Parramatta captain Clint Gutherson is the best 'backer-upper' since Terry Lamb.

"Baa" Lamb played 350 games for Western Suburbs and Canterbury over a stellar 17 seasons, scoring 164 tries, which is a terrific strike rate for a five-eighth.

Lamb could make a break himself, but he was also an outstanding support player, working on the theory in you run down the middle of the ground, there's a fair chance the ball will get back to you.

It's wonderful to watch Gutherson lurking around any Eels' player with the ball and stealing metres when they pop a pass.

On the other hand, it's so frustrating to watch a halfback or five-eighth setting up for the next play and taking their eyes off the ball.

As highly respected commentator Peter Sterling has always said, the most dangerous player is the one with the ball.

Look, Brisbane's Anthony Milford has had a horrible year, like many of his team-mates, so bagging him is like shooting fish in a barrel, but in the 20^th minute of last Friday night's game against St George Illawarra he was organising team-mates, the ball came back when he wasn't looking and the opportunity was lost.

Again, Milford is far from the only player in the halves to do that, but this one stood out as the Dragons had scored two tries in the first six minutes and the Broncos needed everything to go their way.

True, Gutherson isn't a half or five-eighth and therefore needed to organise, but Lamb and others have done a fine job of both.

The enormously popular 'Gutho' has been dubbed 'The King' at Parramatta, but if clubs don't lock him down, he might just steal the NRL crown.