rebel robin this originated from Aussie fans on twitter .. says it all really

Terry needed to get the hell out of Canberra to give his career a second chance and to get away from Ricky Stuart.
On paper the team looks very good and I don't think it will take long for the team to gel.

A few fans, whilst the majority were calling those out for being idiots. There's always a selection of fans like this, Hull fans only recently berated a player to the point of mental breakdown.

Ouch.

Did they?

You know the inner workings of another humans mind?

I won't take this any further, I don't believe that someone's mental state is grounds for discussion.

Is your 'worry' that they gel immediately

Mild Panic



I actually cannot summon the energy to care at the moment, I am sure it will change.

Terry will fit in really well, with all the other Antipodean accents.....

According to a news article in the SMH Campo and Chester have discussed both half back and lock as his role at Rovers.

Must admit I didn't see the 'lock' curve ball, which suggests going with the original option of Blair/Kelly.

This throws up more questions than answers but immediately for me does this mean Campo will be taking up a rotation with Burke/Donaldson, on a broad assumption he won't last the full 80mins?

Good one. Very original. Have you considered a career in comedy?

Bless.

Maybe your club should be less worried about accents than quality, and then you wouldn't have blown off the last decade in the lower leagues? Leigh really did a great job last time around in SL didn't they? It was such a great effort, that not only did they never return after a glorious 5 point haul, it was this heroic failure that tipped the RFL scales into finally doing away with automatic P&L for 8 years, thus ruining it for thousands of supporters of teams outside the top league.

You've made some good signings imo BUT you've made ALOT of signing along with that, and as a Salford fan I know full well the problems this can cause, it took us nearly 3 quarters of the season to click and that's taking into account injuries too, you have a few players plagued by injuries in the last few years,another big thing is a complete new half back pairing, we had Tim Smith and Rangi this year, Rangi was injured after the first game and Smith just didn't gel with the team, think you might have the same problem.
Chester will have a hard job getting the players to gel and keeping the problem players fit.

Good luck though and imo if you do gel and keep injury free you'll go well.

I wouldn't blame Smith more Rangi unable to gel with anyone IMO

If you cannot summon the energy to care why summon the energy to post. Something must bother you more than you admit otherwise you would not be on here.

Then why did he gel straight away with theo fages when Smith left?

If they gelled then why sign Michael Dobson?

He didn't gel with Fages he just went thru one of his RARE runs of form when everything he does comes off. I don't hate Salford btw just him lol. When smith left he found himself very much the senior man and like I said had a purple patch. I bet at some point this year u all have a go at Dobbo claiming he's not as good as u thought.

He has his moments. I laughed at his post on the Guildford Giants board a while back.

Were you lost?

I get around.

Cool, maybe 1 day you might get around to Craven Park!

Dobson shook hands with the doc the year he went to the NRL, he was only ever going for one year, fages is a good young player but not the finished article we need someone in with a kicking game and can lead people around the pitch, then Chase can be left alone to do his thing.

Also I find it funny when opposition fans tell me how one of our players who I watch every week did or didn't click with Fages, I know I was at the games I'm not making it up, you all saw when we took you lot apart at your ground, that wasn't all chase it was a great attacking performance all round, I can understand that a lot don't Like chase but don't start telling fans of the team he plays for how well or not he played with different players.

It’ll be really interesting to see how chase and Dobson work together next year, Dobson was great for us but his one downfall was regardless of who was alongside him everything had to go through him, it certainly never let the other HB flourish and Dobbo played with some very good HB’s (Cooke, Green, Burns). it became very predictable and the better teams sussed us out and to some extent the '6' looked fed up. Chase is another who seems to want to be the main man, one of the reasons him and Smith maybe never worked was that he wouldn't or didn't want to play second fiddle to Chase, Fages on the other hand being a young lad will have been more willing to be the wing man.
If it works it could be fantastic but I think there will be teething problems.

Dobson only had a year to run with us and he would have been off-contract for the start of next season and could then have signed for you if he wanted. He didn't have to go to the NRL to engineer a move to Salford (if that is what you are implying), because if that was his intention he could have stayed with us and you would have still got him when he came off-contract. Had his Newcastle experience been a success I find it very unlikely he would have been back in Super League, handshake with the Marwan or not!

Dobbo was a great player and servant to this club and one I wish every success to. I would say that on paper Chase and Dobson should compliment each other well, but as Barham alluded to he played alongside a few good 6's at the club and his success was at times at a detriment to those players qualities - the challenge will be to use Dobbo's organisation skills to enhance Chase's game rather than stunt it.

I thought Dobson went off his game when Burns turned up. Got the feeling he didn't like playing alongside a player with a strong character like Burns.