2007 Wooden Spoon

[Ron Jeremy]

Weyman, Tilse, lars, Costigan, Carney are great young players, but i too have my doubts as how high they can finish, and imo, they'll finish anywhere from 12th to 8th.....thast providing they remain injury free.

 

[Ron Jeremy]

Not in our 100th season pal....we will finish above the over priced and over rated Eels....enjoy Finch.

Over priced:lol: , Roosters no all about paying overs for incompetent players.

I hope Myles is worth what your paying him

 

[Ron Jeremy]

I'm not confident of your chances but i do concede that if there's a team out there likely to come from no where to make a big impression, it's definitely you guys.

especially with the sort of talent coming through at your club.

I am, well for top 8 anyway lol

 

[sharkadelic]

you should go to the shop and by :lol: a football brain you genius. (oh the irony)

zillman 26 tries in premier league (I said talented in my first post didnt I, Mr Football Brain? Still untried at consistent NRL level)
bronx goodwin 26 tries in premier league (Yes I know about him. Cronulla had him last year. Or was it the year before. Soward holds the record for points scored in a season for Premier league and still hasnt stepped up just yet. Untried at NRL level)
michael dobson 232 points in super league and 3rd highest point scorer behind jamie lyon. (HAHAHAHA. Darren Albert was a super star over there. The players like Lyon (at their Peak) are a minority.Untried at consistent NRL level )
todd carney has potenial written all over him (He Should get a better tattooist)
phil graham is a try scoring freak (and how many did he score this year? Now take a way the Jason Smith ones)
alan tounge has the biggest heart in all of canberra (you could take the sharks whole squad add their hearts together and they wouldnt equal tounges) (Canberra being full of politicians, is not not renowned for having heart, so no big accomplishment. Having the 6th best lock with a big "heart" is not going to help your backline score.
matt bickerstaff is a hard working tackling machime (Another ex shark. This relates to comments on your back line how exactly??:? )
neville costigan will be a revelation (As above. Why will he be a revelation? I thought most football brains knew he was good in Brisbane)
Thom Leroyd Lars Dane Tilse and Michael Weyman are quailty fowards and 1 of them will play rep next season (Super duper pal. That makes no rebuttal on my original remarks about your halves and backs being inexperienced. Quote me where I said your forwards are sh*t??)

should i keep going (Please do. I am amused. Obviously when you referred to "you" having a football brain you meant it literally)


sharks will get the spoon because you touch yourself /

Well this is the icing on the cake of what a comprehensive knowledge of rugby league you are and what a database of factual knowledge you have acquired.

So basically to paraphrase Canberra has a bunch of hard working forwards, rookie backs, talented but rookie halves and of course :sarcasm: Craig Frawley which is what I said to begin with and you have called into question my intellegence??? :lol: :lol:

Mate, if self abuse comes into winning titles - based on your hard work, you are a certainty.

 

[peter_raiders]

Elliott has already said that he will promote youth next year, something that JL only really used out of necessity over the last couple of years.

:lol: So funny.

 

[spider]

you should go to the shop and by a football brain you genius.

zillman 26 tries in premier league
bronx goodwin 26 tries in premier league
michael dobson 232 points in super league and 3rd highest point scorer behind jamie lyon.
todd carney has potenial written all over him
phil graham is a try scoring freak
alan tounge has the biggest heart in all of canberra (you could take the sharks whole squad add their hearts together and they wouldnt equal tounges)
matt bickerstaff is a hard working tackling machime
neville costigan will be a revelation
Thom Leroyd Lars Dane Tilse and Michael Weyman are quailty fowards and 1 of them will play rep next season

should i keep going


sharks will get the spoon because you touch yourself/

Your sig backs your point........................

 

[mxlegend99]

:lol: So funny.

How so?

Panthers had the fewest changes of any team this year. The changes they made were only to replace injuries. It was easy to predict each weeks line-up, no matter how many injuries we had.

2 of his forced changes became permanent additions. If it weren't for injury, Aiton and Gordon would have never played First Grade.

Elliott already has his eyes on Michael Jennings... Junior Moors etc. for first grade spots. That's without injuries to force his hand.

Raiders fans don't rate him at all, nevermind him having made the top 8 with one of the least rated sides in the comp.

 

[Freak2]

I think Raiders fans are under estimating the loss of Clinton. He won that many close games for the Raiders it wasn't funny. Many other quiet achievers have also moved on.
IMO they will struggle in 2007, however the spoon will be fought out between the no depth Titans, Souths, and either Newcastle or NQC (Whichever loses their playmaker for the season Thurston or Johns)

The teams that are safe from spoon: Bris, Canterbury, Storm, Warriors, Parra, Manly,

 

[mxlegend99]

Parra safe from the spoon? They were genuine contenders for it this year until Taylor took over.

No team is guaranteed anything. A few injuries to the wrong players can ruin any team.

 

[skeepe]

Bottom 4 (only because I can't separate some of them):

13th: Sharks. Would have been 16th if Raper was left in charge.
14th: Roosters. Will improve with Finch gone.
15th: Tigers. Have nothing. When "Hitman" O'Hara is your strike forward, you're in trouble. And yes I'm aware of the irony of that comment.
16th: Eels. All the players who dragged them out of the mire are gone (except Hayne who will no doubt contract second-season syndrome), as well as JT. Signed Finch as their answer in the halves.

 

[miccle]

The teams that are safe from spoon: Bris, Canterbury, Storm, Warriors, Parra, Manly,

No such thing as safe from the spoon until around 8 weeks into the comp imo.

I hate to think that the Broncos are even a miniscule chance of finishing last, but you really never know what's around the corner.

All we can do now is separate the teams into the categories "likely" and "not likely" when it comes to spoon predictions. Nothing's impossible.

 

[peter_raiders]

How so?

Panthers had the fewest changes of any team this year. The changes they made were only to replace injuries. It was easy to predict each weeks line-up, no matter how many injuries we had.

2 of his forced changes became permanent additions. If it weren't for injury, Aiton and Gordon would have never played First Grade.

Elliott already has his eyes on Michael Jennings... Junior Moors etc. for first grade spots. That's without injuries to force his hand.

Raiders fans don't rate him at all, nevermind him having made the top 8 with one of the least rated sides in the comp.

Elliott promote juniors? He'll promote your junior hooker to halfback and push Gower to 5/8. That's about it i'd say.

 

[stevie013]

Well this is the icing on the cake of what a comprehensive knowledge of rugby league you are and what a database of factual knowledge you have acquired.

So basically to paraphrase Canberra has a bunch of hard working forwards, rookie backs, talented but rookie halves and of course :sarcasm: Craig Frawley which is what I said to begin with and you have called into question my intellegence??? :lol: :lol:

Mate, if self abuse comes into winning titles - based on your hard work, you are a certainty.

thats so funny, nice comments sharkadelic

 

[Raiders Plight]

Souths, Panthers and Titans, i think the eels could struggle too.

 

[Rocco]

:lol:

what do you find so funny ya nice person?

 

[Stewie Griffin]

No such thing as safe from the spoon until around 8 weeks into the comp imo.

I hate to think that the Broncos are even a miniscule chance of finishing last, but you really never know what's around the corner.

All we can do now is separate the teams into the categories "likely" and "not likely" when it comes to spoon predictions. Nothing's impossible.

having said that, you must consider that there are teams that just don't come into mind when you think the wooden spoon... more often than not, these teams will avoid the wooden spoon by a far margin, IE, bulldogs, broncos, dragons

its probably because of the star studded team with much depth to cover positions in need...

 

[hindmarsh/is/da/man]

in no order titans souths and tigers

 

[Walt Flanigan]

Some of you have forgotten it's a 16 team comp next year.

Anyways

14. Souths
15. Tigers
16. Sharks

Would have stuck the Panthers in there but I've seen Matty Elliott do alot with alot less.

 

[Walt Flanigan]

I think Raiders fans are under estimating the loss of Clinton. He won that many close games for the Raiders it wasn't funny.

Agreed, I think he's the biggest loss to any team next year. He was the best defensive fullback in the comp and it was that defence that stopped us getting pumped in alot of games. With the amount of unknown factors in the club next year I can understand (for once) why people are picking us for the spoon. I'm highly doubtful of this though.

 

[Raider_69]

Clinton will be a huge loss and who ever plays fullback will have some pretty big boots to fill, but imo, thats the extent of our loss's

the other players/coaching staff that are leaving and moving on, i believe are gains for this club. Mogg excluded who was valuable but not irreplaceable like schif.