Ex-Knights Watch

Wouldn’t mind Clifford back. Payten had him in career best form and high on confidence. Payten didn’t want him to leave but the damage had already been done from previous management.

Payten is doing wonders for Dearden’s game after he was being discarded by the Broncos and Walters in particular. I dare say Clifford is watching from afar thinking that could easily of been me had I stayed and progression he was making under half a season with Payten.
 
cowboyman said:
Wouldn’t mind Clifford back. Payten had him in career best form and high on confidence. Payten didn’t want him to leave but the damage had already been done from previous management.

Payten is doing wonders for Dearden’s game after he was being discarded by the Broncos and Walters in particular. I dare say Clifford is watching from afar thinking that could easily of been me had I stayed and progression he was making under half a season with Payten.
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He'd be my pick of the best young coaches in the game. Great communication skills, with a very direct and clear way to get his message across. Appears a smart student of the game who gets it.

Leagues ahead of our stammering, fidgety, blabbering mess.
 
Chris Randall has really found his niche as a middle forward that can spell Verrills, played a very strong role in the Titans last 2 performances against the Cows and then the Warriors last night.

Recall us having him play lock in a game where he broke his arm a couple of years ago and it was probably as good as he'd looked, seems that really was the answer for him long term.
 
Was always a fan of Herman even with the defensive shortcomings. Glad he waited until he was at the Titans on decent coin before he started phoning it in off the field too.
 
The Artist Formerly Known as Aku'd said:
That was a very upsetting and sobering watch. Reminds me of the well documented NFL cases that were portrayed in the movie concussion. The aggressive outbursts, memory loss and worse, suicide. Heartbreaking and they’re all workplace related 110%. More needs to be done at a government and administrative level of the sport.
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It's a hard one for the sport, Wally Lewis now Robbie O having signs of CTE brain damage. The game has cleaned up the cheap head shots of old. Just my opinion but I think because the players are so much fitter and stronger these days fatigue has to be bought back into the game. This won't be popular but no interchange, maybe 6 reserves or more purely for injuries.
 
Fatigue makes head knocks far more likely though. The peak PVLball, peak fatigue season in 2021 had something like more than twice as many cat 1 concussions as any other season since we started taking it more seriously. You actually want less fatigue if you want fewer head knocks.

The really unpopular thing the NRL could do to reduce head impacts is to get rid of kick-offs…
 
Yeah your probably right but law suits in the future will change how the game is played and looks down the track
 
I guess we still don’t know what causes CTE, isn’t there research that indicates repeated small collisions might be just as much to blame? And there’s thousands of them across an NRL career.

I think reducing body sizes in some way would help, does the NFL have a restriction on how many gym sessions players can do or something?

Sorry I’ve heard a lot of stuff third hand and I’m not sure haha.

But I have to say if I ever have kids, no way I’ll be letting them play, and I’m glad I was too much of a tiny kid to ever give it a go myself (don’t worry, I did eventually grow to normal height 😂)
 
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