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I'd love to know what he did.
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What he and his wife filmed, with the wife of another Huddersfield player you mean?
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I'd love to know what he did.
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I've heard Craig Huby?Sorry don't know for sure...
It was supposedly a close team mate's wife is all I know. The club and the team now want him gone pronto but want him back when it all blows over so it is a loan scenario... Roosters not interested anymore because of that.
He seems a fairly straight replacement for Peacock to be honest, which is needed. Falloon will be our first choice hooker, and I reckon they'll probably use little Rob Burrow as an interchange for him to give something different. That way burrow can cover the half backs as well.I rate Galloway and I think he's very suited to your style... very efficient and compact, hard running forward who can offload a good ball especially close to the line. Falloon is a 2nd rake for you guys?
Keefy & Cuthbertson... not bad. Falloon always looks busy but sometimes he can lack the enthusiasm you need from a 9. Only a 1 year deal I noticed, maybe your coach see's it too.
On another note I am a little annoyed Burgess is still over there and not here training! Not sure what the official arrangements were but if he thinks he's a hope of making the starting side if he comes back with the team in Feb he's kidding himself.
On a slightly different topic, are you happy with Mal Meninga?
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Yeah much as I admire the man as a player he doesn't have that much of a coaching pedigree, I honestly thought you'd have appointed someone like Wayne Bennett.Being named Australian coach I presume...
Not wanting to sound like I'm being dismissive of your mob or the Kiwis but this appointment is nothing more than money for jam. A bit like me taking some of the credit if I was to caddy for Jordan Spieth this weekend. $300k for a full-time role for nothing more than a handful of upcoming matches is the old boys club rewarding one of the last fossils in the game. Laurie Daley (NSW) and Ricky Stuart (Raiders) are two more coaches of the same ilk... old fashioned in their thinking and their approach.
On the other hand you have coaches like Trent Robinson and Paul Green who are real trailblazers and lifting the bar for the NRL administration, revolutionising the way clubs are run and putting the onus of responsibility back front and centre in the minds of the players. And then there is Wayne Bennet (who will likely coach PNG against Aust and Meninga) who's style of coaching is timeless.
Again, not wanting to sound arrogant, but if Australia don't win a series you can put it down to the players not wanting to play for the coach. There is that much talent here and the game just gets more athletic and skilful season after season but it takes enormous dedication and effort to remain on top.
The game's politics unfortunately also has some bearing on outcomes... players don't like being ignored.
I'm happy you can see a transition of older players for new stars occurring over the next few years. I think the notion remains here that the SL is still slow and cumbersome and a money earner for aging NRL stars is widely off the mark. The gap has closed considerably from a talent perspective. I can't comment on what is best for your national squad but I would hope McNamara has brought some of the things he has learned at the Roosters and NRL to the England side and to the local brains trust. This doesn't necessarily mean he should be the coach but he surely has this knowledge to share.
I'd still like to see a two way player swap system introduced whereby clubs could retain players and give them a little more than 2nd tier competitions to develop in while they mature. Joe Burgess is certainly not a good example of how I'd like to see this arrangement however. Personally I'm very disappointed he is still in the England while the Roosters are set to start week 6 of pre-season training. I'm not sure why this is but if you want to look at it from a player development/responsibility aspect, and a starting point for lifting the bar and gauging what it takes to be successful in the game I think the situation with Burgess fails on all counts. If I was 21 and talented and with the opportunity he has before him, I certainly wouldn't want to be starting from the rear of the field and with the suggestion that "he's just out here for a holiday" being reported. Perhaps he's remained at home because the Roosters fly over in Feb and it's convenient? Who knows...
Still, Australia are down to 3rd in the world now behind us and NZ, and at the next world cup you're going to face an amazing NZ team at its peak, not to mention a young England team that's the most promising in a long time.
I'm surprised you have that opinion of Burgess... I like what I've seen of him;
Now I realise it's a highlights compilation, but I really don't see he is playing against a vastly inferior opposition. He is quick as well as having nice balance. He reads the play well and IMO this makes it look easy. No complaints from me!
NRL sides rarely look abroad for wingers, so when the Roosters announced his signing I immediately thought as a centre or fullback. In 2014 we had as many as 6-7 wing options.
Fullbacks are commanding big $ here... $500k plus for a good one. To fit one under the salary cap it often means putting all your eggs in the one basket and pushing for a premiership in 1st season, maybe 2nd... or trying to save $ in forwards roster. Either way can be dicey IMO.
I haven't had the pleasure of seeing the other players you've mentioned but I'll say again. If I was Burgess and I'd signed with the Roosters AND then heard they were short a fullback I know what I'd be doing... it could have meant as much as +$250-300k in his second season with us instead of the reported $90k.
I would be a bit surprised if Australia did not win the next world cup or come second at worst. They still could field 3-4 world class teams on their own. Talent is not Australia's problem, it is the old boys club that does the selections and a complete lack of coaching brains. RL is not really known for its brain power.
Although when you look at the numbers the best players in the ARL are mostly islanders, so Australian RL dominance might be fading.