You are extremely bias against Cook.If we need 2 hookers, then why did our run of wins at the end of the year come with 1 hooker? You contradict yourself there. We need 1 good hooker in our team and a back up. You can't honestly say mcinnes couldn't do the job as a back-up hooker and play maybe 2 or 3 games if cook suffers an injury or suspension.
Yes you've mentioned players that have moved fron one club to another, ONE coach didn't rate them or they found themselves being stuck behind One player and have to move on for a chance. But when THREE coaches have overlooked players in favour of FOUR very average hookers. Surely a pattern is being developed.
Robbie Farah being happy being a bit time player and only has problems with Jason Taylor? Has your head been under a rock for 5 years? He has had problems with both Sheens and Mick Potter over the direction of the team and his role in it. What a player says in the press doesn't always reflect his true feelings. Case in point cook. He said in the press he relishes the challenge that farah brings yet he is now seeking a release. You say the best way to judge a player is on the field and thats exactly what I've done. Out of the 17 games he played for us he was good in 3. He had a mixed game against the storm with some good work mixed up some bad mistakes. He had a shocker in our last win against newcastle making a tonne of mistakes but that went unnoticed as we won easily. In his other 12 games for us he was very average, if he was any good in those games then he would of replaced mcinnes a lot earlier.
Maybe Foran is not able to demand as much now following his problems.
He'd have to be seen as a risk.
He wants to be near his kids which means that NZ is out of the question!
He's probably going to have to accept much less with his circumstances!
You are extremely bias against Cook.
No Cam couldn't be our back up hooker. Cam is not up to it and doesn't suit our style of play.
He was good in far more than 3 for us.
He was very good against Newcastle. Just made a couple of errors like Issac does.
Cook gets us on the front foot.
Madge favoured Cam far too long and it was a big mistake.
We would be mad to let Cook go.
Farah is injury prone and I don't want Farah playing the 80.
I completely agree with SOUTHS Pride.Farah was signed because mcinnes isn't good enough to be backup? A player highly rated by the club and picked to play 19 games in 2016 finishing the year as 18th man suddenly isn't even good enough to be a back up?
Or maybe both cook and mcinnes aren't good enough to be 1st choice, farah is signed to be 1st choice. With cook and mcinnes both being back ups. With no need for 2 back ups, and with dragons offering to take mcinnes he is let go.
I may not agree with the arguement that mcinnes isn't first grade standard, but can understand the arguement, but to say he isn't even good enough to be a back-up, to be in a 25 man squad behind a good hooker is too much of a stretch.
I completely agree with SOUTHS Pride.
Well SOUTHS have moved Cam on as they don't believe he's good enough for our 25 man squad.
It's simple. But it doesn't seem so to you.
SOUTHS didn't want him either.I think Cam moved himself on with Saints help!!
Why is that such a bad thing? The EPL (up until the start of last season) had seen the same teams winning the competition for over two decades and it is the wealthiest and most popular football league in the world. Hence, I don't necessarily buy this nonsense that the salary cap makes rugby league a spectacle. If anything, the salary cap actually punishes teams who do things right and are well run by forcing them to shed players when they start achieving sustained success. Rugby League would still be a spectacle without the salary cap; its removal would force teams to become shrewder in the way the manager their affairs off the field. So in a sense, it would become a competition both on and off the field and I think that can only be a good thing.If the salary cap was removed you'd see the same 4-5 teams winning it each year with some others not even getting a sniff of winning half of their games.
The salary cap is what makes rugby league an exciting spectacle, if teams manage it right then they can do great things.
Its the TPA's that need reviewing, not the cap itself.
I think the NRL came out just the other day and slapped a $1 million price tag on him under the Israel Folau rule.Maybe Foran is not able to demand as much now following his problems.
He'd have to be seen as a risk.
He wants to be near his kids which means that NZ is out of the question!
He's probably going to have to accept much less with his circumstances!
I'm not so sure that the Sharks are a long term top 4 team. They have a lot of veterans in their team that are coming to the end of their careers that need replacing. It could potentially hit them hard to have all those players leave at the same time because finding realistic targets who are an upgrade on those players are not as easy as it appears.I think though that COOK wishes to be the No.1 hooker at the SHARKS & probably believes he'll get a better go there! He'd be playing in a very good side too that is looking like a longterm top 4 one!!
You are on the next level of geniusness aren't you. Not good enough to be a back-up yet played 19 games this year, finished the year as 18th man and was rated enough by dragons to be their choice as number 1 hooker for next year. But he's not even good enough to be a back-up? To play for Norths and come into the team in case of injuries or suspensions. Please donate your brain to Science so they can study it when you die!I completely agree with SOUTHS Pride.
Well SOUTHS have moved Cam on as they don't believe he's good enough for our 25 man squad.
It's simple. But it doesn't seem so to you.
Why is that such a bad thing? The EPL (up until the start of last season) had seen the same teams winning the competition for over two decades and it is the wealthiest and most popular football league in the world. Hence, I don't necessarily buy this nonsense that the salary cap makes rugby league a spectacle. If anything, the salary cap actually punishes teams who do things right and are well run by forcing them to shed players when they start achieving sustained success. Rugby League would still be a spectacle without the salary cap; its removal would force teams to become shrewder in the way the manager their affairs off the field. So in a sense, it would become a competition both on and off the field and I think that can only be a good thing.
$1,000,000--that's ridiculous & it just goes to show how inconsistent & disorganised the NRL are in almost every facet of the game.I think the NRL came out just the other day and slapped a $1 million price tag on him under the Israel Folau rule.
English soccer club culture is incredibly strong. You have 40,000 fans happily fill out a stadium to watch Shitonton United get flogged each week by man u and chelsea each week, with no hope of winning a title and to finish 16th each year. Nrl can't even get sell outs for our winning team. If the same 3 or 4 teams win each year then the fans ( apart from the diehards) of the other 12 nrl teams aren't going to stick around. Teams will go broke, either through lack of support or through a situation like leeds in the early 00s who overspent trying to keep up with the big guns on the field and went bust. Lose a few teams, especially in big tv markets, and suddenly the tv money dries up. The current 16 clubs all benifit on each other. Souths benifit from Cowboys and broncos being in the comp, as they bring in a bigger tv market, which increases the tv contract, which increases the grants the nrl give the clubs while also giving sponsors more exposure, which makes sponsorship more valuable etc and so it all flows on.Why is that such a bad thing? The EPL (up until the start of last season) had seen the same teams winning the competition for over two decades and it is the wealthiest and most popular football league in the world. Hence, I don't necessarily buy this nonsense that the salary cap makes rugby league a spectacle. If anything, the salary cap actually punishes teams who do things right and are well run by forcing them to shed players when they start achieving sustained success. Rugby League would still be a spectacle without the salary cap; its removal would force teams to become shrewder in the way the manager their affairs off the field. So in a sense, it would become a competition both on and off the field and I think that can only be a good thing.
SOUTHS didn't want him either.
So Liam Coleman now to be our back up dummy half?
I agree with most of what you're saying cam isn't good enough to be in our 17 but Souths did want to keep him. We just couldn't promise him a first grade spot and dragons can.