I do too but the place is toxic from the Board down...the place stinks
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I do too but the place is toxic from the Board down...the place stinks
we could do with a bit of pre game readiness instead of posing for the cameras and making sure their hair isn't out of placeWell I recall Moses said this during the WC.
‘Never seen it before’: Moses’ big praise as ‘unbelievable’ Cheika considers NRL role
‘Never seen it before’: Moses’ big praise as ‘unbelievable’ Cheika considers NRL rolewww.foxsports.com.au
We're not allowed to laugh until you say "allegedly"
Davey made 40 tackles in Canberra and missed one ffs. He was the least of our problems.
WTF are you on about? Most teams are good enough to make the eight. Not all of them can though, so the ones who do will be the ones with the most luck.
BA breaks Brian Smith games record as coach in a few weeks on Kings Birthday public holiday against Dogs.
No I think if we don't re-sign Moses we'll have heaps of cap space for 2024, and even if we do keep Moses we'll have plenty for 2025:
All those current Origin players. Massive failure
They will be unfit ffs!!!
On the edges yes, but not in the middle. Making first contact and bouncing off a merkin but slowing him for other defenders is better than not attempting the tackle at all.
This is a bad argument because you’re reducing players to origin players and non origin players like non origin players are automatically worth less. For example Luai is a current origin player but I’d rather have Dylan Brown or Nicho Hynes ahead of him any day. Take a look at what we have instead of reducing things to such overly simplistic metrics.
Well Penrith also have James Fisher-Harris, who is ineligible for Origin, plus Kikau in previous years, so it all comes out in the wash. They had those two PLUS all the Origin players. Plus Dylan Edwards and whomever else wouldn't be out of place in an Origin jersey. Just because they had a bunch of Origin players doesn't mean they didn't also have merkins who were good-enough-but-ineligible (like Drown) or good-enough-if-lucky (like Gutherson). The head count of Origin players just reflects the reality.
Mate not sure if you have noticed but Parra are only two wins ahead of the Tigers.
So you agree that the number of origin players shouldn’t be used as the sole metric when commenting on the quality of a teams roster? There’s a reason we had to let go of so many players last season to keep this current roster. Not making the finals with this roster would be a massive failure.
What other metric can you offer other than your subjective opinion? Number of Origin players is a great heuristic. Another is pre-season premiership odds.
Yes, they came off contract and would no longer be on unders. Replacing them with other players on unders isn't something you can reliably do just by going to market. Mahoney, Kaufusi and Niukore were on unders because we developed them over multiple years. Hopgood is a decent acquisition comparable to Papali'i but the others are journeymen or youngsters who require the development afforded to Mahoney et al.
I think an average amount of luck would see us finish in the bottom of the eight, while an above average amount would be top four. Therefore a below average amount of luck quite easily includes missing the eight. IMO of course.
