: Wed May 13, 2009 6:28 pm  

tvoc wrote:

Surprised he went for Noble as his best coach.

Well, he's not tested himself playing under a half decent coach in the NRL ...

Another one of those I-want-to-test-myself-in-Australia type players, until it comes to the crunch and in reality they'd prefer to run a few sandwich shops, rather than test themselves down under.

: Wed May 13, 2009 6:56 pm  

AdmiralHanson wrote:

Well, he's not tested himself playing under a half decent coach in the NRL ...

Another one of those I-want-to-test-myself-in-Australia type players, until it comes to the crunch and in reality they'd prefer to run a few sandwich shops, rather than test themselves down under.

He can earn more over here I would have thought. Which in fairness would be my priority. Short career and all that. The point he makes about his friends and family is a fair one also. Brian Carney and Richie Mathers both apparently struggled with homesickness being so far away from friends and family.

: Thu May 14, 2009 11:28 am  

AdmiralHanson wrote:

Well, he's not tested himself playing under a half decent coach in the NRL ...

Another one of those I-want-to-test-myself-in-Australia type players, until it comes to the crunch and in reality they'd prefer to run a few sandwich shops, rather than test themselves down under.

Like Peacock you mean?

: Thu May 14, 2009 11:33 am  

Lord_Percy wrote:

Like Peacock you mean?

Been there, done that.

: Thu May 14, 2009 11:37 am  

Spent force is Fielden.

It doesn't seem to be through lack of effort, he just gets bullied a lot on the pitch.

Last week at Wakie he celebrated his try like he'd won a grand final. Fair enough, a prop who hasn't scored in years, ok I get that, and it was an important try in the game. But all he did was bump off Sam Obst, he should be doing that on a weekly basis, at least. So he seemed more surprised than anyone when it happened.

He still has the build, and he does seem to put the work in, but he doesn't impress anymore. Far from it, usually A Another.

: Thu May 14, 2009 11:51 am  

thebloodbath wrote:

Spent force is Fielden.

It doesn't seem to be through lack of effort, he just gets bullied a lot on the pitch.

Last week at Wakie he celebrated his try like he'd won a grand final. Fair enough, a prop who hasn't scored in years, ok I get that, and it was an important try in the game. But all he did was bump off Sam Obst, he should be doing that on a weekly basis, at least. So he seemed more surprised than anyone when it happened.

He still has the build, and he does seem to put the work in, but he doesn't impress anymore. Far from it, usually A Another.

He runs like the man in your avator.

: Thu May 14, 2009 11:53 am  

Ashmeister wrote:

He runs like the man in your avator.

Good to see you reference The Most Feared Man In Super League as a 'man'. Shame I can't refer to you in the same way.

Run along now little girl.

: Thu May 14, 2009 12:12 pm  

AdmiralHanson wrote:

... rather than test themselves down under.

Fnaar, fnaar.

: Thu May 14, 2009 1:30 pm  

Lord_Percy wrote:

Like Peacock you mean?

And Sinfield, Burrow, McGuire, JJB etc

: Thu May 14, 2009 1:45 pm  

Tony Soprano wrote:

And Sinfield, Burrow, McGuire, JJB etc

I don't remember any of those specifically talking about "testing" themselves in the NRL, whereas people such as Fielden, Peacock, Cunningham, et al, have.

I know people have mentioned about the likes of McGuire going over, but I don't recall anything from the player himself.