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Smorgasbord posted:We lost twice to this loving Dragons team That was all part of the Matt Elliott era I'm trying so hard to forget. gently caress I'm glad the club has given up on Eden Park for regular season games, I hated going there. Pain in the rear end to get too and from the place, crap view, crap atmosphere. Mt Smart is a vastly superior stadium.
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Jono C posted:That was all part of the Matt Elliott era I'm trying so hard to forget. The Warriors at Mount Smart is how it should always be. like the Tigers at Leichardt or Campbelltown. gently caress those soulless cavernous stadiums they're trying to force us to use after forcing us to pay for them in the first place. Oh also we forgot to celebrate Jerome Ropati's retirement 
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Jun 3, 2014 11:46
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Smorgasbord posted:Oh also we forgot to celebrate Jerome Ropati's retirement I don't wish the guy any harm, but I'm glad he's gone. He's been a joke of a first grader for about four seasons. He single handedly cost us games with his godawful defence, and this was despite struggling to play more than five games a season. The various coaches we've managed to keep finding excuses (veteran presence!) to send him out there, and it always hurt us.
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Zak Hardaker. Young lad, plays for Leeds. The odd one or two of you might recall him getting pissed up during the last World Cup and getting chucked from the squad. He's had an impressive season off the back of that, though. Just been invited to the latest train-on squad. Even got a nice writeup in a national newspaper a couple of weeks ago.quote:“I’m hoping through my performances and my dealings with the media that people will see I’m not a bad lad,” he says. “I know what I’m capable of. I really want to show what is the real me. I didn’t recognise the person who people said I was, all that rebellious, arrogant stuff. That wasn’t me. I want people to know who I really am and what I’m capable of delivering.” Stirring words. How are you getting on with that, mate? https://vine.co/v/Md0egWOePWp Oh. http://www.theguardian.com/sport/2014/jun/02/leeds-zak-hardaker-charged-homophobic-slur-referee Oh dear. That's not gone well at all.
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Jun 3, 2014 23:00
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Aye he's going to be serving a lengthy ban for that, I think, no matter who it was aimed at. Shame, because he's been SYOOOPEEERRRB this season.
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Jun 3, 2014 23:06
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Jono C posted:
I literally live a minute away from Eden Park but even I'd prefer us to play at Mt Smart. It's a poo poo stadium, it's cold, it's not close, but it's our home 
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Jun 4, 2014 04:17
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Much like us playing out of ANZ rather than Leichhardt 
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Jun 4, 2014 05:04
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Poor old Raiders, Tedesco pulled out of the deal. They haven't got any of the ones they were chasing - Tedesco, Proctor, Ennis, Mansour
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Jun 4, 2014 10:00
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That's odd. Did he meet Stuart for the first time after the announcement and suddenly realise the error of his ways?
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Jun 4, 2014 10:11
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Has it been fully confirmed yet? I'm just seeing stories on less than official websites... And if he has, it's probably just whatever drugs they had him on wearing off. Why else would he have agreed to play for sticky? E: hahaha yep Furner confirming it on smh.com.au. What is it about the tigers where we can't negotiate to save our lives, but we somehow manage to guilt players once they've signed elsewhere? iajanus fucked around with this message at 10:22 on Jun 4, 2014 |
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Jun 4, 2014 10:17
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Yay Tigers
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Jun 4, 2014 10:45
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iajanus posted:Has it been fully confirmed yet? I'm just seeing stories on less than official websites... I heard Sticky told him that Proctor, Ennis and Mansour were all done deals, and he was part of a rebuilding plan. The other three dropped out and he got cold feet.
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Jun 4, 2014 11:31
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That's a shock, he was reportedly being offered megabucks by Canberra, like $300k more per season that the Tigers. Poor old Ricky may not have the luxury of cutting anybody at this rate, the only person they've targeted who is still keen is Joel Thompson who is homesick (and kind of average anyway). edit: When Tedesco gets his inevitable career ending injury next season he's really going to regret this decision. Smorgasbord fucked around with this message at 12:16 on Jun 4, 2014 |
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Jun 4, 2014 11:43
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Red_Museum posted:Poor old Raiders, Tedesco pulled out of the deal. Same thing happened to Parra when Stuart was coaching. Josh Papalii, Craig Gower, Israel Folau, Martin Kennedy and a bunch of others came close to signing and just backed right off. Come to think of it, we dodged some bullets there...
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Saul Goode posted:Same thing happened to Parra when Stuart was coaching. Josh Papalii, Craig Gower, Israel Folau, Martin Kennedy and a bunch of others came close to signing and just backed right off. Yeah that folau kid is poo poo.
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Jun 4, 2014 13:13
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I can't blame the kid for getting cold feet. The club sold him a bunch of nonsense about a rebuild.
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Jun 4, 2014 20:38
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I'm more amazed at how bad Canberra's talent acquisition team is - they really have missed out on nearly everyone they've targeted. That's a special kind of terrible.
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Jun 4, 2014 22:30
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Maybe no one wants to live there? This is Canberra we're talking about! (for the record I lived there for four years and I completely understand if that's the case) 
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Jun 5, 2014 02:40
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According to my spam folder Ben Te'o is quitting the Rabbits because he was getting abuse on tweitter over beating his girlfriend.
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Byolante posted:According to my spam folder Ben Te'o is quitting the Rabbits because he was getting abuse on tweitter over beating his girlfriend. He's off to french rugby imo.
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iajanus posted:I'm more amazed at how bad Canberra's talent acquisition team is - they really have missed out on nearly everyone they've targeted. That's a special kind of terrible. Location doesn't help but neither does the fact the raiders are a pack of incompetent old boys at management level. The club has a disgusting culture. Now location would turn some blokes off but we had tedesco signed this is about culture and possibly Stuart selling him a deal on a pack of lies.
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Jun 5, 2014 03:39
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Yeah, I'm thinking it's more a management/coaching issue rather than location. People regularly sign agreements to play in terrible locations (North Queensland, Campbelltown) so I can't see Canberra being too bad. Whatever he was sold obviously just fell through in his eyes, and he realised he still had time to back the gently caress out of it. Good for him.
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Jun 5, 2014 04:05
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I don't know, he has reportedly left $1m above the Tiger's offer on the table which seems insane to me given his injury record.
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Jun 5, 2014 07:01
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I would have taken the money and set myself up. By the end of the contract he would be in career best form and ready to move to a premiership winning side.
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Burn Down Canberra posted:Location doesn't help but neither does the fact the raiders are a pack of incompetent old boys at management level. The club has a disgusting culture. Now location would turn some blokes off but we had tedesco signed this is about culture and possibly Stuart selling him a deal on a pack of lies. I'm usually sympathetic to Canberra (it's not their fault they got hosed over by Carney, Dugan and Fergusson), but that went on hold when Stuart entered the building. They really need to question why someone would choose to walk away from a million dollars rather than play for them. Knowing Stuart, the immediate response will be to blame anyone else, but what the club needs to do is take a good hard look at itself.
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Jono C posted:I'm usually sympathetic to Canberra (it's not their fault they got hosed over by Carney, Dugan and Fergusson), but that went on hold when Stuart entered the building. They really need to question why someone would choose to walk away from a million dollars rather than play for them. Knowing Stuart, the immediate response will be to blame anyone else, but what the club needs to do is take a good hard look at itself. Those damned refs have screwed poor downtrodden Ricky over yet again 
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Beau Ryan has retired: http://www.abc.net.au/news/2014-06-05/beau-ryan-forced-into-retirement-by-injuries/5504198 In a way, it's a shame - I've not followed him at Cronulla, but as a Tiger he always struck me as a thinking player. In the other hand, it's probably best he walks away while he can still walk.
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iajanus posted:Yeah, I'm thinking it's more a management/coaching issue rather than location. People regularly sign agreements to play in terrible locations (North Queensland, Campbelltown) so I can't see Canberra being too bad. Whatever he was sold obviously just fell through in his eyes, and he realised he still had time to back the gently caress out of it. Good for him. Townsville sounds like most footy players dream. I think their complete lack of success outside of two years is probably the bigger deterrent. Also why does Penrith stack hookers? They're are starting to accumulate.
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expat posted:Townsville sounds like most footy players dream. I think their complete lack of success outside of two years is probably the bigger deterrent. It probably means they are going to release Kingston. And they are are worried Segs isn't an 80 minute player.
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Gorbash posted:Beau Ryan has retired: http://www.abc.net.au/news/2014-06-05/beau-ryan-forced-into-retirement-by-injuries/5504198 Always liked Beau at the Tigers; he's a smart footballer who put in a shitload of effort. He wasn't the most naturally talented player but he worked extremely hard to wring every last drop of potential out of himself and it showed in his commitment whenever he walked on the field. I was very upset when he had to leave but wished him the best, and I'm happy that he's gotten out with his health intact rather than trying to play on and possibly not walking away upright.
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Seeing lots of rumours about the Roosters being in hot water for salary cap breaches; if we're lucky they'll lose their last premiership, but this being the NRL and not involving Melbourne if anything happens it'll be a small fine.
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iajanus posted:Seeing lots of rumours about the Roosters being in hot water for salary cap breaches; if we're lucky they'll lose their last premiership, but this being the NRL and not involving Melbourne if anything happens it'll be a small fine. We've already established that Melbourne got off without any punishment (forfeiting the rewards of your cheating is not punishment, neither is not being allowed to compete with an illegally assembled squad) so I don't see how another team could get off lighter. Re: Beau Ryan, I wish he was retiring from poo poo comedy sketches instead of footy. To be fair his man on the street bits are ok but the rest is borderline racist drivel.
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iajanus posted:Always liked Beau at the Tigers; he's a smart footballer who put in a shitload of effort. He wasn't the most naturally talented player but he worked extremely hard to wring every last drop of potential out of himself and it showed in his commitment whenever he walked on the field. My favourite memory of him was his chase of a long kick inside the opposition 10, but then not tackling the player with the ball - instead pleading with the referee to give a penalty for a surrender for ten or fifteen seconds until it became clear that rule wasn't getting enforced
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Gorbash posted:My favourite memory of him was his chase of a long kick inside the opposition 10, but then not tackling the player with the ball - instead pleading with the referee to give a penalty for a surrender for ten or fifteen seconds until it became clear that rule wasn't getting enforced Never understood why that rule is never enforced; seems so obvious what's happening. I guess there's no point enforcing it most of the time - if the player wants to stay down and they're losing then he's wasting his own time, and if they're winning all the defence has to do is touch him and he has to play the ball. Seems a situation which has no downside.
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Kevin Kingston's announced his retirement at the end of the season today too. Penrith weren't going to need him next year with Segeyaro and then signing Koroisau from Souths.
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Jun 6, 2014 08:11
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Bit wet out at manly.
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Jun 6, 2014 11:16
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I missed you Cherry-Evans.
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Wow. The Bulldogs just managed to pull Watmough's pants down, then his underpants, then smeered brown mud over his butt in one tackle. 
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Jun 6, 2014 11:28
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Smorgasbord posted:One of these days a ref will gather up enough sack to sinbin Ennis. Pretty sure there's a rule against drunk posting.
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