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Townsend worked last season because he was parachuted into a good side with additional playmakers who took the full weight of responsibility off his shoulders. Prior to that move many believed he was one bad season away from being kicked into the long grass. This year we've seen a regression to...

Laughable. I wouldn't trade Lewis Dodd for all of those three players combined.

Where is this quote from? I've seen Buzz Rothfield claiming Rush has said this. But I can't find any mention of it on the Saints feed. Very uncharacteristic for Mike to be saying anything on Lewis. It's been complete silence for months - which is how he usually handles business.

Arrived in Leeds with a huge gut and major fitness problems. Underachieved and was then sold to Huddersfield. Since arriving under coach Ian Watson he's really turned his career around. Maximised his potential. One of the most creative players in the game and regularly tops the assists table...

I'd be very surprised if Rush has made any public statements about Wests-Tigers. If it's come from anywhere I'd guess its Dodd's new agent. 90% of the stories which get written about SL in Australia are either made up or garbage or made-up garbage.

If you want to win now - George Williams. If you want to win over the next ten years and have a top 3 scrum half in the competition - Lewis Dodd. Was very concerned after he tore his Achilles midway through last season. But he was only 20 and consequently still had enough blood supply to the...

I was thinking a bit of Jamie Lyon. Now HE was a player.

Again, from the outside looking in - I was pretty astonished this story ran as the lead item on NRL 360. Sure, the club made a mistake and it blew up in their faces. But this is just a typical corporate screwup decision which takes place every day. The difference on this occasion is SOMEONE WAS...

Yeah, but some of the tackling there isn't even amateur rugby level. If he's any good Union will want to tie him up quickly for the internationals and they'll pay above inflation rates. Which means you'd have to pay way over the top. You can justify that kind of expenditure if he's got a solid...

I can see the attraction of a six year deal. But unless they've built in some kind of index linking he's going to get hammered on the back end if his form is still good.

Watching FOX NRL on international feed I very quickly came to the conclusion that Kenty is quite prepared to play the puppet. He's definitely in Ricky's pocket. Don't mind if the stories are true. But when they're false and being leaked for an agenda .... I've got a problem with that.

You are seriously comparing Reynolds playing behind the most stacked squad in the NRL and for his GF year - one of the most stacked squads in the last twenty years with Hastings playing at the Tigers and the Knights (with no Ponga)???? C'mon man - I could have multiple assists playing behind...

If Bateman could play five eight he would have done so at Bradford or Wigan. Because they regularly put him in the centres as cover and even hooker. As a forward he has excellent ball skills. But he's not stand-off material. I mean, you're paying him a lot of money to do a job in a position he's...

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But would Fifita be much use to you right now - on his money? I mean he's one of the freakiest athletes I've seen and at his best he's almost impossible to stop. But ... he's never struck me as someone you can rely on when all of the chips are pushed into the middle of the table. High impact but...

A lot of people still are. The site stats are insane over the twenty plus years its been operating. I stepped away some time ago and the co-creator took over all of the back end IT work. The bandwidth fees were astronomical lol. The first two hosting companies we used did the usual promising...

WHERE did this story that Bateman refused to play with Hastings come from? Because I've checked all my sources over here and nobody can verify it. What I've been told is there were some frank exchanges at Wigan within the leadership group (including Hastings, Bateman, Tommy Leu and Farrell) when...

I think Brooks is shot. Can't recall any scrum half suffering the indignities he has and the criticism over such a long period and somehow turning it around. Confidence is such a delicate thing for a half and once it's gone it's usually gone for good. People might point to Johnson at the...

No. But they were the influencers. You know - the guys who made the websites, wrote the fanzines and such (I'm the co-creator of RLFANS.COM in the UK, which - is still the most trafficked RL website which has ever existed.) At the time we were the fifth most popular webSITE in the UK with more...

Here's the only story I have about protests. Many, many years ago when my team, St. Helens were going through a really rough patch coach, Ian Millward (who'd won two titles before everything went up in smoke) was canned by the owner - Eamonn McManus. Millward was very popular with a significant...