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Rabbitohs signings, rumours and injuries 2015-16 Part 2

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big hit!

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DiegoNT said:
Probably back to a bench role, with walker 1, inglis 6, Reynolds 7.
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Keary at LH, Inglis at LC. I half that takes on the line with one of the greatest centres since Meninga outside him? They'll cause problems paired together.

The major issue in the team is the middle rotation. Undersized (Clark/Brown), out of form (TBurgess), past it (Tyrrell), fatigued (SBurgess), and injured (GBurgess/Musgrove). Laying no platform in the middle.
 
southsport

southsport

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Confirmed that Joe Burgess has been released by the roosters to play the remainder of the 2016 season with South Sydney.
 
DiegoNT

DiegoNT

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He has speed. That's about it.
He'll be like an inferior caucasian version of nathan merritt, but less safe under the high ball.
 
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Bensville rabbit

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Diego we all know that those players you mentioned were definitely not moved on by souths to fit in Sam
Isaac gave us nearly 10 years of service and stated publicly time and again he and his wife and kids wanted to go home to raise the family around cousins nan etc
Stewart had a huge problem with made training them so hard ,he was never going to fit in who are we kidding he's manly through and through
Walker had several chances and being the arrogant young star thought he could do whatever he liked
Tim Grant was hopeless fell into the defence slow as a dinosaur constant ego driven brains nap,penalties and a very poor defender near the line especially
McQueen is really the only one to be moved on for Sam and he wS not the same player as in 14
 
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Diego you must be fired up with another burgess joining.

In fairness I think he has been harshly done by at Easts. He's a young kid who's made the step up from SL to NRL and has been unlucky enough to go in to a dreadful side.
You see this all the time in football players come from Spain or France to England and they need a season to adjust. He's had a couple of games.
 
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Pommy

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Bensville rabbit said:
Diego we all know that those players you mentioned were definitely not moved on by souths to fit in Sam
Isaac gave us nearly 10 years of service and stated publicly time and again he and his wife and kids wanted to go home to raise the family around cousins nan etc
Stewart had a huge problem with made training them so hard ,he was never going to fit in who are we kidding he's manly through and through
Walker had several chances and being the arrogant young star thought he could do whatever he liked
Tim Grant was hopeless fell into the defence slow as a dinosaur constant ego driven brains nap,penalties and a very poor defender near the line especially
McQueen is really the only one to be moved on for Sam and he wS not the same player as in 14
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This has all been conveniently forgotten as has the fact Sam would have needed a new contract even if he hadn't gone to Union. I much more concerned with how much Inglis is leaching out of the club with his current form. If QLD win on Wednesday I doubt he will play game three, they desperately need to blood a new player for next season in his place.
 
DiegoNT

DiegoNT

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Bensville rabbit said:
Diego we all know that those players you mentioned were definitely not moved on by souths to fit in Sam
Isaac gave us nearly 10 years of service and stated publicly time and again he and his wife and kids wanted to go home to raise the family around cousins nan etc
Stewart had a huge problem with made training them so hard ,he was never going to fit in who are we kidding he's manly through and through
Walker had several chances and being the arrogant young star thought he could do whatever he liked
Tim Grant was hopeless fell into the defence slow as a dinosaur constant ego driven brains nap,penalties and a very poor defender near the line especially
McQueen is really the only one to be moved on for Sam and he wS not the same player as in 14
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And yet instead of replacing them with players with equal value, we put all our eggs into the sam basket. All those players mentioned were better then the current 'duds'. Both grant and mcqueen are going good for their new clubs (which we are literally paying for) stewart might not be missed (even though he wss good for us for most of 15) but we could of picked up a couple of decent back rowers for his asking price, walker is am origin player now and is still far better then any outside back we have atm, and isaac luke may be gone, but we went down the cheap route (cook) to replace him so we could afford sam and now it's our major positional problem with mcinnes there despite everyone hating him. We lost 5 first graders and only got 1 (as good as he is) in return, yet wonder why so many 'duds' are in our team. It's simple maths
 
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Bensville rabbit

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Gi is playing on previous reputation ATM
Still a great player but worth way less these days than a few years ago
Would love him to stay but how much coin does he want to suck from our cap for what we are getting??
 
DiegoNT

DiegoNT

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Pommy said:
Diego you must be fired up with another burgess joining.

In fairness I think he has been harshly done by at Easts. He's a young kid who's made the step up from SL to NRL and has been unlucky enough to go in to a dreadful side.
You see this all the time in football players come from Spain or France to England and they need a season to adjust. He's had a couple of games.
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I watch a bit of superleague, watched the end of year test series (he got dropped for the decider btw)
He has speed. The problem is you have to put him in a position to use that speed, which is harder to do in the nrl. Plus nrl wingers need defence, bomb disposal and workrate which aren't his strong suits.
 
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Bensville rabbit

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Diego ur missing the point big time
You say they are all lost because of Sam which is bullshit
Nobody is questioning if the players bought in to replace them are better or worse
The point is from those players you listed only 1.wanted to stay the rest wanted to go even grant as was offered starting not from bench
 
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