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Only 8 wins from 23 visits to Newcastle and I reckon I’ve been to all of them dating back to 88.
What a horrible place to be. Full of halfwits. I hate going, I really do but it’s time with dad and bro.
Raiders win..but with no confidence.
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Raiders win..but with no confidence.
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Billy Walker wrote: ↑August 15, 2022, 1:45 pmSorry to say, but he’s in decline from here onwards. He won’t get quicker or more agile but he will slow up. He’s not uncovering new angles or skill sets that have been hiding below the surface untapped.BJ wrote: ↑August 15, 2022, 1:35 pmYep. Guessing we’re paying $400-450k of that.Botman wrote:We're also not paying Cotric 600k, we are paying him significantly less than that.
Which may or may not be about $50k too much.
Cotric certainly needs to work on his game this offseason and develop some secondary skills.
He will have some good games, the odd great game mixed with a lot of sub-par games. It’s not where we want $400-600k a year tied up.
Seems a great bloke and a Canberra junior and really burst onto the scene in his breakout season. I’m going to be really radical and suggest we try something different and consider reality over sentiment and see if that drives a better outcome for us.
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I'm a huge Cotric fan but there hasn't been a lot of progress I agree.Billy Walker wrote: ↑August 15, 2022, 1:45 pmSorry to say, but he’s in decline from here onwards. He won’t get quicker or more agile but he will slow up. He’s not uncovering new angles or skill sets that have been hiding below the surface untapped.BJ wrote: ↑August 15, 2022, 1:35 pmYep. Guessing we’re paying $400-450k of that.Botman wrote:We're also not paying Cotric 600k, we are paying him significantly less than that.
Which may or may not be about $50k too much.
Cotric certainly needs to work on his game this offseason and develop some secondary skills.
He will have some good games, the odd great game mixed with a lot of sub-par games. It’s not where we want $400-600k a year tied up.
Seems a great bloke and a Canberra junior and really burst onto the scene in his breakout season. I’m going to be really radical and suggest we try something different and consider reality over sentiment and see if that drives a better outcome for us.
He has added an "on the burst" straight yards run recently to compliment his "palm and crab across" style which he got stuck in a rut with. But overall his wing play in general hasn't hit his season 1-2 heights.
He probably does need to change something up- lean out and work hard on flexibility/balance to add a dimension because getting bigger and slower probably isn't a winning track.
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I'm going, hopefully in a box-PJ- wrote:Only 8 wins from 23 visits to Newcastle and I reckon I’ve been to all of them dating back to 88.
What a horrible place to be. Full of halfwits. I hate going, I really do but it’s time with dad and bro.
Raiders win..but with no confidence.
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Now I’m visualising you sitting on the hill in a box.bonehead wrote: ↑August 15, 2022, 3:33 pmI'm going, hopefully in a box-PJ- wrote:Only 8 wins from 23 visits to Newcastle and I reckon I’ve been to all of them dating back to 88.
What a horrible place to be. Full of halfwits. I hate going, I really do but it’s time with dad and bro.
Raiders win..but with no confidence.
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With Brew?-PJ- wrote:Now I’m visualising you sitting on the hill in a box.bonehead wrote: ↑August 15, 2022, 3:33 pmI'm going, hopefully in a box-PJ- wrote:Only 8 wins from 23 visits to Newcastle and I reckon I’ve been to all of them dating back to 88.
What a horrible place to be. Full of halfwits. I hate going, I really do but it’s time with dad and bro.
Raiders win..but with no confidence.
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I'd rather a coffingergreg wrote:With Brew?-PJ- wrote:Now I’m visualising you sitting on the hill in a box.bonehead wrote: ↑August 15, 2022, 3:33 pmI'm going, hopefully in a box-PJ- wrote:Only 8 wins from 23 visits to Newcastle and I reckon I’ve been to all of them dating back to 88.
What a horrible place to be. Full of halfwits. I hate going, I really do but it’s time with dad and bro.
Raiders win..but with no confidence.
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Say gidday to Brew for me!bonehead wrote:I'm going, hopefully in a box-PJ- wrote:Only 8 wins from 23 visits to Newcastle and I reckon I’ve been to all of them dating back to 88.
What a horrible place to be. Full of halfwits. I hate going, I really do but it’s time with dad and bro.
Raiders win..but with no confidence.
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I'd rather notThe Nickman wrote:Say gidday to Brew for me!bonehead wrote:I'm going, hopefully in a box-PJ- wrote:Only 8 wins from 23 visits to Newcastle and I reckon I’ve been to all of them dating back to 88.
What a horrible place to be. Full of halfwits. I hate going, I really do but it’s time with dad and bro.
Raiders win..but with no confidence.
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So you’re just going to sit next to him in silence?bonehead wrote:I'd rather notThe Nickman wrote:Say gidday to Brew for me!bonehead wrote:I'm going, hopefully in a box-PJ- wrote:Only 8 wins from 23 visits to Newcastle and I reckon I’ve been to all of them dating back to 88.
What a horrible place to be. Full of halfwits. I hate going, I really do but it’s time with dad and bro.
Raiders win..but with no confidence.
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so just following the trend..... this weeks (only against the Raiders masterclass) is.......Bradman Best yay!!!!!!!!!!!
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Amone is a gunCrusader wrote:so just following the trend..... this weeks (only against the Raiders masterclass) is.......Bradman Best yay!!!!!!!!!!!
Last week, Amone
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Jesus Christ.Billy Walker wrote: ↑August 15, 2022, 1:45 pmSorry to say, but he’s in decline from here onwards. He won’t get quicker or more agile but he will slow up. He’s not uncovering new angles or skill sets that have been hiding below the surface untapped.BJ wrote: ↑August 15, 2022, 1:35 pmYep. Guessing we’re paying $400-450k of that.Botman wrote:We're also not paying Cotric 600k, we are paying him significantly less than that.
Which may or may not be about $50k too much.
Cotric certainly needs to work on his game this offseason and develop some secondary skills.
He will have some good games, the odd great game mixed with a lot of sub-par games. It’s not where we want $400-600k a year tied up.
Seems a great bloke and a Canberra junior and really burst onto the scene in his breakout season. I’m going to be really radical and suggest we try something different and consider reality over sentiment and see if that drives a better outcome for us.
He's 23. He's an Origin rep. He's a very good winger who made a bad career move but good business move, as did Canberra, twice even. Canberra aren't paying him any more than 60% of his wage imo.
Nearly any winger in the comp would have looked bad on the end of Canberra's backline this year as well. Cotric has had a disrupted year but has shown glimpses and he's simply not someone you dump at 23 years old. Especially not for Albert Hopoate.
Hopoate has really stood up. I didn't think he had it in him. But he is very slow and there's no turning that around. A good squad member but a fight for that spot shouldn't even be touched on. And afaic I think Schiller has shown more roo. That try, a few try savers and the courage when injured should stand for plenty imo.
well, I guess you could say that I'm buy curious.
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Young Canberra Raiders fullback Xavier Savage continues to improve
Raiders’ rookie Xavier Savage has looked more like a regular NRL starting No.1 with each week, culminating with Sunday’s two-try assist, 154m performance against St George Illawarra.
“Everyone wants big, fancy plays, but it’s the little things that matter more,” Savage said. “Like taking those tough carries out, supporting the big boys in the middle and just always being around the ball. That’s what I’ve tried to focus on every week and doing those little things and then the fancy stuff comes along with it.
Read more: https://canberraweekly.com.au/young-rai ... o-improve/
Raiders’ rookie Xavier Savage has looked more like a regular NRL starting No.1 with each week, culminating with Sunday’s two-try assist, 154m performance against St George Illawarra.
“Everyone wants big, fancy plays, but it’s the little things that matter more,” Savage said. “Like taking those tough carries out, supporting the big boys in the middle and just always being around the ball. That’s what I’ve tried to focus on every week and doing those little things and then the fancy stuff comes along with it.
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Didn’t realise Cotric is only 23
He had a slow start, but hit some form before injury. In my view, it’s Rapana and Cotric as our top two wingers with Schiller next in line.
He had a slow start, but hit some form before injury. In my view, it’s Rapana and Cotric as our top two wingers with Schiller next in line.
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The only reasonable response when talking about who our best wingers are.President Clinton wrote: ↑August 15, 2022, 7:22 pm Didn’t realise Cotric was only 23
He had a slow start, but hit some form before injury. In my view, it’s Rapana and Cotric as our top two wingers with Schiller next in line.
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is this just a massive Dubby?
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I don't expect Cotric to be making Origin sides and I'm comfortable with that. He's still a solid winger with a low error rate that gets through plenty of work. He wants to be here too so we should be able to extend him at a reasonable price.
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The whole hype around Cotric was that he burst onto the scene "fully formed" as an 18 year old with absurd size, decent toe, courage, physicality and incredible footy instincts- no fear and the right play at the right time. He'd been that size, or near enough and had that unphased mentality since he was 16. Some of us who knew him as a junior were not surprised at all, nor that he made Origin soon after. He took every new step like that.President Clinton wrote: ↑August 15, 2022, 7:22 pm Didn’t realise Cotric was only 23
He had a slow start, but hit some form before injury. In my view, it’s Rapana and Cotric as our top two wingers with Schiller next in line.
When you hit a few failures, doubt creeps in. Thought processes and coaching vs natural play. You realise the stakes. Maybe he'll figure it out and hit heights again. Physically he'll maybe never be as bouncy and agile again- he's never lacked strength.
I'd like to see him be consistent again. But yeah, 23 year old Origin reps with 100+ FG games are normally pretty hard to recruit.
You can talk about the way our edges operated pre-2019 vs how much room they had after that and how effective they have been but it's a whole other thing (hint, not very, we became a cramped, bash the middle team who crab across when we go wide and don't straighten enough or play at the line well).
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$20 bucks in my pocket says he doesn’t play origin again, another $20 says he’s never winger of the year and a third $20 he never plays in an NRL premiership team.julian87 wrote: ↑August 15, 2022, 7:05 pmJesus Christ.Billy Walker wrote: ↑August 15, 2022, 1:45 pmSorry to say, but he’s in decline from here onwards. He won’t get quicker or more agile but he will slow up. He’s not uncovering new angles or skill sets that have been hiding below the surface untapped.BJ wrote: ↑August 15, 2022, 1:35 pmYep. Guessing we’re paying $400-450k of that.Botman wrote:We're also not paying Cotric 600k, we are paying him significantly less than that.
Which may or may not be about $50k too much.
Cotric certainly needs to work on his game this offseason and develop some secondary skills.
He will have some good games, the odd great game mixed with a lot of sub-par games. It’s not where we want $400-600k a year tied up.
Seems a great bloke and a Canberra junior and really burst onto the scene in his breakout season. I’m going to be really radical and suggest we try something different and consider reality over sentiment and see if that drives a better outcome for us.
He's 23. He's an Origin rep. He's a very good winger who made a bad career move but good business move, as did Canberra, twice even. Canberra aren't paying him any more than 60% of his wage imo.
Nearly any winger in the comp would have looked bad on the end of Canberra's backline this year as well. Cotric has had a disrupted year but has shown glimpses and he's simply not someone you dump at 23 years old. Especially not for Albert Hopoate.
Hopoate has really stood up. I didn't think he had it in him. But he is very slow and there's no turning that around. A good squad member but a fight for that spot shouldn't even be touched on. And afaic I think Schiller has shown more roo. That try, a few try savers and the courage when injured should stand for plenty imo.
Sad to see a 23 year old cooked but it is what it is. We will stick true for years to come and repeat mistakes no doubt- it’s what we do.
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Canberra Raiders' Corey Horsburgh makes tough call after pneumonia battle
Corey Horsburgh returned to firsts last week after shedding eight kilograms with pneumonia. But he is prepared for Guler to get the nod ahead of him on the bench if Joe Tapine is back in the starting line-up.
"Just because of my lungs, I'd say I'll go out," Horsburgh said. "I'm back to my playing weight, it's just my lungs still. I felt like I did alright. I wasn't back to normal me, but every week I feel better and hopefully by the time we make the finals I'll be back to full health."
Read more: https://www.canberratimes.com.au/story/ ... /?cs=14239
Corey Horsburgh returned to firsts last week after shedding eight kilograms with pneumonia. But he is prepared for Guler to get the nod ahead of him on the bench if Joe Tapine is back in the starting line-up.
"Just because of my lungs, I'd say I'll go out," Horsburgh said. "I'm back to my playing weight, it's just my lungs still. I felt like I did alright. I wasn't back to normal me, but every week I feel better and hopefully by the time we make the finals I'll be back to full health."
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Yeah, I’d wager he’ll be 100% by the 2025 final series.
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I’ll take horse with one lung over Guler.
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If you think being a solid but unspectacular outside back precludes a player from winning a Premiership then you have a fundamental misunderstanding of the value of positions in the modern game, and the need to balance the salary cap. Paul Momirovski won a Premiership last season.Billy Walker wrote: ↑August 15, 2022, 9:33 pm$20 bucks in my pocket says he doesn’t play origin again, another $20 says he’s never winger of the year and a third $20 he never plays in an NRL premiership team.julian87 wrote: ↑August 15, 2022, 7:05 pmJesus Christ.Billy Walker wrote: ↑August 15, 2022, 1:45 pmSorry to say, but he’s in decline from here onwards. He won’t get quicker or more agile but he will slow up. He’s not uncovering new angles or skill sets that have been hiding below the surface untapped.BJ wrote: ↑August 15, 2022, 1:35 pmYep. Guessing we’re paying $400-450k of that.Botman wrote:We're also not paying Cotric 600k, we are paying him significantly less than that.
Which may or may not be about $50k too much.
Cotric certainly needs to work on his game this offseason and develop some secondary skills.
He will have some good games, the odd great game mixed with a lot of sub-par games. It’s not where we want $400-600k a year tied up.
Seems a great bloke and a Canberra junior and really burst onto the scene in his breakout season. I’m going to be really radical and suggest we try something different and consider reality over sentiment and see if that drives a better outcome for us.
He's 23. He's an Origin rep. He's a very good winger who made a bad career move but good business move, as did Canberra, twice even. Canberra aren't paying him any more than 60% of his wage imo.
Nearly any winger in the comp would have looked bad on the end of Canberra's backline this year as well. Cotric has had a disrupted year but has shown glimpses and he's simply not someone you dump at 23 years old. Especially not for Albert Hopoate.
Hopoate has really stood up. I didn't think he had it in him. But he is very slow and there's no turning that around. A good squad member but a fight for that spot shouldn't even be touched on. And afaic I think Schiller has shown more roo. That try, a few try savers and the courage when injured should stand for plenty imo.
Sad to see a 23 year old cooked but it is what it is. We will stick true for years to come and repeat mistakes no doubt- it’s what we do.
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Nah just Billy trying to get ahead of the curve. In 5 years time when Cotric genuinely starts to decline Billy will puff his chest out and say he saw it ... when Cotric was 23.bonehead wrote:is this just a massive Dubby?
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So how many interviews will Adam Elliott give this week?
Playing against his future club in front of his girlfriend must be worth at least 5 interviews
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Klemmer might be back for them, but absolute shambles of a backline with those 2 out.
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Their backline was a shambles with those two in. Best is a total weapon. Unfortunately they don't know how to use him properly. Tuala is an absolute plodder. Don't know how he gets picked in 1st grade each week.
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Geez they are going to have a NSW Cup backline this week.
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You think he’s on the up and up? Were you surprised he wasn’t in this years origin team. He’s in decline and he won’t turn it around sorry. There are reasons we aren’t a top 8 side and many of them go to the fact our players aren’t up to it. You can have a toiler or two in a team of stars. We are a team of toilers with 1 or 2 stars. Cotric isn’t in the star category.gergreg wrote: ↑August 16, 2022, 7:42 amNah just Billy trying to get ahead of the curve. In 5 years time when Cotric genuinely starts to decline Billy will puff his chest out and say he saw it ... when Cotric was 23.bonehead wrote:is this just a massive Dubby?
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Looking at their roster I think the Tuala issue is injuries and lack of choice.Northern Raider wrote: ↑August 16, 2022, 11:12 amTheir backline was a shambles with those two in. Best is a total weapon. Unfortunately they don't know how to use him properly. Tuala is an absolute plodder. Don't know how he gets picked in 1st grade each week.
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Nothing beats a raiders team like a team under adversity. Knights will win this easy
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