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Yeah it'd be easy work if you were top 30 and on the 6 man bench all the time! Getting paid the same to basically play 30 minutes here and there every few weeks!

He's committed to NZ, he'll be the Kiwis fullback 100%.

Dessy? Feel like his eccentricity and personality could actually suit 3 games of Origin a year rather than an NRL team.

One guy I always find crazy that played for us is Craig Gower. Penrith legend of the game, then a random 6 game cameo for us at the end of his career. What a random signing that was.

Yeah it's relative, I wouldn't say in today's cap he is worth 1.3 million if everything was on an even scale. That's a game changer money, your best player every game type money. But he is a high level player that is valuable to any team and that's what it cost for Newcastle to pinch that type...

Any word on Ponga? Had a few bad moments in this game but he got banged up big time, he was wincing holding his shoulder for the rest of the game after the Hughes try. That's a huge problem for our season if he's picked up anything significant there.

He brought in a required harder edge after the Nathan Brown years. Instilled some professionalism that we probably hadn't seen in the place since Wayne Bennett's dad's army was paid for and shipped in. Made the finals 4 times out of his 6 seasons here. That's what his real legacy is here...

Radley was talked about for Origin early in his career but never made the side, so he started playing for England. This feels like they're just picking him now because they can with the eligibility rules changed.

They're both legitimately great players, they could easily ping pong back and forth depending on who's in form, who's injured. The NRL collective memory is like a goldfish, when Ponga has some time off, he's overrated and the Knights play better without him anyway. Now Walsh has lost his spot...

I have no doubt Ponga can do a great job at halfback, but I really hope they have a plan defensively, given his history playing in the halves.

Think the outside NRL world is starting to realize finally, but this ain't the same team that won the wooden spoon. Not just the play style, but we didn't have Ponga, Sharpe or Lucas for heaps of games to finish the year off and we've added Brown who is a top player. It sucks *** that we came...

We've seen Ponga play this role before, around 2022 or 2023 something clicked for him where he realised he's got to own this team and become the main cog in it. He started playing this almost hybrid halfback-fullback first receiver role at different times back then and looked really good doing...

They won't roll over as easy as the Dragons. People called that a danger game, this is more of a danger game I reckon. They are a bit of a bogey team for us, they've beaten us a few times when we should have won!

It's just jobs for mates I reckon. Ciraldo and O'Brien are mates. Like when O'Brien got Seibold a job here.

If anyone is going to break the record, it'll be this year.

Yeah I feel a bit bad for him, he's going to cop a lot of the blame here. In reality, the Bulldogs have been in freefall ever since imploding their season by pushing Sexton and Mahoney out. O'Brien of course has his part to play here, but I think the issues are probably a bit deeper than him in...

Yeah that's a massive shame. DSaf was really thrust in to being our main guy almost immediately as a rookie. I have no doubt this has had an affect on his body and now it's all catching up. The start of his career up to making the Origin team, he genuinely looked like one of those rare elite...

14-17 doesn't really mean anything this year. In Round 2 we used players 18 and 19 instead of two players that were named in the 17. Round 5 we used player 19 instead of no 17. Hunt is only going to get on the field if we need a back.

That would have to be the model I think. Build up a core of players with PNG roots to create a connection to the area, then sprinkle in a few non PNG players on huge money that are ready to buy in to the mission.

Some of the old codgers on facebook already believe everything the media comes out with, there's no hope now with all the AI driven engagement farm crap popping up nowadays.