yy_cheng said:
But in reality, I don't think any of the players would be after him.
It would only be the fans.
I agree. There will only be eight players left at the club who actually played alongside Jamie in first grade:
Nathan Hindmarsh
Eric Grothe
Nathan Cayless
PJ Marsh (was already gone when Jamie left)
Luke Burt
Daniel Wagon
Michael Vella
Aaron Cannings (but only just)
Of these I would expect only the first four or five to be guaranteed first grade starters when we play them? Hindy should get a chance to catch up with him at Tri-Nations training. I'm sure the guys will want to get a win up over Manly anyway, but I'm not sure any of them will be that motivated to deviate from the game plan go looking for Jamie to sort him out.
The crowd noise will be massive, but if he and his team managed to block out the largely pro-Hull crowd noise of 72,000 at Old Trafford (the noisiest game I've ever been to) to still concentrate and win then he'll deal with a hostile 20,000 at Parra. All the crowd abuse will just double up on itself and the noise will be easier for him to ignore.