Matt McIlwrick

[magpiecol]

Awesome. This is honestly great cap management. Pay Robbie who is the SOO hooker not to play with us next year and sign this guy.

Brilliance.

Don't you know JT knows exactly what he is doing :laughing:

Build a bridge!!

:deadhorse:

 

[851]

Awesome. This is honestly great cap management. Pay Robbie who is the SOO hooker not to play with us next year and sign this guy.

Brilliance.

Don't you know JT knows exactly what he is doing :laughing:

Build a bridge!!

:deadhorse:

I can go on about our coach as much as like, in fact I would really like to ramp it right up because I have no time for him, his people management, team selections and hollow promises of fixing our defence and accountability, how is that for a start.

 

[innsaneink]

Do people understand what 'depth' signing means

They should… It's all we ever get it seems

How many NRL games has MM played?

 

[Nelson]

Do people understand what 'depth' signing means

They should… It's all we ever get it seems

How many NRL games has MM played?

About 15

Edit: Actually 28

 

[Tigerdon]

Looks like the roosters-signed-Paul Carter today

 

[Russell]

Awesome. This is honestly great cap management. Pay Robbie who is the SOO hooker not to play with us next year and sign this guy.

Brilliance.

Don't you know JT knows exactly what he is doing :laughing:

Build a bridge!!

:deadhorse:

I can go on about our coach as much as like, in fact I would really like to ramp it right up because I have no time for him, his people management, team selections and hollow promises of fixing our defence and accountability, how is that for a start.

Have you anything new to add to your 851 Taylor bashing posts throughout 2016?

Surely we are not going to get JT bashings throughout the whole off season.

We know how you feel, we know what you think of JT - we don't need it shoved down our necks.

 

[Guest]

With the loss of Farah and Cherrington we needed a backup hooker for depth. I don't know why people are blowing up over this…

 

[happy_tiger]

With the loss of Farah and Cherrington we needed a backup hooker for depth. I don't know why people are blowing up over this…

Pretty simple

Some on the Forum don't have a clue , another portion of the Forum have had to pull down their stained Robbie Farah posters and the majority of the rest just want to stick a knife in the coach whenever they can

 

[Chevy]

JT didn't like Cherrington because he had the audacity to question why he wasn't getting selected,so from then on he was on the outer at WT with little option but to find another club.

 

[jirskyr]

With the loss of Farah and Cherrington we needed a backup hooker for depth. I don't know why people are blowing up over this…

Pretty simple

Some on the Forum don't have a clue , another portion of the Forum have had to pull down their stained Robbie Farah posters and the majority of the rest just want to stick a knife in the coach whenever they can

It's almost like half the whingers haven't figured out yet that Farah was not dumped because he wasn't a decent hooker, but because he wasn't the hooker the coach wanted. You sign a bloke like McIlwrick not as a replacement per se, but to complement the build of the team you want.

Doggies didn't want Ennis and he ended up with a premiership at Cronulla, does that mean Doggies made a huge mistake or was he just not the type of player they wanted any more?

Jacob Liddle could certainly end up becoming WT's Michael Lichaa.

 

[happy_tiger]

With the loss of Farah and Cherrington we needed a backup hooker for depth. I don't know why people are blowing up over this…

Pretty simple

Some on the Forum don't have a clue , another portion of the Forum have had to pull down their stained Robbie Farah posters and the majority of the rest just want to stick a knife in the coach whenever they can

It's almost like half the whingers haven't figured out yet that Farah was not dumped because he wasn't a decent hooker, but because he wasn't the hooker the coach wanted. You sign a bloke like McIlwrick not as a replacement per se, but to complement the build of the team you want.

Doggies didn't want Ennis and he ended up with a premiership at Cronulla, does that mean Doggies made a huge mistake or was he just not the type of player they wanted any more?

Jacob Liddle could certainly end up becoming WT's Michael Lichaa.

Lot of good judges rate Liddle and he sort of reminds me a bit of Cam Smith with some toe , even their running styles are similar

We can only hope

 

[stevetiger]

With the loss of Farah and Cherrington we needed a backup hooker for depth. I don't know why people are blowing up over this…

I think the better option would have been to keep at least one of these guys. Paying out Robbie to play elsewhere is madness.

Still it's done. I doubt it will work out but it's only one year where we really struggle with this. Robbie's payout surely ends next year.

 

[Masterton]

Awesome. This is honestly great cap management. Pay Robbie who is the SOO hooker not to play with us next year and sign this guy.

Brilliance.

When people make this point (which is clearly true) all I can think is, "Farah must REALLY have some problems if they were that keen to get rid of him."

 

[TCL]

Awesome. This is honestly great cap management. Pay Robbie who is the SOO hooker not to play with us next year and sign this guy.

Brilliance.

When people make this point (which is clearly true) all I can think is, "Farah must REALLY have some problems if they were that keen to get rid of him."

Can't help but think the same, but he is at the bunnies for 2 years so let's see what comes from his time there, also Laurie never had a problem with him at SOO.

So in two years time we maybe relieved his gone or turn our attentions elsewhere.

The decision had very little to do with cap or playing structures.

 

[palms]

He's an upgrade on Halatau and Rankin at hooker. If Ballin/Liddle combo stay fit then he won't see first grade anyway. People grossly u derestimate the difference Ballin will make to our team, it's just a matter of keeping him on the park. Liddle to start the year coming on 15min before halftime/fulltime will add the spark when Woods goes off.

It all hinges on Ballin staying on the park though…

 

[Cultured_Bogan]

If Ballin stays fit he'll do a very good job. He wasn't let go from Manly because of form, if anything he was in the same position as Farah. Didn't fit in with coaches plans so he was moved on. He still has a lot to offer at his age, if his body will let him. If he doesn't reckon he'll go around much longer, I don't see why he doesn't bite the bullet and get the LARS procedure done as Covell did it in his last year and it held up. There must be a reason why players don't turn to it that isn't well publicised.

 

[stevetiger]

Awesome. This is honestly great cap management. Pay Robbie who is the SOO hooker not to play with us next year and sign this guy.

Brilliance.

When people make this point (which is clearly true) all I can think is, "Farah must REALLY have some problems if they were that keen to get rid of him."

The thing is you have to really go looking for some issue that we don't know about and like you state it has to be extreme. It sounds a bit funny to me because he has been with us for years and there haven't been any significant issues.

I think Taylor simply stuffed up. He has made a lot of mistakes and why would this be any different.

 

[Nelson]

If Ballin stays fit he'll do a very good job. He wasn't let go from Manly because of form, if anything he was in the same position as Farah. Didn't fit in with coaches plans so he was moved on. He still has a lot to offer at his age, if his body will let him. If he doesn't reckon he'll go around much longer, I don't see why he doesn't bite the bullet and get the LARS procedure done as Covell did it in his last year and it held up. There must be a reason why players don't turn to it that isn't well publicised.

It probably involves more risk. They're probably hoping to live another 50 or 60 years after retiring from League and they don't want to spend that time on bung knees. They can only take so much surgery.

 

[Cultured_Bogan]

If Ballin stays fit he'll do a very good job. He wasn't let go from Manly because of form, if anything he was in the same position as Farah. Didn't fit in with coaches plans so he was moved on. He still has a lot to offer at his age, if his body will let him. If he doesn't reckon he'll go around much longer, I don't see why he doesn't bite the bullet and get the LARS procedure done as Covell did it in his last year and it held up. There must be a reason why players don't turn to it that isn't well publicised.

It probably involves more risk. They're probably hoping to live another 50 or 60 years after retiring from League and they don't want to spend that time on bung knees. They can only take so much surgery.

Yeah I get that, but you consider someone like Moltzen who did his ACL what three or four times, how much more susceptible in future is he of repeating the injury just in day to day tasks? You'd think he'd be more at risk. Is the LARS surgery any more of a risk than conventional repair?

 

[Nelson]

If Ballin stays fit he'll do a very good job. He wasn't let go from Manly because of form, if anything he was in the same position as Farah. Didn't fit in with coaches plans so he was moved on. He still has a lot to offer at his age, if his body will let him. If he doesn't reckon he'll go around much longer, I don't see why he doesn't bite the bullet and get the LARS procedure done as Covell did it in his last year and it held up. There must be a reason why players don't turn to it that isn't well publicised.

It probably involves more risk. They're probably hoping to live another 50 or 60 years after retiring from League and they don't want to spend that time on bung knees. They can only take so much surgery.

Yeah I get that, but you consider someone like Moltzen who did his ACL what three or four times, how much more susceptible in future is he of repeating the injury just in day to day tasks? You'd think he'd be more at risk. Is the LARS surgery any more of a risk than conventional repair?

I found an article from a couple of years ago that indicates that:
- A higher % of LARS reconstructions have re-ruptured than conventional recos; and
- LARS carries the inevitability of further surgery down the track as the synthetic ligament will degrade over time.