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| Quote ="Fishermanscap"That wasn’t the point and you know it. Do I need to be more specific, not for most people I don’t but as your not most people.
He is an import, he’s an import from the NRL, that’s the point. 99.999% of the time these players are Aussies:Kiwis hence the generalisation. All the same the bulk of his family now live in Oz so he may as well be an Aussie.
He’s no longer good enough for that comp or do you think he came here for the weather? Why are we happy with cast offs?
He may come good but I doubt he’ll ever trouble the NRL again. Yet due to that badge he now has he’ll walk into the England team whilst gaining inflated contracts for the rest of his career regardless of his actual form.
You may think being pedantry makes you look smart, it really doesn’t.
My point stands.'"
That started off alright then you wrote that drivel, half my family live in Spain, does that make me Spanish?? |
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Regardless of the referee you couldn't have asked for any more from a season-opening game, drama, excitement & tension was all served up by 2 very good teams...1 wanting to play attacking rugby, the other...Wigan
Either way i hope we can match the fitness and intensity levels and defensive efforts both teams showed last night cos if we can we won't be far off having a decent crack at it this year
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| Quote ="Fishermanscap"He may come good but I doubt he’ll ever trouble the NRL again. Yet due to that badge he now has he’ll walk into the England team whilst gaining inflated contracts for the rest of his career regardless of his actual form.'"
I'm not sure many Wigan fans are impressed. If he was "adequate", the badge could get him a place, but I think a few scales fell off people's eyes last night.
But I'm with you on him being an NRL import. He has plied virtually all of his trade in the NRL and built all of his success in the NRL. Being born in Dewsbury doesn't make him a Super League player. He may not be an Aussie, but he is an out and out NRL player, and clearly one who couldn't cut it anymore.
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I'm unsure why Burgess started the season looking like Mr Creosote - and yes, his contribution was an epic fail; but it's very early to write him off. Maybe he had an injury in the off-season and hasn't been able to train? He's played in a top flight team in the best comp in the world for a few years, so he's very definitely got pedigree - I wouldn't be too quick to gloat - he could be steamrollering defences by March.
That said, I don't disagree with the wider point - we have an unhealthy obsession with antipods, regardless of their misdemeanours or what stage their career is at; if the same effort and resource was ploughed into player development here, we'd probably rescue quite a few lads who are late bloomers or misfits, and maybe discover more players who could be nurtured into the domestic comp. Or maybe it's not an either or - 'project' players are a longer term thing - ready made imports make an immediate impact - so perhaps SL clubs who are prepared to grow their own, like Wigan for example, could be rewarded and incentivised more, so that others follow suit?
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| Quote ="acko"Wire looked sharp all over the field all the game and were unlucky not to come away with something, I don't get the it evens it self out crap, wire were 6 down! down 2 men at the time in the wigan 10m last kick play by wire wigan player grabs for the ball drops it, it should have been wire ball kendall waves on, Forth official (thaler) should straight away tell him he's f**K up and this goes for all games we've seen it on non-tv games happen when the linesman has corrected the ref which is usual in kendalls games so why not just do it and get the correct call given instead of hoping it will even it self out.
=#FF0000That sort of fitness and pace in a game is what we should be thriving for constantly getting the opposite team on the back foot
Up The Trin'"
Just like Shudds did to us last week, you mean ?? |
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| Quote ="TheDreadnought"He's not from Wakefield.'"
From Dewsbury I believe. |
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| Quote ="Fishermanscap"That wasn’t the point and you know it. Do I need to be more specific, not for most people I don’t but as your not most people.
He is an import, he’s an import from the NRL, that’s the point. 99.999% of the time these players are Aussies:Kiwis hence the generalisation. All the same the bulk of his family now live in Oz so he may as well be an Aussie.
He’s no longer good enough for that comp or do you think he came here for the weather? Why are we happy with cast offs?
He may come good but I doubt he’ll ever trouble the NRL again. Yet due to that badge he now has he’ll walk into the England team whilst gaining inflated contracts for the rest of his career regardless of his actual form.
You may think being pedantry makes you look smart, it really doesn’t.
My point stands.'" must of been a different George Burgess I watch play against our academy for Bradford with his brother Tom playing in the same side and Sam watch behind me |
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He'll Fire, 5 mins in & ref watching ptb ? Lucky he didn't ref last night ! Still a long way to go !
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