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Poupou Escobar

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Pou is more aggressive than anyone on here, but here he is playing the victim. It’s hilarious.

Accusing you of hating someone, a person on the internet you’ve never met lol.
I didn’t accuse him of hating anyone (hindyeleven’s victim complex?). I said merkins single Gronk out because they don’t like him. Tell me I’m wrong.
 

Poupou Escobar

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Lomax was already done
Surely RCG and Sivo has freed up some decent coin
Maybe they weren’t on as much as merkins claimed they were. Both players are 32 next year. They could’ve been on discount rates. It’s not like guys in their early thirties are in high demand.

Put it this way, would you pay top dollar to a player in the year he turns 32?
 

Poupou Escobar

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Hindsight is a funny thing.
It's easy to say that we all knoew that Cleary would be the player he is now after we've seen it happen. He wasn't this player 5 years ago. He was a good halfback. Better than Robson was, but I could see where the comparison came from.

Merkins on here love their hindsight. Chris Sandow's signing was celebrated on here when we got him (not by me) but now eveyone says that he was always terrible.

Apparently we should have known that Foran was going to turn out to be a shit signing, despite it being lauded as the best signing we had done in years when he came over from Manly.
Merkins saying we should’ve known Foran was cooked. And yet he’s played over 150 NRL games since leaving the club.
 

Poupou Escobar

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It's since been reported that Forans issues were well known within his club and one could reasonably assume that that knowledge was known to their assistant coach.
It hasn’t stopped four other clubs from signing him after he left, including Manly who presumably knew all about his ‘issues’.
It could also be assumed that Coach wanted his man right or wrong even if it meant paying mega bucks and a get out clause, with payment, every year of his contract.
And let's not forget the other Manly bloke who was as shot as Hodgson when he arrived.
The former Manly forward who played 20+ games for nine straight years before coming to Parra?
 

Poupou Escobar

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We paid 1.2 mill for him but.......
We don’t know how much we paid. In any case it didn’t matter because we had plenty of funds to throw around outside the cap. We had a great side in 2016. We obviously weren’t paying too much under the cap for any of them.
 

Poupou Escobar

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I said Nathan looks special ages ago. His kicking game was awesome as was his calm presence. He also had a run game.
Robson couldn't kick the ball more then 30mtrs. And was as fast as JA
Robson was a first grader with a lot more experience than Cleary. Yes Cleary was special, because he was a first grader by the age of 19. He kicked and tackled well above his years, which is why he was picked in Origin at 21. Everyone knew he would improve. It’s the same with Talagi. He has flaws in his game, as you’d expect from a teenager, but he is so good at running the ball already, most merkins know he’ll be great eventually.
 

Poupou Escobar

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Yeah poor Gronkles is just an innocent victim in all this, he gives as good as he gets. just like you do, and me. He’s a big boy he doesn’t need you to hold his hand.
I don’t give a shit about Gronk, he thinks religious minorities should be persecuted for not supporting LGBTQ++++

I’m calling you merkins out for your behaviour.
 

emjaycee

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Hindsight is a funny thing.
It's easy to say that we all knoew that Cleary would be the player he is now after we've seen it happen. He wasn't this player 5 years ago. He was a good halfback. Better than Robson was, but I could see where the comparison came from.

Merkins on here love their hindsight. Chris Sandow's signing was celebrated on here when we got him (not by me) but now eveyone says that he was always terrible.

Apparently we should have known that Foran was going to turn out to be a shit signing, despite it being lauded as the best signing we had done in years when he came over from Manly.
Welcome to LU Eels style.
Are you new here?
 
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