Re: Players getting back to fitness : Sat Jul 03, 2010 12:40 pm  

peawapp wrote:

Downside

Toa - looks to be out for a while

and that's the downside is it are you sure

Moron

Re: Players getting back to fitness : Sat Jul 03, 2010 3:15 pm  

peawapp wrote:

Downside

Toa - looks to be out for a while

and that's the downside is it are you sure

This is what I don't get about visiting fans. They all love to have a crack about Toa but in this club he is a well respected player and you're not exactly going to change our minds just by posting drivel, which is lets face it what it was. You show such disrespect for him, his career is over and the best you can come up with is a slight on his abilities. I'll put it in language you can understand. You is stupid innit?

When you've had the balls to play professional rugby league well past your prime and had a better career Toa has come back and mock.

Re: Players getting back to fitness : Sat Jul 03, 2010 6:37 pm  

Chris Dalton wrote:

This is what I don't get about visiting fans. They all love to have a crack about Toa but in this club he is a well respected player and you're not exactly going to change our minds just by posting drivel, which is lets face it what it was. You show such disrespect for him, his career is over and the best you can come up with is a slight on his abilities. I'll put it in language you can understand. You is stupid innit?

When you've had the balls to play professional rugby league well past your prime and had a better career Toa has come back and mock.

Very well put Chris, i dont think you will here any grumbles from Widnes fans about Toa, very well respected is Toa and im gutted it's ended this way for him.

Re: Players getting back to fitness : Sat Jul 03, 2010 6:46 pm  

Anyone else not a TKL fan?

Re: Players getting back to fitness : Sun Jul 04, 2010 2:11 pm  

-VIKINGMAN- wrote:

Very well put Chris, i dont think you will here any grumbles from Widnes fans about Toa, very well respected is Toa and im gutted it's ended this way for him.

Gutted about TKL as gives 100% when was fit.Unfortunanetly i think this is the last season for him, at Widnes.Maybe with his experience he can coach a few youngsters?Anyway TKL is a star, and hope for a good recovery.

Re: Players getting back to fitness : Tue Jul 06, 2010 7:38 am  

Chris Dalton wrote:

This is what I don't get about visiting fans. They all love to have a crack about Toa but in this club he is a well respected player and you're not exactly going to change our minds just by posting drivel, which is lets face it what it was. You show such disrespect for him, his career is over and the best you can come up with is a slight on his abilities. I'll put it in language you can understand. You is stupid innit?

When you've had the balls to play professional rugby league well past your prime and had a better career Toa has come back and mock.

And your mocking of Stanley Gene? It's a little two-faced of you isn't it? It's a message board. Lighten up.

Re: Players getting back to fitness : Tue Jul 06, 2010 10:01 am  

littlerich wrote:

And your mocking of Stanley Gene? It's a little two-faced of you isn't it? It's a message board. Lighten up.

I would think Chris's issue is with the mocking of a good player who has had his career probably ended by injury.

AFAIK Granpa Gene is still being wheeled out is he not .

Re: Players getting back to fitness : Tue Jul 06, 2010 11:38 am  

Redchemic wrote:

AFAIK Granpa Gene is still being wheeled out is he not .

No. I think the wheels have come off

Re: Players getting back to fitness : Tue Jul 06, 2010 3:35 pm  

littlerich wrote:

And your mocking of Stanley Gene? It's a little two-faced of you isn't it? It's a message board. Lighten up.

There is no double standard here. I have always been highly praising of Gene. I think he was a great signing for you. I've poked fun at his age but with respect to his abilities. If people were poking fun at Toa's indiscipline or his age then I wouldn't have an issue. He just seems to be the go to guy for rival fans to pick holes in our squad against and it isn't given with respect. People holding him up as some weak link is just something I don't understand. Why? He may not be the player he once was but he is not the disaster people make him out to be. As far as I can tell, the general consensus with Widnes fans is that he is a good player. You're not going to embarrass us by bringing his name up every time you want to bring shame on us. And in a thread where his career may well be over, it might not be a good time to rip into him on this board.

It's one of those stock insults people turn to. Like when Super League fans say "Enjoy Batley" or some place else when they want to remind us where we are. Well...we will. Batley is a good club.

Re: Players getting back to fitness : Tue Jul 06, 2010 3:43 pm  

Chris Dalton wrote:

He may not be the player he once was.

I think that's the problem there. His reputation goes before him - much like Robbie Paul who also gets plenty of stick.