Redneck Redfaces

[firechild]

Is BKT another incarnation of Popeye? Maybe Popeye's son? Grandson? Great grandson?

 

[Fire]

This thread has taken off lol

 

[Hutty1986]

Is BKT another incarnation of Popeye? Maybe Popeye's son? Grandson? Great grandson?

:lol: Great, great grandson perhaps?

 

[AlwaysGreen]

My God..hypocricy at it's greatest, look at your last intellectual effort at thread creation.:roll:

I created a thread purely to stroke my ego and live out my sad fantasy of being a league columnist? I either missed that or you have no idea what the word hypocrisy means.

By all means enjoy Poppy's ramblings, as they say simple things amuse simple minds.

 

[BKT]

I created a thread purely to stroke my ego and live out my sad fantasy of being a league columnist? I either missed that or you have no idea what the word hypocrisy means.

By all means enjoy Poppy's ramblings, as they say simple things amuse simple minds.

SUPERB reply.......just what was expected.:crazy:

 

[Silent Knight]

Goin' down to Redneck Redfaces
POPEYE has all the time
Ramblin' crap everywhere
Redneck fishin' with temptation
Goin' down to Redneck Redfaces
Gonna leave my sanity behind
Ample dementia day or night
People shouting "who's that old fool?"
Heading on up to Redneck Redfaces
POPEYE and I gonna get blind
Yabbies turnips boat people Bellamy grassy knoll why the hell can't I understand this?
Come on down to Redneck Redfaces and meet an ol' mate of mine.

 

[POPEYE]

SK I know you're there because AG is, no need to hurry back to the shallow pool with the smell of piss and chlorine, stay and
talk for a while, I won't let you drown. You must be keen on Benny's chances next year. I'll have a small bet, say your master's
green balls, that your avatar mid season will be a picture of Jeremy Smith. He'll be the new hero for you to worship.

'12 was the chalk compared to the cheese '13 will bring, Jeremy carried Benny for the red V and if he stays healthy the Knights
will escape the one forward and two back maze. Talk to me SK

 

[Fire]

SK I know you're there because AG is, no need to hurry back to the shallow pool with the smell of piss and chlorine, stay and
talk for a while, I won't let you drown. You must be keen on Benny's chances next year. I'll have a small bet, say your master's
green balls, that your avatar mid season will be a picture of Jeremy Smith. He'll be the new hero for you to worship.

'12 was the chalk compared to the cheese '13 will bring, Jeremy carried Benny for the red V and if he stays healthy the Knights
will escape the one forward and two back maze. Talk to me SK

This man knows. Jezza is The Man.

 

[Big Tim]

This thread saves me a few bucks every week.

No need to buy the papers, Pops quickly and neatly gives me a wrap up of what the journo's are whinging about.

 

[Silent Knight]

SK I know you're there because AG is, no need to hurry back to the shallow pool with the smell of piss and chlorine, stay and
talk for a while, I won't let you drown. You must be keen on Benny's chances next year. I'll have a small bet, say your master's
green balls, that your avatar mid season will be a picture of Jeremy Smith. He'll be the new hero for you to worship.

'12 was the chalk compared to the cheese '13 will bring, Jeremy carried Benny for the red V and if he stays healthy the Knights
will escape the one forward and two back maze. Talk to me SK

Okay Pops I'll grace you with a serious response this one time. But then I'll go back to Firkinland and you can go back to ranting about Slothfield.

To be honest I'm really excited about our backrow for next year. It's probably the best one we've had since the Kennedy/Simpson/Peden days. Scott and Smith are rep-class backrowers who understand Bennett's game plan and will give us a bit more potency on the edge.

I'm hoping Bennett might consider moving Chris Houston to lock. I've felt that Chris being a bit of a tackling machine would be well suited in the middle and there were times in the past where Chris would stifle our attacking raids down the flanks by taking the tackle when we had the overlap.

Also by moving Houston away from the edge it may just encourage Mullen to be a bit more creative and come up with some new attacking plays other than the predictable short ball to Houston that opposition defences worked out a long time ago.

I really rate our attacking backline. Boyd, Gagai and Uate in particular can cause headaches for defenders through some fairly potent sweeping backline plays. We've fixed up our most glaring weakness by investing in some mongrel and toughness up front.

I also like some of the emerging young forwards we've got coming along such as Robbie Rochow, Korbin Sims, Patrick Vaivai, Toka Likiliki and Mitchell Frei. In fact I'm more excited than I normally am because I can see the influence Bennett exerts on promising young players, they look to him as a father figure.

I guess the big question mark is still on our halves. Will Gidley stay on the park this season? Will Mullen continue to display the newfound composure and maturity he found at last under a decent coach? Or will a young bloke like Tyrone Roberts, Jacob Gagai or Adrian Davis take the league world by storm?

Anyway that's enough. Off to Firkinland.

 

[POPEYE]

Well done, stepping out from AG's shadow wasn't that hard. Gagai was impressive this year and has shades of Jamie Lyon about him.
Boyd thrives on go forward as can be seen in Origin and he will step up because of it. The Knights and Raiders are explosives in need
of a detonator and I hope Benny can conjure up a playmaker for you.

 

[Ronnie Dobbs]

I don't like nones because they're the only ones who don't give a f**k

:lol::lol:

Pay that.

 

[POPEYE]

:lol::lol:

Pay that.

You've no idea . . . how happy that makes me

 

[POPEYE]

Said before imo the ARLC will be the wind to bring League out of the doldrum but the players also need a voice, not a whimper.
If the RLPA don't keep pace with management they will forever be a silent partner in a combination that needs to understand
the game is NOT greater than the players, no matter what cockamamie is soapboxed.

Players should boycott the All Stars game just because it's not a true test of Indigenous Australians against caucasian Australians
and the rule changes are just another demeaning attitude towards the people who deserve recognition of equal standing.
Winning or losing is insignificant.

 

[POPEYE]

Graham Murray is going where he belongs, a head coach, this time with Wynnum Manly. He is too good to play second fiddle to anyone imo.
If the Eels weren't led around by the nose by prima donnas Murray, being an old boy, should have been their coach. Graham has forgotten
more than Stuart will ever know.

My bet is once Izzy tastes the fruits of Union he will never return to League. All that spread the gospel bullshit, travel and money will grab
him by the short and curlies. What is he really, a winger that is good in the air, a novelty at Melbourne that is rapidly becoming the norm
nowadays. Just as truck driving makes meatheads rich Union gives rich meatheads something to play.

 

[POPEYE]

Crikey, nothing like girl/girl to arouse jealousy both sides of the fence. Refreshing in these days of so called well hung men
having to resort to anal, women in porn will soon be obsolete. If this girl can get young players as fit as her there should be
more of it. Imagine looking forward to training and watching a beautiful woman at the same time, god forbid.

Good to see players like Smith and Thurston, who don't need to chase a dollar, go to bat for players that put in the same
effort for less reward. Smith in particular is well respected by intelligent people and if his calm on the field can transpose
to the boardroom there is less chance of dismissal.

 

[POPEYE]

The problem with player salaries is an age old one, while there was a reasonable difference between money for great and
ordinary talent the boat was only rocked, not in danger of capsize. All these blokes have to do the same training and cop
the same hits so when the 'marquee' players start getting paid like they're too special others get their backs up.

To keep the wages even the ARLC need to keep the demand under control by assuring every club has playmakers. In other
words, instead of paying finishers like Falou exhorbitant money when blokes like Cronk are worth ten times as much the
League has to find more Cronks. No team of players is ever going to deny playmakers the right to earn more.

If the ARLC spent some of the rainy day money on a witchhunt for 6,7 and 9's by way of scholarships or something similar
more peripheral elite players would emerge. Izzy owes everything to opportunities given him by Storm playmakers.

 

[POPEYE]

I read that Melbourne had the most 40/20's for the season with 6, which means the feat is easier imagined than accomplished.
For such an obviously valuable play to be what seems only a spur of the moment practice it must have a much higher degree
of difficulty than spectators give credit for.

The 'bomb' is an art form practised incessantly at training and I've often wondered how much time is dedicated to 40/20, perhaps
someone can elighten me. Hard to imagine an AFL marquee player crossing to League but with pinpoint long distance kicking
ability he should be able to avoid the thin cordon of defence against it. Maybe the Storm have utilised their proximity to such experience.

Forgive the lack of anything else to talk about but the offering of Rotfield quoting Jabba has left me flabbergasted

 

[POPEYE]

Gidley to halfback means Benny is going to try a Dragons repeat, the Knights will try to make do with a #7 that can supply little more
than inspiration which means defend and wait for an opportunity. If Tyrone Roberts is part of his plans as he says maybe it's at 5/8.
If he can pull off a pissant cup win with the Knights without a playmaker as he did with the Dragons it will be even more spectacular
because it will be against 15, not 14.

Think everyone knew that Carty was looking to Sezer to replace Prince, the other halves are to make up the numbers. Aidan will be
expected to make the moves and there will be cramps from fingers crossed while he tries. Titans' games could be anything in '13,
good luck to them.

Luke Lewis shouldn't be looked upon by the Sharks as anything more than a guest. As an accident waiting to happen he has always
been one of the greatest part timers the game has seen, along with players such as Justin Hodges and Brent Tate, it is a mistake to
take a full season for granted

 

[POPEYE]

Not sure Schubert should be a leftover in what we all hope will be a banquet to celebrate the new NRL. The Storm tried to get
themselves out of the shit by players taking serious voluntary pay cuts as part compensation for being naughty but weren't
allowed to. Gasnier and Lockyer are allowed to twist and fit as they like but an obvious blow to AFL in the mindset of potential
League juniors by letting Izzy sneak back in is not.

To differentiate between the Dragons, who were at the top of their tree and the Eels who are rooting around, with favoured
treatment is disconcerting. There's a better chance of the game getting paid what it's owed by Folau than there was with
Gaznier so if Schubert is obviously out of his depth why is he still on the table.