1) don’t call people knuckle heads just because you don’t like their opinion, it’s not conducive to anything positive.
2) I don’t think anyone thinks a good crunching tackle makes him a good player, people just like seeing it, and it does have a positive effect as, so long as it’s clean, it gets the crowd going, objects some momentum where there was none, and makes the attacker hesitant to take Ben on next time.
3) what does make him a good player might be the fact that he’s played almost every match for us and we have the leagues third best defence, he’s only assisted one fewer than the highest assisting fullback in the league at the time of posting (in fewer starts) and he is both consistent and dependable.
If Ben Davies had a more exciting name or a stupid haircut or tattoos everywhere, or was from somewhere more exotic than Neath Port Talbot, he would be far more highly rated. As it is, he comes off as Mr Ordinary so people refuse to accept that he’s actually been top class for you for pretty much a calendar year now.
Throw in Rose clearly not the player he was ( yet? ) then Davies is absolutely number 1 choice right now. He’s having a great season