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taste2taste

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Marky Mark has the 3rd most errors of any player in the NRL. Great in open field though.

The only reason Suallii played Origin was because Mitchell, Turbo, Best, Staggs and Graham were all injured.

When Best became available for Origin 3 Suaallii was dropped.
 

taste2taste

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Fair enough

As a roosters fan I would disagree with Tupou as Marky has an X factor that he doesn't have.
Marks great with the ball, all Union players are good with ‘eyes up footy ‘ because Union isn’t as structured.

Unfortunately the X Factor gets coached out of kids early, staying in your channel and not taking risks that might lead to a turn over are more important in league.

Robbo talked about this in a press conference a few weeks ago.
 

bazza

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A couple of interesting points - I’m in the U.K, and didn’t have a clue the Lions were playing on Friday night until I was scrolling through the sports channels to find Saints V Leeds Rhinos and saw a Lions game being shown on one of the channels - only from reading this thread do I now know that was a live match - I’d just assumed it was an old match as I know there is a Lions tour at some point soon.
I guess what I’m saying is that is far from ‘wall to wall’, infact, I’ve not had or heard 1 conversation about the Lions tour with either blokes at work or my group of mates, who generally chat about sport non-stop.
Whilst rugby union still has its ‘old boys’ and it’s dyed in the wool toff community, it has no cut through anywhere else in England. Sure people might watch the odd Lions or 6 nations match, but it’s certainly not high on the sports calendar for general folk. Both rugby Union and rugby league are being left way behind.
The lions tour is a money spinner for I assume both the host and the tourists - it won't have much impact on the overall popularity or RU in either place
 
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Marky Mark has the 3rd most errors of any player in the NRL. Great in open field though.

The only reason Suallii played Origin was because Mitchell, Turbo, Best, Staggs and Graham were all injured.

When Best became available for Origin 3 Suaallii was dropped.

You do realise that he was serving a 4 match suspension after Game 1. As such he wasdn't available for selection in Game 3. It had nothing to do with Best's availability.
 
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