Jake Clifford - Nathan Fein 2.0

[Get Rid of The Donkeys]

Clifford showed promising signs with the Cowboys. Probably lacked some consistency and particularly didn’t suit playing alongside Morgan (too similar?).

Both Morgan and Clifford are running halves with a strong body frame, around 100kg. Neither of them are up to organising a team.

 

[Hammer Time]

Both Morgan and Clifford are running halves with a strong body frame, around 100kg. Neither of them are up to organising a team.

They problem didn't get to develop that part of the game. At least during the Thurston years.

 

[Hammer Time]

Vee said Fein took us to a GF in 2004. I corrected him by pointing out we lost to Roosters in the Preliminary final in 2004, in a tight game where Simpkins refused to allow us to set a scrum on the Roosters' goalline, despite there being time on the clock. Simpkins was a poor referee and I believe he was biased. The Manly vs NQ game in 2012 was the icing on the cake to prove it.

How about this part of the game?

 

[Grapple]

I'm not sure why Nathan Fein deserved to be dragged into this. Don't see the comparison at all.

Not a fan of Clifford. Seems bog standard for mine. He's good enough, but doesn't strike me as a bloke who would speak up and take charge. Think that's really what Newcastle are missing in their backs.

 

[Get Rid of The Donkeys]

They problem didn't get to develop that part of the game. At least during the Thurston years.

Morgan had a good spell as an organising half in 2017, but after that his form went backwards. He was too hot and cold, like Clifford.

 

[Hammer Time]

Morgan had a good spell as an organising half in 2017, but after that his form went backwards. He was too hot and cold, like Clifford.

I wish he never had an off-season at the end of 2017 lol

 

[Get Rid of The Donkeys]

I wish he never had an off-season at the end of 2017 lol

He just wasn't the same player after the 2017 World Cup.

 

[some11]

Morgan's 2017 finals run was fking amazing. Real shame injury cut his career short.

 

[zombiebloodlust]

Nathan Fien who had his ankle crushed in round 1 of the 2010 NRL season only to return 5 months later, ultimately scoring a fiendishly* clever try in the Dragons grand final victory, and then a month or so later score the winning try for the Kiwis in the final minute of the Four Nations final against Australia? Big shoes for Jakey Clifford to fill there

*intended

 

[firechild]

Vee said Fein took us to a GF in 2004. I corrected him by pointing out we lost to Roosters in the Preliminary final in 2004, in a tight game where Simpkins refused to allow us to set a scrum on the Roosters' goalline, despite there being time on the clock. Simpkins was a poor referee and I believe he was biased. The Manly vs NQ game in 2012 was the icing on the cake to prove it.

Can't believe you lot have been whining about this for 10 years. NQ scored off a forward pass and Manly scored from a knock on. Manly won, get over it.

 

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Can't believe you lot have been whining about this for 10 years. NQ scored off a forward pass and Manly scored from a knock on. Manly won, get over it.

The referees have deliberately awarded a few games to Manly against the Cowboys. There was one where Foran ran a deliberate shepherd to score and Luke Patten gave it the green light in the bunker.

 

[Get Rid of The Donkeys]

Wrong thread.

 

[firechild]

The referees have deliberately awarded a few games to Manly against the Cowboys. There was one where Foran ran a deliberate shepherd to score and Luke Patten gave it the green light in the bunker.

 

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