With Atkinson, I'm just trying to put a positive spin on one of my many shocking preseason predictions.Peat wrote:I have credibility here?Mellsblue wrote: Who uses the 'I'm too busy' excuse and expects to keep their credibility (insert heavy sarcasm emoji).
Adding up scores leads to a result of who 'isn't good enough to be an international but stays fit' topping the charts. You could have a squad full of these and you wouldn't win the league. I'd certainly rather have 16 games from George Ford/Jonathon Joseph than 26 from Tom Heathcote/Harry Sloan.
As for Atkinson playing 1 game, out of position and still being a highly ranked fullback. That surely secures the award for whatever it was that I annointed him for at the start of the season.
Being in the top 30 =/= being highly ranked. I'd like to imagine common sense alone tell us that and if it didn't, Atkinson's position in the list should.
And Joseph played 9 games, scoring in none of them. He's a class act, but he hasn't been this season. It's not like Harry Sloan is even all that high.
I'm not going to pretend this thing doesn't flaws, and fair enough if you don't like it, but you're misrepresenting this quite a lot. A squad full of players like Ayerza, Brits, Parling, Smith, Waldrom, Cipriani, Rokoduguni, Wade and Good wouldn't win the league?
All I'm saying is that it highly underestimates the impact of top draw players versus military medium squad players.
Finally, I think you have some link or input to the table. Tell me I'm wrong about this as well.