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south sydney five eights coming to super league.
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| Quote ="fishmitten"south sydney five eights coming to super league.'"
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looked and he signed with Souths in April till end of 2014
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would cost a bomb and he is gash.
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God no, Tommy Lee is a better stand off.
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| Quote The Single Worst Play of the Season
Last Wednesday, the South Sydney Rabbitohs announced that John Sutton had extended his contract with the club until the end of the 2014 season. Oft-criticised for his lackadaisical approach to the game, Saturday's match against the Bulldogs was Sutton's chance to repay the faith shown in him by Souths management and silence his many critics.
And five minutes in, he looked to be on pace for a decent showing after he put Dave Taylor over with a nice pass at the line to put the Bunnies in front early.
However we should expect this by now from Sutton, who since beginning his first grade career as a 19-year-old in 2004 has been Rugby League's ultimate tease.
The man just oozes with potential. His ability to free his arms and offload is rivaled by only a select few in the modern era. He possesses a monstrous left boot capable of raking off huge metres with little effort. And he flashes the ability to ball-play at the line when every so often he throws a ball that makes your jaw drop.
But for his vast oceans of promise, time and time again he has failed to deliver. He is renowned for disappearing for long stretches. He always seems to play best when his team is either far ahead or far behind. To sum him up, he's consistently inconsistent.
Every year, around this time, the inevitable "Sutton has matured, he's ready for rep footy" articles pop up in the media. But, like the Bunnies team he plays for, these stories are far more style than substance. There is a very good reason why Sutton has never achieved representative honours: his obvious lack of burning desire would be blatantly exposed in the cauldron of Origin/Test football.
So it was wholly unsurprising when Sutton decided his night was effectively over after 5 minutes and turned in an abhorrent, shameful performance that not even a Mother could love.
The horror started in the 12th minute. Canterbury half Trent Hodkinson had the ball 10 metres out from the Rabbitohs line and threw a dummy to Jamal Idris. The hulking centre was easily covered by his opposite man, Greg Inglis, yet Sutton chose to keep sliding away from the ballcarrier towards Idris until a large enough gap had been created between himself and inside man Sam Burgess for the nippy halfback to step through and level the scores.
Later in the 25th minute, Sutton's defensive ill-discipline cost him again. As the lone marker on a play-the-ball 45 metres out, his job was to patiently react to the dummy-half's movement. However, as Steve Turner scooped up the pill, Sutton couldn't resist making a futile lunge at the 'Dogs winger.
This left Turner an easy passage to scoot around the flailing five-eighth, behind the ruck in between the two A-defenders and make a simple draw-and-pass to Ben Barba for the Bulldogs' 2nd try.
Then in the 30th minute, Sutton spilled an Issac Luke pass that was slightly out in front of him, but should have been reeled in all the same. Straight off the back of this, Canterbury advanced to Souths' 25 metre line on the 3rd tackle.
Michael Ennis chose to attack the short-side (the Rabbitoh's left side) and passed to David Stagg, who turned the ball back inside to Idris. Sutton, who as marker was covering from the inside, got a face-full of palm from Jamal and slipped off the tackle.
After Idris shook off two more would-be tacklers, Sutton came back for a second bite at the cherry. His pathetic grab was met by another Idris fend, this time straight to his chest.
At this point, Idris offloaded infield to his support. With the play obviously centralising, Sutton dawdled towards the middle, being overtaken by two teammates in the process. He eventually arrived near the posts, but it was too late to stop Grant Millington who broke Sutton's weak tackle attempt to cross for Canterbury's 3rd try of the half.
Three Bulldogs tries; on all three, Sutton was directly responsible. The latter try was particularly obscene; on Fox's Super Saturday halftime show, Gordon Tallis couldn't help but snicker while describing the play as "as pretty soft from John".
Pretty soft was a pretty big understatement. It was by far the worst individual play of the season to-date. Three of Sutton's nine missed-tackles occurred on that play alone. And it epitomised his woeful lack of effort throughout his career.
It's public knowledge that Brad Fittler has reached out to Sutton on multiple occasions offering to help the talented footballer improve his overall game. Yet has this generous offer ever been accepted? No. Fittler's made it clear that all Sutton has to do is pick up the phone, yet the Fittler-clone refuses to take advantage of what would be undoubtedly beneficial to him.
That the "Bra Boy" turns down such a golden opportunity from one of the all-time greats of our game speaks volumes about Sutton's approach to Rugby League. To him, it is nothing more than a job, a way to make ends meet. And that's okay, if he's content with a career destined to never rise above the mediocre. Hell, I'm sure when his latest contract expires he'll bolt off to Super League and do better for himself than he has in the NRL.
But don't think for one second that he'll EVER get to pull on a jumper for state or country. There's no place at the highest level for those who don't love the Greatest Game of All, and it's blindingly apparent he doesn't.'"
Sounds terrible!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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| Here's who we want...
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If we signed john sutton i'd be the first in the que for a season ticket next year,
He is an oustanding player, his ability to break the line and off load is amazing, he's a stand off in the body and strengh of a back fow with the pace of a winger, I think he is the best 6 in the NRL, there was a lot of talk of him playing origin and i was surprised he didnt get a game,
I'm surprised he's coming to SL at all, He's out of our league sadly but will most defo keep my fingers crossed!
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| Quote ="musson"If we signed john sutton i'd be the first in the que for a season ticket next year,
He is an oustanding player, his ability to break the line and off load is amazing, he's a stand off in the body and strengh of a back fow with the pace of a winger, I think he is the best 6 in the NRL, there was a lot of talk of him playing origin and i was surprised he didnt get a game,
I'm surprised he's coming to SL at all, He's out of our league sadly but will most defo keep my fingers crossed!'"
Best no 6 in the league are you having a laugh ? Lockyer ? Soward ? Marshall ? Carney ? |
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| Quote ="Theboyem"God no, Tommy Lee is a better stand off.'"
There are better stand offs/ scrum halfs in the championship than tommy Lee, how kear keeps pickin him is beyond me |
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| Quote ="hullandbroncos"Best no 6 in the league are you having a laugh ? Lockyer ? Soward ? Marshall ? Carney ?'"
nope, just my opinion and south are my nrl team, so i've watched him play alot
all the above players you mention are worldclass,
for me when you're talking about nrl players its more down to personal preference they are all that good!
for what its worth though, sutton has a totally different style of play to the other 6's you mention, its his strengh and ability to go through tackles that make him dangerous and so exciting to watch |
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I'd love to see Feleti Mateo pack down at 13 or stand at 6 in the same team as Lauitiiti
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| Quote ="The Clan"I'd love to see Feleti Mateo pack down at 13 or stand at 6 in the same team as Lauitiiti'"
Posted years ago we should look at this kid when he was young and not played a handful of nrl games. He's a monster. Although not seen him play recently. |
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We would be better off with John Cotton, lets stop this talk of overpaid Aussies.
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| Quote ="The Clan"I'd love to see Feleti Mateo pack down at 13 or stand at 6 in the same team as Lauitiiti'"
Yes he's some player, looked like he was going to be good, when he was down in London a few years ago. |
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| Quote ="The Clan"I'd love to see Feleti Mateo pack down at 13 or stand at 6 in the same team as Lauitiiti'"
yeah totally agree with that, another guy with serious x factor, I bet FM can generate more offload in one game that we have this entire season, he's another guy that i really lookforward to watching on a weekend
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first the chances of our target being John Sutton is next to zero...
second this bagging of him is absolute bull poop!
Sutton is one of the most naturally gifted footballers in the NRL, he has the ability to ghost through the line, and his timing of the pass is sublime... I have seen him turn games in favour of the bunnies almost single handed!
He has flaws in his game... he is not the best kicker of a ball in the league... he can sometimes drift out of a game and looks very laconic in his approach... In the right set up he is a devastating player.
he reminds me of Nigel Wright.. but with perhaps a bit more defence to his game than Nigel had.
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