex Mc wrote:

Just watching the highlights on SLtv. What about the blatant obstruction on Cockayne for their drop goal?!?!?!?!

watch deacons' dropgoal carefully, i didnt see the ball touch the ground, it looked like he just kicked it over

: Tue Feb 17, 2009 7:59 pm  

number 6 wrote:

watch deacons' dropgoal carefully, i didnt see the ball touch the ground, it looked like he just kicked it over

Bugga

: Tue Feb 17, 2009 10:42 pm  

GJB wrote:

He made 36 tackles against Bradford.

that's why he was my mom, I thought he was awesome in defence along with galea, the pair of them are the reason we started so well last season our outside umbrella defence is brilliant with these 2 playing, it was only really when galea got injured then newton last season we started leaking a lot of points

if clint's lazy, justin should get down the dole office and sign some more like him

: Wed Feb 18, 2009 12:35 pm  

Came racing out the line for Bradfords first try did clint. No doubt hes a class player though.