Talk the Roosters will offer Walker a 10 year, $14m deal
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Alex Seyfarth's #1 Fan
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Nobody. We will boycott the club until either the governance structure changes or it is sold to someone else.
mtd#2
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I think you are partly right, but forgetting how many injuries we had at one stage.
Against the Panthers we had Geyer and Murray in the starting side. Turuva and Makasini in the centres. Jock in the halves.
Two weeks before against the storm, hope started at hooker and mason at fullback.
I can see why benji wouldnt want to shake things up further.
in all this, maybe AD is correct. Its just a shame he did it the way he did, surely he had other options?
Odessa
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It's very interesting with Terrell's form this year
Honestly he looks like he has been on a pure KFC diet. He has visibly packed on the weight and on the weekend the whole team looked so slow. Benji can tell us how great they trained but we know what we saw on that field, unfit, slow players.
Tigerdazz2
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You obviously must have missed his 60m try against the Doggies & his remarkable chase tackle on an opposition player that had a head start and looked certain to score a long distance try (was it v Newcastle?) both times the commentators were surprised, as was I to be honest at his speed.
Don't get me wrong, he isn't in the same group of truly fast players like Saab, Ado Carr or The Hammer, he's slow of the mark but he CAN really motor if he get a clear break without getting checked.
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You Know Who
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I haven’t forgotten about the injuries and they have played a part. However, against the Panthers, Benji also played Madden despite having Latu available. There was also no reason to pick Geyer, who had played 21 minutes the entire season at that point but was given an 80 minute start, over Tony Sukkar who was available that week and had done the job for us before.
He also could’ve left Turuva on the wing and given Saukuru his debut but instead he went partial Sheenius and moved players out of position.
I don’t blame him for his selections in the Storm game as that was the depth we had at hooker and FB.
No doubt AD is a dick for the way he has handled this. He’s embarrassed himself and the club the way he’s responded. But like I said, I think there is a fair bit of truth to the allegations about the culture and Benji’s double standards when it comes to certain players.
We need an actual proven halves player to show the young fellas the first grade ropes.
AD has never been a halves player outside of a handful of starring solo performances.
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I think what has happened is they trained really hard in the pre season, killed it in the first 1/3 of the season purely on effort, but with the level of training they did, injuries started to mount up, and the standards have relaxed. The coaching staff developed a style with our top 17 in mind and didn't account for what would happen if guys were missing from the line up. So mid-season we started changing our game to accommodate these depth players and it has messed with everything.
Personally I would like to see at least one more year from Benji before there is pressure on him. He (and head of performance Peter Moussa) got these guys training and playing to the level you need to succeed, even if it was only for one third of the year. Now they need to work out how to train to sustain that level for an entire season.
rugbygoated
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Kenty seems to have a pretty comprehensive thought out story that sounds 'believable'. Almost too much information that it must be one of the players. Who is leaking it? Family member when ol mate gets home. Social media guy... How is kenty getting access to this info?
tigertragic
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Unfortunately it’s that off the mark speed where players get beaten and overlaps occur
This is it. He doesn’t have a position. He stifles our attack and hogs the ball. He is a good individual player but holds the team back (or will in the future). We are best to part ways at seasons end. Short term we may be worse, but long term I think we will be better off.
wstigers11
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Why would he have dropped Madden for Penrith when he played & they won the week before vs the Dogs?
LiamFulton
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is that straight vodka in his glass? what a blitherer
mtd#2
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I agree, but I also think we have underestimated the luai factor. He was the cultural leader. They were all such a tight team. Luai would have been thinking about the move and impact to his family and its all probably flowed down to the rest of the team. It looks like ita been one big snowball (along with the injuries and re-signings $$ distraction).
weststigers
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Can we support Castleford in the meantime?
You Know Who
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He shouldn’t have been playing in the Dogs game either as he had been the HB for the past three games where we got flogged (Manly, Storm and Sharks). He did one thing in the Dogs game which was a run of the mill bomb which Tavan managed to hold onto. But apparently that’s enough to justify keeping your supposed future HB on the bench and playing out of position
wstigers11
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Those three games were when we were most injury effected though. Bula, AD, Samuela, Twal, May, Masi, KPP, Api all in & out so not sure whoever was halfback would’ve stopped that. Benefit of hindsight I guess
You Know Who
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Nice shifting of the goalposts lol. You’re right, Benji was correct to stick with the career back-up and known defensive turnstile who had been part of three straight 40+ floggings and was a passenger in the one close win over a bottom 4 team (at the time) rather than go the young creative half with good defence and one of the most promising prospects in the NRL. /s
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