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Tell you what when you order the coach to drop a bloke you’d want to play better than those who wanted him dropped today.

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Billy Walker wrote: ↑April 20, 2025, 5:39 pm I wouldn’t be rushing to recruit any more out of that insipid Newcastle team

Luckily the switched on recruiters find the diamonds in the rough and don’t get sucked into team success determining the individual player.

Knights were this bad or worse when we raided Tapine, Leilua, Starling and co

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Sort of power watched the game on a break at work. Without reading through here my take is it looks like we rolled up expecting a win? Offloading before we’d earned it and a couple of little trick shots and funny kicks without winning the ruck at all. Didn’t show them any respect and therefore went ...

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Luai a lesser player than Galvin :lol: Time will tell. I know who I’d sign of the 2. Galvin is not going to have a better career than Luai. Not many players have. Four comps in a row, SOO wins, WC finals. Galvin hasn’t done anything yet apart from remind you of a young Scott Hill (who also never wo...

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I know Hosking covers the edge but I don’t like 3 middles on the bench. I also don’t like one of these 3 second rowers being injury cover. I would be almost mortified if we don’t try and continue with Hosking as a lock. If a half gets injured what happens? Young to half or a complete shift of the b...

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He’s made clear to all and sundry that he doesn’t trust the club and coach with his development. This isn’t the first time. I suspect it’s a poor cover story, and very tough on the club. The motivation with this manager is always “show me the money”. I suspect Galvin’s been very poorly advised by s...

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He’s made clear to all and sundry that he doesn’t trust the club and coach with his development. This isn’t the first time. I suspect it’s a poor cover story, and very tough on the club. The motivation with this manager is always “show me the money”. I suspect Galvin’s been very poorly advised by s...

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NoMan wrote: ↑April 15, 2025, 7:43 pm Luai a lesser player than Galvin

Time will tell.

I know who I’d sign of the 2.

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I’m backing the Tigers. The player manager concerned pulled the same rubbish on the Raiders with Anthony Milford. I don’t know how players sign up with people like that. I find it hard to understand how the NRL allowed him to be re-registered. I feel for the Tigers because they’re just starting to ...

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Now the dust has settled a bit I actually back Galvin in all of this. - He’s backing himself. He could do an ACL next week and cost himself millions. - Despite the moves the club has made he doesn’t believe the Marshall and Luai team is a good thing and that it’s not the place for him to develop. - ...

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I know Hosking covers the edge but I don’t like 3 middles on the bench. I also don’t like one of these 3 second rowers being injury cover. I would be almost mortified if we don’t try and continue with Hosking as a lock. If a half gets injured what happens? Young to half or a complete shift of the ba...

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I definitely think Simi is the weakest player in the 17 currently but i do take the point others have made that replacing him for Hosking would leave us very heavy and lacking in genuine versatility In an age with HIAs and sin bins being very frequent, that is very risky. I think Hosking can cover ...

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He’s the best young creative five-eighth I’ve seen…. probably since Carney. He’s built and moves like a young prime Scott Hill. Sucks for Wests. And that press release was really odd. A few hours post originally reading it it must have just been Richardson’s play/jab at Moses’ management team. NRL w...

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I've been impressed with Smithies this year but just want to double check that no one considers him in the same league as Hosking, right? Does durability comes into it? Because they’ve been at the club for the same amount of time and Smithies has played almost 3 times as many games as Hosking has.

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Repeating what I said earlier in the week but Hosking has to replace a middle, not Sasagi, IMO. You can’t play a bloke in the middle and also expect him to be the back injury cover. You also don’t need 3 middles on the bench when you’ve got Hosking, Hors, Smithies and Tapine who can play big minutes...

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3. Young
2. Tapine
1. Horsburgh

That’s rough on Kris and Strange too.

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gangrenous wrote: ↑April 12, 2025, 6:50 pm If you are then I’m missing the same things Julian.

Unless I’m missing something big - Feels like racists looking for any excuse to take a side against someone who calls it out.

Yep. Comment sections have been really gross.

julian87

I’ll just say this really is the game where we should unleash Owen Pattie.

Five minutes into the second half for mine.

Those 2 free interchanges should make it viable.

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This is a very odd team to support. Deplorable structured attack. The block plays to end up with a 2 on 3 or 4 is beyond hideous. But there’s enough really good attacking players that in unstructured attack they’re really good. It’s great to watch when we’re winning but gee whiz what I’d give for a ...

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Unless I’m missing something the pile on on Thurston over last night is crazy stuff.

Did he defend Mam for the drink driving incident?

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Sisagi I think could have a very high ceiling. From what we’ve seen this year he’s eradicated his poor defence and errors albeit it’s been very limited minutes. He will get a start at second row at some stage this season. With KPP, he popped onto the scene and thought he could be a very good player...

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simo wrote: ↑April 9, 2025, 6:02 pm Reckon we should switch strange to his favoured right side if this is going to be the case

Considering Fogarty’s jewell in his crown is his kicking I don’t think he can play on the left, have that inhibited, and still be viable.

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It’s pretty good business from Manly because we’ve made it pretty obvious we’re not really interested in him past next season at this point.

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Lomax out injured and I’m suddenly very worried.

A day after the Simmons, Clifford, Fonua, Taulapapa and Pomeroy chat we’re going to be up against Bailey Simonsson now.

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This game will be a big test to see where we are at. It will be interesting to see how we deal with favourtism, finally after 6 rounds. The punters / bookies have been so off this year, and I feel they kinda got this one wrong too... it really does feel like a $1.75 raiders vs $2.15 eels instead of...

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As a cricket tragic it is sad. He was a great opening bat and just what Australia needed. He’ll always have his baggy green.

I just hope he comes good and is able to lead a healthy and normal life. What the concussions did to him was horrible. I hope he never suffers another.

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Agree Gerg With such a youthful squad, I’d be looking for a professional journeyman winger who’s happy to play NSW Cup, but can easily fill in at NRL level when required. Get me a Michael Oldfield , stat! Having a player like Oldy would be so beneficial right now The exact sort of veteran depth pla...

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On the Hosking discussion: he has to replace a prop and not Sasagi imo. We can’t expect Hosking to play as a middle forward and also be the outside back injury cover. In fact given his extensive leg injury history I think he’s just about finished in that cover role full stop. Having more than 5 midd...

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He's not very good based on what i've seen Looks like he should be a good player, plenty of physical tools but he's struggled to make impact in games. Young is streets ahead. Nicholson is already better. Hosking is better. And he's not good enough to block Noah Martin's path imo. It'd be a pass fro...

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Have Manly really been that good in that period? They went bloody close in 2013 but for a horrific forward pass in that grand final. They had a big turnover after that with players like Watmough, Stewarts, Lyon, Kite, Matai, Foran all gone within a couple of years. They had a nice transition to the ...

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Stewart not in the squad is a bit baffling.

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I know nobody likes a wash up. But post Hoppa injury and Jed Stuart being next cap off the ranks I’d be sussing out Nene for a one season SOS. I literally just posted a list of names of types of players id sniff around on and Nene is a really really great name to add to that. And would frankly be a...

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I know nobody likes a wash up. But post Hoppa injury and Jed Stuart being next cap off the ranks I’d be sussing out Nene for a one season SOS.

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All of this nonsense is summed up by a pretty easy question.

When was the last time he put on a play (outside of a kick) that resulted in a try or even a linebreak?

And don’t say the Nicholson tries where he was running over the top of Gosiewski.

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All the best to Hopoate. Never good to see a player injured.

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