"I've accomplished almost everything rugby league has to offer"

[hardbaby]

Lol Fifita wants to play Union? Talk about jumping onto the losing side.

He plays for the Sharks - it's more like a sideways swap.

 

[mxlegend99]

He has achieved a bit. But there's a lot of basics still left to achieve. How about captaining his teams? Captain the Sharks, Blues and Australia.

Play in a grand final. Win in a grand final. Clive churchill medal. Worth 5 times as much of he does it for Sharks. Puts him ahead pf Joey and Lockyer as a god if he can do that.
Win an Origin series. Man of the match in a game, player of the series.
Dally m player of the year.

So many things left in his career. He has teammates who have achieved more then him by far. They still have more to achieve aswell.

 

[cleary89]

Suck shit sharks, he just took up a shit load more of your cap space with that statement.

 

[Brutus]

There's one major milestone he hasn't achieved in a Premiership. And he plays for Cronulla, so that's out of the question.

He's played in the NRL, he's represented his state and country, he's won a World Cup - think what you want of him but he's not wrong, he's almost done it all.

Hasn't won an Origin series or gone anywhere near a premiership.

Pulessssseeeee!!!!!

 

[isaiah]

We didnt miss any of the previous defectee's and we wont miss him. Good luck to him.

as for accomplishing almost everything in RL... please. Dont make me laugh

qld soo missed rogers, sailor, and tuqiri when they left. thats why nsw won 2 or 3 series before the dynasty began. could have been 10 or 11 in a row by now!

 

[isaiah]

Just puting his price high.

And yes far more to achieve.

and the greatest example of puting[sic] your price high was a.johns. knights couldn't keep ben kennedy and stuffed any premiership hopes for the next 5 years.

 

[Kurt Angle]

qld soo missed rogers, sailor, and tuqiri when they left. thats why nsw won 2 or 3 series before the dynasty began. could have been 10 or 11 in a row by now!

No dynasty is ever built on the back the quality of your wingers.

Qld's dynasty was built on shifting lockyer to 5/8, then three guys named Thurston, Inglis and Smith.

Prior to this, QLD was resorting to putting guys like Ben Ikin, Daniel Wagon and Paul Green in their halves.

 

[Lockyer4President!]

There are immortals who wouldn't dream of saying shit like that and yet 'tattoo'd moron v100' says that publicly...

Hope someone knocks the shit of of him in the nines.

 

[Cumberland Throw]

Bye bye fajita

One good season is all he has shown

 

[Diesel]

Bye bye fajita

One good season is all he has shown

Haha yep.

It'd have to happen in the pool rounds as the Sharks won't make it past that

 

[adamkungl]

TBH I hate fcking Union but if they offered me a spot in the Olympics I'd switch in a heartbeat. I reckon becoming an Olympian would be the best achievement you could have as a sportsman, not to mention the talent in the Olympic village to go at!

Why the f**k would any professional team sportsperson give a f**k about the Olympics more than literally any other major competition.

An Olympic medal in Rugby has exactly zero prestige. None. It is won by playing a bastardised half-arsed version of the sport dumbed down so inferior teams can actually pretend to compete. The standard of competition will be dazzlingly low compared to the top Rugby comps or World Cups of either code in the world.

It's a mickey mouse medal. For a bloke like Sonny Bill it will be a novelty, winning it just to say he did.

 

[typicalfan]

Yep it would be like in soccer giving the world cup a miss to focus on gold at the olympics. It doesn't happen.

 

[The Elephant In The room]

So apparently I was only a World Cup win away from almost accomplishing everything rugby league has to offer. So close.

 

[Brutus]

So apparently I was only a World Cup win away from almost accomplishing everything rugby league has to offer. So close.

Lol

 

[isaiah]

No dynasty is ever built on the back the quality of your wingers.

Qld's dynasty was built on shifting lockyer to 5/8, then three guys named Thurston, Inglis and Smith.

Prior to this, QLD was resorting to putting guys like Ben Ikin, Daniel Wagon and Paul Green in their halves.

you undervalue the quality of the qld forwards, particularly in the first 3 years of the dynasty. imo, there was a short period between when johns gave it away and thurston realised his potential, that steve price was the best player in the game. add to that seventy cents a litre, the rise of matt scott, and the big motors and low mistake rates of players like johnson, myles and harrison and you lay the platform at this highest level of the game that an almost test backline can score more points.

 

[isaiah]

Haha yep.

It'd have to happen in the pool rounds as the Sharks won't make it past that

that is hilarious, that you have responded to post 48 and clicked the wrong button, the quote button on post 49.

 

[Loudstrat]

Maybe he's having a dig at the limited offerings in League. Can't take him to Rio, can't offer much more than a token international competition, probably can't offer much more money than he's getting now, can't offer the travel opportunities, can't offer the same longevity, can't offer stable peace of mind at the moment . . . what it can offer is somewhere to return to

What? Seff Efrica and f*cking Argentina? Stable piece of mind? FFS

Brett Kenny would get closer as would Mal Meninga.

Sterlo won the Lance Todd, Dally M and Clive Churchill medals that Bert didnt.


I recall Matt Rogers saying similar things when he defected. Pathetic.

 

[Lambretta]

So to sum up.....

"I call one season of first grade football a massive accomplishment and now I want loads of money - less effort would be a nice bonus - oh and an overseas holiday, yeah don't forget that"

Having watched the Wallabies over the past few years I reckon Fifita will fit right in with that attitude.

 

[Lambretta]

I would resepct him more if he'd said "I've achieved everything I'm ever likely to achieve for Cronulla and NSW, but I'm so used to mediocrity now that I want to represent the Wallabies"

 

[Pierced Soul]

He was just a run of the mill first grader in 2012, he hasn't even proven he can back up a good season.

So to sum up.....

"I call one season of first grade football a massive accomplishment and now I want loads of money - less effort would be a nice bonus - oh and an overseas holiday, yeah don't forget that"

given that he apparently grew up playing yawnion it's a possibility he may go back. in saying that i think its a ploy to drive up his contract

one of the things i find a lot of younger people doing, is they do something once then see it as an "achievement". this go for working careers too. i think its actually a lot harder to do something consistently than fluke it and do it once and claim its done. look at some of the champions of our game - i know fittler said when he won his first premeirship he was too young to truly appreciate it. it took him a long time to be able to win another one.

some players are one season wonders. given the right conditions you can do well, but whether you can consistently do it is another thing altogether

fifita had a great season, but whether he can do it again is another thing altogether.