It pained me to watch Manly for a few minutes, but geez he is a special talent. Must be first picked in the centres... Possibly fullback?
So 2015 we have sandow, lussick, hoppa and hayne. That's a bit of $$$
Hopefully they're not all coming off contract at the same time.
the really good ones can carry multiple contracts!
Loko had almost two years out and came back fine - hoppa at the same age shouldn't have much problems after a good offseason
Was gonna say the exact same thing.....plus Hoppa hasn't had to come back from major knee injuries
Yeah but on the other hand Hoppa hasn't been doing full time training for 2 years. Loko may have had a couple of rounds of surgery and limited training, but the training staff would still be making him work hard in the gym all week to keep his strength, playing weight, and fitness up until he could physically run again.
Realistically, Hoppa could come back 10kgs lighter, somewhat unfit (for professional sporting standards) and it could take him an entire off season and even more just to get his body back in shape to play NRL let alone be the same player he was when he left the game. Let's just hope he comes back quickly though.
havn't we been sending Hoppa training schedules and he himself has said he has put aside time to keep up his fitness etc and even we had a trainer go up there if remember correctly.
I'd say the only thing Hoppa will be behind in is general ball skills etc but that will be sorted in 3-4 months of pre-season training
You could be right. No doubt he'd be trying to keep his fitness up, these Mormon Missionary rules are very strict though. He'd have rules as to what exercises he can do, when, and how often. The same would go with his diet. So it's very likely he'll come back a bit out of shape and we shouldn't expect otherwise.
http://www.theaustralian.com.au/spo...ave-stuarts-side/story-fnca0von-1226608003444Furthermore, Souths are looking to further trump Canterbury by luring Tolman to Redfern. Tolman is off contract at the end of the season and is understood to be a target for the Rabbitohs, where he would be reunited with former Storm assistant coach Michael Maguire.