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TheRam

Coach
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But Big C’s word is fine without a source???


And another one for Ram I’ve heard 360 merkins talk about it heaps. You can do what you like with the player as long as you don’t offer him a formal contract before Nov 1. It makes a mockery of the rules just like most things involved with the NRL these days.

They have short memories.

All they have to do is think back to when the Warriors sent a contract out to Dylbags and what all that was about.

Enough said. It is what I said it is. They can believe it or don't believe it. I don't give a toss.
 

gaffer

Juniors
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they reckon because it's not the playing season that the Storm grubs could get a couple of weeks suspension and up to 40grand fine for getting on the gear Does that mean the players can get right up the gear on the offseason and only get a couple of weeks if caught What a joke
 

Noise

Coach
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they reckon because it's not the playing season that the Storm grubs could get a couple of weeks suspension and up to 40grand fine for getting on the gear Does that mean the players can get right up the gear on the offseason and only get a couple of weeks if caught What a joke
ASADA is allowed to test in the off season. That could mean a 2 year ban.
 

Gronk

Moderator
Staff member
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73,538
White powder ? Is there a chance it was icing sugar ? If so, then why are they getting fined and suspended. If not, then why not put a name to the stuff ?

 

Noise

Coach
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White powder ? Is there a chance it was icing sugar ? If so, then why are they getting fined and suspended. If not, then why not put a name to the stuff ?

Same reason Shaun Lane copped a fine and 2 weeks for ‘joking’ that the white powder on his face was cocaine. Because it is a bad look whatever it is it brings the game into disrepute.
 

Twizzle

Administrator
Staff member
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They have short memories.

All they have to do is think back to when the Warriors sent a contract out to Dylbags and what all that was about.

Enough said. It is what I said it is. They can believe it or don't believe it. I don't give a toss.


hmmmmmm, for some one who doesn't give a toss you sure go on about it, several times in fact
 

Glenneel

Bench
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At a shit club, you need a teacher, mentor and tactician to bring the best out of the mediocrity that is in your roster.

Maguire is none of these things. He is a very simple, train hard, run hard and tackle hard kind of guy. Works when you have quality, but burns out the mediocre.

Our coach is very similar type to Maguire, but for one thing, he is more likeable and has the ability to recruit well. He brought cheap hard workers to the club when we were struggling and young relatively unknowns like Gutho and even landed superstars like Foran regardless of how it turned out. He had/has the personality and credibility to attract players.

Maguire doesn't. His personality eventually took its toll on the Bunnies. He couldn't replenish the roster even though it was still decent and it was on the slide so he was ousted. None of the players that he coached or coaches show the same kind of respect or love for the guy as say our players do for BA. In fact some have even said they don't like his style of coaching and they just don't get it. On its own that would mean nothing, but when you look back on his career and current situation, it adds to the negatives and the doco hasn't helped his cause at all.

All in all I think he is a one dimensional character coach which I don't think makes for a very good coach. He is the type that can succeed when you give him a quality roster that has enough self motivated quality players to make it a success and that is about it.

Having Sheens there is going to eventually make all the difference to that club and if they give him the resources and staff, he will get them back to being a very strong club from the ground up. But it will take a few years to see the fruits of his labour. Boy do I wish we had moved and signed Sheen as our development/football manager. I think he and Gould are the two best in the business for that type of thing. Well maybe if they dick him around in a year or two he might get the shits enough and be ripe for the picking. We really do need someone of this type of elite quality to get in there and restructure our whole under NRL level systems. I really don't like watching such high quality players like Josh Schuster and Haumole Olakau'atu playing for Manly. Those sorts of players were a standout from a very young age and should never have been missed, ignored or not been a priority to keep in our juniors districts.

We have to many players come from our nursery who never play for us, but go on to play for other clubs, win premierships and achieve representative honours. This I want to see stop to the point that if we lose them, they should have played for us at least for 3-4 years at NRL level. This "can't keep them all" bullshit line that so many of you trot out is just that.

The Roosters know how to spot quality at a very early age. Most of their stars come to their club at around 16 years old. Besides Schuster for example was the best player in his district at 14-15 years of age. We should have been all over him and if our systems and setup was where it should be, we would have been and the kid/s and parents would know that and never want to leave and play for our rivals. Who wants to go and play for an area that isn't your own if you are being looked after and you have pride and love for where you come from, your mates and your roots?

If we set it up right, the best talent would never want to leave, knowing that they will come through a stellar program system that will improve and hone their game and look after them all the way up through the grades to NRL level if they work hard and make it. It should be every kids ambition to make it with the Eels not their/our rivals ffs! We should have a finger on the pulse of all the best talent and make sure that they know we are there for them and not allow other scouts get in their ear and turn them before we have the chance. That can only happen if the player/parents feel that we aren't in the picture for whatever reason. Like I said, no kid or parent would send their kid to the other side of town to train and play in the hope of making it 5-8 years later, when if we showed the same interest they could do the same in their own backyard.

That can only happen if we have dropped the ball, which we obviously have on numerous occasions. Someone like Sheens or Gould would fix that from happening in my opinion. Also someone on here mentioned a while back that Penrith poached our best man that looked after our junior setup and the guy in charge now sucks. I can't remember who said it or the guys name that was poached, but whoever it was, we should look to getting him back before the guy doing the job now totally F's things up, if he hasn't already. I'm sick of politics and mediocrity. Please, please, please club, fix everything from the ground up once and for all. It will shock everyone how great we could become, especially mediocrity dwellers like Pou. Not a powerhouse.......THE POWERHOUSE!
Believe Miles Martin, imo one of our best young players coming thru our junior system, has been poached by another club. It is those type of players we need to keep, he'll be a super star at another club and play against us instead of for us!
 

Glenneel

Bench
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One issue is that we aren't the players, so despite us thinking Ciraldo or Flanagan would be suitable, maybe the players don't want to play for those coaches.
Maybe we sign BA as the coach for 23 with Ciraldo as his assistant, to assess him, and make him head coach if ok.
 
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