@Sneakdefreak said in NRL 2019:
Well that was a crash back to earth game.
Warriors were penalised out of the game in the first half and never got back into it. Wests look like they're well coached while Robbie Farah is playing like he did 10 years ago.
Probably should have kept Roache on the bench (and drop Papali'i) until Luke gets back into it (Luke should have played in the NSW Cup this week tbh).
Apparently roache was hurt
@Sneakdefreak said in NRL 2019:
Well that was a crash back to earth game.
Warriors were penalised out of the game in the first half and never got back into it. Wests look like they're well coached while Robbie Farah is playing like he did 10 years ago.
Probably should have kept Roache on the bench (and drop Papali'i) until Luke gets back into it (Luke should have played in the NSW Cup this week tbh).
Apparently roache was hurt
I thought he was simply dropped. That guy is plagued by the injury bug.
That's the Warriors we know and love. For an added bonus Kata seems to have infected Fusitua with defensive readitis.
@Sneakdefreak said in NRL 2019:
@Sneakdefreak said in NRL 2019:
Well that was a crash back to earth game.
Warriors were penalised out of the game in the first half and never got back into it. Wests look like they're well coached while Robbie Farah is playing like he did 10 years ago.
Probably should have kept Roache on the bench (and drop Papali'i) until Luke gets back into it (Luke should have played in the NSW Cup this week tbh).
Apparently roache was hurt
I thought he was simply dropped. That guy is plagued by the injury bug.
The Warriors assistant coach said he picked up a calf strain at the last minute. He was meant to start so Luke had to jump in. At least their decision was sound before the injury
@Sneakdefreak said in NRL 2019:
@Sneakdefreak said in NRL 2019:
Well that was a crash back to earth game.
Warriors were penalised out of the game in the first half and never got back into it. Wests look like they're well coached while Robbie Farah is playing like he did 10 years ago.
Probably should have kept Roache on the bench (and drop Papali'i) until Luke gets back into it (Luke should have played in the NSW Cup this week tbh).
Apparently roache was hurt
I thought he was simply dropped. That guy is plagued by the injury bug.
The Warriors assistant coach said he picked up a calf strain at the last minute. He was meant to start so Luke had to jump in. At least their decision was sound before the injury
This is why I would shift the back up hooker role to Karl Lawton instead. Roache just cannot stay healthy enough to rely on him during an entire season.
@Sneakdefreak said in NRL 2019:
@Sneakdefreak said in NRL 2019:
@Sneakdefreak said in NRL 2019:
Well that was a crash back to earth game.
Warriors were penalised out of the game in the first half and never got back into it. Wests look like they're well coached while Robbie Farah is playing like he did 10 years ago.
Probably should have kept Roache on the bench (and drop Papali'i) until Luke gets back into it (Luke should have played in the NSW Cup this week tbh).
Apparently roache was hurt
I thought he was simply dropped. That guy is plagued by the injury bug.
The Warriors assistant coach said he picked up a calf strain at the last minute. He was meant to start so Luke had to jump in. At least their decision was sound before the injury
This is why I would shift the back up hooker role to Karl Lawton instead. Roache just cannot stay healthy enough to rely on him during an entire season.
It would appear he is made of glass, which is a shame
@mariner4life said in NRL 2019:
Disgraceful
Just came up against a better team. No reason you can't make the finals.
@antipodean said in NRL 2019:
@mariner4life said in NRL 2019:
Disgraceful
Just came up against a better team. No reason you can't make the finals.
Farrah and Benji were on fire. I'm sure all the Warriors old boys enjoyed that one, we just have to hold serve in Auckland
Cowboys also got thrashed this weekend and now lose Jason Taumalolo for up to 10 weeks. Ouch.
@Sneakdefreak said in NRL 2019:
Cowboys also got thrashed this weekend and now lose Jason Taumalolo for up to 10 weeks. Ouch.
and they were putrid doing it too. Pangai Jnr got in to their forwards, JT did his knee early doors, and they had fucking nothing. Morgan was invisible, TMM tried, Granville offered nothing, because their vaunted forward pack got rinsed. The Broncos halves even kicked well. Massively one-sided game.
Did you see your boy Jimmy Maloney defend on the weekend? Probably won Penrith the game with his tackling. Unheard of.
Have to say the Storm are looking pretty good with an ageing Smith , and no Slater and cronk ,
Maybe this Bellamy fella can coach .
@kiwiinmelb said in NRL 2019:
Have to say the Storm are looking pretty good with an ageing Smith , and no Slater and cronk ,
Maybe this Bellamy fella can coach .
jesus the Storm upset Sydney league fans. They just fucking hate them.
You would think there was only one team in the comp who wrestle in the tackle.
The Storm actually play a handy style of league, they are certainly not scared to chuck it around, and always have attacking backs. Not that any Sydney fan would say that.
I personally have no love for them, probably because they are there or thereabouts every fucking year. But damn if i don't respect how professional they are.
Warriors team to play Manly in Christchurch:
1 Roger Tuivasa-Sheck (c)
2 David Fusitu’a
3 Peta Hiku
4 Solomone Kata
5 Ken Maumalo
6 Adam Keighran
7 Blake Green
8 Agnatius Paasi
9 Issac Luke
10 Bunty Afoa
11 Adam Blair
12 Tohu Harris
13 Lachlan Burr
Interchange:
14 Jazz Tevaga
15 Sam Lisone
16 Leeson Ah Mau
17 Isaiah Papali’i
18 Gerard Beale
20 Ligi Sao
21 Karl Lawton
22 Chanel Harris-Tavita
@mariner4life Tigers are the new St George though, they did it last season too. Start the season with a hiss and a roar only to fall away as the season progresses. I would rather face a South Sydney or Sydney City in the first two rounds, just cut your teeth early on.
Real sad news about Brett Dallas. The former 90s try-scoring machine is in a downward spiral.
pay wall on that link
this one worked for me though https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6862291/NRL-legend-1million-contract-caught-stealing-board-shorts.html
@Sneakdefreak said in NRL 2019:
Real sad news about Brett Dallas. The former 90s try-scoring machine is in a downward spiral.
...
As I recall early in Brad Fittler's career as a schoolboy on super-star money, his family appointed a trusted, gnarly old accountant to manage his affairs. When Brad came to him mid-week to ask for more money he would tell him "No. You were paid last week and spent it, now you must wait until I let you have this week's pay." As a consequence he is now said to have a net worth of about $10m. He kept working really hard after retirement to secure a reliable income, mostly from League.
I venture way more of them end up on the skids than in anything even close to Fittler's position. A high number of Alan Jones' Wallabies succeeded mightily in business due to his influence but I have difficulty running off a list of past Wallaby and All Black players who spent their down time studying in preparation for life after - Brendan Cannon earned a business degree while playing, Snaky Smith is a solicitor, Doug Howlett has a couple of degrees, Bret Robinson is a surgeon ... . (Interesting to find Will Carling has a degree in psychology; Andrew Strauss has a degree in economics; Welsh centre Jamie Roberts has a couple of degrees, is a doctor en route to orthopaedic surgeon); Victor Matfield has an accounting degree; Bryan Habana has a BSc in IT; and Welsh captain Alun-Wyn Jones has a law degree).
RUPA is now a member of a wider program encouraging academic and vocational study which apparently has a high participation rate, it's been a long time coming though.
I assume highly paid team sportsmen now attend plenty of workshops arranged by their clubs with advice on how to better deal with their lives, personally and financially. They all have managers who presumably do the same for their 20% (although my son's mate had Our Your Quadie for a while - he had big wraps on himself but he simply did not get it) and their families are not all toothless Centrelink bogans lounging about drinking bundy and coke all day, who have a role in guiding them.
Apart from the obvious dangers (when you're in the money you have lots of friends, including smooth talking salesmen with over-priced luxury home units off the plans and "professional" furnishers to fit them out at a monstrous cost with fine looking items having a real worth of about $25,000, top end cars and Guyanan choko plantation shares) I would guess that there is a fair bit of "you cannot tell me what to do!" and "simply will not listen" ... a rampant ego with no brains leading to zero savings and no income to pay the huge body corporate levies, council rates and annual vehicle registration.
I am reminded that the estimable Robbie Deans in his first few days with the Qantas Harmless Wallabies counselled them "This fabulous opportunity can be all over in a very short period" and they did not bother listening right from the jump.
** Jamie Roberts went to school at Ysgol Gyfun Glantaf and Ysgol Y Wern but you all knew that, didn't you?
