Rumours and Stuff

[T.S Quint]

Actually I was mostly being serious. He's like a good natured kid.

He likes to drown cats for fun!

That's not cool...and I don't even like cats!

 

[I'm a loser baby...]

He likes to drown cats for fun!

That's not cool...and I don't even like cats!

Maybe he's a committed environmentalist.

 

[T.S Quint]

Maybe he's a committed environmentalist.

I hate those merkins.
Who gives a shit about trees! Just let me burn my coal in peace, dammit!

 

[Poupou Escobar]

Josh Reynolds is quite likeable off the field.

I like him on it as well. How good are merkins? Some of my favourite people.

 

[Poupou Escobar]

He likes to drown cats for fun!

That's not cool...and I don't even like cats!

Well now I don't like him. If true.

 

[hindy111]

El diablo is a good bloke

 

[Twizzle]

El diablo is a good bloke

and you're not

 

[T.S Quint]

I like him on it as well. How good are merkins? Some of my favourite people.

I only like our merkins.
Other team's merkins can get farked!

 

[T.S Quint]

Well now I don't like him. If true.

Well we certainly can't prove that it's not true.

 

[Bazal]

Jared Hayne is the best player in history and we should take on his full deal and shop Gutho around.

Also we need at least ten big, fat slobs up front if we're going to make the top 4. We make too many tackles and not enough metres!

 

[84 Baby]

Tim Mannah is the best prop we've had in decades.

That's a f**king lie! He's our best prop motherf**king PERIOD

 

[TheRam]

How frustrating was it watching last Thursday's Parra v Broncos game?

From ecstasy to despair and back again.

Kind of felt like dreaming of my favourite teacher back at school, a nude Miss Chandler, but then horrifyingly woken by the wet gentle strokes of El Dicknob. Errrrrrr!!!

Thank the Heavens that it ended up on the dream part.

 

[lingard]

Tuha was out of wenty when they full strength.
He will never play first grade.
GL Jennings Davis Akafalou would all be ahead of him.

But id start next season like this

1French
2Gutherson
3jennings
4taka
5Auvau/Hoff

No matter what shape our backline takes, Jennings has to be there as one centre. Gutherson is wasted on the wing. With French at fullback, that leaves a competition between Gutherson and Takairangi for the remaining centre position. I can't imagine not having Gutherson in the team. So: Gutherson fullback, French wing; or Gutherson centre, Takairangi out.

 

[Gazzamatta]

Stating the bleeding obvious, I really hope BA can tune the boys in this Friday V The Bunnys.
Our previous 2 best performances V The Donkeys followed games V Tigers, which we were lucky to win and The Tits, where we did just enough to win helped by the fact our opposition was rubbish.
My point is that we played like we had one eye on the following weeks game. In this instance our minds may well be on The Storm game, week one of the semis.
A big challenge for BA and the boys this Friday.

 

[Poupou Escobar]

No matter what shape our backline takes, Jennings has to be there as one centre. Gutherson is wasted on the wing. With French at fullback, that leaves a competition between Gutherson and Takairangi for the remaining centre position. I can't imagine not having Gutherson in the team. So: Gutherson fullback, French wing; or Gutherson centre, Takairangi out.

I too feel like Takairangi is a problem. Gutherson's defence is wasted on the wing. Auva'a is a first grader too, so he should stay in the top 17. What's the go with Taka next year? His defence has been hidden since moving to the left, since teams are focusing on our right side. He probably makes the fewest tackles of any centre in the NRL. The last time he made double digits in tackles was against the Bulldogs two months ago. Since then he has averaged seven tackles per game (he only made TWO against the Broncos on Thursday). And he is missing more than one per game (eight missed in seven games) for an 86% tackle effectiveness in that time.

In the meantime (since the Bulldogs game in June) Jennings has been called on to make 118 tackles (16.9 per game) with only 13 missed (90% effectiveness). So not really a slight on Takairangi so much as a massive credit to Jennings. 90% for a centre is awesome. I think Gutherson would probably put up similar numbers at centre.

 

[Poupou Escobar]

Stating the bleeding obvious, I really hope BA can tune the boys in this Friday V The Bunnys.
Our previous 2 best performances V The Donkeys followed games V Tigers, which we were lucky to win and The Tits, where we did just enough to win helped by the fact our opposition was rubbish.
My point is that we played like we had one eye on the following weeks game. In this instance our minds may well be on The Storm game, week one of the semis.
A big challenge for BA and the boys this Friday.

Whether the Broncos lose on Thursday might impact our mindset too, though it shouldn't.

 

[hindy111]

No matter what shape our backline takes, Jennings has to be there as one centre. Gutherson is wasted on the wing. With French at fullback, that leaves a competition between Gutherson and Takairangi for the remaining centre position. I can't imagine not having Gutherson in the team. So: Gutherson fullback, French wing; or Gutherson centre, Takairangi out.

Id only have Gutherson on wing for first 3 games to get him back into nrl after a tough injury. Agree he isnt suited there.

 

[hindy111]

I too feel like Takairangi is a problem. Gutherson's defence is wasted on the wing. Auva'a is a first grader too, so he should stay in the top 17. What's the go with Taka next year? His defence has been hidden since moving to the left, since teams are focusing on our right side. He probably makes the fewest tackles of any centre in the NRL. The last time he made double digits in tackles was against the Bulldogs two months ago. Since then he has averaged seven tackles per game (he only made TWO against the Broncos on Thursday). And he is missing more than one per game (eight missed in seven games) for an 86% tackle effectiveness in that time.

In the meantime (since the Bulldogs game in June) Jennings has been called on to make 118 tackles (16.9 per game) with only 13 missed (90% effectiveness). So not really a slight on Takairangi so much as a massive credit to Jennings. 90% for a centre is awesome. I think Gutherson would probably put up similar numbers at centre.

Taka plays where? He had his deal extended. Gutherson can go back to fullback and Bevan to wing.
Auvau may end up in centres. Gutherson may.
Taka may become our bench utility for the backrow.

 

[Poupou Escobar]

Yeah I don't think Takairangi will be playing for Wenty.

 

[Bazal]

Yeah I don't think Takairangi will be playing for Wenty.

At full strength he will be...

1-French
2-Hoffman
3-Jennings
4-Gutherson
5-Auva'a
Halves and props and shit
11-Ma'u
12-Moeroa
13-Brown

Bench will probably be a hooker, 2 middle forwards, Kenny Edwards.

There's no room for Taka.