Re: Campese : Wed Oct 19, 2016 10:14 pm  

fun time frankie wrote:

Are you Campeses Agent because I can't think of any reason why your saying what your saying

I think he's Terry himself!

Re: Campese : Wed Oct 19, 2016 10:50 pm  

Roger Millward, Alex Murphy, Jonty Parkin, Lewis Jones, Willie Horne, Shaun Edwards, Albert Goldthorpe.

All Rugby League Hall of Fame inductee's.

I'm a big Campo fan, but he was nothing on those blokes.

Re: Campese : Thu Oct 20, 2016 8:42 am  

Grimsby Red wrote:

Humility is something people on here could learn from Campese, he refused a simple conversion because he didn't want to take Mal Meninga's record point score for a single NRL game. I also watched Millward et al play in a semi-professional sport akin to the bottom half of the championship these days. Campo's body let him down at the end, it comes to all great sports people, so what. He's rugby through and through and all that you lot can do is slag him off now that he's gone. Small provincial minds from a small provincial city, shame on you all.

Thanks very much terry for nothing and a safe journey home,hoping you dont pick up an injury in flight.

Re: Campese : Thu Oct 20, 2016 10:33 am  

Grimsby Red wrote:

I thought this forum was for rugby fans. Terry Campese has been a class above anything that this country ever produced (I include Millward in that statement). He's won all of the major trophy's down under with just one club, it didn't work out here, so what!! Still a class act.

I can't believe a Rovers fan believe's that. Millward was one of the greatest players of all time. Campese was a good player 5 years ago.

Re: Campese : Thu Oct 20, 2016 10:49 am  

Grimsby Red wrote:

I thought this forum was for rugby fans. Terry Campese has been a class above anything that this country ever produced (I include Millward in that statement). He's won all of the major trophy's down under with just one club, it didn't work out here, so what!! Still a class act.

Terry Campese did not win all of the trophies down under. The best he did was a NSW cap in a loss and a semi-finals victory over Penrith - I don't even know if he got more than a cap for Australia.

He had a 2 year period (2008 - 2010) were he was coming into the top of his game. This culminated with nearly winning the Dally M and then the year after playing brilliantly in leading Canberra to their first finals win in god knows how long. Unfortunately he was badly injured against Wests in that finals series and never ever recovered.

In his prime he was gifted as he was big, mobile, good passer and had a massive kick. Unfortunately due to a succession of injuries it was never to be for him. He could have been thought of as one of the greats if he could have continued on from 2010 - he didn't.

The 2 years of quality amount to a "what might have been career" and to mention him in the same breath as Milward is frankly ridiculous!

Re: Campese : Thu Oct 20, 2016 11:30 am  

[quote="Grimsby Red"]Humility is something people on here could learn from Campese, he refused a simple conversion because he didn't want to take Mal Meninga's record point score for a single NRL game. I also watched Millward et al play in a semi-professional sport akin to the bottom half of the championship these days. Campo's body let him down at the end, it comes to all great sports people, so what. He's rugby through and through and all that you lot can do is slag him off now that he's gone.
Small provincial minds from a small provincial city, shame on you all.


This from someone allegedly from Grimsby. Campese was an expensive mistake, Roger was a true star.

Re: Campese : Thu Oct 20, 2016 12:12 pm  

Marcus's Bicycle wrote:

I can't believe a Rovers fan believe's that Millward was not one of the greatest players of all time. Campese was a good player 5 years ago.

Re: Campese : Fri Oct 21, 2016 11:30 am  

Why does Mr Bicycle keep quoting himself????

Re: Campese : Mon Oct 24, 2016 10:21 am  

Campese will probably have to go down in history as one of the biggest flops to play for HKR and in terms of salary to playing time he must be the worst value player we've ever had at the club?

I know a lot of people have said he should have realised he was "done" like Weyman did, but that must be so hard for a top sportsman or woman to be able to acknowledge they can't go anymore, and that sport they've been spending all their lives playing they just can't do it now, they just can't shrug off the knocks as easily etc.

Maybe I'm wrong, but I honestly don't get the impression at all that he was just here for a holiday, for the money or whatever. I think he really wanted to come over here and play good rugby. Obviously, that hasn't worked out for anyone in the end sadly.