Rumours and Stuff

[hindy111]

Yay.

I was thinking of a sing-a-long!

But I’m in that rare group of merkii that thought BA was aborted too early leading to certain medical complications with the eels unable to become fully staunch and erect afterwards. It was horrid timing.

And of course, Ryles let my Saints buddies down when he turned up his nose at them.

Unforigiven

But there’s been Gutho to shine his light on your team this year. Hes become one of my favourite players in the whole comp.

I’m talking him up all over town and hope we sign him.

Great poem.
You're a natural

 

[King-Gutho94]

Trent Robinson over the last 4 years in finals is 2 from 7........

Bellamy is 2 from 6, last 3 years.....

similar percentage to BA, did they suddenly stop being able to coach......

we all know they are the best run clubs and have the best rosters....

interesting....

How many premierships have those blokes won.

I need 2 hands.

With BA I don't need 2 hands to count the finals wins we had under him in 11 years

 

[Eelogical]

Can you write a poem before the last round.
Battle of the spoon

The Man From Parra River.


There was movement at the stadium, for the word had passed around
That the coach from Parra had just been punted
He jumped a plane that day
To Yorkshire is what they say
While he left behind a team that he had just progressively munted.

The subby coach stepped up, seized the chance to lead the team
He tried his best to stem the tide of gloom
They rallied best they could
It's only silverware that's understood
The Tigers game will give up another spoon

 

[Poupou Escobar]

Is this why you're going to Canberra?
Will you be explaining things to Albo?

I’ll be explaining Albo to the CFMEU

 

[Tiger5150]

My guess was Manu Ma'u

Peni Terepo

 

[Poupou Escobar]

Yeah maybe, or maybe that didn't love him thay much at all. They loved a coach who gave all his senior players a free ride.

It got us four straight years in the finals, something we hadn’t achieved since 2002.

 

[Poupou Escobar]

4 finals wins 11 years says something totally different. More contract extensions than finals wins.

We’re not traditionally a strong finals team. We overachieved to even get there, and then were outclassed on the day.

 

[Poupou Escobar]

They where high calibre players.
BS go Jason Moody playing origin. Now that's an achievement

They were high calibre players after Brad Arthur got hold of them. You all laughed at the Gutherson and Moses signings.

 

[Poupou Escobar]

2 of those against the side that finished 8th and one against the side finished 7th.
Its like beating St George this weekend. f**kIN WOW

On paper those sides were as good as ours. We did well to finish ahead of them.

 

[hineyrulz]

We’re not traditionally a strong finals team. We overachieved to even get there, and then were outclassed on the day.

lol what a load of horse shit.

 

[Poupou Escobar]

Who out of the lot you responded too below made there Origin debuts at Parra under Arthur.

Jnr Paulo in 2020 would be it.

Norman, Peats left and played origin while at other clubs.

Hoppa played his best origin on debut in 2011 at Manly.

Tepai even Bellamy can't polish him what hope did BA have.

I’m talking about players who came later.

 

[hineyrulz]

It got us four straight years in the finals, something we hadn’t achieved since 2002.

Whoopde doooooooo Basil!!


4 finals wins in 11 seasons lol. 'No could do a better job than Brad"

lollllllzzzzzz.

 

[Tiger5150]

Here’s a question, what if we continued getting away with cheating and had a squad as strong as clubs like the Storm and Roosters? How many premierships might we have won?

Seems to me you might have had 4 or 5 more spoons?

 

[hineyrulz]

How many premierships have those blokes won.

I need 2 hands.

With BA I don't need 2 hands to count the finals wins we had under him in 11 years

Interesting.

 

[Poupou Escobar]

Trent Robinson over the last 4 years in finals is 2 from 7........

Bellamy is 2 from 6, last 3 years.....

similar percentage to BA, did they suddenly stop being able to coach......

we all know they are the best run clubs and have the best rosters....

interesting....

Exactly. 12 games is a very small sample, only half a season. In those 12 games we played the Storm 3 times and the Panthers 3 times. Superteams. We are 4 from 6 against other normal clubs.

 

[Poupou Escobar]

Seems to me you might have had 4 or 5 more spoons?

We were killing it in 2016 before we got caught. I mean actual cheating to win, not technical cheating to try and overcome cap trouble caused by paying merkins to play elsewhere.

 

[Poupou Escobar]

How many premierships have those blokes won.

I need 2 hands.

Ricky Stuart’s finals record at Easts is insane. Was it the coach or the club?

With BA I don't need 2 hands to count the finals wins we had under him in 11 years

It’s much harder to win finals at Parramatta. Stuart couldn’t even win six games in his only season here.

 

[Noise]

It’s much harder to win finals at Parramatta.

What are Brian Smith and Daniel Andersons finals record at Parra?

 

[Joshuatheeel]

How many premierships have those blokes won.

I need 2 hands.

With BA I don't need 2 hands to count the finals wins we had under him in 11 years

Which is a fair point, but look at the quality of the last 2 sides Bellamy and Robinson coached to GF wins.....

The storm 17 players from the 2020 GF have played 105 origin games.

The roosters 17 players from 2019 GF, have played 101 games.

From our 2022 GF, panthers have 80 origins games. We have a massive 26 games.

For comparison with other losing sides, South's in 2021 have 62 games and raiders from 2019 have 35, but that had a few English players.

It's pretty clear comparison of the quality of sides Bellamy, Robinson, Cleary had compared to what BA had. Even compared to other losers.

BA did pretty good with the squad he had.

 

[StEely Matt]

A mate of mine knows Scott Wisemantel. Scott told my mate that Gutho will be 14 next year. Iongi will be fullback.

Oh and Scott is a massive Roosters supporter