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Recent content by redandwhite4evr

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    The Rumours Thread

    The most dangerous and also the only outside back with any serious pace- I can understand Flanno building strong backline defensive combinations (Bird and Lomax) and it has worked on occasions but when Val Holmes put on the swerve and the afterburners last weekend, Bird was made to look slow...
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    The Rumours Thread

    I'm always amused when club spin doctors throw in dubious accolades about little known players. when our KOE team had a big win at Mudgee, the match report had a reference to "Welsh international" Josh Ralph (our 5/8). Can I just do a quick poll of readers- am I the only one who's never heard of...
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    SG Ball and Harold Matthews results

    I was at Forshaw Park (yes Sharks territory- how does that happen?) on Sunday afternoon and saw the majority of the SG Ball fixture Dragons v Raiders. My impressions were as follows:- -Overall a scrappy game marked by big hits and lost possession. The Raiders were no mugs- bigger/taller...
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    The Rumours Thread

    Maybe - but it also has to do with the different roles of wingers and centres- centres are not normally catching high balls on the last tackle or being asked to run the ball back from a kick off when they have some open space in front of them. All teams more or less operate in a similar way. I...
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    The Rumours Thread

    But that is the point- Freddy nominated him as "the gifted one"- but his gift never fully developed in the centres and he was never really spoken of seriously for rep footy. The shift to the wing has seen making more of an impact eg running metres and using all of his skills (especially his...
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    The Rumours Thread

    Zac Lomaz is a big body- but doesn't have the big brain to go with it. My respect for him started to wane when he insisted on flick( rather than conventional) passing every time to Ravalawa- it was show off, mug lair stuff as passes went behind Rav or into touch. One of the few good decisions...
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    SG Ball and Harold Matthews results

    Thanks Rev- I had good intentions to get to Netstrada but it didn't happen- I enjoyed your analysis of the players. This is something of a rarity to have both partners in the top 4- may not happen again for many a year.
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    The Rumours Thread

    And that political correctness is embodied in our South Ifrican CEO Andrew Abdo- full of the "rainbow " politics that is such a blight on that country these days resulting in shocking black gang violence and people fleeing the country. I don't expect much from Abdo but I always thought Vlandy's...
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    The Rumours Thread

    If Lomax was unhappy when he played on saturday night, let's keep him unhappy- he was outstanding. Also, just heard Freddie Fittler endorsing him as a winger- Fittler coached him when he was younger. If (and admittedly, it's a big if), Lomax has a brain, wing could be his best pathway to an...
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    The Rumours Thread

    Now our players are at last fit and buffed and can wear the skintight jersey without showing a muffin top, I'm thinking that our full-strength starting 13 is pretty good- yes, a huge barnstorming prop wouldn't go astray and possibly (jury still out imo) a better 5/8 than Flanagan Jnr.
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    The Rumours Thread

    Is he better than this??- I"ve always found Anasta to be pretty basic sort of guy with strong Rooster bias, who, through Peter's principal, has landed a talking head position ahead of others such as Mick Ennis who is a much more balanced, articulate and incisive commentator. Re Vegas, I am...
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    David Morrow

    Never heard anyone (with the probable exception of some humourless, PC, ABC executive) say anything bad about him-hence his departure from the ABC. An exceptionally smart, knowledgeable salt of the earth Aussie country boy made good in the big smoke.
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    The Rumours Thread

    I have the same reservations DD- this is not a guy whose behaviour suggests he can behave and settle at a club. Family illness has been raised as a reason for his return so there may be a valid excuse this time- as always, time will tell. Also wondering if Dean Young's relationship with him was...
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    The Rumours Thread

    An ambit claim probably stemming from a mix of Tartak's greed and Luc's delusional Taumalolo envy. I'm afraid the needle is stuck on potential in Luc's case. He's 27 but people still talk about what he's capable of- but never delivers.
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    The Rumours Thread

    IMO, we should be targeting the South Island. While Rugby League is played predominantly in the North Island, you'd have to think that the Warriors have set up their own pathway structures there and we would be left with the dregs. The South Island is where there'd be young Rugby playing talent...

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