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The Meninga try from 94 would be in the conversation, the game was won and lost by then which is a draw back, but it's an iconic moment in the clubs history and an exclamation point for our GOAT.

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I’m left pondering whether the 2024 squad is stronger or not. I’m not sure it is. I might be wrong, I might be surprised by the new recruits. No really big names on the recruitment list, though. The team needed more pace and strike in the backs, and I’m not sure if that’s there… though there are pl...

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I watched Baby Reindeer before Magic Round and it’s gripping, compulsive watch. Very good television. People might be confronted by it, but worth watching. No idea how much is true, but it’s sort of irrelevant. Sadly, i think it's largely a true story. Obviously not everything is bang on. Something...

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My experience with watching a range of different sports lead to me believe that it's not very common that a player slowly ages out and goes quietly into the night. It's not often a downward natural hill, it's a cliff and when you fall off, you fall off hard and fast. I think there are plenty of sign...

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Last year NSW Cup was being live streamed and Weekes was playing fullback for the Manly side. He made some great breaks with his pace, he caught the high ball ok but his defence was not a strong suit. Fast forward to the Raiders trial games and again his defence was not a strong suit. Now look to t...

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It’s nice when these threads pop up and you know you’re not one of the guys who’s take aged like milk

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Yeah Sterlo was great
I’d kill to get someone with his knowledge, professionalism and gravitas back in a commentary booth

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Finchy wrote: ↑May 21, 2024, 4:05 pm Haha Brandon Smith named at 9 and 14! Amateurs

I’m seeing double here!
4 Brandon Smiths

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I thought Illias looked really good for a young half when he came on the scene, but not only did he not really get better, he regressed Ilias is 24 now, young enough that this could all just be a bad situation and there could be brighter times ahead but this is a last chance saloon before it's caree...

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Probably best we left there, folks
Posts have already been deleted, and rightly so given the roosters statement.

Besideds we don't want poor GE having to sell his 5th helicopter for settlement
(sorry boss!)

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They've laid down a pretty serious statement in support: https://www.roosters.com.au/news/2024/05/21/sydney-roosters-statement/ I doubt they'll stand down any of them. Sydney Roosters club statement The Sydney Roosters have been made aware of a small clip from a longer live stream that some on socia...

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Any thoughts on Brandon smith coming to Canberra as a 50min hooker rotation? It is absolutely reckless to consider it. All evidence is he's a complete loose unit and total **** show off the park. Has been through CB and now Robinson and still cant get it together. Bringing him to a smaller market l...

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If we win against the roosters this weekend, my tip is Strange will be selected at 5/8 for NSW to partner Hynes. Absolutely no chance Of either us beating the roosters* or that resulting in Strange being selected for NSW. I think even if NSW were considering it, which they wont, Stuart would be abl...

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I admittedly have never listened to Alan Tongue and made some assumptions there, interesting to know he's gone over the top the other way but you get the point... you don't expect to get a lot of neutrality from people in the media who have a clear attachment to a club. Id like to think a guy like G...

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James Graham on NRL360 talked about how we got 2 lucky tries, no mention of the great tackle that caused one but also failed to highlight the Dogs got tries whilst we were down men and then didn't score another point when we were at full compliment. He played the majority of his NRL career at the d...

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And from my experience following US sports and their draft/scouting processes it’s also what every person in scouting positions says publicly “We’re different here at Organisation X. We really value guys who are competitive and love the game. Those are traits we really prioritise over other things. ...

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I would not wanting to be signing up for another year if that game from Rapa was the standard

He made a number of pretty critical errors that hurt the team

The argument of keeping him is that on the aggregate he gives us enough in other games to tolerate the ones like the other night

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I think you’d be wrong about his ball playing
And that it is very advanced for his age and position, and probably one of the elite traits that saw him elevated to this level of prospect

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Annesley runs through a few of these today in his presser for anyone wishing to have a better understanding of this topic. Including quite a compelling argument about the Kikau incident on Nick Cotric, which i felt at the time was a hip drop but on watching that with the explanation i am forced to c...

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Chevy has always played against kids his age who were either bigger, faster, quicker etc And guess what? He’s always been better than them That’s why he was rated the top schoolboy footballer in the country. It’s fair to say the lad has elite traits, you don’t get to a talent as highly rated as he i...

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Yeah good call re Arthur’s lad
He’s a good young footy player at a major position of need

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Young fullback Conner Votano also at the knights in SG Ball is said to be a phenomenal talent too
They've got some good kids coming through that i hope some clubs pick off.

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I don't see any reason why we'd move Strange from 5/8th when Strange is playing well and beat Weekes out for the job pre season
But fog is months away from returning so who knows what the squad health and form will be at that time

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I don't understand what's not to understand. The point is fairly simple and plainly stated, Seiff. [emoji38] So you're saying Robinson is a better coach than Stuart because he has won 3 premierships in 10 seasons at the Roosters and Stuart won 1 premiership in 5 seasons. Both got to 3 grand finals ...

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He should get a vote in the expansion discussion His fines are funding the project Love the bloke. Never want to see him in anything but lime green That being said his time has come. You don’t think he could go another year on the wing? I think he could. But i really do think it's time we turned th...

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I don't understand what's not to understand. The point is fairly simple and plainly stated, Seiff.

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He should get a vote in the expansion discussion
His fines are funding the project

Love the bloke. Never want to see him in anything but lime green
That being said his time has come.

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Fellas... before you go ahead and start dismissing Robinson's THREE premierships and pretending he's not achieved more than Stuart as a coach because he coaches the roosters, you might want to google which club Stuart ONE premiership as a coach was won at.

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We also know that one of the "signings we'd be announcing in the next few weeks" is Sanders and it's been in the bag for a while now and that hasnt officially been done yet, so i am hopeful that we might have another name to come with him when it does happen A really good young backrower ...

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You can pretty much forget recruiting a fullback over Chev, Stuart's not doing that. He'll manage it as he sees fit but he'll be doing it with the very clear intention that Stewart is our fullback of the future. I think Stuart has a very high level of confidence that he'll be that too so a high upsi...

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We also know that one of the "signings we'd be announcing in the next few weeks" is Sanders and it's been in the bag for a while now and that hasnt officially been done yet, so i am hopeful that we might have another name to come with him when it does happen

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I think "intentionally taking his weight off the ground to drag the player down" is pretty much perfect description of the action Papalii takes in the tackle. So yeah, it is very accurate imo. I don't know what you blokes are watching but it's not what im watching so I've not got anymore m...

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You’ve got two different topics today with screen grabs and in both I’m struggling to understand how you think the pictures support your case. :lol: They are screen grabs that very much support mine as I see it In any event I do very much think it’s a dumb technicality to say because Papalii knocked...

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I’m tell you now Critta is BEGGING for that ball to go long to beyond Huddo His entire body positioning to make a play at the ball, he knows if the ball goes beyond him it’s a try, he has to back Preston to make the tackle if it’s short, but he’s defending space. He is 100% playing the ball A cut ou...

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It's such a dumb technicality to get hung up on... Im not really interested in a discussion if your entire thing boils down well "well technically he didnt land on Kikau"... miss me with that nonsense. He committed a hip drop tackle, and it resulted in a defenders weight coming down on the...

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