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Yeah I wouldnt rate Boyd that high

 

Players that play in great teams, tend to look alot better.

Boyd has played for...

Broncos in their Prime.
QLD in their Prime.
Dragons in their Prime.

The same can be said for a good player in a horrible team... They look godly.

 

well how high teke , above or below david mead.

 

Wing for Wing, Mead is all over Boyd.

 

Tips for the weekend boys?

Dragons, Eels, Roosters, Rabbits, Dogs.

 

boyd can play anywhere between 5/8 to fullback , meadys like a lost sheep the minute he leaves his wing , like comparing a group 1 winner to a bush maiden hack .

 

Darius Boyd = form on the board..

 

****ing Parramatta this is pathetic.

 

...can't talk...lovin' the bronc over parra...gagai...gillet...reed...****en champions..

 

Yeah he has a habit of doing that.

 

lol at comparing mead to boyd, what a joke and an insult to boyd

 

As a winger. Mead has played 42 games with 20 tries. 47% Success rate.
As a winger. Boyd played 73 games with 31 tries. 42% Success rate.

Mead is faster. Arguably slicker.

As far as wingers go, Boyd is 2nd to Mead in this head to head.

 

boyds tested under pressure in gladatorial state of origin wars and at backends of grand finals , every time meady hits the finals he and the titans melt away .its a big difference than scoring hatricks against rookie wingers just out of toyota cup .

 

I tipped the baby broncos :hey

Man they have some exciting young guys, Gaguy especially

 

Paul Kent explains how Brian Smith has lost the players at the Roosters

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Lost the dressing room: Roosters coach Brian Smith. Picture: Phil Hillyard Source: The Daily Telegraph



THE press release said Matthew Elliott, the sacked Penrith coach, would join the Sydney Roosters coaching staff from next season.

Much less publicised this week was the Roosters' board meeting where the head of that coaching staff, Brian Smith, was called in for a please explain.
The Roosters are 14th and their season is now as dead as disco. The Roosters board is clearly hoping the freefall doesn't continue into next year.
In the case for the defence, Smith pointed out a stat that seemed to please everybody in attendance.
The three top pointscorers last season - Penrith, Souths and the Roosters - are all struggling this year because referees are interpreting the play-the-ball differently.
That is partly true; attack is being strangled, with the wrestle once again dominating play-the-balls, while teams are also jumping the gun off the line.


Yet that does miss the obvious point: it is the coach's job to coach the team according to the interpretations, and to find a way to win within them.
Also, Penrith's attack actually began costing them wins toward the end of last year, when rivals figured out that most of their points were coming from kicks, beefed up their kick defence, and the pressure it put back on them saw the Panthers lose seven of their last 11, including both their finals games. Souths are struggling this year as much because of injury as a strangled attack, their lack of forward depth helping teams dominate them in the tackle.
So what's the Roosters' problem? After all, if play-the-ball speed was all that was wrong it could soon be fixed.
But that is not all. So sound the funeral dirge, for here it comes - the players have lost confidence in Smith.
Todd Carney, lost and unhappy, wants out of the club. Carney, like Mitchell Pearce, is not nearly as effective as he was last year. The problem is subtle but vital. Being tricked up with inside plays, with the Roosters pair drifting across field looking for runners, has stripped them of their threat.
So much so the Roosters halves, on talent the best combination in the game, got outplayed in Newcastle last week by two kids who aren't first or even second choice at the Knights.
Expansive football was Smith's trademark at Newcastle, and with the play-the-ball allowing for it at the time, they played attractive football. Yet it's not happening now, and for some reason, and to the detriment of the form and happiness of his playmakers, and the success of the team, the Roosters persist with their halves crabbing across field looking for inside plays.
They would have far more success playing directly.
Unlike Carney there are others, like Nate Myles, who are already going and, it seems, have already gone. Peter Mata'utia's try for Newcastle last week came against an uninterested defence, when Myles failed on his assignment. What is so disheartening is it is so uncharacteristic of Myles. As bad as they were going at the end of Brad Fittler's short stint, the Roosters were not playing as low on enthusiasm as they are now.
Most of the rest of the players do their grumbling privately, but grumble nevertheless.
The curiosity here is that it surprises anyone.
Once again, Smith is outsmarting himself as he baffles those around him.
The Roosters are directionless. Smith's philosophy has always been to play differently each week, avoiding a definitive style so it can't be broken down by opponents. In theory, it makes sound sense.
Yet for the good it does his teams, it injures them even more. When the bullets are flying and the pressure breaks their composure, it is human nature to go back to what you know.With a game plan changing every week, purpose built for the team they are to play rather than to fit their own character, the Roosters lack identity. They are left with nowhere to go, because they don't know what they are.
This unhappiness eventually manifests itself in other areas and it reaches tipping point, which it has recently at Bondi. Smith will argue this, and with some validation because he has been a successful coach for nearly 30 years, and few are better at regenerating a club than him.
Some will say he nearly pulled it off last year when he finally got it right for the grand final, keeping the Roosters both relaxed and focused in grand final week - right up until they led 8-6 at half-time and it got the better of him. Then he over- cooked them at the break.
In the opposite shed, Wayne Bennett walked in with a speech that cut to the difference between Bennett, with seven premierships, and Smith with none. Under nerves, the Dragons made a couple of uncharacteristic mistakes.
Ben Creagh dropped the ball three times. Jason Nightingale had dropped it a couple, and Bennett knew the last thing they needed was a bake. A lesser coach would have.
Bennett knew they needed confidence. "You're better than what you're showing," he said simply. "Go out and play like the Dragons."
It calmed them, and so the Dragons went back to what they knew, and they won 32-8.
On the opposite side, as the momentum turned in the game and it might have helped them, the Roosters couldn't go back to what they knew because nobody knew what it is. Sometimes, it takes the pressure of a grand final, when the bullets are flying, to reveal this flaw.
And now they have Elliott, a Smith disciple who just happened to be sacked by the Roosters' former consigliore, Phil Gould, which makes me wonder why the Roosters didn't call Gould for an opinion before making their appointment.
Everybody knows Gould shares a close relationships with Roosters chairman Nick Politis, and they certainly could have used the insight
While much has been said why Gould sacked Elliott with 10 rounds to go, at its heart is a two-hour talk on football 12 days ago where Gould didn't understand a thing Elliott said.
To his credit, Gould wondered whether he was the problem. He questioned whether the game had gone past him, because Elliott looked quite clearly chuffed, and so later Gould asked one of the leading players to explain the team's basic strategy. "We have no f...... idea," the player said, and Elliott was gone.
The Roosters, struggling and now with two head coaches on staff, might have just doubled their problems, not halved them.


















Although Kent's a ****wit, I think this article is pretty much on the money and sums up Smithy perfectly.