OFFICIAL Jarome Luai - #295

Demps said:
Brandon Smith said on Matty Johns show; that he's heard from multiple people that Jarome tries to fight his team-mates at training & he expects high quality of football from them and a high stadnard . Said something along the lines of people don't like it but compared it to Michael Jordan.

Interesting comments.
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Think he might be disappointed at WT where mediocrity is seen as aiming for the stars.
 
Halbrowne61 said:
I am reading that wrongly or thought he meant Hughes not Luai didn’t he ? Would have no idea what Luai does at training.
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You might be right but they were both at Melbourne for about 5 years so he would have "heard" it from multiple sources, he would have observed it first hand. I think he was talking about Jarome Luai.
 
Demps said:
Will be a regular punch ons at training perhaps.

Hopefully Luai puts the challenge on his shoulder and really elevates the squad.

And hopefully we're still trying to upgrade the pack
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Muhammad Ali vs. Sonny Liston — perhaps the greatest sports photo ...
 
bigsiro said:
He’s been Less effective??
Since he joined us he has been our most effective player.
This, despite not having a proper forward pack to work with or an established halves combo or a penetrating backline. Unlike at Penrith.
IMO he has been the best hooker in the game regardless. He scores tries, makes line breaks, assists tries and his general play is incisive, masterful and often unplayable.
I honestly have no idea what you are watching, because other than a few errant sin bins, I doubt anyone playing in the 9 at WT could be any more effective.
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Api Koroisau has been unreal for us. A few dumb sin bins but other than that has been brilliant.
 
Demps said:
Brandon Smith said on Matty Johns show; that he's heard from multiple people that Jarome tries to fight his team-mates at training & he expects high quality of football from them and a high stadnard . Said something along the lines of people don't like it but compared it to Michael Jordan.

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Great stuff. Nice guys finish last. You don’t have to like everyone in the work place, you just have to respect them.
 
twentyforty said:
I thought I stated clearly that I wasn’t talking about his highlights reel? He hardly missed a tackle at Penrith, made 51 tackles in his last game there. Enter the Tigers, and he has become the NRLs leader of missed tackles.
you can excuse it and dismiss it but it is a massive problem which needs to be managed.
Harry Grant was better, made the rest of the team look like reserve graders.
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Not sure how often he had to defend out wide at Penrith? He sucked defensively at halfback. Coincidentally those games were we under strength as well and on the back foot.

After being one of our best, I thought he faded bad late in the season. Tried too hard. Basically wore himself out trying his guts out.
 
twentyforty said:
I thought I stated clearly that I wasn’t talking about his highlights reel? He hardly missed a tackle at Penrith, made 51 tackles in his last game there. Enter the Tigers, and he has become the NRLs leader of missed tackles.
you can excuse it and dismiss it but it is a massive problem which needs to be managed.
Harry Grant was better, made the rest of the team look like reserve graders.
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IMHO, a player effectiveness cannot be judged without considering at least some players around him.
Possibly, a better comparison would be to normalise Api's missed tackles to the missed tackles of all WT's forwards and compare it with the Panthers's.
 
coivtny said:
Think he might be disappointed at WT where mediocrity is seen as aiming for the stars.
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In the NBA the best players lead with their effort in training, e.g. Curry, Jordan, Garnet, and Kobe arrive to training earlier than any other player, and put into their training much more than other players.

Perhaps it depends on players' work ethics and respect for the money they are paid?
Do "origin" players train more, or is it just the NBA-NRL thing?
 
Demps said:
Will be a regular punch ons at training perhaps.

Hopefully Luai puts the challenge on his shoulder and really elevates the squad.

And hopefully we're still trying to upgrade the pack
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Benji needs a good slap. Bit of a reality check and he might start his coaching career
 
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