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Certainly cant complain about that. Good business to lock in a young star in his prime.

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Wanting to bring back a hard voluntary tackle rule is such a peak 'old man yells at clouds' issue that i cant even be mad at people about it. After some thought about it, i didn't like the tactic to bomb on the try line, pile numbers in and force a drop out, I didn't like that it resulted in players...

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Expect a Donta Smith extension to come soon.
Eagles have an absurd amount of cap space right now. Wondering if they're trying to roll over a lot next year when the cap is a little tighter than they're used to

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Well TR, Is it a walking clock?

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T_R wrote: ↑April 4, 2024, 9:36 pm How do you think he'd look in red?

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Great. He'd look good in any colour.
Including lime green.

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That’s what I mean! It seems like he loves the club, he is the best player in cup… what’s the bloody issue!?!? There’s a small part of me that thinks it’s age related and just trying to perfect his game in cup in preparation for a long career but even then, I don’t completely get the logic - mere o...

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David McWilliam’s (who should be president of planet earth) latest pod presents a pro Palestinian case for those trying to wade through the propaganda and discusses how this mess plays out. Great listen . Ive listened to this podcast a bit recently largely on the recommendations of this thread and ...

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What the hell? How was that tackle completed?!? Agree but that's how the game is Last week a player surrendered , no one touched him and ref told him to play it. It's become a joke It shouldn’t happen. They should be penalised. I dont know that we need the voluntary tackle rule back as such, though...

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Great game
Very fun
Broncos lose
Everyone wins!

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I mean **** the Broncos so the Reynolds knee injury isnt somehting ill lose sleep over but it does suck for this game
Excellent game of footy so far

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If we wanted to keep him 1,000,000 per cent, why is he off contract? Why wasn’t he signed up before he was off contract. We saw Trey’s dad coming on The GH Facebook page in last week or so… and basically he doesn’t know what else Trey has to do to get a run in firsts. Which suggests Trey doesn’t kn...

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So is Lomax , he has been released at end of year Well yeah, it doesn’t make a heap of sense then. The article does say they agreed to a termination but then that he cant move for less because he is contracted. I’d guess the article might be wrong. I think it's part of the NRL salary cap rules now ...

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IBG wrote: ↑April 4, 2024, 5:59 pm Send Parra Cotric and Guler for Sanders this year... kill two birds with one stone... frees up a spot and money for Mooney too. (I know this won't happen)

Guler to the Bulldogs makes so much sense for all involved that I’m angry it hasn’t happened yet

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Of course we want to keep him It’s never been in question for me that we want to keep him The question is can we achieve that given the pathway we’ve presented to him thus far? I have my doubts. But I’m I think he’s got superstar potential and we should do whatever it takes to keep him. Including pr...

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$500k is not that much in the context of an $11.6M salary cap. I know there are a few intricacies to the cap so it's not as simple as $11.6m/30 = $387k, but I would argue that any player who is clearly top 13 should be worth $500k +/-. Benchies should generally be worth less on average and then sal...

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What is this "massive amount of money" rhetoric that we are accepting as fact though? What's the story there? Just stuff you hear around the traps... but you're a bit niave if you think he's coming here for peanuts. There is a reason the club is very confident he's coming and that's proba...

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The problem is Laui is an out and out left secondary half. Galvin looks to be the same based on what i've seen Fainu on their bench this week is a RH. it's a good problem to have... maybe Galvin can go and play RH, but you're not going to move the 1.2m dollar man to the role of primary RH. Ill be re...

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What is this "massive amount of money" rhetoric that we are accepting as fact though? What's the story there? Just stuff you hear around the traps... but you're a bit niave if you think he's coming here for peanuts. There is a reason the club is very confident he's coming and that's proba...

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Well Turuva first made a household name for himself playing fullback for Fiji and it's his preferred position so I don't think he needs to be "converted". I also don't think 21yo premiership winning fullbacks who can also kill it on the wing are a dime a dozen. Besides, we currently have ...

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I think wingers are a bit a dime a dozen, and i wouldnt pay top of the market for one. If someone wants to take a punt on Turuva as a fullback who might fail out at wing, i'd say best of luck to them but it's not a bet id make And i think Turuva is a really good winger, so it's not an issue with the...

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Joel Caine's year on year growth in that role is remarkable.
In awe at the sheer size of the lad. Absolute unit

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Funny about the dropped balls things, i was looking at that the other day He played 25 games last year and had 6 errors... There is certainly a narrative out there about him that isn't always supported by facts. While I agree, I still remember his dropped ball that was fortuitously awarded a penalt...

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Sasagi has been playing very will at second row in cup and I suspect he will come on after 20 minutes with Ata to move into the middle rotation if this side is to remain as named. I think so too but i'd just cut out the middle man Maybe they're worried about Sasagi playing 80 in his first FG in a l...

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Yeah look i dont disagree broadly, that he's a FG player for a lot of clubs but not ours specifically because of how strong our middle forward room is... but i do think some of the criticism thrown at him is not fair, as above also shows. Certainly his work in Cup last week won't, or shouldnt, be go...

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I was just doing a quick back of the hand stuff based on of all things... SuperCoach history! Based on 2023 stats Guler had 6 in about 981 minutes (0.006 errors p/m) Ata had 4 in about 375 minutes (0.010) Saulo 3 in about 615 minutes (0.004) Tapine 6 in 1246 minutes (0.004) Papa 2 in 811 minutes (0....

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Why don't you share with us the stats of his performance compared to the other forwards Havent done a proper work up on that. Just an offhanded look at Emre as i commented recently that if you dont like errors Emre's not your guy... and then it clicked with that "hang on, i dont actually recal...

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Funny about the dropped balls things, i was looking at that the other day
He played 25 games last year and had 6 errors... There is certainly a narrative out there about him that isn't always supported by facts.

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Sanders could go out next week, tear an ACL and circumstances off that may see him never be in position to accept this kind of money and opportunity again The raiders are offering a fast pass to FG football and a chunk of money that will alter the course of his life even if he never succeeds at the ...

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Based on what I have heard I think the possibilities of him ending up anywhere but Canberra are very slim.

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We should just start Sasagi at edge and move ata back to the bench Ata on the edge from the jump worries me a little Those eels halves are quick on their feet and strong runners. That’s a recipe for potential disaster if Ata can’t stay in front of them As for Mooney it’s all been said. I’ll be cheer...

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Gee they really rolled over on that quickly. A few days ago Flanno was saying he would release him for anything less than a top 3-4 player at a club. Just goes to show how much the power balance has flipped. And as i like to remind people, the war on loyalty was started by the clubs. They just never...

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Lamenting Actions wrote: ↑April 2, 2024, 12:50 pm
Rickmando wrote: ↑April 2, 2024, 12:20 pm
-PJ- wrote: ↑April 2, 2024, 12:06 pm I think the Sharks trainer should be tasered.
Or be forced to watch 12 continuous hours of Raiders grindball highlights
A Clockwork Orange style. Eyelid clamps and the 12 hour montage with The Mighty Green Machine played an octave lower on repeat.

The Hague would never allow it.

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To add to the above, what I can't understand is why we aren't developing Puru for that hooker/lock hybrid 14 role. He has the skillset to be much better at this type of role than Havili for example, who one could argue was almost the pioneer for it in the current era. His service from dummy half ca...

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Levi isn’t getting dropped on that game He was one of our better players, which is an admittedly low bar to clear but even I couldn’t complain about Levi retaining his spot I’d like to see Woolford come in for Starling so we can get a look at what this team looks like with Woolford But starling has ...

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That incident was popping off on my group chats
I was too annoyed at the level of football we were playing to be too concerned about it in the moment but I think it’s a fair complaint

Trainer has no business being in a position where he could adversely impact the goal kicker

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