Who is Matt Groat?

gallagher

@batboy said in Who is Matt Groat?:

@cleanskin said in Who is Matt Groat?:

Bumped into Tim Sheen’s of all people and we got chatting.
My first question I’ve always wanted to ask him was Why Matt Groat? He wasn’t ready and got belted.
He saw a little himself in Matt. He just had a soft spot for the kid and gave him a shot.
It’s that simple.

Glad it was never about winning for Sheens - Couldn’t give David Gower a run from 09 on - but had a spot for Groat.
Never forget Groat asleep at marker in the Warriors final - Kevin Locke used him as a slip and slide on the way to a long range try.
Groat doesn’t play - we win the 2011 GF

Nope, Benji and Robbie don’t take a selfish option on the short side and lose possession instead of a safe play, we win that game. Egos.

I held those two up as elite/ marquee players up until that game.

rustycage

I dabbled with the devil’s herb far too much in my youth to remember this far back.

innsaneink

I thought Groat was unfairly compared to Woods a lot when they first made grade about the same time.
I was wrong

happy_tiger

@innsaneink said in Who is Matt Groat?:

I thought Groat was unfairly compared to Woods a lot when they first made grade about the same time.
I was wrong

We kept Groat and let go Fifita , Bryce Gibbs and Rhino

When you look at what then happened with Dwyer and then releasing Ellis …major repercussions later on

jadtiger

@happy_tiger said in Who is Matt Groat?:

@innsaneink said in Who is Matt Groat?:

I thought Groat was unfairly compared to Woods a lot when they first made grade about the same time.
I was wrong

We kept Groat and let go Fifita , Bryce Gibbs and Rhino

When you look at what then happened with Dwyer and then releasing Ellis …major repercussions later on

Pure Sheenius

OzLuke

@cochise said in Who is Matt Groat?:

@jirskyr said in Who is Matt Groat?:

@batboy said in Who is Matt Groat?:

@cleanskin said in Who is Matt Groat?:

Bumped into Tim Sheen’s of all people and we got chatting.
My first question I’ve always wanted to ask him was Why Matt Groat? He wasn’t ready and got belted.
He saw a little himself in Matt. He just had a soft spot for the kid and gave him a shot.
It’s that simple.

Glad it was never about winning for Sheens - Couldn’t give David Gower a run from 09 on - but had a spot for Groat.
Never forget Groat asleep at marker in the Warriors final - Kevin Locke used him as a slip and slide on the way to a long range try.
Groat doesn’t play - we win the 2011 GF

Oh nothing to do at all with the short-side raid with a kick out on the full, or Lawrence/Tuqiri unable to clean up a fairly regulation bomb?

You know what hurts most about those moments all these years later?

They are the dying moments of our last finals game, think about how long ago that feels and there hasn’t been a finals moment to erase that feeling after that game.

And good to see we’re arguing over who’s fault it was that cost us the game ten years on hahaha…

My money is on Brooks…it’s his fault we lost…

Who is Matt Groat?

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