The Sutton victory speech

[maccattack]

Greg Alexander "This is for the people of P P Penrith"

You are slightly incorrect. His words were " ...for the people of Penrif"

Along with the dazzling " now we can hold our heads up somewhere"

It was pure poetry.

 

[roofromoz]

I loved Priddis' acceptance speech when he won the Clive Churchill in 2003... played well defensively and attackively.

 

[Westernised Panther]

I loved Priddis' acceptance speech when he won the Clive Churchill in 2003... played well defensively and attackively.

Ha ha! I remember that. After he said that, you can see Martin Lang turning to Scott Sattler saying, "he said attackively!!"

 

[DeeJ]

I thought Lockyer gave pretty good speeches especially for a guy who is generally quiet. I can still feel the emotion when he raised the shield for 06 Origin, and bringing Webke on stage was class too.

 

[Rabbits20]

Stupid thread. Sutton speaks a lot better now in the media compared to 3-4 years ago and earlier on in his career.

Madge has completely turned Sutton around and into a leader.

The speech the other night most captains who have never won a comp would be lost for words.
John would have had so many emotions going through his body.

Some people need to stop being picky.

 

[God-King Dean]

I thought Lockyer gave pretty good speeches especially for a guy who is generally quiet. I can still feel the emotion when he raised the shield for 06 Origin, and bringing Webke on stage was class too.

Lockyer is the best speecherer I've heard.

Always knew the right thing to say.

My favourite was in his last game for Australia:

"I'd like the thank the people of England, for the respect & courtesy you have always shown us...."

Turns boos into applause within 5 seconds.

 

[H.H]

Did he even thank the bulldogs? I could be wrong, but I don't recall it.

No one was expecting Churchill, but if he didn't thank his opposition then that's ordinary.

 

[Nice Beaver]

Did he even thank the bulldogs? I could be wrong, but I don't recall it.

No one was expecting Churchill, but if he didn't thank his opposition then that's ordinary.

I think he did at the start. Said they'd be back next year bigger and better etc.

Try to pick a captain who can string a sentence together. Anyway, I guess the dickhead who can't speak has a premiership ring so he gets the last laugh.

 

[RHYTHM AND STEALTH]

I thought he would of mentioned Nathan Merritt

 

[Hello, I'm The Doctor]

GET THE COACH TO GIVE THE SPEECH!!!!

Id imagine fans would be more interested in hearing from the brains behind the team, and its the guys job to speech to groups about football.

I know they can be dull when they do the pressers, but thats to a room full of journos. Put them infront of a bunch of screaming fans and id bet theyd step it up.

Most of the blokes in professional sport cant string a sentence together without a "yeah, nah..." or something but that doesnt matter; their job is to run at other guys as hard as they can face first....

Its the coaches job to rev people up with a speech. If they cant do that, then they wouldnt have the job anyway...

 

[drago brelli]

Underwhelming for a captain of a club that could've said so much.

Sutton speaks better than Tony Abbo Abbott. Um....r...lllllet me say....that that that i i i i i

 

[AlwaysGreen]

Boxes to tick:
The other team for their great effort, you'll be back better than ever next year etc etc
The NRL, telstra and the other sponsors thanks for a great year etc etc
The club and their sponsors, we've all been through a lot and we deserve this etc etc
The coaching staff we couldn't have done it without you etc etc
The fans - this one is for youse you've waited a long time etc etc
And finally - to our boys we've done it, you bloody beauty etc etc

I think Sutton ticked them all.

 

[innsaneink]

I guess we should stop criticising players altogether since we never played first grade

...or maybe just accept that theyre footy players, always have been footy players, not English orators from Oxford

 

[NAS]

Boxes to tick:
The other team for their great effort, you'll be back better than ever next year etc etc
The NRL, telstra and the other sponsors thanks for a great year etc etc
The club and their sponsors, we've all been through a lot and we deserve this etc etc
The coaching staff we couldn't have done it without you etc etc
The fans - this one is for youse you've waited a long time etc etc
And finally - to our boys we've done it, you bloody beauty etc etc

I think Sutton ticked them all.

Indeed, with his trademark "y'know" after each one.....

Eloquent, Sutton is not.....but he got the job done.....people only remember the premiers.

 

[drago brelli]

Spot on, NAS. Sutton is only a footie player and an inarticulate one at that. To his credit he is way more articulate then Isaac Luke. Sutton has the language skills the footy show find desirable.

 

[firechild]

GET THE COACH TO GIVE THE SPEECH!!!!

Most of us would be hoping that Hasler and Bennett never coached another team to a premiership.

 

[Galeforce]

Credit to the NRL and Souths for development programs they have to improve the speaking skills of players.

Yes he got the job done and I for one was proud of him.

John is NOT a natural speaker , he was/is rather shy and he has come a long way to be able to manage something he probably still is very uncomfortable with. Standing in the middle of ANZ stadium in the middle of huge crowd , in front of cameras with huge TV audience after playing 80 minutes of GF footie and covering the verbal points , well that only deserves credit.

Sure if there was a brilliant speech that would deserve special mention on forums like this. However only trolls would be critical of Sutton's.

 

[2010Dragons]

I didn't mind Hornby's speech in part:
"And to all the fans that came out tonight * to all the true believers**!!"

* = (loud applause)
** = (thunderous applause, screaming, shouting, cheering)"

100% agree !!
He spoke with passion, pride and relief !!
His comments about the true believers was also directed to the media and so called experts who wrote of the Dragons and said they would choke.
You have to listen to Hornby speech in full to get the hairs to stand up and get the goose bump effect.....awesome feeling, almost as good as having sex with three horny chicks at the same time.