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| Quote ="John_D"9 month contract signed, according to today's [url=http://www.lindependant.com/articles/2009/02/27/20090227-Sports-Greg-Bird-est-bien-a-Perpignan.php5paper[/url.
Very disappointing news.'"
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Any chance we could sell him to another SL club within 24 hours?
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| Quote ="fcthefuture"Sorry can't read French is the paper report saying Bird has signed for you ??'"
Guash reckons that Bird is one of the top 5 players in the NRL. Waiting to be registered with the SL, he won't play against Hull, has asked to play with UTC but has been given some time off instead, in preparation for playing against Cas ...
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| Quote ="belgianxiii"Guash reckons that Bird is one of the top 5 players in the NRL.'"
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Well, since no side in the NRL will touch him I don't think we could call him a top NRL player...
The spin is that he is getting away from the Antipodean papparazi.
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| Quote ="belgianxiii"The spin is that he is getting away from the Antipodean papparazi.'"
I thought it was spelled 'judiciary' |
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| Quote B. Guash said: "Il faut savoir que c'est l'une des cinq plus grosses stars de la NRL. La pression était énorme sur lui en Australie et il avait hâte de fuir les people. Il n'a que 25 ans et en attendant de voir il a signé un contrat de 9 mois".'"
You need to realise that he is one of the five biggest stars in the NRL. The pressure in Australia is enormous and he wants to get away from the papparazi. He's only 25 and in the meantime he has signed a 9 month contract with us.
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Yet to be approved by the RFL, so there's hope yet
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Failing that he may well get incarcarated, which would take him off our books. Hope we have a clause for that in the contract. |
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The spin is that he is getting away from the Antipodean papparazi.'" no . most nrl teams were lining up too sign him . but sharks and nrl said no .its not fair that the sharks have another nrl team have him  so they dereg him  www.news.com.au/dailytelegraph/c ... 15,00.html |
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The spin is that he is getting away from the Antipodean papparazi.'" no . most nrl teams were lining up too sign him . but sharks and nrl said no .its not fair that the sharks have another nrl team have him so they dereg him www.news.com.au/dailytelegraph/c ... 15,00.html | |
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WTF are you going on about??
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| Quote ="Cala Millor Rhino"WTF are you going on about??'"
He is right you idiot. He's been banned from playing NRL this year. You don't think clubs would have being queuing up to sign him if he hadnt!
Also, since when was he a "backrow forward". He hasn't played second-row for a fair amount of time. I think he would be classed as a stand-off/ball playing loose forward. Carlaw usually starts at 13 anyway and he isn't a loose forward so I think its a good signing. The more quality and ability in a side, the better. |
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| Quote ="greg th wire"He is right you idiot. He's been banned from playing NRL this year. You don't think clubs would have being queuing up to sign him if he hadnt!
Also, since when was he a "backrow forward". He hasn't played second-row for a fair amount of time. I think he would be classed as a stand-off/ball playing loose forward. Carlaw usually starts at 13 anyway and he isn't a loose forward so I think its a good signing. The more quality and ability in a side, the better.'"
wasn't the intention of the club and superleague to reduce the number of imports/australian cast-offs! RL is meant to be family orientated and his actions were not exactly that!
all that is going to happen is young french player reduced to playing Elite 1 with UTC all because Bird was available! so what if he was available? the club doesn't need him and it goes against everything that has been coming out of the club for the last few years
the more foreigners in any superleague team the worse for England/GB or France, I trust you were suitably embarrassed by the showing of the northern hemisphere countries in the World Cup, I was. |
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| Quote ="greg th wire"Also, since when was he a "backrow forward". He hasn't played second-row for a fair amount of time. I think he would be classed as a stand-off/ball playing loose forward. Carlaw usually starts at 13 anyway and he isn't a loose forward so I think its a good signing. The more quality and ability in a side, the better.'"
He's a forward who plays in the back row, ergo 'back row forward'. Though he may have played a lot of rugby in a jersey with a number 6 on the back of it, that alone does not make him a stand-off. There are no stand-offs* in Australian rugby any more, just another runner wearing number 6.
And CMR's comments a couple of posts back are bang on. All of them.
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| Quote ="John_D"And CMR's comments a couple of posts back are bang on. All of them./quote
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| Quote ="Cala Millor Rhino"do you expect anything different?
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Just pointing it out for the masses. Don't assume I'm criticising. |
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www.news.com.au/dailytelegraph/s ... 66,00.html BANISHED Cronulla star Greg Bird last night finally broke his silence about a controversial move to France by declaring: "I was over the constant harassment in Australia."
Bird, 25, yesterday modelled his new Catalans jumper in the southern French city of Perpignan and is set to debut for the club on Sunday morning (AEDT) against Castleford in Super League.
Angry at his critics yet excited at playing again, Bird opened up to The Daily Telegraph, saying from France: "I'm just relieved to be over here and back in a football environment and back around a team again. I just want to play footy again.
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Bird, 25, yesterday modelled his new Catalans jumper in the southern French city of Perpignan and is set to debut for the club on Sunday morning (AEDT) against Castleford in Super League.
Angry at his critics yet excited at playing again, Bird opened up to The Daily Telegraph, saying from France: "I'm just relieved to be over here and back in a football environment and back around a team again. I just want to play footy again.
"I'm enjoying it over here away from the constant harassment. I was over the judgmental people (in Australia).
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Dont pin your hopes on Greg Bird to bring you success he is nothing but an overpriced, overrated poser. To small to be in the forwards and not skilled enough for #6. Although most #6's in the English super league are mere shadows of there Australian counterparts...
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