Rumours and Stuff

[hindy111]

Mole

Eels target former international dancer

The Eels are set to sign a former international hip hop dancer from the Titans who could prove a major surprise packet in 2017.

Rising centre Greg Leleisiuao is close to agreeing with the Eels after playing some great footy for the Titans in the past two seasons in the NYC.

The 20-year-old showed his class in last year’s Auckland Nines and has been knocking on the door of first grade selection for the past year.

Leleisiuao has quick feet – and not just on the football field.
For two straight years as a teenager, he flew to Las Vegas in the USA to compete against the best the world had to offer in the world’s biggest hip hop dancing contest.

Leleisiuao was born in New Zealand, has Samoan heritage and played his junior footy for Logan in Queensland.
Mark him down as an early dark horse for NRL selection in 2017.

It’s been a bad week for the Titans – they have lost two of their best prospects in Leleisiuao and Brian Kelly (Manly) as they balance their salary cap.

 

[oldmancraigy]

I always thought footballers were the fat unfit blokes who smoked at half time and had a can or 12 after the game?

They also back themselves to pull of almost any play despite having no skills at all.

For example: Benji Marshall

 

[84 Baby]

We've actually signed Greg Louganis

 

[El Diablo]

Mole

Eels target former international dancer

The Eels are set to sign a former international hip hop dancer from the Titans who could prove a major surprise packet in 2017.

Rising centre Greg Leleisiuao is close to agreeing with the Eels after playing some great footy for the Titans in the past two seasons in the NYC.

The 20-year-old showed his class in last year’s Auckland Nines and has been knocking on the door of first grade selection for the past year.

Leleisiuao has quick feet – and not just on the football field.
For two straight years as a teenager, he flew to Las Vegas in the USA to compete against the best the world had to offer in the world’s biggest hip hop dancing contest.

Leleisiuao was born in New Zealand, has Samoan heritage and played his junior footy for Logan in Queensland.
Mark him down as an early dark horse for NRL selection in 2017.

It’s been a bad week for the Titans – they have lost two of their best prospects in Leleisiuao and Brian Kelly (Manly) as they balance their salary cap.

that is old news

 

[The Phelan Folly]

I kicked off a similar discussion on here more than a year ago. For some posting on the exact same topic today, how the worm has turned. Be careful not to call yourself racist.
(Nothing negatively racist about acknowledging races often have different physical and cultural abilities and ways of life that can influence what kind of sports person they are on the field. In general, not as a rule).

It seems your cultral personality trait is to be a dickhead.

 

[bartman]

Mole

Eels target former international dancer

The Eels are set to sign a former international hip hop dancer from the Titans who could prove a major surprise packet in 2017.

Well that's the cheerleading sorted out then...

And thanks to Jarryd's salary for forcing more upandcomers to leave the Titans.

#dodgedabullet

 

[bartman]

that is old news

It's not old news until it appears in Pou's squad succession thread!

 

[Barry O'Speedwagon]

. Only dopey fans who don't understand the percentages will care if most Harold Matthews stars never become first graders.

What....... we don't have 200 NRL debutantes every year?

 

[Obscene Assassin]

Hey obsecene who is the young centre we have snared from the Titans? This should be a very exciting under 20's team. From what I gather we have two hot centres, very exciting halves or atleast two very good ones at under 20's level and some rugby wiz kid who I guess may play fullback if not in the halves?
And also some exciting forwards in Dressler

Blaise Barnes will not play this year. He had to have more surgery on his ACL. It's a good thing, he needs to put on some more weight.

Dresler heads a very good, young pack. Will also have Sean Keppie (Australian schoolboy lock), and Filia Utoikamanu who will still be eligible for SG Ball.

I am honestly not sure where Leuleusiao (sp?) fits in. Apparently he's a top player but has a poor attitude towards training. We may give a lesser abled player first shot if they're a better trainer because they're more likely to be the long term first grade player.

 

[I bleed blue & gold]

Is Barnes set to miss the whole year or even most of it? Shame for him if true.

 

[hindy111]

I read somewhere last week and it was on his twitter but mentioned it here and was told thst was from last year...... Two knee injuries at 18 isnt nice....

 

[hindy111]

Poor attitudes can be changed, Didnt people say the same about jennings. Sometimes a different coach and friends along with maturity will change him. Its all about conditioning the mind.

 

[El Diablo]

https://au.sports.yahoo.com/league/a/33764351/nrl-dragons-make-massive-play-for-ben-hunt/#page1


Dragons make massive play for Ben Hunt
7Sport on January 10, 2017, 8:09 pm

St George Illawarra are preparing what could be a million-dollar bid for out-of-contract Broncos halfback Ben Hunt.

Josh Massoud revealed on 7 News that the Dragons are leading the race to bring Hunt to Sydney.

Hunt has spent his entire career in Brisbane but is yet to commit to the club beyond his current contract.

The 2017 season is his last under a deal signed in October 2014.

The Dragons face at least one more year of rebuilding for a tilt at the finals, with the contracts of more than half of their squad ending at the end of the year.

Hunt, 27 in March, would be the leading half that St George Illawarra have been seeking.

Hunt finished fifth in the Dally M Medal voting in 2014 and 2015 before his stellar 2016 season contributed to the Broncos reaching the grand final.

Incumbent St George Illawarra half Gareth Widdop is out of contract at the end of 2017, with Drew Hutchison set to be given a role in first grade from 2018.

Hutchison made his debut late in the 2015 season but is set to miss most of the 2017 season after tearing his ACL last month.

 

[Twizzle]

Josh Massoud revealed......so I wonder where he'll end up

 

[eels_fan]

I don't remember Brisbane being in the 2016 GF... Fail Massooood

 

[Poupou Escobar]

And I can see our club has changed by the last names of players in under 20's and guys we are keepin for wenty rather then letting go....

You know we're still recruiting big Polynesian kids who will never become first graders. A lot more of them than the handful of big Polynesians who might become first graders, and also a lot more than kids of other ethnicities who might become first graders.

Because there aren't enough kids with NRL potential to go around, clubs have to fill up their junior squads with kids who have no NRL potential. Might as well be kids who will at least play well at their age group level. That means big fast kids who run over the top of smaller kids. Many of these will be Polynesians. Have a look at our current junior squads.

And if you think we've only just started trying to poach 'footballers', we were signing skinny little merkins years ago - Barba, Wehbe, Breust, Jennings, Seage, Broadhurst, Brasington, Brien, O'Hanlon, etc, etc. Plus we are still recruiting Polynesians - Greg Leleisiuao and Marata Niukore have never played first grade. Pritchard, Vave, Matagi, Hoffman and Auva'a all have. In fact, half our NRL squad is Polynesian - the same percentage as in 2013.

 

[hineyrulz]

I don't remember Brisbane being in the 2016 GF... Fail Massooood

Another quality article from out mate Joshy.

 

[Obscene Assassin]

Poor attitudes can be changed, Didnt people say the same about jennings. Sometimes a different coach and friends along with maturity will change him. Its all about conditioning the mind.

They can be. But if he has a poor attitude here then I suspect we'll pick a lesser abled player ahead of him if they're a better trainer.

 

[Gary Gutful]

Another quality article from out mate Joshy.

Out mate?

FFS Hindy, you are just as bad!

 

[84 Baby]

Poor attitudes can be changed, Didnt people say the same about jennings. Sometimes a different coach and friends along with maturity will change him. Its all about conditioning the mind.

Unless they're of Poly descent? Because they're all just athletes and can never become footballers