Mundine better than Fittler and Daley

I know this :yep

 

Absolutely :nod

This practice is already in full effect as far as his boxing career is concerned :yep

 

Better than Mundine's efforts coming off the bench in origin?

I missed the game too, I was watching our joke of a soccer team bludge it against Iraq. It sounded like a good win though, cos The Tigers are a pretty decent team. Add that to the 56 - 0 win last week and you guys are probably the form team in the comp.
I still think Manly might be vulnerable in the semis.

 

ah look - it was a good win, but tiggers weren't on song - Farah isn't a #7, and they sorely missed him running the ball and putting his kicks through close to the tryline...but Cuthbertson has some skill - he was offloading beautifully and delaying his offloads for the second runner as he was going down in tackles.

As far as Manly being premiership material, I need to see them convincingly beat a side like NQ, Bronocs (easier with Lockyer out for the season :yep ), or the Storm at this point in the season before I'm 100% confident.

They've got a little way to go, but they've definitely got the ability.

Watmough was another one who had a good game, and Lyon linked up with Beaver to put on 2 tries...who'd have thought, 7/8 years since Cliffy retired we'd be seeing another Lyon putting Beaver through for tries? :happy

PS - yeah, better than Mundine off the bench in SOO - Gecko laid on 2 tries and never stopped once he came on

 

Manly have continued to improve each year for the last few seasons. Hopefully Souths can follow in their footsteps.
It seems Menzies has been around forever. The guy is still a quality player, and I remember him lighting up the scene in 94, or 95. Good to see him stick by the club when they had their thin period from 99 - 04ish.

Lockyer missing the rest of the season pretty much puts the Broncos to bed imo. They might even miss the 8 for the first time since the late eighties, or early nineties.
It could be good news for Souths though, as they're one of the 7 teams still in the running for that 7, and 8 spot. :thumbsup

Big game tomorrow against The Eels. If we put in a performance like we did last week, we should probably get the job done, but I'm never confident when it comes to Souths. :scaredas:

 

Beaver is evergreen :yep

Remember his tackles in SOO last year? He was cutting blokes in half - even managed to break his club team-mate Steve Bell's jaw

Last night he stopped that big ugly cuzzy bro Chewbacca in his tracks twice :nod

 

Brad Fittler burst onto the scene as a teenage prodigy in 1989, destined to become one of the all-time greats of rugby league.
Blessed with a mesmerising sidestep that would tear defences to ribbons for the next 17 years, it was little wonder Fittler was the centre of a selection storm in his maiden season.
Penrith coach Ron Willey identified Fittler's prodigious talents and preferred him at five-eighth ahead of veterans and former representative players Chris Mortimer and Brad Izzard for the '89 semi-final series.
Fittler did the job for the prophetic Willey and so began a brilliant career spanning three decades.
In 1990, he became the first player to graduate from an Australian schoolboys team to senior national team in successive years.
In doing so, he earned the distinction of being Penrith's first home-grown Test player - the first of countless honours for the young man now affectionately known as "Freddie".
The same season, at 18 years and 114 days, Fittler became the youngest player in State of Origin history and then, 115 days later, the youngest Kangaroo tourist of Great Britain.

A year later, after scoring a try in Penrith's 1990 grand final loss to Canberra, Fittler was a member of the Panthers' first-ever premiership-winning team.
As a teenager, Fittler had remarkably won a grand final and Test and State of Origin jumpers.
It was an unprecedented rise to the top.
He was always the first and youngest.
Yet there was - and perhaps remains - so much more to come.
A veteran of 34 Tests for Australia, Fittler captained his country for the first time in 1995, guiding the Kangaroos to a 3-0 whitewash of New Zealand.
The champion five-eighth left Penrith, after 105 first-grade games for the club, at the end of 1995 when the Panthers announced their intentions to defect to Super League.
Fittler signed the richest contract in rugby league to join the Roosters for more than $500,000 a season, under the coaching of former Penrith mentor and long-time friend Phil Gould.
But it was under Graham Murray, not Gould, that Fittler led the Roosters to their first grand final in 25 years in 2000.


How shall I put this gently.........

YOU LOSE! end of story.

BTW....... There were heaps of times that Teams with Daley or Fittler defeated St George (with Mundine)..........so I have no idea where all this bull**** came from.:roll:

 

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He was never a "TEAM" Player.......It was then and is now and always wil be about "HIM". :roll:

 

I tihnk you need to watch how he dropped the ball, he was diving over the line and it was knocked out unfortunately ha ha. I've watched it many times as i have the game on video :yep:yep Not his fault he was fighting the dreaded St Merge curse hi:

 

WRONG!........ Mundine passes the ball and he makes certain of the try and wins the Grand Final.........But Mundine being the "Glory Hound" he has always been, hogged the ball and blew the Grand Final.

It doesn't matter what spin you put on it......his ego lost the game.

It's kid stuff........if it comes to a choice between risking breaking a tackle or passing to an unmarked player......it is a no brainer. (which seems sorts appropriate in Mundine's case) :hi:

I can't believe that you can even compare him to Fittler.......Check their comparative records......... Mundine isn't even in the same ballpark.

BTW........All the experts seem to disagree with you.

And the biggest point of all.......is that old OZ himself........Runaway winner of the 2006 ESB NRL Tipping Competition agrees with the "other" experts.

 

How about i dumb it down for you...ball in hand fall over the line, gets knocked out by player. You havnt seen the incident since then have you? You make it sound like he was going through 20 ppl with 50 outside players all free.

He got St Merge closer to the cup than any captain in the last 20 years

Chokers

 

Im not even arguing that he didnt blow the game, just the incident being discussed.

If Kessler fights JC im coming to Sydney to watch it. So get ready for a big night :yep

 

Mundine also made the line break that lead to the almost try. He was backing himself as the confident player he was. And to my great joy, stuffed it. Actually, Mundine got them to the grand final with his performances in the final series. Of course, its a team effort...but if you want to lay the blame on Mundine, you might want to give him all the credit as well.

 

How about I dumb it down for you......... The experts all agree.......The ball should have been passed. (and my opinion, as winner of the ESB Tipping Comp counts ......... and yours means jack ****):hi:

Fittler would have made the pass:yep


BTW....You may be right about the "Chokers" Tag.......... There is no way known that I am gonna argue with an Allblack supporter about "CHOKING!" If anyone is an expert.....it's you.:hey

 

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