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Stephen Kearney

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Stephen Kearney is a vicious thug, as his crippling of Jarrod McCracken demonstrated. Kearney has no place in the game, whether in New Zealand or Australia. End of story.
 
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[QUOTE="dogz08, post: 12215170, member: 21954"]cool story adam[/QUOTE]

Bio data: Stephen Kearney, playing for Melbourne Storm during the 2000 season, broke the neck of Wests Tigers's Jarrod McCracken with a spear tackle.

McCracken sued Kearney and the other tackler Marcus Bai. Justice Hulme found in McCracken's favour, ruling the actions of the Storm players in performing the spear tackle "were intentional and intended to injure." McCracken had to retire from rugby league.

At the time of the incident Kearney never said sorry nor even enquired by phone as to McCracken's condition. This is the kind of person Stephen Kearney is.
 

POPEYE

Coach
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[QUOTE="dogz08, post: 12215170, member: 21954"]cool story adam

Bio data: Stephen Kearney, playing for Melbourne Storm during the 2000 season, broke the neck of Wests Tigers's Jarrod McCracken with a spear tackle.

McCracken sued Kearney and the other tackler Marcus Bai. Justice Hulme found in McCracken's favour, ruling the actions of the Storm players in performing the spear tackle "were intentional and intended to injure." McCracken had to retire from rugby league.

At the time of the incident Kearney never said sorry nor even enquired by phone as to McCracken's condition. This is the kind of person Stephen Kearney is.[/QUOTE]

. . . and 6 years on the judge awarded Jarrod $97k instead of the $750k he wanted, nevertheless he is now worth $30 million. The judge found McCracken's increased employment capacity in land purchase and development "was certainly contributed to by the consequences of his injury, and the need to replace his football income" . . . that's the sort of logic you employ when insisting the players meant to cause the injury
 

davi

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Bio data: Stephen Kearney, playing for Melbourne Storm during the 2000 season, broke the neck of Wests Tigers's Jarrod McCracken with a spear tackle. McCracken sued Kearney and the other tackler Marcus Bai. Justice Hulme found in McCracken's favour, ruling the actions of the Storm players in performing the spear tackle "were intentional and intended to injure." McCracken had to retire from rugby league. At the time of the incident Kearney never said sorry nor even enquired by phone as to McCracken's condition. This is the kind of person Stephen Kearney is.

Wrong. Jarrod McCraken was on the Sunday Footy Show and said he got a couple missed calls and messeges from Stephen Kearney. He deleted them off his phone and refused to return the calls because wouldn't forgive Kearney for the incident.
 

davi

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Phil Rothfield puts the boot into Stephen Kearney, Shaun Johnson, Roger Tuivasa-Sheck, and the Warriors.

"THE NRL needs to start asking some tough questions about the New Zealand Warriors and what they bring to the competition. Right now they are holding back the rest of the game.

A check with Fox Sports reveals the Warriors have been a ratings disaster on the network this year.

Only the Newcastle Knights have had fewer viewers, but they’ve had worse timeslots.

This was supposed to be the year the Kiwi team emerged as a genuine premiership threat.

Any side with Roger Tuivasa-Sheck at fullback, the steadying influence of Kieran Foran at five-eighth, Shaun Johnson at halfback and Issac Luke at hooker should be a top-eight side.

Throw in the biggest junior nursery of any of the 16 clubs and there are no excuses.

Add a new coach in Stephen Kearney who, despite limited success at his previous club Parramatta, had a great record with the Kiwi Test team and understands the Polynesian culture.


Still, their last 120 minutes of football has been nothing short of disgraceful.

They didn’t score a point in the second half against the Panthers and then were flogged 30-14 by St George Illawarra on Friday night.

The individual performances of Johnson and Tuivasa-Sheck were embarrassing.

Two players who are soaking up $2 million of the salary cap yet can’t even get the basic skills right.

Forward passes, dropped balls, knock-ons and shocking fifth-tackle options.

This team is seriously bad for the game. The Warriors’ matches in Sydney are always poorly attended.

Rugby league fans want to see a contest more than anything else at the grounds or on television. What was dished up on Friday night was unwatchable.
The same with the second-half capitulation against the Panthers.

Throw in the lopsided Brisbane-Wests Tigers debacle and it was the worst Friday night of football I can recall.

So what’s the Warriors’ excuse for being such a debacle? We can’t blame the team management because its chief executive Jim Doyle is better qualified than any other CEO to be running a football operation.

Last year Kiwi legend Graham Lowe caused a furore by questioning what he described as the “bro’’ culture that exists within the club.

“There’s a hard edge that has been missing for, basically, forever,” he said.
“A ruthless edge. And not just on the field.

“There’s a ‘bro’ culture that is obvious and unacceptable. That culture is in place of that hard edge. It’s just soul destroying.”

Despite the criticism he received at the time, Lowe’s comments were on the money. If this was a Sydney-based team the media would be all over it.

Questions need to be asked at NRL management level. Like the A-League soccer is doing with the Wellington team.

Would a second Brisbane team bring more to the NRL competition? Or a side in Perth? Anything would be an improvement on what the Warriors are offering at the moment."

http://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/sp...l/news-story/3a7301a73ca81fc2be5bddd6048b0661
 

betcats

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The warriors bring a lot to the game, that's a ridiculous point to question. But as far as his criticism of the team and players goes he is spot on. Their whole strategy is obviously wrong, they are spending too much on their spine and relying too much on their own young talent. I think they need to start again first by signing 4 or 5 role players from Aus based teams that they know will work hard no matter what. There is obviously a soft f**king underbelly to the culture and the warriors and it wont change until they blow that team up and start again.

Once they have the right hardworking honest culture in place they can start adding the young talent from their nursery and see those players develop properly.

Oh and SJ is not a halfback, the sooner they realise that the better. This team was making the 8 more often than not with Cleary in charge so this soft culture was not always there.
 

Cockadoodledoo

First Grade
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That'd be because the Swans are having a bad year. How were your crowds last year?

Average attendances since the inception of the NRL. Nothing like facts to resolve an argument.

2017 - Roosters 22248, Panthers 13232
2016 - Panthers 12818, Roosters 10235,
2015 - Roosters 15661, Panthers 11544
2014 - Roosters 14102, Panthers 11462
2013 - Roosters 19368, Panthers 10337
2012 - Roosters 12482, Panthers 10858
2011 - Roosters 14344, Panthers 12299
2010 - Roosters 16184, Panthers 13056
2009 - Panthers 13709, Roosters 13211
2008 - Roosters 13970, Panthers 10899
2007 - Panthers 12035, Roosters 11952
2006 - Roosters 14010, Panthers 11579
2005 - Roosters 16057, Panthers 15576
2004 - Roosters 17593, Panthers 17587
2003 - Panthers 17771, Roosters 16100
2002 - Roosters 11449, Panthers 11008
2001 - Panthers 14353, Roosters 12535
2000 - Roosters 16029, Panthers 14305
1999 - Roosters 13032, Panthers 12495
1998 - Roosters 10251, Panthers 9272
 

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