My new favourite player. Sign him for 10 years. What a great man.

I feel sorry for Matto. Plus guys like Garner, ET and Momo who finished the year really strongly. Momo got dealt a really bad hand today having to play fullback.

Make no mistake, if we pull this off, it will be the biggest thing that has happened to this club since 2005. It will all but make up for losing Tedesco. This is a defining moment imo.

Props to the guy. The only commentator who has had the balls to come out and find a justification in why the club has not offered Marshall a contract next year, actually addressing what a liability he is in defence. Contrast that with blocker who spent the night kissing his taint. Maybe if more commentators were as honest as Smith, Marshall’s ego would be in check and he wouldn’t be throwing the toys out of the cot about not being offered a new contract.

Only a week in to 2020, and already we have a winner for biggest forum topic name let down.

We’ve given up Aloiai and Sam Mac for Tamou and Joe Offa. That is a big win imo.

Heart and soul of the club. Will finish his career with 250 games plus for the club and will be the clubs all time leading try scorer by a mile. Club legend.

I joined the forum at the start of 2011. From 2012 onwards we’ve missed the finals every year. Being on this forum without us playing finals is all I know. It’s all the majority of us know since a lot of regulars have joined after me and have been on here for years and years. I really don’t know what it’s like to discuss a successful team. My time has been made up of crisis after crisis. From Farah vs JT to Cleary to losing Tedesco. . It’s sad. I feel sorry for all of us cos we devote so much time and emotion to this place, and they suck it out of you till you become irreverent to everything. Which on the surface seems great cos you don’t have to feel the lows like tonight. But it sucks, cos you want to bleed with your team, it shouldn’t get you to a point where you don’t even care when we lose. But it does.

Idk if it’s been mentioned, but Penrith’s negotiations with Stephen Crichton have stalled. Assuming we get Joe O, and maybe Siro, I’d be making him one hell of an offer for 2022. We have a truckload to spend, and apparently have the ability to offload BJ. I’d almost make him priority number 1.

I remember at the 03 World Sevens hearing about a kid named Ben Marshall. Didn’t create too much fanfare. Wasn’t till about midway through that season there started to be rumblings about a young Kiwi kid coming through our system who was something special. After the horror’s of those first few seasons, the wasted money, off field scandal after off field scandal, out of all that manure out he popped from the ground. It gave the supporters such a buzz that we actually had something special on our hands. We’d been a joke of a club since inception and now we had a kid who gave us credibility and gave us something that 15 other clubs were envious of us for. Looking back, it was a great time. It was like knowing there was a massive storm rolling in and knowing the thunder clap was going to be a game changer.

I’ll never forget the try he set up at Shark Park in 05, stepping 3 players, drawing the fullback and throwing a no look pass to set up the try. Probably my all time favourite try. We were really spoiled watching him do some of the stuff he did. The pass around his back to put Ayshford in the corner against Parra at the SFS in 2009 was another one of his moments of genius.

I’ve had a real love hate relationship over the years. He was dead to me when he left, his ego was out of control at that point. I think his time away humbled him a lot and he had grown up, and he came back to the club as a man. I’m grateful to have had the chance to watch him again these last 3 years, and I’m really going to try and savour this last month, as I think we all should. He’s the last surviving member of the 05 side. That in itself is something big, cos when he’s gone, it will be the end of an era. I personally don’t care about wins or losses or his form over the next few weeks, I just want to enjoy him running around in the jersey while I can.

A 21 year old debutant spinner made more impact on day 1 than the Lyon did on day 5. Let that sink in.

Stick a fork in Warner, Wade, Paine, Lyon and Starc.

What was the point of him asking if the hotdog tasted cooked? Talk about pointless dialogue

@Geo said in Cricket Season Thread:

@GNR4LIFE said in Cricket Season Thread:

And stick a fork in Lyon, he’s done.

Surprise…you showed up…

Stick a fork in Davey too

He’s more wooden than Greg Sestero in The Room.

Heart and soul of the club. Will finish his career with 250 games plus for the club and will be the clubs all time leading try scorer by a mile. Club legend.

Tiger for life

Seriously, if Matt Wade is in one of the 6 best batsmen in the country, then Australian cricket is in a very weak state.

Saw this and thought it was worth posting

Donald Trump versus Charles Manson. Here’s some things they have in common:
1.) The cult of personality to the point of brainwashing their members. Both brainwashed their cult members into believing incredibly unbelievable things. Manson: that the Beatles song Helter Skelter was a message predicting inter-racial war in the United States. Trump: that the election was stolen, that he was cheated, that people’s votes weren’t counted, that our democracy was under attack by Democrats.
2.) Infamous acts of terror. Manson: on August 8, 1969 he gave his followers a pep talk, sent them out on a mission to a particular house (10050 Cielo Drive) to start their revolution. Trump: on January 6, 2021 he gave his followers a pep talk, sent them on a mission down Pennsylvania Avenue, and his minions dutifully stormed the capitol on his behalf. The end result? In both instances, 5 people died.
3.) Neither Manson nor Trump physically killed anyone. Manson and Trump did not go with their people — they had their followers do their dirty work. We refer to Manson as the most horrendous murderer in the United States, but he didn’t physically kill. Same with Trump. Manson told his followers “if you’re going to do something do it well and leave something witchy” — he always said he never specifically told his cult members to murder, that they did that on their own. The same way that Rudy Giuliani, who warmed the stage for Trump on January 6th, called for “trial by combat” against the Democrats. The same way that Donald Trump Jr. threatened the Republican members of Congress who didn’t back his father’s claim to the presidency: “we’re coming for you.” The same way Trump incited the mob and lit the flame by refusing to concede, by calling the election outcomes an “egregious assault on our democracy,” telling his mob of supporters to “fight like hell, and if you don’t fight like hell, you’re not going to have a country anymore” before he turned them loose on the capitol.
4.) Both Trump and Manson never blamed themselves, never saw themselves as culpable for their followers’ actions, and never condemned the deeds of their followers. Manson: when his followers returned from Sharon Tate’s house, he was there to greet them, he was there for his “family.” Trump: as his followers stormed the capitol, he recorded a video message to them, calling them “great patriots,” saying he loved them and that they’re “very special.”
So which cult leader is worse? Trump is worse. His lies led an insurrection. He turned his followers into seditionists on a war path to lynch Mike Pence. The rioters brought pipe bombs to the capitol. They set up a hangman’s rope and chanted “hang Mike Pence” when the vice president didn’t overturn the election (something he wasn’t able to do in the first place). They brought guns, zip ties, went so far as to beat cops with the American flag, and Trump hasn’t faced nearly enough of the consequences, except for private companies stepping up to stop him from continuing his coup on social media. Manson is dead and his cult is in jail, but Trump and his cult still present a very real, very present danger to our country.

@Cultured_Bogan said in Politics Super Thread - keep it all in here:

Is there anything to be gained out of attempting to impeach him again? By the time the process is started won’t Biden be inaugurated? And can he be impeached posthumously (posthumously in the sense that he won’t be president by the time it is confirmed.)

The government is basically in caretaker mode now until January 20th. The guy will probably go to ground given that he has no vehicle to rant on. He’s had all the oxygen taken away, I don’t think there is any genuine positives in removing him now other than abject humiliation which could cause more problems.

Don’t worry about Impeachment, what about the 25th. The POTUS, whipped his base into a frenzy, they went into the Capital Building with the intent to murder the VP. Yet the VP doesn’t think that the man who encouraged it needs to be removed. Old Mike is probably still more offended by those evil homosexuals