Manu Vatuvei has been copping flak across the Tasman because of his error rate, and general issues fielding kicks (high and low)
Now, I’m not too worried about our players getting criticised by Australians, that’s par for the course.
What interested me, was that the Warriors saw fit to defend Vatuvei with an article on their website that points out the mistakes of Manu’s peers (other wingers)
The article uses statistics to show that other wingers made more handling errors this season and last.
But it sets an interesting precedent - are the Warriors going to now defend their players that cop criticism in the media? And if they don’t, does that mean they accept the criticism?
Case in point. A week earlier, former Warrior and
I’d suggest that when their players cop criticism, they forget defending them in this manner. The best PR for Manu Vatuvei, Ruben Wiki and any other Warrior could ever get is just to go out and play well.
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Matthew Ridge needed to cleanup his own back yard and left Ruben Wiki alone….The Warriors Board should have backed Ruben but in saying that Ruben has pride and sledging is not what he is about, what does Matthew Ridge have?? Ruben had to deal with the Media as good players have to and he went out in style, the Team made sure of that, and thats what I call Mana and Honor and by the way Matthew how did you go out????
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