NRL Round 11 - Knights Vs Titans - 2:00pm Sunday, 17th of May - Suncorp Stadium - MAGIC ROUND!!!

KPGreatness said:
If Graham is playing I hope he goes better than his last game cause he was extremely bad in that game.

Obviously Smith is good for his ability to slot into 7,6 and keep the team going like he did, I do feel like some here want Smith to fail for reasons only know by them, but he brings value to this team or we could go back to Gamble…🤮 to which Smith is 10x the player

And to answer the guy that said Holbrook will pick or merit well he won’t he because Graham certainly didn’t play a game that screamed first grade last week,so if Graham plays it will based on reputation on the fact he has gone decent in the past.

If Graham dominated against the Dragons (which was expected) than I can justify his selection, but fact is he played worse last week than Smith therefore Smith should be higher in the pecking order if it was indeed based on merit
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I don’t think you’d find many on here who want any of our players to fail?
 
I’m willing to cut Smith some slack. I’m not sure how much he has trained at hooker. And obviously his first game in that position. I guess what we were all thinking his defence would be questionable. But I’m confident a few games in hooker he will be very crafty from dummy half, and he has good speed of the mark. I really think he played within himself, because of how the game went. If we need points you might see him get more involved.

Also legitimate debate between him and Graham. As a few have said it’s good to have competition in positions.
 
Smith is defending at 79.6% efficiency in firstgrade and missing nearly 5 tackles a game.

Graham is defending at 93% efficiency and missing under 2 a game.

In reserve grade for the last 2 weeks, Graham has made over 50 tackles a game at over 90% efficiency.

Crossland also defends at 93% efficiency - but obviously does big minutes in firstgrade.
 
To me it looked like Smith wasn’t happy to be playing backup hooker and his display was not the standard he showed playing in halves.
Graham seemed to go the other way when playing Hooker, yes his preferred position, two games ago in Cup had a great game then followed it up with a ok effort, top tackler but playing in a well beaten side.
If Graham could cover 6-7 for short period he would seem a more logical selection to rotate with Crossland and Croker at 9 & 13.
As someone said earlier it’s nice to have multi back up options.
Bottom line is that if Brown, Sharpe and to a lesser concern Ponga stay fit and healthy Smith is bench relief or Cup 7.
 
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