Re: Cheers Jarrod : Thu Sep 22, 2011 11:45 am  

told you monday we had got rid and obst was coming back on another thread no big loss in my opinion at all

Re: Cheers Jarrod : Thu Sep 22, 2011 11:51 am  

Hickey is the worst player I have ever seen pull on the great shirt I'm pleased we have drawn a line under this debacle and hopefully we will finally learn that if we are going to bring players no good money from the other side of the world they have to be better than what we have or what is available here. We need our imports to be the iceing on the cake rather than the sponge cake itself.

Re: Cheers Jarrod : Thu Sep 22, 2011 11:55 am  

vastman wrote:

Not a chance, he is utterly shot - it's a pipe dream best rid now. Great work by the club as far as I'm concerned, we are showing we mean business IMO.

I really don't know what some folk want. A player arrives who is clearly unfit and unwilling, we moan all season about him. The minute he rightly gets shown the door in the eyes of some he suddenly becomes an asset...why

If you look back I was not involved in the moaning and especially off the cuff coments on his arrival and after.

At the shape he is in and the contract and quota he commands then we may have made a shrewd move.

That for me remains to be seen in the replacement. I think we are 3 props down now.

Re: Cheers Jarrod : Thu Sep 22, 2011 11:58 am  

bren2k wrote:

Add Tronc to that list.

Tronc was not a mid season signing. He was a mid season departure. He did a full pre season then played about 10 games then requested a release from his two year contract - due to family issues.

Re: Cheers Jarrod : Thu Sep 22, 2011 11:58 am  

vastman wrote:

For me it's not about how fit or slim he gets, it's the fact he got so bad in the first place. To me it shows he hasn't and probably never really had the mind set to be a top player and that gets even harder as you get older. He got away with it for a few years when he was younger with the natural fitness you have at that age. But as he gets older he will need to train harder and eat much better to stay fit enough for SL. I just don't think he has it in him even if he manages to look fitter - sometimes it's all in the mind.

Just my opinion, we are best rid and if someone else does OK with him so be it.

No arguments from me on that. Mark my words the guy will still look like a big pudding come Feb next year.

Re: Cheers Jarrod : Thu Sep 22, 2011 12:09 pm  

what are some of you moaning or worried about, Brent Todd was a bigger loss than this guy is

Re: Cheers Jarrod : Thu Sep 22, 2011 12:12 pm  

vastman wrote:

For me it's not about how fit or slim he gets, it's the fact he got so bad in the first place. To me it shows he hasn't and probably never really had the mind set to be a top player and that gets even harder as you get older. He got away with it for a few years when he was younger with the natural fitness you have at that age. But as he gets older he will need to train harder and eat much better to stay fit enough for SL. I just don't think he has it in him even if he manages to look fitter - sometimes it's all in the mind.

Just my opinion, we are best rid and if someone else does OK with him so be it.

You could well be right - I suppose my frustration is less with losing Hickey specifically, and more with the wasted time, money and effort in getting him here in the first place.

Re: Cheers Jarrod : Thu Sep 22, 2011 12:16 pm  

It was obvious from day one that he's lost the plot, will he get back to the level he needs to, not a chance. he will always be a pudding and quins have been mugged.

Waste of time and money but at least the club can learn from it.

Re: Cheers Jarrod : Thu Sep 22, 2011 12:21 pm  

bren2k wrote:

You could well be right - I suppose my frustration is less with losing Hickey specifically, and more with the wasted time, money and effort in getting him here in the first place.

Well there's an easy way to stop it ever happening again Bren......

Re: Cheers Jarrod : Thu Sep 22, 2011 12:24 pm  

bren2k wrote:

You could well be right - I suppose my frustration is less with losing Hickey specifically, and more with the wasted time, money and effort in getting him here in the first place.

Agreed! Hickey staying or going doesn't bother me one little bit. However, what does is the fact that the club were more than happy to ship this clown halfway around the world, pay him a decent wage and slot him straight into the starting line up above lads who have worked their nuts off. What sort of message does that send to those aspiring academy lads!

The club needs to think about it's policy with regard to oversea's and mid season signings and the scouting and monitoring of these players. Because we've wasted alot of time and money on a player who in reality should never have left Aus in that physical condition