Seems like a "heads I win, tails you lose" kind of attitude towards the situation.
Makes more sense to me to say that the rookie centre who never made a mark in first grade was wrong.
The rookie centre was always going to be a nothing with that defensive capability,in one of the most defensively difficult positions on the field
Most halves don't even tackle,Thurston doesn't and **** me if Alfy Langer didn't used to just trip the ball carrier
If you are asking a half,especially the main playmaker in the team for help defensively you don't ****ing belong either in first grade nor the manly jersey
Also,this still begs the question of where in the sweetest of ****s the edge forward who sits between centre and half was
LW LC LEF HALF FRF HK FRF BRF HALF REF RC RW
Look at that,that is what is called a defensive schematic
See how on either side of Matt Orford (HALF) there is a good defender
Also see how no matter which side he plays on Neumann (Corrected spelling) has a winger and also a Edge Forward (Typically a backrower or LOCK,but for this argument lets just say we have 3 backrowers) standing between himself and the half
Your argument is blown to smithereens and no matter what mental gymnastics you try to achieve it simply doesn't fit,it simply was never Orfords job to tackle what that gronk couldn't tackle,he belonged in NSW Cup,QLD Cup or ESL
Nick Bradley-Quoala was 14 times the player NEUMANN was