Arana taumata
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innsaneink
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Maybe scoop shouldnt encourage such naughty naughtys in the first place. :unamused:
innsaneink
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LOL…god knows Tigh, I cant remember the topic, was about the early rounds???
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@H0ust said:
Thanks Houst,love your work,but WestsTigers for the Toyota Cup mate,Melbourne for the main game.
Chipofftheoldblock
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All good news atm however nothing is good until the club makes each signing offical.
Taumata will be a good buy for us. He will fit well with Benji in the halves.
Lui will need another year in NSW Cup to harden him up. His defence is what worries me.
We have the next best trainer in the competition in Folkes (who will also have plently to say about our defence structure) and the boys will have a even harder pre=season than last year.
The club know 2010 is the year they need to make a dent in the finals. Not come 8th and scrape through but really apply pressure for a top 4.
If Cayless and Lima are signed, then close the books and prepare for the onslaught of 2010.
Taumata will be a good buy for us. He will fit well with Benji in the halves.
Lui will need another year in NSW Cup to harden him up. His defence is what worries me.
We have the next best trainer in the competition in Folkes (who will also have plently to say about our defence structure) and the boys will have a even harder pre=season than last year.
The club know 2010 is the year they need to make a dent in the finals. Not come 8th and scrape through but really apply pressure for a top 4.
If Cayless and Lima are signed, then close the books and prepare for the onslaught of 2010.
Matthew Johns advising rugby league bad boy and Wests Tigers recruit Arana Taumata By Josh Massoud From: The Daily Telegraph November 27, 2009 12:00AM
Guidance…Wests Tigers recruit Arana Taumata has been receiving advice from Matthew Johns. Source: The Daily Telegraph
MATTY Johns hasn't been lost to rugby league. Not yet. Not while Arana Taumata repents.
Johns is out of the spotlight, the plug pulled on his coaching and media commitments. But a flicker of the larrikin who swallowed a coaching manual persists. And it will glow brighter when Taumata emerges from his own exile next season.
If you've heard of Arana Taumata, then he's the bad egg who's had as many clubs as NRL starts.
Taumata grabbed his latest lifeline from Wests Tigers last month after being tossed overboard at the Broncos, Roosters, Bulldogs and Storm. That makes him the first 20-year-old to own the dreaded journeyman tag. It's arrived this early because Taumata has been bad. So bad he recently completed community service at a Salvation Army op shop.
Equally, he's notoriously good. Damn good. If the Kiwi playmaker weren't a superstar-in-the-making, why have so many clubs been tempted into taming him?
Melbourne were confident this time last year. Coach Craig Bellamy and assistant Stephen Kearney kept him under a close watch. And with a banker in Johns, who worked one-on-one with Taumata as halves coach, the risk-reward ratio looked promising.
It took one night's play to bring their hard work undone. It was a familiar story. Wrong place, wrong time, wrong people. Some were Taumata's new teammates. He obeyed the unwritten code. It wasn't his fight, but he took one for the team nonetheless.
Recognising the circumstances weren't black and white, Melbourne responded with a brick and a bouquet. They sacked him, but also stood by him. He was deregistered by the NRL, but the club arranged professional counselling with a view to bringing Taumata back in 2010\. The Tigers eventually snuck under their guard, but the preservation of Taumata's relationship with Johns was perhaps his real saviour.
Little did either know how close they'd become. Johns' public humiliation in May also severed him from rugby league. Like Taumata, he was cut off from his life's true calling. The two castaways rode out their purgatory over the phone and at Johns' dinner table, which Taumata regularly visits for family meals.
"I spoke to Matty a lot," Taumata says.
"And he still kept in contact when he was going through a rough patch.
"Matty was probably more devastated than me - but in a different way. We talk about our situations a lot. For Matty ... it was really hard on his family.
"It wasn't just Matty who helped, it was his family and my agent Sam (Ayoub). I'm not sure our talks helped - I hope they did."
We approached Johns to find out. He doesn't covet publicity these days. But for Taumata, he elects to speak up.
"AJ has had his issues in the past - as have a lot of us," Johns says.
"Regardless of his talents as a footballer, he's got a lot of good in him as a person.
"I love having him around to the house, as does (wife) Trish and the kids. My advice to him has always been: 'Your environment is stronger than your will'."
Translation: surround yourself with good people. People like the Johns family and Tigers skipper Robbie Farah. That's Taumata's mantra these days.
His woes began when clubs housed him with adult players as a 15-year-old. He wanted to impress them, which meant visits to the TAB and pub most afternoons.
" What Matty went through is a great lesson for me," Taumata says.
"He paid for something that happened seven years earlier. If you do the wrong thing, it can always come back and get you."
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High hopes for him to get it all together in 2010.
Guidance…Wests Tigers recruit Arana Taumata has been receiving advice from Matthew Johns. Source: The Daily Telegraph
MATTY Johns hasn't been lost to rugby league. Not yet. Not while Arana Taumata repents.
Johns is out of the spotlight, the plug pulled on his coaching and media commitments. But a flicker of the larrikin who swallowed a coaching manual persists. And it will glow brighter when Taumata emerges from his own exile next season.
If you've heard of Arana Taumata, then he's the bad egg who's had as many clubs as NRL starts.
Taumata grabbed his latest lifeline from Wests Tigers last month after being tossed overboard at the Broncos, Roosters, Bulldogs and Storm. That makes him the first 20-year-old to own the dreaded journeyman tag. It's arrived this early because Taumata has been bad. So bad he recently completed community service at a Salvation Army op shop.
Equally, he's notoriously good. Damn good. If the Kiwi playmaker weren't a superstar-in-the-making, why have so many clubs been tempted into taming him?
Melbourne were confident this time last year. Coach Craig Bellamy and assistant Stephen Kearney kept him under a close watch. And with a banker in Johns, who worked one-on-one with Taumata as halves coach, the risk-reward ratio looked promising.
It took one night's play to bring their hard work undone. It was a familiar story. Wrong place, wrong time, wrong people. Some were Taumata's new teammates. He obeyed the unwritten code. It wasn't his fight, but he took one for the team nonetheless.
Recognising the circumstances weren't black and white, Melbourne responded with a brick and a bouquet. They sacked him, but also stood by him. He was deregistered by the NRL, but the club arranged professional counselling with a view to bringing Taumata back in 2010\. The Tigers eventually snuck under their guard, but the preservation of Taumata's relationship with Johns was perhaps his real saviour.
Little did either know how close they'd become. Johns' public humiliation in May also severed him from rugby league. Like Taumata, he was cut off from his life's true calling. The two castaways rode out their purgatory over the phone and at Johns' dinner table, which Taumata regularly visits for family meals.
"I spoke to Matty a lot," Taumata says.
"And he still kept in contact when he was going through a rough patch.
"Matty was probably more devastated than me - but in a different way. We talk about our situations a lot. For Matty ... it was really hard on his family.
"It wasn't just Matty who helped, it was his family and my agent Sam (Ayoub). I'm not sure our talks helped - I hope they did."
We approached Johns to find out. He doesn't covet publicity these days. But for Taumata, he elects to speak up.
"AJ has had his issues in the past - as have a lot of us," Johns says.
"Regardless of his talents as a footballer, he's got a lot of good in him as a person.
"I love having him around to the house, as does (wife) Trish and the kids. My advice to him has always been: 'Your environment is stronger than your will'."
Translation: surround yourself with good people. People like the Johns family and Tigers skipper Robbie Farah. That's Taumata's mantra these days.
His woes began when clubs housed him with adult players as a 15-year-old. He wanted to impress them, which meant visits to the TAB and pub most afternoons.
" What Matty went through is a great lesson for me," Taumata says.
"He paid for something that happened seven years earlier. If you do the wrong thing, it can always come back and get you."
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High hopes for him to get it all together in 2010.
AmericanHistoryX
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lets see how long it lasts.
