[Durham Giant]

Re: Sam Burgess : Sun Oct 11, 2015 2:49 pm  

Maybe the onion fans will find someone else to blame now. Where was Stefon Armitage England international and best RU player in Europe last season.Last night. Was he at home no, was he at the Etihad watching England Vs Uruguay No. He was at Old Trafford watching Wigan Vs Leeds with his brother Delon With Michael Carrick and Joey Barton. http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/34497749 scroll down to the media bit.

Maybe the onion fans will find someone else to blame now. Where was Stefon Armitage England international and best RU player in Europe last season.Last night. Was he at home no, was he at the Etihad watching England Vs Uruguay No. He was at Old Trafford watching Wigan Vs Leeds with his brother Delon With Michael Carrick and Joey Barton. http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/34497749 scroll down to the media bit.

[Durham Giant]

Re: Sam Burgess : Sun Oct 11, 2015 2:49 pm  

Maybe the onion fans will find someone else to blame now. Where was Stefon Armitage England international and best RU player in Europe last season.Last night. Was he at home no, was he at the Etihad watching England Vs Uruguay No. He was at Old Trafford watching Wigan Vs Leeds with his brother Delon With Michael Carrick and Joey Barton. http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/34497749 scroll down to the media bit.

Maybe the onion fans will find someone else to blame now. Where was Stefon Armitage England international and best RU player in Europe last season.Last night. Was he at home no, was he at the Etihad watching England Vs Uruguay No. He was at Old Trafford watching Wigan Vs Leeds with his brother Delon With Michael Carrick and Joey Barton. http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/34497749 scroll down to the media bit.

Re: Sam Burgess : Sun Oct 11, 2015 8:39 pm  

Durham Giant wrote:

A few months at 6 and he will be in the England squad. Maybe not playing in the team but will be in the squad.

Tom Wood, Tom Croft and Callum Clark would be ahead of him at the moment. If England bring in either Armitage or Matt Kvesic at 7, they could even move Robshaw to 6 which IMO better fits his skill set.

It will take Burgess at least 12 months before he's a competent blindside flanker, let alone one of the best in England.

Re: Sam Burgess : Sun Oct 11, 2015 8:54 pm  

Sam Burgess is a massively talented rugby player. He isn't and shouldn't want to be one of the "specialists" required by the game of Union whose required "skills" bear no relation to those of a rugby player. (If you don't know what I mean: fat boy scrum pusher, beanpole fly catcher, fall on ball go nowhere etc).

Re: Sam Burgess : Sun Oct 11, 2015 9:39 pm  

Mr Churchill wrote:

Sam Burgess is a massively talented rugby player. He isn't and shouldn't want to be one of the "specialists" required by the game of Union whose required "skills" bear no relation to those of a rugby player. (If you don't know what I mean: fat boy scrum pusher, beanpole fly catcher, fall on ball go nowhere etc).

I agree. His attributes are perfectly suited to rugby league so why waste them? It's like using the Flying Scotsman for shunting duty in a old goods yard. A ridiculous waste.

Re: Sam Burgess : Mon Oct 12, 2015 1:14 am  

The attributes which make Burgess a great RL forward are simply not as valuable in RU. In Rl he can make 30+ tackles plus any number of hitups. He has a great engine as well as power. In RU he'll be running into bigger forwards from a much shorter run-up, which will negate his impact with the ball, and he simply won't need to make as many tackles.

He won't be hob-nobbing with anybody unless he gets back into the England team and is a star player. He's going to lose the coaching staff who have been seen to be biased in his favour in selecting him for this world cup. I just can't see him waltzing back into the England team for a long time.

Re: Sam Burgess : Mon Oct 12, 2015 2:00 am  

Durham Giant wrote: Maybe the onion fans will find someone else to blame now. Where was Stefon Armitage England international and best RU player in Europe last season.Last night. Was he at home no, was he at the Etihad watching England Vs Uruguay No. He was at Old Trafford watching Wigan Vs Leeds with his brother Delon With Michael Carrick and Joey Barton. http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/34497749 scroll down to the media bit. I always said that them Armitage brothers had good taste

Durham Giant wrote: Maybe the onion fans will find someone else to blame now. Where was Stefon Armitage England international and best RU player in Europe last season.Last night. Was he at home no, was he at the Etihad watching England Vs Uruguay No. He was at Old Trafford watching Wigan Vs Leeds with his brother Delon With Michael Carrick and Joey Barton. http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/34497749 scroll down to the media bit. I always said that them Armitage brothers had good taste

Re: Sam Burgess : Mon Oct 26, 2015 10:55 am  

He could well go back to the NRL in 2016 according to the breaking news from 9NEWS two hours ago.... http://wwos.ninemsn.com.au/article.aspx?id=9045080

He could well go back to the NRL in 2016 according to the breaking news from 9NEWS two hours ago.... http://wwos.ninemsn.com.au/article.aspx?id=9045080

Re: Sam Burgess : Mon Oct 26, 2015 11:11 am  

Just hope Caddick/Hetherington do the right thing. Sell a role with Rhinos to Sam - get him the right house etc, sort out travel for his girlfriend etc and, if they get a move on, they could just pull this off. The boost it would give would cover the finances of it, even with the release fee Bath would want. Could even see SKY part funding it to keep their Super League viewing figures well ahead of BT's RU - as they did previously with Sam Tomkins didn't they?

Re: Sam Burgess : Mon Oct 26, 2015 11:18 am  

Strong rumours going about that he's signed for Leeds.