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Poupou Escobar

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You are just so “other” in Your opinions that you must just be a very clever person.

does that fill the hole or does your insecurity need more soothing?

were you mocked, bashed or ridiculed because of how rubbish you were at football? Is that why you troll parra fans with absurd contrary opinions? To prove how “smart” you are or how much you know about rugby league?
Stick to discussing footy, cheers.
 

Poupou Escobar

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Sounds like having them is a bad idea unless you want a player who is injured or declined to re-sign.
They are something a club can give the player instead of salary cap space. It’s like insurance, and the risk is only realised when the player is injured and should retire but activates the extension, like Matterson. This happens very rarely. Most of the time players don’t take their PO because they can get more elsewhere. Look at Dylan Brown; he had a decade of POs but he preferred to take more cash instead.
 

TheRam

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IMO debuting players at 18/19 is a bad idea and at the Tigers, IMO it has stunted a few players careers. Id put TDS & Brooks in that category as well as Fonau Pole. Time will tell with players like Galvin & Makasini but I could make an argument that it would have been better for both of them to develop in lower grades for another year or so. IMO unless its a Fittler, brasher type player, its better to hold them back as long as you can.

I think your two lists are evidence of that. You list these players to make the claim that Parra have blooded 10 kids to Canberras 5, but of those 10, how many kicked on to become very good/elite first graders? IMO maybe 2 (out of 10) whereas clearly Raiders have held some kids back (had gun junior sides) and Id say 3 of Raiders 5 have kicked on.

Also Makasini, if you are to play him in the NRL right now, should be on the wing NOT centre. He hasn't a clue defensively and offensively in the centres. At this stage of his development he needs an experienced centre inside him and just to run hard when he receives the ball and to follow his centre cues in defense. Just let the kid play simple, simple footy.

Don't burden him in the hardest defensive position in the game, no matter how short you are in the centres.
 

viole02

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Warriors are 4/4 without Metcalf

And there 0/2 with him.

Could the warriors look to keep Boyd instead and look to move Metcalf on whose on bigger $$$$
In metcalfs defence bro was not ready to come back and i dont understand why they rushed him back when they were in good form anyways
 

Poupou Escobar

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