It's only the Titans.
It's only the Titans.
Quade is the biggest bottler I've ever seen on the rugby pitch. I don't doubt he's trying, but the big occasions clearly get to him.
Can't believe Australia can't produce another decent 10.
The local young fellas reckon he is into those party drugs.
There's about 5 or so prospects from Brisbane and Sydney at the.moment. Hopefully they find skills coaches that can instill consistency and not lol Foley them.Originally Posted by hfswjyr
Respect.
Are you joining me back on the Reds train @ItalAussie
Brad Thorn spending the off season focusing on defence is so refreshing.
It's been a solid few years since I've watched rugby, but I'll always support the Reds over any other Australian team. Brad Thorn is incredible, and if he's at the helm, I'm optimistic.
Local ‘paper printed a quiz.
Saints quiz.
1. Who won the Harry Sunderland Award when Saints last won the Grand Final?
2. From which club did Saints sign Theo Fages?
3. Who was the Wild Bull of the Pampas?
4. Who scored the opening try in Saints’ 1996 Challenge Cup Final Win?
5. Whose suspension allowed Lee Briers the opportunity to make a run of six games in 1997?
6. Who did Saints defeat in Bolton in 2001 and 2007 to be crowned World Club Champions?
7. Who ‘gave em mammy?‘
8. The Sculthorpe brothers faced each other in which year’s Challenge Cup Final?
9. Cliff Watson left Saints for which Sydney club?
10. How many games did the all-conquering Saints team of 2006 lose?
11. Which minor team was Jamie Lyon playing for when Saints signed him?
12. Who scored all bar one of the points when Saints won the John Player Trophy for the first time?
13. What are the three trophies won by Saints being displayed by Alex Murphy in this photo?
14. Who is the player touching down for Lancashire in this photo?
15. Who succeeded Shaun McRae as Saints coach?
16. Which fledgling club reunited ex-Saints Derek Noonan, Tony Karalius, David Eckersley and DaVid Hull in 1980?
17. Which team did Saints condemn to their record defeat, 80-0, in 1996?
18. Tom van Vollenhoven inter-passed with which player en route to a try in the 1961 Challenge Cup Final?
19. Saints have twice scored more than 100 points in a game - against which teams?
20. Who scored seven tries against a strike-hit Saints team in 1976-77?
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1. James Roby
2. Salford
3. Vince Karalius
4. Dunno, but presumably it is on YouTube
5. Well before my time, but I would guess Bobby Goulding
6. Brisbane Broncos
7. Douggie Greenall
8. 2004
9. Cronulla
10. Four
11. Wee Waa Panthers
12. Paul Loughlin
13. Lancashire Cup, presumably the Lancashire League (or maybe an individual award), and the old RFL Championship
14. Don't know
15. Ellery Hanley (what a chancer Shaun McRae was)
16. Fulham RLFC
17. Warrington
18. Ken Large
19. No idea
20. No idea
Ask your grandad to fill in the blanks and lets share the prize.
I’m impressed. Knew you were a Saints fan really.
(You can win five books actually but I won’t bother entering. You can if you want? I can get the email address you need to send your entry to.)
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I'll pass.
Walked passed Payne Hass this morning and he is without a doubt the biggest 18 year old I have ever seen. We arent the same species.
Hope he doesn't catch useless like the Burgess twins.
Karmichael Hunt has been arrested for a second time of nose beer posseSion. I wonder if we will all blame Jason Smith and his coccaine syndicate?
I wonder if he has actually ended up making less money away from league than he would have done sticking with it. He would be on a million a year at Brisbane (with all the shady add-ons), plus Queensland and Australia... He would be raking it in by now. Twat.
Apparently he was strongly advised to take the multi-million dollar deal with the Suns because he had racked up enormous gambling debts to bad people in Brisbane.
FuiFui MoiMoi and that massive waste of time and money Dave Taylor have been axed by the Wolf Pack. What is the go there @Lewis?
Nobody seems to know, but Ryan Bailey was involved as well. The club has just helped him through a drug case, so it must be a good one to cut him now along with their marquee forward[s]. Dave Taylor though. Jesus. He had landed literally the best/easiest money he will ever make, and he fucks it up in record time.
FuiFui MoiMoi was outrageously good on his day. Which was about six weeks in 2009.
Was Dave Taylor ever actually good at football?
I was a bit out of the loop when he first came in at the potential stage, so I've gone through him risking wasting his potential, wasting his potential, and all this sad shit since he left the Titans. It's all the more amazing when you bear in mind that he has played for Wayne Bennett, Michael Maguire, Mal Meninga, and Ricky Stuart - and they have all fucked him off.
He was ok when Bennett and McGuire would shift him to the centres to run over people.
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Dave Taylor has a name for himself when it comes to party drugs. So if Ryan Bailey has just recieved treatment then chances are Taylor was right next to.him. @Lewis
I remember when Taylor first showed up at the Broncos he was pure athletic wrecking ball. If only he had Brad Thorn's brain.
Sam Thaiday would be perfect the Wolf Pack.
You forget that Sam Thaiday is still relatively young, but he seems destined for a media career. I think they will just go through the season with what they have and then recruit for the promotion push (or pick up any idiot who gets himself sacked from elsewhere).
True. I dont watch 9 anymore so forgot he is part of that banter network.
Plenty of wife beaters/sexual assault types playing down here so one should pop up in no time.
No need with that round-the-clock Fox channel.
Has anyone made a team on sldreamteam.co.uk? (I can make a league if anyone wants to.)
Just wondering if anyone's spotted any 50k bargains, cos I'm struggling more than ever to stay within budget.
Also, and I ask this every season, are any of the new boys from NRL who are now in Super League expected to be amazing? Tyrone Roberts looks mint but ehh he plays for Warrington so who knows.
50k list:
Alex Sutcliffe - rhinos
Arthur Romano - dragons
Cameron Smith - rhinos
Harry Newman - rhinos
Jake Spedding - saints
Jake Shorrocks - wigan
James Worthington - wigan
Jared Simpson - giants
Joe Cator - hull KR
Jordan Abdull - hull FC
Jordan Crowther - trinity
Josh Woods - wigan
Kieran Gill - tigers
Liam Walsh - widnes
Liam Salter - hull KR
Matthew English - giants
Matthew Lees - saints
Mikolaj Oledzki - rhinos
Mitch Clark - tigers
Nabil Djalout - dragons
Owen Farnworth - widnes
Will Maher - tigers
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The imports are all a bit low-profile this year. David Mead is the best one, but everyone becomes shit in France. Who is on the bargain list?
Added it to my post.
Matthew English is hotly tipped for rookie of the year but annoyingly he's not been assigned a position on sldream team so I can't pick him.
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I would take Mikolaj Oledzki first, any other Leeds player, and then Jordan Abdull on the assumption that they loan the bloater out somewhere.
Website is terrible so I'm struggling to make the changes I want. Might just leave it as this bunch of losers:
I've got 70k to play with though. Any glaring WTF! or But You Forgot! players?
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You need a better hooker, but the rest of it is sound.
I still don't get positions in League. They don't hook, they aren't shaped like a hooker, why are they hooker?
And how are you a scrum half without scrums?
I've managed to get it down to the pretty boy fancy dan wears 7, the big heffalumping oaf wears 8, and the 9 is the sort of tactical leader.
Other than that the positions all look completely interchangeable to me.
The hooker distributes the ball from the play-the-ball, and was expected to challenge for the ball when scrums were still contested. For better or worse, it is probably the most important position at the moment, and a good one will also make more tackles in a match than his union counterpart will in a year. The scrum-half is the half who puts the ball into the scrum and receives it out the back (once where it was won, and now where they just chuck it through; but either way executed in less than ten minutes and not decisive in any given result). He then gives it to the stand-off half, who stands off the scrum in order to start the attack. In Australia those positions are known as 'half-back' and 'five-eighth' respectively as part of their quest to convince themselves that they invented the sport.
Hooker and scrum-half are the most specialised positions in that you can't win anything with crap ones, but if you start putting people out of position they tend to be exposed at one end or the other.
Play the ball and scrums used to be contested in League. @The Merse
The Super League War and wanting the game to be as fast as possible ruined League for me.
I bore people to death with it but 90's League was brilliant because of how specialized the positions were. Down here it is just a bunch of PED filled super athletes running and defending their lines. Yuck.
Positional specialisation is a sneakily important part of compelling team sports.
I was slightly worried when ODI cricket seemed to be heading down the path of ten bits and pieces players + keeper who can bat first, for basically that reason.
Bits and pieces players is hurting the Wobblies with all the notters in the backrow and utilities across the backline.
Chieka will go down as a fraud.
These are my choices available.
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Daryl Clark is probably the best option in terms of being good/important and getting loads of minutes (Wigan will likely rotate Sam Powell through games, and he will be playing off crap forwards). Go with him.
Jack Walker is going to be immense.
I fancy Saints this year unless 1) Ben Barba misses half the season (injury, suspension, release, accidental suicide); or 2) they get Leeds in the Grand Final. If that happens I'm cashing out.
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He tried to laugh it off on Twitter and had a load of seething Warrington fans on his case. Don't worry lads it's still Your Year.
I just heard the news say 'Scotland have high hopes for the Six Nations - could this be their best team ever?'
Lol.
The fixtures point to an England Grand Slam. By that I mean we have Ireland at home.
Don't they say that every year?
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