Sione

[Frederick]

You don’t think long arms and wide shoulders are an advantage?

They sure weren’t for Chris Houston

Worst defender in the second row I’ve ever seen

 

[slotmachine]

They let him grab jerseys more effectively.

12 month holiday killed him, was never the same player when he came back.

 

[Johns Magic]

You don’t think long arms and wide shoulders are an advantage?

I think being the best footy player is an advantage.

You are talking sports science gobbledygook. No doubt NFL or NBA influenced which is why you think we should be getting all our recruits from Detroit.

Buhrer had the third most offloads in our team this year despite missing half the season and having to play a chunk at hooker.

He is fast for a backrower.

Glenn Stewart is one of the most effective offloaders of recent memory and he looked like the hunchback of Notre Dame.

"Tackling range"? Please explain that one.

Yes SBW has the ideal second-row build, I don't dispute that. It doesn't mean you fill your backrow up with lanky dickheads like Chris Houston.

 

[Yosh]

I think being the best footy player is an advantage.

You are talking sports science gobbledygook. No doubt NFL or NBA influenced which is why you think we should be getting all our recruits from Detroit.

Buhrer had the third most offloads in our team this year despite missing half the season and having to play a chunk at hooker.

He is fast for a backrower.

Glenn Stewart is one of the most effective offloaders of recent memory and he looked like the hunchback of Notre Dame.

"Tackling range"? Please explain that one.

Yes SBW has the ideal second-row build, I don't dispute that. It doesn't mean you fill your backrow up with lanky dickheads like Chris Houston.

Considering the best player to every play the game didn't exactly have the physique of a Greek God, I think in the NRL being a supreme athlete isn't as important as it is in American sports. However, I think it will move in that direction some time in the next decade.

 

[macavity]

They sure weren’t for Chris Houston

Worst defender in the second row I’ve ever seen

Never watched Bryce Cartwright play?

 

[macavity]

I think being the best footy player is an advantage.

You are talking sports science gobbledygook. No doubt NFL or NBA influenced which is why you think we should be getting all our recruits from Detroit.

Buhrer had the third most offloads in our team this year despite missing half the season and having to play a chunk at hooker.

He is fast for a backrower.

Glenn Stewart is one of the most effective offloaders of recent memory and he looked like the hunchback of Notre Dame.

"Tackling range"? Please explain that one.

Yes SBW has the ideal second-row build, I don't dispute that. It doesn't mean you fill your backrow up with lanky dickheads like Chris Houston.

Sports Science gobbledygook huh. Physics is a thing. At any rate of course the best footy players are the best footy players. But skills being equal the bigger, longer and quicker guy has physics on his side. This is not a controversial fact.

 

[macavity]

Considering the best player to every play the game didn't exactly have the physique of a Greek God, I think in the NRL being a supreme athlete isn't as important as it is in American sports. However, I think it will move in that direction some time in the next decade.

Johns still has physics on his side. Built low with a massive arse. Not many halves are built to play a power game.

 

[Caped Crusader]

To be fair, good teams don't play 80 minute toilers.

If we are going well he is our bench hooker/backrower.

Jake Turbo
Mitch Aubusson
Ethan Lowe

 

[Still Nutty]

I'm reading the part where JM and Mac are having a civil discussion on Buhrer's best spot in the 17 and my brain is humming along quite happily.

My eyes then rove across this...



And my poor brain just goes into lockdown i.e.

In fairness - Woosh is tackling the post by Slots in a thread titled Sione.... I understand 'I've heard this all before' but I just glide straight past and work on the axiom "Nothing to see here, move along" - it is less taxing that way ...unless your intent was just to find the right post to use this cool Jackie Chan meme

 

[Caped Crusader]

Sports Science gobbledygook huh. Physics is a thing. At any rate of course the best footy players are the best footy players. But skills being equal the bigger, longer and quicker guy has physics on his side. This is not a controversial fact.

Personally, i dont think any of our backrowers have the equal skills nor footy brain of Buhrer. Size and speed is far less effective without the skill and brains to apply it correctly

Just look at the careers of Tony Williams or Dave Taylor

 

[macavity]

Jake Turbo
Mitch Aubusson
Ethan Lowe

Hardly toilers..

 

[macavity]

Personally, i dont think any of our backrowers have the equal skills nor footy brain of Buhrer. Size and speed is far less effective without the skill and brains to apply it correctly

Just look at the careers of Tony Williams or Dave Taylor

Guerra and Sione both better players

And at the end of the day that is the argument. I think they are better, you guys obviously disagree.

Our team is much better placed if I am right.

 

[Haffa]

Jake Turbo
Mitch Aubusson
Ethan Lowe

Those three aren't toilers.

 

[Johns Magic]

Our team is much better placed if I am right.

The Australian team would be better placed if T-Rex and Dave Taylor were better players than Wade Graham and Matt Gillett. But they aren't, despite their wingspan.

 

[Johns Magic]

Those three aren't toilers.

Neither is Buhrer

 

[Silent Knight]

In fairness - Woosh is tackling the post by Slots in a thread titled Sione.... I understand 'I've heard this all before' but I just glide straight past and work on the axiom "Nothing to see here, move along" - it is less taxing that way ...unless your intent was just to find the right post to use this cool Jackie Chan meme

It's the meme...and the amusement of putting Fat Pat and the word "dangerous" in the same sentence.

 

[macavity]

The Australian team would be better placed if T-Rex and Dave Taylor were better players than Wade Graham and Matt Gillett. But they aren't, despite their wingspan.

My point is we know exactly what Buhrer offers to our team.

We need Guerra and Sione to offer more than that if we are going to take a leap forward.

 

[Old dog]

Sometimes these threads are very serious and demand consideration and other times they are so damn funny because of the seriousness, never dull.

 

[Spot On]

No Fitzgibbon love here?

 

[slotmachine]

I reckon he's 18th man and pushing the likes of Jacob and Heighington