like pangai junior wanted to do boxing too
Meant to read for 2026 season not for 2027 lol obviously the Barnett release for 2027 is recent.
Last week it was all about Pole wanting to go to Melbourne ( where he came from and has family) to play in the same team as his brother. Now he is being offered to NZ ?? How does that work. Anyway you can't "offer" him to anyone as he has a contract with the Tigers and doesn't want to go for the above reason.
The same thing will happen if Douehi doesn't give him early ball and a bit of space to move in. Douehis run first mentality while good at times can hinder the right side attack. In the last trial Toa and Turuva never got a look in as defence was on them the moment they got the ball.
The bloke has been great and not a problem and ur shitting on him , no wonder people go of , leave the bloke alone , if and when he goes of the track then u can spread ur hate
I think Benji will run with both Hunt on Bench hand Bunty up front with May to Start - May is strong and can take 2 or 3 defenders to bring him down but also can get the ball away during these tackles - Bunty to just ware the opposition down with big straight hard runs up the middle , we also now have strong back rowers in KPP and Sam F both hard runners and can hit a line , KPP just needs to be used exact same way Sam is , Newcastle didn’t do KPP any favours with good ball , can’t wait till we start our run , 7 from 10 to start season
Very well said , the kid had issues and dealt with them , came to us on trial , passed that test and played very well for us , what more does he need to do to be left alone to do his stuff , I suppose the haters are gonna hate
Did you read the last part of my post ?
You are correct in saying if a player is contracted and does not want to leave, he doesn’t have to.
But gets injured more. Muscles are exposed.
I like Douhei. He has arrogance. Backs himself. And he is also probably reluctant to give it to Toa because he is lame. So is Herbert. We need a genuine centre on the right hand side. Or, put Makasini in lieu of Toa and bring in Skelton to the left wing.
www.foxsports.com.au
There was a mention by the commentator on Friday that Patrick Herbert was one of the strongest players in the NRL.
Did a bit of research and found this from an article back in 2020 when he was at the Wahs ...
In the words of Chanel Harris-Tavita:
“Patrick Herbert, he’s a strong man. I don’t know about squats, but I think he benches more than I squat.
“It would be around 170s or 180s, and he’s a centre as well. He’s got that little Solomone Kata build, real nuggety. Short arms, he doesn’t have to push it as far.”
In the words of Roger Tuivasa-Sheck:
“Patrick Herbert and Bunty Afoa, for the middles it’s definitely Bunty, he’s a beast. He’s throwing big weights around.
“Bunty would bench around 170s or 180s. The funny thing is Patrick would be similar. We call him Mr Uppers because leg days he’s not a fan, but with uppers you can just load him up”
Kings of the gym: NRL players reveal the strongest men at every club
Kings of the gym: NRL players reveal the strongest men at every club
he was definitely better last week than he was the one before against the Chooks. hopefully it's more about getting used to the speed of the game again as opposed to it passing him by. we're going to need him at some point so cross everything that it's the former.
In a perfect world we could lose nobody we want to keep and add Barnett.
He missed a couple of tackles early on in his stint on Friday night hopefully just getting used to the contact required again. Thought was handy after that with his carries out of yardage and general defence. I think he'll improve with game time in Cup.
