Happened once, and happened because he was a one against three with NO support and was trying to cover the angle... Gee the overreactions on the "whipping boys" is hilarious!!! Mason Wood missed twice the tackles, turned over the ball twice the amount, and shit himself when he didn't want to take responsibility to kick it out of the backline and HANDBALLED to a stationary unsuspecting Thompson, who duly fumbled and gave away a free... But we all love Mase and his potential!!!!
Mason Wood was playing his 5th game.
He like Turner and Brown have different expectations placed upon them given their standing in the game.
JMac was underdone. He just was, we knew it before the game and it played out that way.
My issue isn't how he played, my issue is that we knew that we'd likely have to carry him to a degree against the reigning premiers and played him anyway. It was a game we could ill afford passengers and we fronted up and did it anyway.
Yeah I understand leadership and all that stuff, I understand that others were probably worse, but we aren't exactly playing sparkling footy and we chose to go in with guy who hadn't played footy in three weeks.