Brent Tates career maybe over

[Nice Beaver]

This thread should be archived as a catalogue of merkins who should've been blowjobs.

Nobody would dispute your old man should have settled for a blowjob. No-one.

 

[Spot On]

Aw, c'mon airy fairy Canary, tell us about the Brent Tate shrine you have in your bedroom to jerk off to each night. Hate to see what you keep under your bed.:lol: You dirty little commie you!

 

[Sea_Eagles_Rock]

Hate the bloke. Never rated him at club level either.

However, tough arsed merkin anytime he pulled on a Maroon jersey. Tough luck on the knee, but congratz on the career (if it is over) Never convinced it is over with him though. Somehow he keep coming back like the terminator.

 

[Aragorn]

He'll be on a walking stick before he hits 40.

 

[Meth]

Don't get the hate for him, tbh. Big heart. Some big moments. Big achievements. Didn't play his best at the Warriors, but I was glad he spend some time with us.

 

[Dazzat]

Tate was (and maybe still will be) a 110% player every game. He was a favourite of Uncle Wayne - which says a lot.

And the colour! The chin. The neck brace. And having the guts to say things other players only think, but won't say because they haven't got the courage. Tate broke the mould and some people just can't handle it. Different is bad.

 

[PhilGould]

Tate was (and maybe still will be) a 110% player every game. He was a favourite of Uncle Wayne - which says a lot.

And the colour! The chin. The neck brace. And having the guts to say things other players only think, but won't say because they haven't got the courage. Tate broke the mould and some people just can't handle it. Different is bad.

Remind me, what has he said that other players only think?

 

[drake]

Remind me, what has he said that other players only think?

"I was so scared"

 

[Dazzat]

"I was so scared"

Only last week Paul Gallen and Nate Myles fronted a media campaign about men being game to talk about their issues rather than bottle it up.

So yes - it takes guts to admit a weakness or a feeling of fear. Men typically bottle things up, but men also make up the majority of suicides in this country.

Having said this on a forum like this, I'll expect the bullets to start flying now, so I'll start ducking.

 

[PhilGould]

Only last week Paul Gallen and Nate Myles fronted a media campaign about men being game to talk about their issues rather than bottle it up.

So yes - it takes guts to admit a weakness or a feeling of fear. Men typically bottle things up, but men also make up the majority of suicides in this country.

Having said this on a forum like this, I'll expect the bullets to start flying now, so I'll start ducking.

The campaign is encouraging men to talk to someone about their feelings, not publicly try to do something like alter the judiciary's ruling, which is all he was trying to do. He may well have been scared, but if it had of happened in any other situation not involving Origin there's no way he would of said anything.

 

[drake]

Only last week Paul Gallen and Nate Myles fronted a media campaign about men being game to talk about their issues rather than bottle it up.

So yes - it takes guts to admit a weakness or a feeling of fear. Men typically bottle things up, but men also make up the majority of suicides in this country.

Having said this on a forum like this, I'll expect the bullets to start flying now, so I'll start ducking.

I agree with you. I was taking this piss out of Tate, but courage is not the absence of fear, but the defeat of it.

The manner in which he went to the press and mentioned his fear annoyed me, especially when he brought up McKinnon... if he had the brain of a squirrel he would have looked his neck support, Alex's injury and thought about the possibility of serious injury then. Not after he gets hit by the wave. And especially not bravely coming forward to the press just before a judicial hearing. And then playing the next origin match regardless.

 

[_Johnsy]

I had no idea the loss has clouded the OP's memory, This is his 4th recon, not 5th.

Good player no doubting that. Injuries happen, just ask K Stanley, occupational hazzard. Cannot deny his fight and willingness to persevere & come back from injury.

Reading this thread, though did I miss something ?

The way some are carrying on did he cure cancer this week?

The fact that the below needed to be mentioned at all is astounding.

he would have looked his neck support, Alex's injury and thought about the possibility of serious injury then. Not after he gets hit by the wave. And especially not bravely coming forward to the press just before a judicial hearing. And then playing the next origin match regardless.

 

[Packy]

The 2 things that come to mind for me are:

Ok

and

Again?

 

[Dazzat]

The campaign is encouraging men to talk to someone about their feelings, not publicly try to do something like alter the judiciary's ruling, which is all he was trying to do. He may well have been scared, but if it had of happened in any other situation not involving Origin there's no way he would of said anything.

That is your perception of his motivation - which you are entitled to. Doesn't mean that its true though.

We all think we can determine a person's motivation for doing something, when in reality its just guess work.

I've addressed this earlier in the post, and if anyone has half an understanding of how the press works, its a quite unremarkable comment, that has been jumped on by NSW supporters like it was a big deal.

You would prefer he said, "I wasn't even scared".

 

[A2_tha_MFK]

This thread is classic "Pot / Kettle".

I've watched SOO at SunCorp Stadium. QLD fans give it, and give it hard. As a Blues fan thats what you expect. If a Blues player is carried off Suncorp on a stretcher, you are going to hear exactly what you hear at Olympic Park! Some Booing, Some jeering, some clapping.

 

[Dazzat]

This thread is classic "Pot / Kettle".

I've watched SOO at SunCorp Stadium. QLD fans give it, and give it hard. As a Blues fan thats what you expect. If a Blues player is carried off Suncorp on a stretcher, you are going to hear exactly what you hear at Olympic Park! Some Booing, Some jeering, some clapping.

Doubt it.

 

[The Enforcer]

Doubt it.

Well you've really got no idea then.

 

[Hutty1986]

Doubt it.

Of course you f*cking doubt it you mong. A qlderper could shoot a blue-heeler puppy and you'd call it 'passion'

 

[Canard]

This thread is classic "Pot / Kettle".

I've watched SOO at SunCorp Stadium. QLD fans give it, and give it hard. As a Blues fan thats what you expect. If a Blues player is carried off Suncorp on a stretcher, you are going to hear exactly what you hear at Olympic Park! Some Booing, Some jeering, some clapping.

Booing an injured player is a dick move, regardless of what state or team you support.

Saying, "well you would too" isn't any type of defence of the people doing it.

 

[Dazzat]

Of course you f*cking doubt it you mong. A qlderper could shoot a blue-heeler puppy and you'd call it 'passion'

Now now Hutty ... don't let two little words raise your blood pressure thus.

Breathe ... and think of Greg Bird. Think of Greg Bird crying. Think of Greg Bird, a leader of the NSW team, crying after every play the ball.

There, there ... you aren't the old NSWer who has emotional issues. Birdy does too. That must be a comfort.