Rumours and Stuff

[TheCrowe]

Merkins with shit haircuts.....

Pretty standard NRL haircut.

 

[84 Baby]

Maybe I will.

Some of them are even likely to get worse. :winkyface:

But before a certain age a significant majority of players will not decline in a given year and before another, lower age, the significant majority will improve from one year to the next. These are the empirical facts that clubs will use when offering contracts of one or more years, not what COULD happen.

Tim Smith, Jacob Loko, off the top of my head but they were also stars with high ceilings. The players I need to name is going to take more time effort than I’m willing right now because they played well enough to grab a contract one year before everyone realised they were f**ken shit. And not just our club.
And clubs 100% take into account what could happen - risk mitigation is usually something you like to chuck around. The risk may be low but it should still be considered.

I thought we had already established this. Why are you now posing it as a gotcha-style query, as though you are circling around to a hitherto obscure point that ties all your bullshit sematic arguments together?

You’re jumping at shadows.

I already said some (most?) clubs have fewer than 30 players of top 30 quality while some others have more than 30. The presupposes the existence of an objective standard. I understand you disagree, in which case there is no point going into the implications. You think top 30 standard just means the best 30 players at a club. I think it is an objective standard that fewer than 510 NRL contracted players currently meet. I also think that Momoisea meets this standard.

Then you should say top 510 standard because he ain’t top 30 at our club.

I think over a large enough sample they do, for the simple reason that missed tackles are often (no, not always) the result of being out of position; getting one's body in front of the attacker. I agree that effort might be a weakness of Momoisea's, but every player has weaknesses.

But his strengths aren’t strong enough to overcome such a glaring weakness. It’s Waqa all over again.

No I think he's top 30 by virtue of his performances. I already told you this. But the fact that only 27 players made more NRL appearances positions him as a top 30 player by your own standard.

No it doesn’t. He could’ve played 100 NRL games this year. If he played as well as he did in the ones he actually played, he still wouldn’t be top 30.

By my standard it is irrelevant. I also think Cini is probably top 30 standard and he played zero games.

Well then he’d definitely be in there at the expense of someone else.

Not if they cost more. The salary cap means that backups must be paid in inverse proportion to the salaries of the first teamers they might have to replace. You made this exact point the other day ffs.

Best practice ffs. Not the certainty you were popping off at the top of the post.

No he doesn't seem to be much of a collision chaser, but his forte is edge defence, where there's less need for it.

Yeah… I wouldn’t call it forte. It isn’t going to get him a call up on it alone

 

[84 Baby]

Merkins with shit haircuts.....

We don’t all have barbers in our 15 excellence centres

 

[Soto]

Haircuts are so bloody expensive these days it's ridiculous...especially if u want a skin fade or buzz cut and beard trim etc...some barbers how they charge are almost on $100-150ph...who would've thought

 

[the phantom menace]

Maybe I will.

Some of them are even likely to get worse. :winkyface:

And so the classic Pou flip-flop begins...

 

[hindy111]

Haircuts are so bloody expensive these days it's ridiculous...especially if u want a skin fade or buzz cut and beard trim etc...some barbers how they charge are almost on $100-150ph...who would've thought

I wouldn't want to touch another man's hair all day

 

[Soto]

I wouldn't want to touch another man's hair all day

Same...but you wouldn't mind if a female was giving you the trim and blowdry

 

[Avenger]

Same...but you wouldn't mind if a female was giving you the trim and blowdry

I still have a female hairdresser. I don't do barbers.

 

[Soto]

I still have a female hairdresser. I don't do barbers.

U would probably have to take it to another thread if u did barbers

 

[hindy111]

Anyone been to Kimballs in St Marys? Greatest barber ever.

 

[hindy111]

 

[DaveMc]

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Better a barber than the approach his ex said he used to get rid of his leg hair

 

[Gazzamatta]

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[hineyrulz]

Looks unrecognisable I didn't believe it at first.

Getting rid of the shit mop he had at Manly must have been part of the contract

Losing at hair at Parra is a given.

 

[hineyrulz]

Teams with younger rosters are more likely to see improvement while teams with older rosters will be more likely to see a generalised decline. This is why younger players tend to cost more than older players of similar quality.

 

[hineyrulz]

Haircuts are so bloody expensive these days it's ridiculous...especially if u want a skin fade or buzz cut and beard trim etc...some barbers how they charge are almost on $100-150ph...who would've thought

Being a bald merkin isn’t so bad I suppose.

 

[Poupou Escobar]

Tim Smith, Jacob Loko, off the top of my head but they were also stars with high ceilings. The players I need to name is going to take more time effort than I’m willing right now because they played well enough to grab a contract one year before everyone realised they were f**ken shit. And not just our club.

That was a case of signing players on potential. Every club does it. Sometimes it's revealed the potential wasn't actually there but more likely is the player's immaturity is irreparable and he will never reach his potential. Then there's the times where the player is just a f**kwit and a risk to the club's reputation, even if the work ethic is present.

And clubs 100% take into account what could happen - risk mitigation is usually something you like to chuck around. The risk may be low but it should still be considered.

What could happen is a small part of what is likely to happen.

You’re jumping at shadows.

Then you should say top 510 standard because he ain’t top 30 at our club.

I reckon he is.

But his strengths aren’t strong enough to overcome such a glaring weakness. It’s Waqa all over again.

Is it so glaring? I just think he offers little in attack, which is fine for a backup.

No it doesn’t. He could’ve played 100 NRL games this year. If he played as well as he did in the ones he actually played, he still wouldn’t be top 30.

Okay, so by your standard, who was a player who played well enough this year to justify the 30th spot in an NRL roster? Let's see your minimum salary exemplar. Back your shit up.

Well then he’d definitely be in there at the expense of someone else.

Well he outplayed AMS in reserve grade, who was himself poor in his sole NRL game. But at only 20 years old, and presumably with some potential, it was nice to be able to reward him against a weak opponent.

Best practice ffs. Not the certainty you were popping off at the top of the post.

Yeah… I wouldn’t call it forte. It isn’t going to get him a call up on it alone

It already did. While we had a bunch of backrowers unavailable, he was in the NRL team.

 

[the phantom menace]

ffs

 

[Gronk]

I agree, he looks less shit with short hair.

Actually Zac Cini once had a mullet. He then cropped it to a normal haircut and said that last season was all about business. I see from his latest pic that he now has a #1 buzz cut, signifying that he must really f**king mean business now.

 

[hineyrulz]

That was a case of signing players on potential. Every club does it. Sometimes it's revealed the potential wasn't actually there but more likely is the player's immaturity is irreparable and he will never reach his potential. Then there's the times where the player is just a f**kwit and a risk to the club's reputation, even if the work ethic is present.

What could happen is a small part of what is likely to happen.

I reckon he is.

Is it so glaring? I just think he offers little in attack, which is fine for a backup.

Okay, so by your standard, who was a player who played well enough this year to justify the 30th spot in an NRL roster? Let's see your minimum salary exemplar. Back your shit up.

Well he outplayed AMS in reserve grade, who was himself poor in his sole NRL game. But at only 20 years old, and presumably with some potential, it was nice to be able to reward him against a weak opponent.

It already did. While we had a bunch of backrowers unavailable, he was in the NRL team.