Rumoured and Confirmed Signings and TheRam's whinging XXVIII

[The EELiminator]

i believe its called pulling a heartiledge

 

[Bigfella]

Making up shit to support a hopeless argument is called "pulling a poupou"

 

[oldmancraigy]

Hoppa will be decided by the courts. If the NRL have signed off the Jennings you'd assume we are clear on our cap and won't be done for -4 points

Seems about right. Especially since Hoppa has no NRL deal with us to cause cap issues anyway...

Even if we were to start -4, we are better off signing Jennings. There will be at least 2 games this year we win because he is playing over Morgster.

 

[Poupou Escobar]

Early season Hopoate went well at fullback. In round five he made over 200 metres: http://live.nrlstats.com/matches/nrl/match34438.html

In round six he was well contained and John Folau got absolutely carved up at centre: http://live.nrlstats.com/matches/nrl/match34471.html

The next week Hopoate was moved to protect Sandow. He made 26 tackles: http://live.nrlstats.com/matches/nrl/match34499.html

So I've provided stats. Let's see what shit Bigfella makes up and then blames others for same.

#projection

 

[oldmancraigy]

Hoppa has given up Maccas and has decided to take it seriously now.

Righto...

http://www.foxsports.com.au/nrl/nrl...6/news-story/5bf3c835e0ee011dc7bd5e246b347722

Kasiano is offended.

Bulldogs fans should be salivating at the thought of snaring Hoppa having his best ever offseason....

 

[Poupou Escobar]

Even if we were to start -4, we are better off signing Jennings.

Try telling Avenger and that other merkin this. They think it's the same as starting on -10, or even better, playing for zero points a la Melbourne 2010. Geniuses.

 

[Bigfella]

The sad little merkin just writes non sequiturs and thinks he sounds smart.

 

[Poupou Escobar]

Who says 'non sequitur' on a f**king footy messageboard?

 

[Noise]

What were Hopoates tries, tackle busts, line breaks and LBAs like at fullback?

 

[hineyrulz]

What were Hopoates tries, tackle busts, line breaks and LBAs like at fullback?

Almost non existent, he was excellent from dummy half though.

 

[Poupou Escobar]

What were Hopoates tries, tackle busts, line breaks and LBAs like at fullback?

Not as good as his metres and low error count. He played to his strengths, and played safe, as you'd expect from a bloke inexperienced at the position.

He scored a good try in his last game at fullback though. Also got steamrolled by Dave Taylor, like so many fullbacks: http://www.nrl.com/rd-6-eels-v-titans-hls/tabid/10959/contentid/737696/default.aspx

 

[emjaycee]

Who says 'non sequitur' on a f**king footy messageboard?

Someone who probably thinks ad hominem has something to do with sexuality?

 

[strider]

I think people are harsh on Hoppa. I dont think he was good at fullback for us, but he is a quality player and probably one of the best centres at making things happen for his winger.

No doubt he will also get the usual ex-parra player treatment from parra fans. We turn harsher than a rabid dog

 

[T.S Quint]

I think people are harsh on Hoppa. I dont think he was good at fullback for us, but he is a quality player and probably one of the best centres at making things happen for his winger.

No doubt he will also get the usual ex-parra player treatment from parra fans. We turn harsher than a rabid dog

If he went to any other team I would be wishing him well.
But he went to the dogs, so f**k him.

 

[strider]

If he went to any other team I would be wishing him well.
But he went to the dogs, so f**k him.

Fair point :lol:

 

[Twizzle]

I think people are harsh on Hoppa. I dont think he was good at fullback for us, but he is a quality player and probably one of the best centres at making things happen for his winger.

No doubt he will also get the usual ex-parra player treatment from parra fans. We turn harsher than a rabid dog

Agreed, one of the best set of hands we've seen for a while

 

[Poupou Escobar]

Someone who probably thinks ad hominem has something to do with sexuality?

lol @ homos

 

[Bandwagon]

So what does his final year at Manly have to do with what we offered over four years?

Again you make a false assumption.

 

[Poupou Escobar]

Again you make a false assumption.

No I asked a question.

I originally said:

Watmough wouldn't be on huge money because there was no demand for him. His own club let him go with a year to run!

Then you said:

Because reportedly he was on huge money for that year, I recall it being widely reported his last year was a ridiculous amount of money due to the back ending of his contract.

I understand you've given a reason why Manly would let him go (and I agree), but this goes back to the demand for him. If Manly thought he was on too much, surely other clubs thought so too. Therefore there is no demand at that price.

 

[Noise]

Not as good as his metres and low error count. He played to his strengths, and played safe, as you'd expect from a bloke inexperienced at the position.

He scored a good try in his last game at fullback though. Also got steamrolled by Dave Taylor, like so many fullbacks: http://www.nrl.com/rd-6-eels-v-titans-hls/tabid/10959/contentid/737696/default.aspx

Which indicates he is probably best suited to the wing.