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Re: Royce Gone !! : Mon Mar 19, 2012 8:29 pm  
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It is also what happened so what's your next move?

to be fair, when he signed, they were'nt champions or looking anything like it. If he was looking for a more successful team he'd have picked us (at that time)
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Re: Royce Gone !! : Mon Mar 19, 2012 8:30 pm  
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Kite, king, griffin, hill, o'meilly, Gibbs, Lauaki, dudson off the top of my head.

Ten props in the NRL moved clubs in the off season.


Of those listed playing in Superleague this season how many have outperformed Laffranchi this season?
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Re: Royce Gone !! : Mon Mar 19, 2012 8:32 pm  
Tell you what it's bloomin busy on here tonight.
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Re: Royce Gone !! : Mon Mar 19, 2012 8:39 pm  
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Of those listed playing in Superleague this season how many have outperformed Laffranchi this season?


Kite and king play for current NRL champs. Gibbs is ten times the player laffranchci is. O'meilly is the sort of tough rough prop we need.

Not seen much of dudson and also don't know who the ten NRL props that moved are.

It's the clubs job to replace jammer, not mine.

If Royce wants to bring his old mate over to keep him company then it's back fired.

If youve ever watched laffranchci play in the NRL then you'd see he runs out wide and not down the middle.

The idea not to sign a halfback and not to replace jammer cost him his job.
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Re: Royce Gone !! : Mon Mar 19, 2012 8:43 pm  
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The idea not to sign a halfback and not to replace jammer cost him his job.

You've been on the ale again.

Royce stated quite clearly in the press at the time of seeking a replacement half for Pryce/Eastmond that there were no halfbacks available, and that Hohaia was the best out there. He also stated he wanted a prop but we have been outbid - again, an issue with the board, not Royce.

Royce did his best. Both Laffranchi and Flanagan look fine to me. They need time to settle in - and God knows what they must be thinking now. They came here because Royce was here. They now find themselves right in the middle of a catastrophe which also leaves them without the reason they came.
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Re: Royce Gone !! : Mon Mar 19, 2012 8:45 pm  
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You've been on the ale again.

Royce stated quite clearly in the press at the time of seeking a replacement half for Pryce/Eastmond that there were no halfbacks available, and that Hohaia was the best out there. He also stated he wanted a prop but we have been outbid - again, an issue with the board, not Royce.

Royce did his best. Both Laffranchi and Flanagan look fine to me. They need time to settle in - and God knows what they must be thinking now. They came here because Royce was here. They now find themselves right in the middle of a catastrophe which also leaves them without the reason they came.


No halfbacks available so we give a fullback 4yr deal. Great thinking!

To be honest I don't take notice of anything Royce says as 99% of the time it's utter crap.
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Re: Royce Gone !! : Mon Mar 19, 2012 9:17 pm  
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No halfbacks available so we give a fullback 4yr deal. Great thinking!

Look, Pete, you were shown evidence when you last blathered on about this that Hohaia has played in the halves previously, including at first team level. That's where he began. He prefers it there and he came to saints to play there. He was only shifted to fullback a few years ago.

To be honest I don't take notice of anything Royce says as 99% of the time it's utter crap.

Nah. You're talking about yourself again.
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Re: Royce Gone !! : Mon Mar 19, 2012 9:19 pm  
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Kite and king play for current NRL champs. Gibbs is ten times the player laffranchci is. O'meilly is the sort of tough rough prop we need.

Not seen much of dudson and also don't know who the ten NRL props that moved are.

It's the clubs job to replace jammer, not mine.

If Royce wants to bring his old mate over to keep him company then it's back fired.

If youve ever watched laffranchci play in the NRL then you'd see he runs out wide and not down the middle.

The idea not to sign a halfback and not to replace jammer cost him his job.


I'm gonna go ahead and guess you didn't read the post.

Kite and King currently play for the NRL Champs... exactly, would we have been able to attract and afford them?

Gibbs is 10 times the player Laffranchi is... 1) He's 27, 2) a current origin player & 3) In late 2010 "he signed a contract to remain with the Wests Tigers until the end of the 2014 season. However, by the middle of 2011, Wests Tigers had released Gibbs in order to make room for Adam Blair, and he signed a three year conract with the Cronulla Sharks from the start of 2012 - We would never have been able to afford or attract him either

O'Meley... is currently mid-way through a lucrative contract with Hull

Lauaki's stats aren't as good as Laffranchi's thus far, Dudson if I'm correct has yet to even play, Chris Hill's stats (though 2 games less) are comparable at best, Darrell Griffin's stats are currently inferior...
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Re: Royce Gone !! : Mon Mar 19, 2012 9:20 pm  
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Look, Pete, you were shown evidence when you last blathered on about this that Hohaia has played in the halves previously, including at first team level. That's where he began. He prefers it there and he came to saints to play there. He was only shifted to fullback a few years ago.

Nah. You're talking about yourself again.


Why hasn't he been playing in the halves then?

Don't say because roby is out, he was on the bench before robes got hurt.
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Re: Royce Gone !! : Mon Mar 19, 2012 9:23 pm  
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Why hasn't he been playing in the halves then?

The man has only just landed in this country, although God knows he must be wondering what on earth he has let himself in for. You don't throw someone who knows nothing about the ethos, structure, etc of a team straight in at the deep end if you don't have to. He has played in the halves though and we won those games (although that could be coincidence of course). But not consistently as yet because he needed time and Royce wanted to keep his players fresh to get a GF win this time, so he was rotating them.
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