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Eelementary

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Most interesting thing I found in that article is Lomax has apparently stated he is moving to left centre (no actual quotes) to be inside Fox. Interesting as I've read previously that Penisini has been training on the left.

Maybe Ryles hasn't liked what he has seen with that combo and is going to change it up.

I think it was a bit of a myth that he failed in that spot at the Dragons, they were dogshit prior and Hook threw him there as a Hail Mary and I think he was probably trying too hard to make things happen.

In saying that I would prefer they split Lomax and JAC just to even out the edges a bit. Otherwise we are going to be super left side dominant, Brown, Tuilagi, Lomax, JAC.

We tend to favour attacking down our left, so linking Addo-Carr, and Lomax, would make that side really dangerous.

Plus, Lomax is a very good defender, and Fox is a great communicator, so that edge should (in theory) be defensively solid.
 

Obscene Assassin

First Grade
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We tend to favour attacking down our left, so linking Addo-Carr, and Lomax, would make that side really dangerous.

Plus, Lomax is a very good defender, and Fox is a great communicator, so that edge should (in theory) be defensively solid.

Also means it's a cross field kick for Moses to Lomax. Whilst it was fruitful, it did look a bit awkward in origin when they were on the same side.
 

King-Gutho94

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Has John Bateman ever finished a contract in his life.

The Tigers have released him 2 years early to the cowboys.

He has Jackson Hastings vibes about him as an A-Grade halfwit that can't stay at a joint for more then 2 years

How is his English body going to handle the Townsville heat.

I give it 12 months and he will be back in the UK.
 

hineyrulz

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Has John Bateman ever finished a contract in his life.

The Tigers have released him 2 years early to the cowboys.

He has Jackson Hastings vibes about him as an A-Grade halfwit that can't stay at a joint for more then 2 years

How is his English body going to handle the Townsville heat.

I give it 12 months and he will be back in the UK.
lol that merkin will play one game in the heat and be done for the next decade.
 

King-Gutho94

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Crazy the Tigers paid him so much for a 4 year contract..

Now the Cowboys are wasting a top 30 spot for him..

Must be hung like a horse
The Tigers are chipping in a fair bit according to fox sports.

They just wanted to move him on

The club switch will be offset by the Tigers chipping in a large chunk of his reported $700,000 salary for the final two years of his deal.

 

Tiger5150

Bench
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Has John Bateman ever finished a contract in his life.

The Tigers have released him 2 years early to the cowboys.

He has Jackson Hastings vibes about him as an A-Grade halfwit that can't stay at a joint for more then 2 years

How is his English body going to handle the Townsville heat.

I give it 12 months and he will be back in the UK.
Will be surprised if its 12 months. Also dont see how he gets picked ahead of Nanai, Luki, JT, Shibisaki & Hess.
 

Zoso

Juniors
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I think as well, rather than looking at geographic areas and their need for a team, population size should be a factor as well. Sydney has over 5 million people and somewhere between 10% (rabid) and 40% ('non-practicing') of them would be NRL fans. The Sydney market should be able to service a lot of NRL clubs.
A decent number of the 5 million greater Sydney residents are 1st or 2nd generation immigrants, with some pretty big numbers coming each year.
If I moved to a new country I’d probably follow the local sport.
I wonder how many fans the game picks up from the new arrivals? Or how many fans are 1st generation fans (they didn’t pick up the game from mum and dad etc)?
Probably no way of knowing.
 

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