Buttface
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Big Ken was an upgrade on what we had at the time and he has been very good, but we need to keep upgrading, and hopefully this time the upgrade will be from within.
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nrlsurvivor
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He hasn’t stood out at training the couple of times I’ve had a peek. Physically he’s built different to most. Almost like a swimmers physique with broad shoulders.
pawsandclaws1
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Well writtent BF.
Buttface
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Can someone please post entire story.
Buttface
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Thanks, but It’s not rocket science Paws, it’s just what a bottom club needs to do. The theory is simple, choosing the correct upgrades at the right price till you get them from within is the tricky part, and everyone and his dog has an opinion on that.
tony soprano
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Third party deal I guess.
Tigerwould
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Loved watching Marty Roebuck play. Fantastic player. Very tough like Brett Hodgson.I was talking to my doctor a few weeks ago (Marty Roebuck former Rugby fullback) and he took Braidon Burns under his wing for a year while he was a boarding student at Stanies College in Bathurst and was a friend of Marty’s son.
Former Wallaby who helped raise NRL star praise the player
South Sydney Rabbitohs winger Braidon Burns, 22, said he watched his mum struggle with drug addiction as a child while his father bounced in and out of prison.www.dailymail.co.uk
Once at north Sydney oval I saw him play against a massive British & Irish Lions side. He was getting batter and bruised in the first half then started carving up, with a bandaged up head. One eye was mostly closed and converting kicks from the sideline.
Masterton
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Wests Tigers coach Tim Sheens has thrown his support behind perennial punching bag Luke Brooks and said: “There’s an element of bullying when it comes to him, and from our own people.”
Brooks was a notable onlooker at training on Friday where more than 1000 fans watched the joint venture at Concord. He will resume full training next week and is on track to play in round one.
Luke Brooks and Tim Sheens (inset).CREDIT:GETTY
No player comes under more scrutiny than the halfback, and Sheens was at a loss to explain why.
Sheens added there had been discussions with Brooks’ good friend and former Tiger Mitchell Moses about joining the club next year.
Plenty of young fans made a point of asking club chief executive Justin Pascoe about Moses as he sat in the stands.
“There’s been some chat, and it’s a known fact [we’re interested] – we’ve had a discussion, but it will be Mitch’s call,” Sheens said.
As for Brooks, Sheens said he and assistant Benji Marshall had enjoyed working with him, but stopped short of declaring they would be the pair to finally unlock his full potential.
“Ask me that question in a month’s time or during the season,” Sheens said.
“In 2018 he was halfback of the year. And Luke hasn’t lost his legs. He can run. In fact, he’s one of the quickest here.
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“He’s as hard as a piece of steel, as fit as they come and knows exactly what to do.
“Whether [the bullying] has got something to do with what he is earning, that’s not his fault. He’s on a back-loaded contract.
More than 1000 fans watched the Wests Tigers train on Friday.
“Expectations are always on your pivots, but to say the No. 7 controls the game is so much codswallop it’s not funny. The spine controls the game.
“Luke could run a bit more and be a bit greedier. He passes regularly and kicks for try assists, but nobody counts that. He can run and have that show-and-go, which Benji and I are on to him about that, and he’s happy to do that.”
Daine Laurie, who has also been training in the halves, is in a battle with Charlie Staines for the No. 1 jersey, but Sheens tipped a youngster who could leapfrog both of them at some stage during the year.
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“Jahream Bula will be a kid who comes out of nowhere,” Sheens said of the Keebra Park graduate.“Daine has been training at halfback and fullback, ‘Stainesy’ at fullback and wing, but this kid has been playing fullback all year in the second team. And he has been the best trainer at the club.
“I’m not afraid to throw blokes in, and if they’re good enough they’re old enough.”
The huge January crowd sums up the level of excitement in Tiger Town thanks to high-profile signings Api Koroisau, David Klemmer, Isaiah Papali’i, Staines and John Bateman, who remains a chance of not being in the country by round one because of visa issues.
“He might be on a plane in a week, he might be on a plane in a month,” the coach said of the English back-rower.
“At this stage I’m not hassled about it. We have the back row covered, and if he’s here, he’s here. He’s got a four-year deal, so I’m not worried [if he misses] the first four weeks.”
Marshall, who will succeed Sheens for the start of the 2025 season, ran most of Friday’s session, and even jumped into halfback for the opposed session for the injured Brooks. Marshall has good friend Robbie Farah on the coaching staff while another popular Tiger, Chris Heighington, has joined the club to work with the eventual head coach.
Kind of like a Israel Folau IMO (not saying he will be him but just a body shape.
He looks like he can jump so will be one to watch out for
Eca
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Post #1453 re Bula 2021
My take on our top juniors - Page 97
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851
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Apparently, they used Adrian Lam before
851
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On 100% Footy, Gus said every week there for a while, you can't buy your way off the bottom of the ladder, you need to do it through a junior pathway system, seems that was another of his lies, just like JAC and Ciraldo were
dazza65
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It’s probably different now with betting being much more policed and regulated, but I know for a fact (from my father who was in the racing game for 50 years) that it was a very regular thing that Uncle N would have 500 or 1000 on a horse (with his inside connections) and the winnings, which could be in the thousands, in cash would go to players.
It was well known every Saturday there were several punters whose job was to make as much cash as possible for “payments” to players. I suppose just another version of cash for holes golf games. Just a bit more risky but, with the right connections in sydney racing, only slightly.
bathursttiger1
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bathursttiger1
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Has he been visiting Bronson Xerri.Wests Tigers coach Tim Sheens has thrown his support behind perennial punching bag Luke Brooks and said: “There’s an element of bullying when it comes to him, and from our own people.”
Brooks was a notable onlooker at training on Friday where more than 1000 fans watched the joint venture at Concord. He will resume full training next week and is on track to play in round one.
Luke Brooks and Tim Sheens (inset).CREDIT:GETTY
No player comes under more scrutiny than the halfback, and Sheens was at a loss to explain why.
Sheens added there had been discussions with Brooks’ good friend and former Tiger Mitchell Moses about joining the club next year.
Plenty of young fans made a point of asking club chief executive Justin Pascoe about Moses as he sat in the stands.
“There’s been some chat, and it’s a known fact [we’re interested] – we’ve had a discussion, but it will be Mitch’s call,” Sheens said.
As for Brooks, Sheens said he and assistant Benji Marshall had enjoyed working with him, but stopped short of declaring they would be the pair to finally unlock his full potential.
“Ask me that question in a month’s time or during the season,” Sheens said.
“In 2018 he was halfback of the year. And Luke hasn’t lost his legs. He can run. In fact, he’s one of the quickest here.
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“He’s as hard as a piece of steel, as fit as they come and knows exactly what to do.
“Whether [the bullying] has got something to do with what he is earning, that’s not his fault. He’s on a back-loaded contract.
More than 1000 fans watched the Wests Tigers train on Friday.
“Expectations are always on your pivots, but to say the No. 7 controls the game is so much codswallop it’s not funny. The spine controls the game.
“Luke could run a bit more and be a bit greedier. He passes regularly and kicks for try assists, but nobody counts that. He can run and have that show-and-go, which Benji and I are on to him about that, and he’s happy to do that.”
Daine Laurie, who has also been training in the halves, is in a battle with Charlie Staines for the No. 1 jersey, but Sheens tipped a youngster who could leapfrog both of them at some stage during the year.
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“Jahream Bula will be a kid who comes out of nowhere,” Sheens said of the Keebra Park graduate.
“Daine has been training at halfback and fullback, ‘Stainesy’ at fullback and wing, but this kid has been playing fullback all year in the second team. And he has been the best trainer at the club.
“I’m not afraid to throw blokes in, and if they’re good enough they’re old enough.”
The huge January crowd sums up the level of excitement in Tiger Town thanks to high-profile signings Api Koroisau, David Klemmer, Isaiah Papali’i, Staines and John Bateman, who remains a chance of not being in the country by round one because of visa issues.
“He might be on a plane in a week, he might be on a plane in a month,” the coach said of the English back-rower.
“At this stage I’m not hassled about it. We have the back row covered, and if he’s here, he’s here. He’s got a four-year deal, so I’m not worried [if he misses] the first four weeks.”
Marshall, who will succeed Sheens for the start of the 2025 season, ran most of Friday’s session, and even jumped into halfback for the opposed session for the injured Brooks. Marshall has good friend Robbie Farah on the coaching staff while another popular Tiger, Chris Heighington, has joined the club to work with the eventual head coach.
Latest news is that the reason Dogs changed direction and went after Olapau from Brisbane is that MM has formally knocked their offer back.
He hasn’t yet given word to the tigers but has a final meeting booked in with Tim and Benji next week, content of the meeting - anyone’s guess, but as it stands we’re still in play.
He hasn’t yet given word to the tigers but has a final meeting booked in with Tim and Benji next week, content of the meeting - anyone’s guess, but as it stands we’re still in play.
Olapau is on stuff all money so won't make a difference going after Moses or not.
Why would he have another meeting for? Everything has been put to them.
He won't leave the Eels.
Tigerstigerstigers
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How do you know ?
Tigerstigerstigers
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Hope he brings his signing pen
