Re: Adam Quinlan : Tue Jun 30, 2015 11:56 am  

This is getting tedious and we're going in circles.

You're entitled to your opinion. It's not mine.

Re: Adam Quinlan : Tue Jun 30, 2015 12:19 pm  

So is he signing or not? Meant to be here today?

Re: Adam Quinlan : Tue Jun 30, 2015 12:34 pm  

St pete wrote:

That inglis is awful. Would much prefer Mcdonnell

Not as good as this pearler from the Wigan rumour thread:

moto748 wrote:

Pat Richards can still do things with a football that no-one else seems to be able to do: not Thurston, not anyone.

At least two of those posts have to be in jest?

Re: Adam Quinlan : Tue Jun 30, 2015 12:38 pm  

That's the good thing about opinions Mugwump. They can't be wrong.
Life is all about perceptions

Re: Adam Quinlan : Tue Jun 30, 2015 5:12 pm  

Saddened! wrote:

Not as good as this pearler from the Wigan rumour thread:

At least two of those posts have to be in jest?

To be fair, I think he's on about Richards' kick offs, which are top notch.

Re: Adam Quinlan : Wed Jul 01, 2015 6:35 am  

Just on the size of backs, surely by now scouts will realise that tiny nippy lads are likely to only be viable as halfbacks? Are we still in the mindset of "you're big, you must be a prop" thinking at junior level? If anything the trend to bigger outside backs is increasing. There's barely a small threequarter in the whole NRL now - most get peppered to death by crossfield kicks and end up being replaced by bigger guys.

Re: Adam Quinlan : Wed Jul 01, 2015 9:04 am  

To be honest, I wish the sport would do something about kicks. All this hoof-the-ball-sky-high stuff is a depressingly negative style of play more suited to god-awful union. It's getting that way now that teams are better suited to scoring points from kicks than they are crossing the line ball-in-hand.

The fact that we are now picking bigger and bigger players in the backs smacks of the same retarded thinking which killed football for two decades in this country.

Re: Adam Quinlan : Wed Jul 01, 2015 9:48 am  

Mugwump wrote:

To be honest, I wish the sport would do something about kicks. All this hoof-the-ball-sky-high stuff is a depressingly negative style of play more suited to god-awful union. It's getting that way now that teams are better suited to scoring points from kicks than they are crossing the line ball-in-hand.

The fact that we are now picking bigger and bigger players in the backs smacks of the same retarded thinking which killed football for two decades in this country.

Scrums are also a joke! slows the game down so much as players use it as a time to take a breath, one time players used to pack down quickly.

Re: Adam Quinlan : Wed Jul 01, 2015 10:26 am  

For many, many years Wayne Bennett didn't consider tries scored from kicks as a defensive mistake. He'd say something along the lines of "once that ball hits the foot it's a lottery what happens next".

There's something seriously wrong in the game when a beautiful piece of skill nets you no more points than a ball which is finger-tip touched after ricocheting off three players and a post.

Re: Adam Quinlan : Wed Jul 01, 2015 11:10 am  

Saddened! wrote:

So is he signing or not? Meant to be here today?

I thought you were picking him up from the airport?
Ah shucks!