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Dibs

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My opinions when initially responding to a thread are about matters relevant to our club, not about the opinions of other users of the forums (about which I care not a great deal).

In this case, you're expressing your opinion directly to me, about what you think I have said - and you're not making any sense!

That's the difference. "Seeking a forum fight" would be a logical explanation of that behaviour.
If you don’t care a great deal how come you keep responding to my opinion?
It wasn’t my opinion about what I think you said it was actually what you said. Now I could think you are trying to pick a forum fight by saying I’m not making sense when I clearly am. You said you haven’t been wrong about Hayne in 3 years when in fact you had. That’s the difference in your opinion not in mine. In my opinion I’m just conversing with you but for some reason you’re jumping at shadows thinking someone wants to forum fight you.
 

El Diablo

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http://www.smh.com.au/rugby-league/...t-will-be-on-their-terms-20171123-gzru7k.html

NRL 2018: Jarryd Hayne may return to the Parramatta Eels, but it will be on their terms
Whether it's after Fiji's likely loss to the Kangaroos in Friday night's World Cup semi-final, next week or after collecting two more big, fat monthly pay cheques from the Titans, Jarryd Hayne could do far worse than take a hefty pay cut and plead with Parramatta coach Brad Arthur to take him back.

Not sold on the idea, Eels fans? Fair enough. Hayne walked out on you to pursue various dreams, threatened to come back to the Golden West when it all went sour, stuffed you around, snubbed your offer, took the cash at the Gold Coast and had a sly dig at his old club, achieved three-fifths of stuff all and now wants back in because he wants to be closer to his baby daughter in Sydney.

Yet there is something undeniably attractive for both Hayne and Parramatta if the two decide to reunite. The first instinct upon hearing that Hayne – or his representatives, more likely – was agitating for a return was ... no freaking way.

It would be a serious risk for Arthur and everything he has built in the past two years to let such a disruptive force back in, especially with Hayne no longer the game-breaker he once was.

More than that, he's earned the ugly reputation of being a coach killer. Parramatta are adamant their ethos is too strong and Arthur too staunch to let Hayne poison what has been established since the salary-cap scandal last year.

Arthur continues to impress. In his early days at the Eels, some players often whinged that he was too militant. One player joked he was too scared to smile in the coach's presence.


Perhaps he's softened. Whatever Arthur's methods are, they can't be disputed. Parramatta finished the regular season in fourth position and should've beaten Melbourne in the first week of the finals. It's generally accepted Hayne has already stitched up a deal for one season at Parramatta but numerous club figures say it's not done quite yet.

The Eels have made it clear in early discussions, though, that he would be returning on their terms, and for far less than his $1.2illion he's presently on at the Titans.

Let's not underestimate the power shift at play here. For years, Parramatta needed Hayne and coaches lived or died by which side of the bed he rolled out of that morning. Now Hayne needs his old club more than ever. He's been committed for Fiji at this World Cup but hardly brilliant. He's 29 and has a point to prove in the remaining few years as an athlete. Does he want to prove it, though? There's a whole junkyard of coaches who weren't able to unlock Hayne, often whinging out loud about how puzzling he can be to coach.

Arthur considers that to be his job: to get the best out of Hayne, not bemoan about how hard he is to mentor. The pair enjoyed a strong relationship in 2014 before Hayne pursued his NFL career with the San Francisco 49ers.

If Arthur can make it work, Hayne joins a back line — probably at centre — featuring Corey Norman, Mitchell Moses, Bevan French, Clint Gutherson and Michael Jennings.

Anyho, it will be another interesting paragraph in the enduring ballad of Jarryd Lee Hayne, although he does make weary rugby league hacks feel like Michael Corleone in Godfather III.

Just when they think they've written their last column about him, he pulls them back in.
 

Suitman

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Day after day of made up shit from journalists filling their shitty papers and El D keeps giving them all oxygen.
FMD.
 

hindy111

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Don't fret, I will remain true to my word. I'll vacate the forums for 13 weeks, within 24 hours of us announcing Hayne's signing.

I wonder if any of those championing Hayne's return will do the same if we don't sign him?

Given the amount of posts made about me during my recent absence, I think some of you blokes will miss me... :p.

But I'll still support Parra, and will hope (against all logic) that Hayne actually does well forbis, and we don't fall back to the bad old unbalanced squad days of 2010-2016.

Im shouting my friend a dinner if he returns to celebrate.

I want to win a comp. He improves our squad. Case closed.
 

phantom eel

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If you don’t care a great deal how come you keep responding to my opinion?
Because you keep asking me direct questions, like that one! It would be rude not to reply to you.
You said you haven’t been wrong about Hayne in 3 years when in fact you had.
Sigh. The context of my comment was that I hadn't been wrong about Hayne never returning to Parramatta in the last three years, even though rumours suggest I will indeed be wrong in teh fourth year.
In my opinion I’m just conversing with you but for some reason you’re jumping at shadows thinking someone wants to forum fight you.
There you go again, having an opinion about what you think I'm saying or thinking - and getting it wrong. And yet you dispute that your opinions are about what my opinions are/might be... makes no sense Dibs.
 

Dibs

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Because you keep asking me direct questions, like that one! It would be rude not to reply to you.

Sigh. The context of my comment was that I hadn't been wrong about Hayne never returning to Parramatta in the last three years, even though rumours suggest I will indeed be wrong in teh fourth year.

There you go again, having an opinion about what you think I'm saying or thinking - and getting it wrong. And yet you dispute that your opinions are about what my opinions are/might be... makes no sense Dibs.
Well Thankyou that would be rude.
You implied that context after the original comment. I think you may have changed what you meant after the fact to make out you haven’t been wrong.
Well that’s not the context of what I’m doing and I’m sorry you feel that way. However you have said at least twice now that you think I am trying to have a forum fight with you, in fact I believe you said it was a logical conclusion. That is surely having an opinion on the intention of my opinion. I said I thought we were just having a conversation, I’m certainly not trying to pick a fight so yes my opinion is you are jumping at shadows.
 

phantom eel

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I think you may have changed what you meant after the fact to make out you haven’t been wrong.
I think you are mistaken.
I said I thought we were just having a conversation, I’m certainly not trying to pick a fight so yes my opinion is you are jumping at shadows.
Again I think you are mistaken.

But it's so touching that you care enough to continue to guess what you think that I am doing... how on earth did you occupy yourself when I wasn't here?

(Lol...!)
 

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