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Where will you be on the Day Cameron Smith plays his 400th NRL Game?

Perth Red

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The fact that Smith's success continues to hurt so many people is glorious.
Real question is which incredible player will everyone decide to hate once Smith retires in 2021?

He is a giant amongst men. It is only natural lessor mortals are going to hate on him. As we saw with Thurston, the better the player the greater the jealousy.
 

Bloke

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He is a giant amongst men. It is only natural lessor mortals are going to hate on him. As we saw with Thurston, the better the player the greater the jealousy.
Straya. The home of the Tall Poppy Syndrome. It permeates every corner of life, not just sport. Any Tasmanian that leaves for the Mainland to try and better their lives due to a lack of quality work down here is frowned upon. Heaven forbid you excel at something or have a tertiary education. Sport is a convenient avenue to legitimise the cutting down of tall poppies. Always has been.
 

Generalzod

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Straya. The home of the Tall Poppy Syndrome. It permeates every corner of life, not just sport. Any Tasmanian that leaves for the Mainland to try and better their lives due to a lack of quality work down here is frowned upon. Heaven forbid you excel at something or have a tertiary education. Sport is a convenient avenue to legitimise the cutting down of tall poppies. Always has been.
No people hate Cameron Smith because his a grub nothing to do with tall pop syndrome, I really would have loved to see how would have done without the likes of Slater Thurston Inglis Lockyer Cooper Cronk, all the Queensland greats. He kind of answered that himself when he retired from Origin abruptly last year...
 

ram raid

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No people hate Cameron Smith because his a grub nothing to do with tall pop syndrome, I really would have loved to see how would have done without the likes of Slater Thurston Inglis Lockyer Cooper Cronk, all the Queensland greats. He kind of answered that himself when he retired from Origin abruptly last year...

Yeah he did ,, showing how useless QLD are without him.
 

MrBlack

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No people hate Cameron Smith because his a grub nothing to do with tall pop syndrome, I really would have loved to see how would have done without the likes of Slater Thurston Inglis Lockyer Cooper Cronk, all the Queensland greats. He kind of answered that himself when he retired from Origin abruptly last year...

Qld players I hated whenever they put on a jersey - Wally Lewis, Thurston, Slater, Cronk, Maninga, Corey Parker, to name a few

All great or very good players. In retirement I would happily sit down and have a beer with any of them. My dislike as a player was a mark of respect, I wanted them to fail every week, not really tall poppy syndrome.

Smith on the other hand, just doesn't come across as someone you would call a mate after footy. The cheating scandal combined with his conduct with Alex McKinnon have really hurt his reputation. He is a great player but probably not a great bloke.
 

firechild

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Qld players I hated whenever they put on a jersey - Wally Lewis, Thurston, Slater, Cronk, Maninga, Corey Parker, to name a few

All great or very good players. In retirement I would happily sit down and have a beer with any of them. My dislike as a player was a mark of respect, I wanted them to fail every week, not really tall poppy syndrome.

Smith on the other hand, just doesn't come across as someone you would call a mate after footy. The cheating scandal combined with his conduct with Alex McKinnon have really hurt his reputation. He is a great player but probably not a great bloke.
Wally, Cooper and Corey I'd tend to agree with but Billy, Mal and JT I dislike as people, not just because they played for QLD or their respective clubs.
 
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