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I remember the first time I ever saw Brett Kenny play - I think it was his first grade debut - at Cumberland Oval. He played outside centre, with Cronin inside centre. Towards the end of the game I said to my father, "This bloke will play for Australia one day". My father kind of looked at me, but didn't disagree; he just said, "He's pretty good, alright".
Russell has certainly got the same effortless running style.
Coming off the bench against the Broncos? No wonder he went well on debut for us.
The good teams all carved us up - out wide - when he was defending on the edge. Why do you think he was moved back to the middle?
Penisini and Walker were both off contract when they re-signed (unlike Papali'i who had over 18 months to run on his contract at the start of this year). Walker actually re-signed in May, and had been free to negotiate with other clubs for almost six months ffs. Neither player re-signed as early as you think Papali'i should have been locked up. You'll also note neither Penisini nor Walker signed long term extensions, though no doubt their clubs would have preferred that they did. In fact Robinson said here that he wanted Walker retained for 10 years but the player's management knew it wasn't in his best interest to sign too long too early: https://www.nrl.com/news/2021/05/13/walker-re-signs-with-roosters-until-end-of-2023/
Too many middles is never enough.
But maybe money was his short term objective to set his mum up so that's why he took it
its a shame cause i would have given ICE the number 13
You could write an encyclopedia on all the juniors that were going to be superstars that have been mentioned on here.
But it’s also not like all the players who did make it weren’t also mentioned on here.
Keating bros were gonna be the saviours
Kris Keating was next Brad Fitler.
Hope so, otherwise, another a fluffy kitten
On the other hand, every middle forward looks like a gun when he's running at halfbacks. You only need two edge forwards on the field and the key requirement is that they can defend there. If you really need Paulo or Papali'i running at halves you can put him there in the red zone. He doesn't need to wear 11 or 12, and you certainly don't want him there when the defence is under pressure.
