Parramatta Eels Juniors

[the phantom menace]

If you can't see that you're wrong, not me.

You've got that tattooed as your motto, right...

Smack bang in the middle of your forehead?

 

[the phantom menace]

Here's Jake Arthur at the same age as Ethan Sanders is now, playing against grown ups:

Is that vid from your favourite pornhub niche category?

 

[the phantom menace]

What is happening with Hodgson? I’ve missed it.

Confirmed as out for the season.

 

[JokerEel]

I think playmakers are the ones most likely to improve with age. Look at the oldest players in the game; plenty of halves and hookers there. They are also generally the latest to debut.

The most recent Origin game featured four halves and hookers over the age of 32.

They are 200+ NRL game players though.

JA isn't going to be ever first choice at an NRL club.

He may get to 70 and good for him

 

[Poupou Escobar]

You've got that tattooed as your motto, right...

Smack bang in the middle of your forehead?

Your forehead has ᗺMUᗡ ƧI UOᑫ and whenever you look in the mirror you smile smugly and think "I sure showed that merkin".

 

[Poupou Escobar]

They are 200+ NRL game players though.

Cook and Walker aren't. They were late bloomers. Even DCE didn't debut until he was already 22.

JA isn't going to be ever first choice at an NRL club.

He may get to 70 and good for him

The point is he is probably a long way from his peak, like any 21 year old playmaker.

 

[JokerEel]

Cook and Walker aren't. They were late bloomers. Even DCE didn't debut until he was already 22.

The point is he is probably a long way from his peak, like any 21 year old playmaker.

185 & 187 games close enough to 200.

He has peaked mate I wish him all the best but right now he is at another club and Sanders is at the Eels let's talk this kid up.

 

[Poupou Escobar]

No footy player peaks at 21. Some of them might get pushed out of the game by then, but any player who remains a full time pro will continue to improve long past 21. This is how these merkins are all still first graders in their thirties even though none of them had even debuted by Arthur's age:

Reynolds
Moylan
Walker
Cherry-Evans
Keary

Three of them went on to win premierships, despite being reserve graders when they were the same age as Arthur.

As for talking Sanders up, I'll wait until I see him in open age footy.

 

[the phantom menace]

No footy player peaks at 21.

Adam Ritson peaked at 20.

Even discounting injuries, there will be some players that were better at 21 than they ever were subsequently.

 

[Gazzamatta]

Maybe Tim Smith?

 

[hineyrulz]

No footy player peaks at 21.

Bullshit, I peaked at 12.

 

[the phantom menace]

Jamal Idris peaked at 21... his only Australian rep game in 2011. Kept playing until 2017 though.

 

[the phantom menace]

Ash Taylor. Only rep game (all stars) age 21. Kept playing (declining) for another 4+ years.

 

[the phantom menace]

Just two examples of how "any player who remains a full time pro will continue to improve long past 21" is another Pou #shitlogic post.

 

[JokerEel]

No footy player peaks at 21. Some of them might get pushed out of the game by then, but any player who remains a full time pro will continue to improve long past 21. This is how these merkins are all still first graders in their thirties even though none of them had even debuted by Arthur's age:

Reynolds
Moylan
Walker
Cherry-Evans
Keary

Three of them went on to win premierships, despite being reserve graders when they were the same age as Arthur.

As for talking Sanders up, I'll wait until I see him in open age footy.

Why are you comparing JA to ...

Reynolds
Moylan
Walker
Cherry-Evans
Keary

You just hand picked the leading players in the NRL...

He isn't in their class never will be.

 

[Poupou Escobar]

Just two examples of how "any player who remains a full time pro will continue to improve long past 21" is another Pou #shitlogic post.

Getting picked in rep teams too early isn’t the same as reaching your peak. Both those players are case studies in wasted potential. Neither of them peaked.

 

[Poupou Escobar]

Why are you comparing JA to ...

Reynolds
Moylan
Walker
Cherry-Evans
Keary

You just hand picked the leading players in the NRL...

I noted all the halves over 30 who debuted older than Jake Arthur. There were also a few under 30 so debuted older than him as well.

He isn't in their class never will be.

Probably not, but at his age they weren’t even first graders. They hadn’t reached their peak. If they hadn’t peaked at the age of 20 why would Jake Arthur?

 

[the phantom menace]

Getting picked in rep teams too early isn’t the same as reaching your peak. Both those players are case studies in wasted potential. Neither of them peaked.

Nice try... But some players peak at 21.

 

[JokerEel]

I noted all the halves over 30 who debuted older than Jake Arthur. There were also a few under 30 so debuted older than him as well.

Probably not, but at his age they weren’t even first graders. They hadn’t reached their peak. If they hadn’t peaked at the age of 20 why would Jake Arthur?

Because he isn't them...

Harry Siejka is 31 did he get better with age?

He debut at 20 for the Panfers.

 

[JokerEel]

Nice try... But some players peak at 21.

No way apparently they all keep getting better that's why everyone makes it after 21!