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Jarryd Hayne buggers off from NFL

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phantom eel said:
Surely I don't have to explain that one to you?


I don't think the 49ers is somewhere you can waltz back into having avoided all the pre-season training under a new coach's playbook. However the 49ers contract will prevent him joining another NFL team without their belssing.


I'm not sure we'll be able to afford him, as teams are desperate and will outbid us for marquee level raw talent. This is despite Hayne by 2017 having had two whole seasons away from the game and its training techniques. And he wasn't interested in a GF win in his fareweel speech, thought he had already achieved everything in league there was to achieve...


I'm answering your posts directed at me! Just because we don't agree that the sun shines out of Hayne's arse doesn't mean I'm laying the boot in.

I wish Hayne well in his pusruit of a Union contract, and the expansion of his "brand" into Europe or Japan while still stringing his Aussie fans along :cool:.
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Cause the 49ers are an NFL powerhouse right now... :sarcasm:
 
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Agree i dont think you can just jump out of an NFL franchise and pop back in when you are ready, when you are already a fringe inclusion anyway.

Unfortunately for jarryd he might be doing himself a disservice with all the jumping around. He has probably run his nfl race now ... and he is not showing he has all the union skills at the moment

Maybe he is content to come back to league?

I heard the bulldogs ceo woman on the radio yesterday saying the dogs havent talked about getting him and that she sees quite a risk cos he has the tendency to hop around ... maybe she was bullshitting?
 
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Jarryd Hayne's Olympic ambition still burns brightly after the weekend's London Sevens tournament, but he faces a near-impossible task to force his way into Fiji's 12-man Rio squad.

On current form, and having had barely 15 minutes of combined match time across six Sevens games at Twickenham, he will not be picked.

This is a Fijian side celebrating back-to-back Rugby Sevens World Series victories, secured with a fourth-place finish at the London tournament, which was won by Scotland who upset South Africa 27-26 with a last-gasp victory in the final.

This is also a Fijian side with six world-class players who did not even play this weekend.

Hayne is a world-class athlete himself, a two-time Dally M medal winner who transitioned into the NFL, playing played last season with the San Francisco 49ers.

But to get into Fiji's team with less than three months until the Rio Games appears to be the most daunting sporting challenge he has ever faced.

"At the moment, I'm behind the eight ball and I've got no problem with that. It's about working hard and getting there," Hayne said.

"They're the world champs. Sometimes in life, it's not about success, but it's about the experience and just being part of that team.

"[It's the] first Fijian team to win back-to-back titles and they've got a bunch of superstars who are going to be a joy to train with and a joy to play with.

"It's not about coming over and making the team, it's about giving me an opportunity to make a team."

Hayne now faces six weeks of intense training in Fiji to prove to coach Ben Ryan that he's not only fit enough for Rio, but good enough to displace one of the team's established stars.

"Our cupboard is not just deep, it's absolutely littered with fantastic talent," Ryan said.

"We had a very light week this week ... when we're running up 100-metre sand dunes, when these guys are the fittest rugby players Fiji has ever had and they're still throwing up after sessions, his lactate's going to be going into overdrive.

"Whether he'll be able to tolerate that in a short timeframe is a serious question."

Hayne had a huge amount to do to compete, Ryan said.

"This isn't just a random side, this is the best side in the world in the last two years. A Fijian side that plays a very high-tempo, high-risk game that requires enormous amounts of skill and he has that, and enormous amounts of fitness, and he hasn't got that at the moment."

Fiji finished clear of South Africa to win the Sevens World Series for a second year running, having made the semi-finals in all but one tournament this season.

Ryan's team finished fourth at Twickenham, losing 26-19 in the third-place playoff against USA.

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http://www.abc.net.au/news/2016-05-...ould-cost-rio-2016-rugby-sevens-place/7436360
 
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The winger is bigger than Semi and just as fast.

Would love 2 big fijian wingers and then move gutha to FB
 
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Gronk said:
So after London, I'm thinking that Hayne is 50/50 to make the Olympics squad. From there I think that he'll only play the minnow countries and won't figure in the medal matches. Having said that he'll still get a G/S/B medal for being in the squad.

Haynes problem is that his aerobic fitness is poor (can be fixed), his knowledge of the game at breakdown does not exist (steep learning curve, but lucky for him Fiji don't place a great emphasis on the breakdown) but his biggest problem is that most of the squad possess the 2009 Hayne-like mad skills or even better. For that reason I reckon that he's only 50/50 to go to Rio.
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I reckon it was a smart ploy by the Fiji coach. Have Jarryd sandbag it before Rio so they won't expect him to tear them up.

Dude's a smart coach.
 
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Watched a few highlights of Hayne, he wasn't that bad. I don't follow Union so don't know all the rules so maybe he was terrible. But from what I saw he wasn't as bad as some of the reports suggested.

Yeah didn't do a lot but didn't get a lot of minutes either. Don't forget it's pretty much his first game of Union / league in nearly two years and his fitness isnt there either.

He will improve a lot. He obviously needs more game time. Do they have trials leading up?
 
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Gronk said:
For that reason I reckon that he's only 50/50 to go to Rio.
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ash411 said:
Cause the 49ers are an NFL powerhouse right now... :sarcasm:
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Regardless, the locker room there aren't going to welcome someone that chose to abandon the hard yards of training to trying and waltz through on their raw talent. This isn't Parra anymore Jarryd!
 
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Joshuatheeel said:
Watched a few highlights of Hayne, he wasn't that bad. I don't follow Union so don't know all the rules so maybe he was terrible. But from what I saw he wasn't as bad as some of the reports suggested.

Yeah didn't do a lot but didn't get a lot of minutes either. Don't forget it's pretty much his first game of Union / league in nearly two years and his fitness isnt there either.

He will improve a lot. He obviously needs more game time. Do they have trials leading up?
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He wasn't dreadful, but he wasn't anywhere near the level of his teammates.

I don't doubt his ability but I think he would need a good 6 months of training to be in a position to challenge to make this squad.

Would never happen now but I think he would be a much better chance of trialling for the Aussie Squad, they are pretty average.
 
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Lemon Squash said:
He wasn't dreadful, but he wasn't anywhere near the level of his teammates.

I don't doubt his ability but I think he would need a good 6 months of training to be in a position to challenge to make this squad.

Would never happen now but I think he would be a much better chance of trialling for the Aussie Squad, they are pretty average.
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Too late now, he's pot committed to Fiji. Can't be a wallaby if he wanted to.
 
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If he comes back he plays at 6. I just decided. Corey can go back to Qld especially if he is found guilty.
 
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