Rumours and Stuff

[JokerEel]

For a backup dummy half he is doing ok, but I doubt he will be our long term solution or put it this way, I hope we can do better.

Alot of people on here said the same thing about Mahoney.. He was too small etc.

Hands defence has been good and his service from dummy half is better than a few seasoned first grade hookers.

Hope he starts running the ball more

 

[hineyrulz]

it was definitely panic buy.

We were linked to Verills for a couple of days.

Then Hodgson one came out of the blue.

Ennis talked us into buying Hodgson, he must be pissing himself laughing.

 

[King-Gutho94]

Ennis talked us into buying Hodgson, he must be pissing himself laughing.

He always was a GRUB.

 

[hineyrulz]

He always was a GRUB.

At least we can hate him all again, it was weird not hating on the prick.

 

[King-Gutho94]

At least we can hate him all again, it was weird not hating on the prick.

Yeah but he has a golden touch about him though.

Got to the GF with the Dogs twice
Won a premiership with the Sharks
Was part of the Raiders & Eels staff when both made there only GF's in recent years

 

[Tiger5150]

In my 24 years as a parra fan I dont think we have had a big name signing pay off it always ends in disaster.

Kieran Foran in 2016 was probably the one takes the cake.

Best 5/8 in the world at the time and he came here with a million issues that no one knew then it snowballed into a meltdown. Who saw that coming.

For all the signings BA brought with him from Manly - Watmough, Foran, Gower.

The one with the lower profile was Gutho who turned out to be best.

Forget I said anything

 

[King-Gutho94]

Gower was a Tiger

One game wonder for the Tigers.

He obviously wasn't shit enough to hang around.

 

[Legal Eel]

So you agree Hodgson has been poor?

Excellent. Then why are you slavishly devoted to his retention in first grade? Do we have to wait for him to be dropped for you to claim that you knew all along that he was not up to it?

 

[Tiger5150]

One game wonder for the Tigers.

He obviously wasn't shit enough to hang around.

Decent player, better bloke. Was disappointed he left but was kept out of first grade by a bloke called Gareth Ellis and we made the prelim final the year he left. He was however shit enough for Parra and because I like him as a bloke, Im glad he got to enjoy the glory years that were Parra 2014 to 2020.

 

[TheRam]

Alot of people on here said the same thing about Mahoney.. He was too small etc.

Hands defence has been good and his service from dummy half is better than a few seasoned first grade hookers.

Hope he starts running the ball more

Agreed. I haven't made my call on him yet for two reasons, firstly the team due to its other deficiencies is not going to well and now with RCG out will only be worse from here on in and therefore it will be so much harder to judge him on his defensive work in particular. But his service is crisp and direct which is a good thing. Not as good as Mahoney's though. Secondly he hasn't played enough NRL to evaluate correctly either. But like I said I do like his service, so far it has been consistently in front of the receiver even under fatigue which is a great sign.

One thing we can tell though from the outset he is not an overly crafty or dynamic dummy half thus far otherwise we would have seen this already and obviously the Panthers wouldn't have let him go. It's not like he is a 17-18 year old like Mahoney was and they didn't know exactly what they had. He is what 23 already?

No at best I see him developing once NRL fit into a solid not to many frills DH. As for running game, he is super fit, so lets hope with extra NRL and confidence he surprises us all and has a solid crack at that part of his game and does it well so Potato Head doesn't tell him to stop it and just focus on servicing the ball.

I mean, when you only have two recognised front rowers in your team it is imperative that your dummy half can isolate weak ruck defense and run. Even Souths when they won their last premiership using a power game(they had at least 4-5 middles taking it up) still had the best running DH in the game in I. Luke and for the GF had Koroisau. Potato Head here thinks that he can play a collision power game with 2 palookas up front and a non running DH that can scoot around the ruck and break up middle defense.

Genius.

 

[hindy111]

So you agree Hodgson has been poor?

Excellent. Then why are you slavishly devoted to his retention in first grade? Do we have to wait for him to be dropped for you to claim that you knew all along that he was not up to it?

Lol. Unless your blind Hodgsons been garbage. He needs to find his feet fast.
Why do people think he has gone from 80mins to 30? BA knows he has been rubbish and giving him a few more chances. He will get 4 or 5 more games and if he doesn't come good then he will be put in NSW CUP

 

[parra pete]

This bloke certainly has the X factor....

 

[Gronk]

So you agree Hodgson has been poor?

Excellent. Then why are you slavishly devoted to his retention in first grade? Do we have to wait for him to be dropped for you to claim that you knew all along that he was not up to it?

Why should I explain myself to you when you don't bother to actually read what I post ?

It's all there. Hell, even read what I posted today. It's not that hard.

Here's an idiom for free: "By failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail".

You're already off to a bad start.

 

[Gazzamatta]

Ennis talked us into buying Hodgson, he must be pissing himself laughing.

So we listened then punted him? Yeah, probably. Have we got a deal for you!

 

[King-Gutho94]

Decent player, better bloke. Was disappointed he left but was kept out of first grade by a bloke called Gareth Ellis and we made the prelim final the year he left. He was however shit enough for Parra and because I like him as a bloke, Im glad he got to enjoy the glory years that were Parra 2014 to 2020.

He was a big loss Gareth Ellis for you blokes missed him when he left.

No coincidence your best 2 years since 2005 happened when Ellis was at the club.

 

[Poupou Escobar]

Does he miss his tackles because he’s shit or is that the team’s fault too?

Why does any player miss tackles?

 

[Poupou Escobar]

He’s still made errors and do you honestly think Hodgson’s penalties were based on tactical planning?

They are based on trying to slow the play-the-ball, like most of the penalties conceded by smart players. Every penalty also represents an unspecified number of unpenalised successful attempts to illegally slow the play-the-ball, which is why every year some good teams and smart players are among the most penalised.

 

[hineyrulz]

Why does any player miss tackles?

Baldness and bald luck???

 

[Poupou Escobar]

I don't think Matterson and Lane were in very good form for the first 3 games this year.

These were the games we played against quality opposition (which we lost 1 in golden point and the other 2 by 4 points each) where we scored the same amount of tries in each game but our kicker went 50%, 60% and 50%.

It's called bad luck. Some merkins think it doesn't exist, like Mr Snuffleupagus.

 

[the phantom menace]

I don't think Matterson and Lane were in very good form for the first 3 games this year.

I like what you did there...

Seems to havegone over the head of some forum members.