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Undercover GRUBS

I bleed blue & gold

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I know he's retired but for me Barrett is one who comes straight to mind. Two incidents that stick out for me where;

1. Punching PJ Marsh in the back of the head...

2. Laughing and celebrating over Steve Price's unconscious body...


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Also, i remember a few years back now he hit Brian Carney with a swinging arm and knocked him out i think. Did not get picked up until someone at channel 9 spotted it later the next week or something.
 

Iafeta

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People you rate as grubs but don't really have a reputation for it. Everyone can names the Matais, Hodges, Gallens etc but who do you think flies under the radar?

Tom Symonds(not sure on the spelling) for the Roosters caught my eye this season. I think on 3 occassions he took a player out in the air, on all 3 occasions nearly injuring them seriously and while he masks it well I fancy he does it on purpose. I also noted he does a ridiculous amount of face-work when completing tackles.

Hinchcliffe and Kostjasyn at the storm are also dirty players. Not sure if they are truly or whether the Storm promote their tactics.

Another player who I rated(as a human, atleast) before this season was Dave Taylor. This year I reckon he took calls for him to muscle up and use his size the wrong way, frequently trying to impose himself on blokes not far off being legally classed as midgets. He seems to enjoy throwing balls at peoples heads, particularly - So long as they're under 90kg

I know we all have favourites and probably love the grubs who play for our teams, but who'd you reckon needs calling out more?

Footnote - I'm not saying these are the worst or anything close to it, just people I noticed over the season who I felt deserved a broken jaw

I've noticed that as well with Tom Symonds. Either he's got horrific timing or he's a wired up ranga gone loose. That ranga virus is fairly toxic.
 

Deacon

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Slater, for stomping on Skandos head then running away like a little girl and for sliding into tackles legs first. Oh and for being offside in regards to that origin try, there I said it
 

PaddyBoy

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A lot of the blokes being mentioned here are hardly under the radar. Billy has slid in feet first for a while, and Cameron Smith is pretty elbow friendly. Hadn't noticed Symonds, will keep an eye out for it.
 

sensesmaybenumbed

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Slater without a shadow of a doubt, closely followed by Justin Hodges.


Hardly undercover. Saying they're undercover grubs is like saying Carson from 'Queer eye' show is an undercover loony, or the Storm were undercover salary cap cheats...
 

Mr Fourex

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Keiron Foran will go from being an "undercover grub" to a full blown Greg Bird type of grub in the next 12 mnths.

Which is a shame as I like/d him........
 

Vic Mackey

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The biggest 3 have already been mentioned. Price, smith and Barrett.

Somehow they are/were all media darlings with this 'mr nice image' but all huge grubs. I only ever saw barrett try and fight blokes half his size or when they weren't looking.

Price is one one of the dirtiest players of the last 20 years and even ended one blokes career with a completely illegal tackle that wasn't even cited. No surprise that the one time he shapes up to a bloke his size he got knocked the f*ck out

Smith is the elbow, forearm and kneeing king. He will seriously injure someone one day and again nothing will probably get done about it.
 

MatthewA

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Darcy Lussick is a bigger grub than Matai, Hodges and any other player you want to label as the worst. Lussick is just a merkin.
 

Big Pete

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Not sure if it's undercover but Campese is the up there as the grubbiest five eigth in the comp.
 

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