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Forbes Creek Dragons

First Grade
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Aaron Woods was about to sign with Manly but at the 11th hour Dragons swooped in and offered contract.
It was a no brainer for Woods, if he goes to Manly he may have to play a fair bit of reserve grade, at Dragons he knows he'll be playing NRL.
Starting every week probably, good move for him personally, grand finals aren’t everything.
 

Forbes Creek Dragons

First Grade
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So i guess your employment is not as a life coach ? Glass never fu---n full !!! Agree that the club should be open to scrutiny and they have stuffed up a lot in the past and should be called out on it, but i keep coming back to Wayne Bennetts comment years ago about all clubs " it is never as good and never as bad as you think it is "

Calling the Dragons a steaming pile of shit & that it deserves to be reminded with criticism every day is a bit over the top IMO. How do you encourage change by criticising EVERY move they make , particularly without any accurate information to what is fronting the club ( contracts, salary cap , injuries ,sponsorship, financials , personalities ) ? I think with Webby we are going in the right direction but if the side is still in the same position this time next year then the coach will be accountable, unlike the situation for the previous coach until it was way too late. I try to live my life as a Dragons fan more positive than negative and i don't mean like a Pollyanna but hope may be stupid , but it is my religion !
Agree mate, well said.
 

Crush

Coach
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Aaron Woods is statistically OK. Looking purely at stats like hit ups and post contact meters he is fine.
But he offers nothing in the way of energy.
Toby Rudolf who played the last few rounds as the other starting prop at Sharks made Woods look silly. Rudolf created and busted holes in opposing sides defence, ran like a man possessed.
Aaron jogged into the line, turned around, reversing while looking for the telegraphed offload. When he does offload it’s standing still and results in nothing.
Stats show he made good PCM and an offload but his play made no positive impact.
Anyway, welcome to the club Aaron, happy we could accommodate you in your final year(s) before retirement.
 

Inisai Toga

Juniors
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1,580
Dare I raise my head above the parapet and suggest that Woods might not be an entirely awful signing?
His post contact metres are good and he can offload.
Agree, never thought he was probably Origin level, but can be more than handy hard to put down and demands a few defenders. Scored against us a few times. Not a bad depth signing. Seems like a pretty good bloke too, could assist the culture and grooming youngsters coming through.
 

Nevan_

First Grade
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This club is a steaming pile of shit, and has been for a decade.

The last part of this sentence is the only thing you said that isn't true. We've been a steaming pile of shit for far longer than a decade. Nothing will change unless the parasites in the boardroom are forced to leave. All a West Tigers honcho needs to do in order to come under media scrutiny is to fart, and yet these morons have been allowed to destroy one of the games biggest clubs without so much as a Paul Kent queef.

I have a question for any Souths fans that are reading: During the bleak years, did you guys have deluded, egocentric fans who posted rubbish like "Arthur Katinas knows what he's doing" or "Owen Craigie makes good metres" like we do?
 

Dragonslayer

First Grade
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Bennett said it best in his speech for Benji's retirement presser

"As you get older it gets a little bit more than just the actual football you can play, it's how much influence you can have on the group around you as well"
 
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Two years ago I despised McGregor more than I despise Buzz Lightyear. The club was f&&&&d. Recruitment was comical. Team selections bizarre. I hated everyone and everything.

Fast forward. McGregor is gone. Norman gone. Some other rubbish gone. Webb seems very switched on. Promising juniors being given opportunities (and playing well). Some very good players being brought in.

Looking forward to next year.
 

Dragon Blood

Juniors
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PFFFFFT...at least we eventually got one of the fantastic/fabulous/whatever the Fsake...etc four from the Tigers after not surprisingly missing out on Teddy a few years back. What an fantastic achievement by this once great club to sign Sharon Woods??????

On purpose I don't watch many Sharts games, but does he still have that Dora the Explorer hair cut?

2022 is a write off already with all the budget buys and a lazy wanker in the centres that knocked us back a couple of years back only to sign with Manly.

Now it appears we're paying massive overs for this paycheck and oxygen thief ala Borey Smoreman.

Is womens beach volleyball played on KAYO all year round? Otherwise will cancel my subscription especially after the storm fiasco/white power bullshit, also/and the Walsh kid admitting in a press conference on national TV that he tried some before being busted by the cops in his possession ?

Didn't Wendell Sailor cop a 2 year ban for exactly the same thing? How are these two situations any different?

Oh....they are different because they only got a small suspended fine and a 1 to 2 week suspension not 2 years!!!!!!

Apparently the NRL hasn't even tested any of them, and even if the NRL did they would get a piss and blood sample from a 15yo ball boy and mask it all over/sweep it under the carpet with brown paper bags.

What if it was Rava was caught on video cutting a line with his credit card...."LIFE LONG BAN FROM NRL??????"


FCKU NRL.....FCKU STGRL....FCKU STGI....FCKU STFGI board ........i'm done and over the whole NRL/WWE circus and this once great club. The whole set up is losing its fan base by the day. Its not the same game I used to play!!!!!
 

Gareth67

First Grade
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Dragon Blood most of what you have said is indeed correct . The game in general has gone downhill now and I put this down to any number of reasons , but the main reason , at least imho is that the ARL or NRL has not had a true chairman since the 70’ - 80’s .

There’s no Bill Buckley or Kevin Humpreys nor Ken Arthurson around these days, instead we have these figureheads who merely assume the title of Chairman with little aspiration other than to make as many dollars from the television networks as possible .

To do this the game is now played at night - which was never intended , the actual competition draw is a farce where they have some teams playing the lower placed teams and the others playing against the top teams . How often does Brisbane play a day match ? They have a continual Friday night game with no short turn-around - ever so fair.

And please don’t get me started about how the games governing body penalizes players that play around with Johnstone&Johnstone baby powder . Thanks goodness that little quirk does not bring the game into disrepute . 🤔

The point is that the grassroots of the game suffer as a consequence of their ignorance and in some cases plain bluudy stupidity .

Rant over . 😡
 
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Puff

First Grade
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Wendell was playing rugby when he got 2 years from memory.

In rugby league those offenses are considered petty crimes
 

jak

Bench
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Dragon Blood most of what you have said is indeed correct . The game in general has gone downhill now and I put this down to any number of reasons , but the main reason , at least imho is that the ARL or NRL has not had a true chairman since the 70’ - 80’s .

There’s no Bill Buckley or Kevin Humpreys nor Ken Arthurson around these days, instead we have these figureheads who merely assume the title of Chairman with little aspiration other than to make as many dollars from the television networks as possible .

To do this the game is now played at night - which was never intended , the actual competition draw is a farce where they have some teams playing the lower placed teams and the others playing against the top teams . How often does Brisbane play a day match ? They have a continual Friday night game with no short turn-around - ever so fair.

And please don’t get started about what the games governing body penalizes players that play around with Johnstone&Johnstone baby powder . Thanks goodness that little quirk does not bring the game into disrepute . 🤔

The point is that the grassroots of the game suffer as a consequence of their ignorance and in some cases plain bluudy stupidity .

Rant over . 😡
all good points mate, remember the old home and away system were you played each team twice making points differential mean something. rant over i doubt it ol fella
 

denis preston

First Grade
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8,775
Two years ago I despised McGregor more than I despise Buzz Lightyear. The club was f&&&&d. Recruitment was comical. Team selections bizarre. I hated everyone and everything.

Fast forward. McGregor is gone. Norman gone. Some other rubbish gone. Webb seems very switched on. Promising juniors being given opportunities (and playing well). Some very good players being brought in.

Looking forward to next year.
To Infinity & Beyond !
 

denis preston

First Grade
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8,775
Dragon Blood most of what you have said is indeed correct . The game in general has gone downhill now and I put this down to any number of reasons , but the main reason , at least imho is that the ARL or NRL has not had a true chairman since the 70’ - 80’s .

There’s no Bill Buckley or Kevin Humpreys nor Ken Arthurson around these days, instead we have these figureheads who merely assume the title of Chairman with little aspiration other than to make as many dollars from the television networks as possible .

To do this the game is now played at night - which was never intended , the actual competition draw is a farce where they have some teams playing the lower placed teams and the others playing against the top teams . How often does Brisbane play a day match ? They have a continual Friday night game with no short turn-around - ever so fair.

And please don’t get started about what the games governing body penalizes players that play around with Johnstone&Johnstone baby powder . Thanks goodness that little quirk does not bring the game into disrepute . 🤔

The point is that the grassroots of the game suffer as a consequence of their ignorance and in some cases plain bluudy stupidity .

Rant over . 😡
Jebus, you had me until Bill Buckley & Kevin Humphreys !!! They kept the game in the 50's even though it was the 70's !!
 

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