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grouch said:
lol still trying to Barbrady people out the door.

Your posts are all spin, deflection and bullshit.

Every act of the club has smelled of "on the cheap". The last two coach hirings, one after the other. Surrounding those coaches with former players or sons of directors. Work experience interns runnig the social media department. The fact that Paul McGregor had to ask favours of mates to have the gym and training facilities brought up to a basic standard. Do these acts indicate an organisation that is sparing no expense to achieve excellence? Everything is penny pinching, bargain basement stuff.

keep spinning and looking foolish
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Oh hello Ladyboy is being found out slowly slowly !
The security of its keyboard diminishing !

Ouch Grouch
 
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So far so good. Mary has us placed at 9th.

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Gareth Widdop wary of Storm playmakers

By MITCH JENNINGS

March 8, 2015, 9 p.m.



Dragons five-eighth Gareth Widdop knows Melbourne trio Cameron Smith, Cooper Cronk and Billy Slater well enough to see the folly in dismissing the Storm’s premiership chances this year.
After many seasons setting the standard for week-in, week-out excellence, the Storm spent much of 2014 on the edge of the top eight before being forced out the finals back door by eventual grand finalists the Bulldogs.
The fade-out combined with the fact that the ‘‘big three’’ are all on the other side of 30 has prompted suggestions the Storm are on a downward spiral ahead of their round-one clash with the Dragons.
Widdop cut his teeth alongside the champion triumvirate and laughed off suggestions that they are on the wane.
‘‘When you’ve got Craig Bellamy as a head coach and with the calibre of players they’ve got in that team I can’t see them spiralling too quickly,’’ Widdop said.
‘‘They’d probably be a bit disappointed the way they ended last year and people have looked at that and made comments on that. People just look at their age and think they’re done now but they’ve had wonderful careers and they’re still playing for Australia and Queensland. They’re great players and the more you write them off the better they’re probably going to become.’’
Widdop came to Wollongong last year to prove himself a star in his own right and in no game was that more apparent than the Dragons’ 24-12 win over the Storm at WIN Stadium in round 16. Widdop scored his first try in Dragons colours and laid on two others in a win that turned their floundering season around. It atoned for a heart-breaking after-the-siren loss to the Storm in round six in the infamous ‘Sirengate’ farce.
‘‘It was obviously a great occasion after what happened down in Melbourne earlier in the year,’’ Widdop said.
‘‘There was an extra bit of fire in the belly there to put in a good performance to get the result.
‘‘I’ve still got a lot of friends at Melbourne and I really look forward to playing against them.
‘‘You’re playing against your friends and you never want your friends to beat you, so it gives you that extra incentive. That night everything just clicked, we played extremely well and got the win.
‘‘But that was last year, it’s been and gone. Our team’s totally different now and theirs is different and it’s about this year now. At the end of the day it’s round one and we need to be getting off to a good start and putting in a good team performance.’’




http://www.illawarramercury.com.au/story/2930655/gareth-widdop-wary-of-storm-playmakers/?cs=302
 
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Dragon Mitch Rein keen on match-up with Smith

By MITCH JENNINGS

March 8, 2015, 9 p.m.



Dragons hooker Mitch Rein hopes to use a first-up test against the game's best No 9 - Melbourne skipper Cameron Smith - to prove his days of sharing dummy-half duties are over.
Smith has been named to make an early return from an ankle injury to lead the Storm in their season-opener against the Dragons at Jubilee Oval on Monday night despite a limited preseason due to off-season surgery.
Rein was expected to again share dummy-half duties this year with veteran recruit Heath L'Estrange but, with four forwards named on the bench, Rein will need to go the distance against the Storm.
It won't be the first time he's done the journey and the 24-year-old is keen to make it a regular occurrence in 2015.
"In the last couple of years I've done 80 minutes a handful of times," Rein said.
"With age comes a bit more experience. After sharing the hooking role in the past, I'd try to play 80-minute games the same way - getting carried away, trying to get in every tackle and every run.
"You just can't sustain that amount of energy for 80 minutes so it's just about being smart and managing yourself on the field if you want to play that full game.
"The more practice you get at it the better you get at being an 80-minute player."
Smith was expected to be out of action until round four after carrying the ankle injury sustained during last year's Origin series through the NRL season and Four Nations before undergoing surgery. It's limited his time on the training paddock but Rein doesn't think it will limit his impact on Monday.
"It doesn't matter how much training or preparation he's done in the off-season, he's had ankle surgery and all the rest, but he always performs," Rein said.
"He's the best hooker in the world and we all know how good he is and how he controls the game so we'll have our hands full."
Coach Paul McGregor endorsed Rein as the club's fittest man this week and said his early season form will have a big bearing on the Dragons' style of play in the opening weeks.
"A lot will depend on Mitch's form there in the next couple of weeks," McGregor said.
"You take it one week at a time and you don't know what you're going to need week three or week four but for right now Mitch [playing 80 minutes] is what we need."
Melbourne have won their past 10 season-openers and McGregor isn't buying talk that they are a side on the wane.
"Everyone's writing them off and saying they won't make the eight but I find that very hard to believe."



http://www.illawarramercury.com.au/...itch-rein-keen-on-match-up-with-smith/?cs=302
 
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