jrtiger
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wouldn't be opposed mate, but I do think he's currently best suited to the wing. time will tell.
OFFICIAL Terrell May #296
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jirskyr
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I don't do any of those social platforms and won't be signing up, but thanks for the link.
finnzo
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The YouTube video he did with his father and brothers was interesting to listen to
Kaito
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A lot of talk bro I'm geeing you up too — if you've
been reading this but now is your time F the otherside.
We need a bully. I challenge you to take Stefano's
jersey when Laurie is selecting his blues team sheeesh
been reading this but now is your time F the otherside.
We need a bully. I challenge you to take Stefano's
jersey when Laurie is selecting his blues team sheeesh
upthetigers
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Laurie's selections are questionable to say the least
crazycat
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Honestly Stef has done nothing to deserve that Jersey.
Look he has performed, but never at Origin level.
May, this is your opportunity.
crazycat
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Someone explain again why Easts released May and we have him?
It just seems so strange to me.
High performing Prop at Easts, they let him go saying "not the direction we want to go down".
We end up getting him. It seems because Newcastle was trying to keep Thompson and the Bulldogs were trying to sign others. ... It's just weird.
Either Easts has an actual plan and May did not fit. I don't get how this works. OR May has troubles that are nto public, but that doesn't seem the case.
It seems the worst part of his signings is his brothers may turn up to training.
It just seems so strange to me.
High performing Prop at Easts, they let him go saying "not the direction we want to go down".
We end up getting him. It seems because Newcastle was trying to keep Thompson and the Bulldogs were trying to sign others. ... It's just weird.
Either Easts has an actual plan and May did not fit. I don't get how this works. OR May has troubles that are nto public, but that doesn't seem the case.
It seems the worst part of his signings is his brothers may turn up to training.
upthetigers
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Who knows bro. I read something about how Terrell said he wasn't sure if he really wanted to play footy maybe the roosters were questioning his commitment but if you look at his performances you wouldn't know.
There was also the video where he was sniffing and it looked a bit sus. At the end of the day who really cares, he's a tiger now. I really can't wait until we play his former club. He will be wanting to make a statement no doubt.
Who's the top dog. It's Terrell. That's who.
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TigerNeddyK
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I’d say that is the best part .. taylan with the charges dropped and wanting to be part of the team would be fantastic
finnzo
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Y
You can take the boy out of western Sydney but you carnt take the western Sydney out of the boy. Imagine going from mount druit to Bondi huge change for him he probably struggled to fit in
Rock Hopper Steve
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Not everyone can fit in with the latte sippers.
Jolls
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I watched the episode with his father and brother the other day. I grew up in Tregear and know all of the places they visited well. Although the flats have definitely gone downhill over the last 50 years! Still go back there to catch up with mates who never left. I never found the place intimidating then, or now. Prefer to live in the country as opposed to there now though.
Never really did fit in with the latte sippers and wine snobs. I think I understand why! 🤣
I know that hill very well too!
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He didn’t fit in with the culture . And I think he told Robbo he’s not as good as he thinks he is .
If you’re not knee deep into the culture out of Moore Park , they don’t keep you .
Justin Hodges is a real famous one of this ! Even Matterson had similar stories when he left there to here . I guess time will tell !
magpies forever
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I have to say everything May has said and done since coming here seems to have brought an energy to things and hope for our forward pack to hold their own. Like the guy.
WesternSuburbsBoy
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https://www.smh.com.au/sport/nrl/te...riguing-cat-won-t-change-20250114-p5l4al.html
Terrell May is half right. Interest in the rat-tailed, 108-kilogram Wests Tigers recruit who “raw dogs” marathons in his spare time and can’t help speak his mind, is all too real.
His unceremonious, mysterious to the point of scurrilous, exit from the Roosters put one of the game’s more intriguing characters under an unwanted spotlight.
In a sport of buttoned-down cliches, choreographed media access and almost any comment outside this being seized by opposition, pundits and punters, you wonder if May might take a step back.
One of 2024’s most candid interviews - when May told this masthead of his complicated relationship with the game and that “Sometimes I just get, ‘I don’t want to be there and don’t want to play’” - was, after all, twisted by some into the catalyst for the Roosters moving him on six months after doubling his salary in a two-year extension.
“No, I’m not going to change that. I don’t care about other people’s opinions,” May says
“I might sound like a gronk, but I’ll always just worry about the people that are close to me - their opinion, and the opinion I have of myself.
“I’ve always wanted to be real. The worst thing for me would be if I was fake. I hate when someone puts a fake persona on. I want to be true to myself, no matter if people like it or not. People see fake, and people can tell if you’re being real.
“And before I was an NRL player, no one had a say in my life. Now that I’ve played NRL, what, people can have a say? Their opinion is up to them, but it doesn’t really matter to me.”
May can understand the reluctance of players to reveal their deepest thoughts to the world.
He’s 25 and after joining the Tigers on a three-year deal worth around $2 million, is preparing for just the third full NRL campaign of his career.
Before a breakout 2024 campaign and dramatic off-season, May walked away from rugby league twice, battling for motivation while on a train-and-trial deal with the Tigers four years ago.
Comparisons to his brothers Tyrone and Taylan - both no longer in the NRL due to serious and well-documented off-field issues - are loathed by the middle sibling.
Overwhelmingly, May’s family is why he plays the game, though his last name has made him a target as well.
“I think people go into their shell with criticism, and that’s pretty easy to do, you can understand it,” May says.
“When I came into the game, people hated me for my last name before I had even debuted.
“I feel like I’m used to it. If you want to hate me, hate me. I can’t change that, but I’d bet those people don’t know who I am either, or know what I do day-in, day-out.”
May returns to the Tigers as one of the NRL’s most promising young props, but sees himself as the “same guy, just nowhere near as shy” as the 20-year-old who called it quits during the first COVID-19 lockdown.
Coach Benji Marshall, who took May under his wing during his last season playing at Concord, “is still the same, good person, still a family man.
And by his admission, what May does day-in, day-out can get a bit weird too.
Wests Tigers medical staff didn’t believe May when he told them before Christmas that he was planning to run a marathon to keep fit over the holiday break.
Especially considering May “just went and raw dogged it, I didn’t do any prep for it and that’s what stuffed me.”
With no long-distance training and carrying the post-Christmas extra ham and gravy on a front-rower’s frame, May trotted 10 kilometres from his Mount Druitt home to Werrington Park, then trudged through another 32 with mate Paul Blake.
Chiefly because he had already told the world that he would on James Graham’s The Bye Round podcast.
“I was running at a 7:40 (minutes per kilometre) pace, which is not the best pace but I couldn’t feel my legs after 10 kms,” May says.
“I said I was going to do it, so I figured I had to go and do it. Pretty early on I’m thinking ‘what the hell am I doing this for?’ and as soon as it finished I couldn’t walk and the next day I was broken, and the day after that I was even worse.
“I trained two days after but my legs were just gone. But 42 kilometres is 42 kilometres”.
May documented the whole undertaking on his YouTube, Instagram and TikTok pages and has started a rolling video diary featuring everything from his first day at Tigers training to kebab reviews, while he has been streaming his online gaming for years.
“There’s a massive negative side to social media, I still cop my trolls and my abuse, but what do you do?” he says.
“Everyone does and I can’t waste my time or career on a troll. Obviously, there’s days when you want to say something back to someone who’s abusing you, and I have said stuff back, but really, it all means nothing doesn’t it?
“But the other side of social media I think is quite cool. There’s a little community around my gaming and now the other stuff too.
“There’s people who come week-in, week-out, they’ll watch me game or watch my blogs and we’ll talk. It’s something different but like I said I still think it’s weird people find me interesting.
“I guess people like the raw side of things.”
Terrell May admits he ‘sounds like a gronk’. But the NRL’s most intriguing cat won’t change
“People actually find me interesting. It’s weird.”Terrell May is half right. Interest in the rat-tailed, 108-kilogram Wests Tigers recruit who “raw dogs” marathons in his spare time and can’t help speak his mind, is all too real.
His unceremonious, mysterious to the point of scurrilous, exit from the Roosters put one of the game’s more intriguing characters under an unwanted spotlight.
In a sport of buttoned-down cliches, choreographed media access and almost any comment outside this being seized by opposition, pundits and punters, you wonder if May might take a step back.
One of 2024’s most candid interviews - when May told this masthead of his complicated relationship with the game and that “Sometimes I just get, ‘I don’t want to be there and don’t want to play’” - was, after all, twisted by some into the catalyst for the Roosters moving him on six months after doubling his salary in a two-year extension.
“No, I’m not going to change that. I don’t care about other people’s opinions,” May says
“I might sound like a gronk, but I’ll always just worry about the people that are close to me - their opinion, and the opinion I have of myself.
“I’ve always wanted to be real. The worst thing for me would be if I was fake. I hate when someone puts a fake persona on. I want to be true to myself, no matter if people like it or not. People see fake, and people can tell if you’re being real.
“And before I was an NRL player, no one had a say in my life. Now that I’ve played NRL, what, people can have a say? Their opinion is up to them, but it doesn’t really matter to me.”
May can understand the reluctance of players to reveal their deepest thoughts to the world.
He’s 25 and after joining the Tigers on a three-year deal worth around $2 million, is preparing for just the third full NRL campaign of his career.
Before a breakout 2024 campaign and dramatic off-season, May walked away from rugby league twice, battling for motivation while on a train-and-trial deal with the Tigers four years ago.
Comparisons to his brothers Tyrone and Taylan - both no longer in the NRL due to serious and well-documented off-field issues - are loathed by the middle sibling.
Overwhelmingly, May’s family is why he plays the game, though his last name has made him a target as well.
“I think people go into their shell with criticism, and that’s pretty easy to do, you can understand it,” May says.
“When I came into the game, people hated me for my last name before I had even debuted.
“I feel like I’m used to it. If you want to hate me, hate me. I can’t change that, but I’d bet those people don’t know who I am either, or know what I do day-in, day-out.”
May returns to the Tigers as one of the NRL’s most promising young props, but sees himself as the “same guy, just nowhere near as shy” as the 20-year-old who called it quits during the first COVID-19 lockdown.
Coach Benji Marshall, who took May under his wing during his last season playing at Concord, “is still the same, good person, still a family man.
“Meeting him to talk through the contract again, it felt just like five years ago when he’d look after me. It’d be so wrong for me to come here and kick rocks. I’m here to show Benji and the club that I’m all in, I’m here to win.”
And by his admission, what May does day-in, day-out can get a bit weird too.
Wests Tigers medical staff didn’t believe May when he told them before Christmas that he was planning to run a marathon to keep fit over the holiday break.
Especially considering May “just went and raw dogged it, I didn’t do any prep for it and that’s what stuffed me.”
With no long-distance training and carrying the post-Christmas extra ham and gravy on a front-rower’s frame, May trotted 10 kilometres from his Mount Druitt home to Werrington Park, then trudged through another 32 with mate Paul Blake.
Chiefly because he had already told the world that he would on James Graham’s The Bye Round podcast.
“I was running at a 7:40 (minutes per kilometre) pace, which is not the best pace but I couldn’t feel my legs after 10 kms,” May says.
“I said I was going to do it, so I figured I had to go and do it. Pretty early on I’m thinking ‘what the hell am I doing this for?’ and as soon as it finished I couldn’t walk and the next day I was broken, and the day after that I was even worse.
“I trained two days after but my legs were just gone. But 42 kilometres is 42 kilometres”.
May documented the whole undertaking on his YouTube, Instagram and TikTok pages and has started a rolling video diary featuring everything from his first day at Tigers training to kebab reviews, while he has been streaming his online gaming for years.
“There’s a massive negative side to social media, I still cop my trolls and my abuse, but what do you do?” he says.
“Everyone does and I can’t waste my time or career on a troll. Obviously, there’s days when you want to say something back to someone who’s abusing you, and I have said stuff back, but really, it all means nothing doesn’t it?
“But the other side of social media I think is quite cool. There’s a little community around my gaming and now the other stuff too.
“There’s people who come week-in, week-out, they’ll watch me game or watch my blogs and we’ll talk. It’s something different but like I said I still think it’s weird people find me interesting.
“I guess people like the raw side of things.”
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Kaito
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Correct answer. He can be who he is here at the club.
He's not a bad guy, it's slack & ignorant to judge him
Kaito
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We're here 4 the raw side of things anyway smh...
GNR4LIFE
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I have no interest in whatever star he’s trying to be on Social Media. I just want him to become a leader on the field.
Kaito
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You have a very keen interest as evidenced by your
post history but I agree with you whole heartedly
