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  EelLectric April 7, 2010 at 12:29pm

  Let's hope they get a few wins together before the Origin series starts and stay in touch with the rest of the comp and then we can see if your idea has legs when they have to play without him while he's on Origin duty.
  
  Personally, I wouldn't do it...
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  slip April 7, 2010 at 12:31pm

  Drop Hayne and a third of Parra's tries are no longer!
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  Johno April 7, 2010 at 12:31pm

  Woah, you are going to cop an absolute bagging!!!!!!!!!!!!!
  
  I can see where you are coming from but I don't think it is the way to go. The trouble we have at the moment is our whole team, including Hayne, are expecting it all to happen.
  
  When we started winning last year, Hayne shone, but he could only do that when we played hard as a team and did all boring stuff right. We tackled hard and fast, our dummy half work became crisp and eelectric and we dominated the ruck, giving the flashy boys the room to weave.
  
  Now we just fling it to Hayne, Mateo and our outside backs with the attitude of do something. Maybe this is because we are out of puff by not enforcing the ad line in defence.
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  Morgs82 April 7, 2010 at 12:32pm

  thats the point hayne should be the icing on the cake for the team but it seems like at the moment they want him to be the whole damn thing!
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    slip > Morgs82 April 7, 2010 at 12:37pm

    I think Hayne this year has picked up where he left off last year, but the rest of the team are still warming up. I don't think the team are saying to Hayne "you do everything" it's that Hayne is such an elite player and those players can always play exceptional football ie the Melbourne Storm 2010
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      Camo73 > slip April 7, 2010 at 2:00pm

      What is 1/3 of zero?
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  Morgs82 April 7, 2010 at 12:34pm

  get your point mate i just want the rest of the team to realise that hayne is not there to do everything, like below he should be able to be the icing on the cake.
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  1986 April 7, 2010 at 12:53pm

  Your suggestion won't go down well with most of the people on the site but I would tend to agree with you. I wasn't sure resigning a player for $500k per season was the right move for the team. It must affect moral when some players are getting $50-$70k a year and another (at times inconsistent player) earns that much more. I think losing Kevin Kingston really hurt us but what can you do?
  
  Without doubt Hayne is brilliant when he is at his best but he isn't at his best and he can't play at that level week in week out. I agree Robson, KK and Morts have to lead the team and steer them around the park in a more dominant fashion than they currently do. Perhaps some of their perceived lack of direction is due to the lessor role that they play to Hayne. If you drop Hayne would you put Burt at fullback and maybe bring either Inu or Wright onto the wing?
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  Morgs82 April 7, 2010 at 12:54pm

  exactly now i know it wont happen but what better way to make them start doing the hard stuff than to take away the easy option? I mean its completely pie in the sky and wont happen, but hey its a thought.
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  Johno April 7, 2010 at 12:55pm

  Exactly. You can add Morts on 250k a year to the equation. What would Mateo & KK think of that!