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What do you think Andrew Fifita would have said in his Clive Churchill acceptance speech?

myrrh ken

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I'm sure they remember the Stewart boys going off at gallop during the gf preso. And wanted to avoid the same thing.
 

Wizardman

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it is the absolutely the worst PR in the world, i get why he didn't get it..

I was thinking he might apologies to Mr and Mrs Kelly, in his voxpop interview.. he spoke ok in it
I've changed my mind on this and agree with you. Protecting the family of Thomas Kelly is far more important that giving this idiot an award.
 

Pierced Soul

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d'uh i'm the captain, my son is bart

seriously, i dont think even that moron would have been dumb enough to say anything really stupid. as andrew
webster said in an article, the churchill winner is voted 15 mins before time (why i have no idea), before dipshit scored the winning try. i thought wade grahame also had a big game and i would have been happy for him or lewis to get it.

whats interesting is that if webby is correct on voitng, had the score stayed the same as when they voted (12-8 melb) lewis would have won form a losing team
 

no name

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Yeah, I don't get the 15 minute before full time thing.
Surely they can add up the votes in the 15-20 minutes from when the game finishes until when it's presented.
Man of the first 65 minutes doesn't quite have the same ring to it.
 

Pierced Soul

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Yeah, I don't get the 15 minute before full time thing.
Surely they can add up the votes in the 15-20 minutes from when the game finishes until when it's presented.
Man of the first 65 minutes doesn't quite have the same ring to it.

i think there's like 3 votes since its the australian selectors lol. cant see it too hard to really speak about it/count the 3 votes after fulltime
 

rockcod

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I can't believe that Lewis would get the nod from a losing side, he wasn't that much of a stand out so surely it was voted at full time.

I don't understand why the investigation is ongoing, they have interviewed Fifita, they have heard him say he does not regret his actions but still haven't done anything. I can't help but feel that him not getting the ccm and not playing for Australia will be his "unofficial" punishment, they can't really suspend him for matches for next year now can they after he has just won the comp. They seem to be waiting for it all to die down and over the off season they will give him a token fine and it will all go away without them actually having to do anything.

The integrity commission should be investigating the NRL not the players, it was supposed to make things more transparent but its doing the opposite.
 

juro

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I think not giving Fifita the medal has annoyed the Daily Telegraph journos no end. Now they need to write stupid 'what if' speculative pieces instead of relying on Fifita to put his foot in his mouth for them like they really wanted.
 

no name

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The selectors/ARLC decided last week that they were not picking Fifita for the tour.
He could have scored 4 tries and made 80 tackles and still wouldn't have won it.
 

Surely

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since when has 140 plus iq's and speech making skills been a prerequisite to be a good footy player.

If you want to listen to merkins talk go sit in parliament house.
 

AlwaysGreen

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Andy Webster has stated that the clowns who give out this award make their decision 15 minutes before the end of the game, so before fatfita scores his try.

Really, nrl awards are farcical.
 

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