Re: That London : Mon Feb 18, 2019 10:11 pm  

fun time frankie wrote:

Mulhearn might not have hit the heights of last season yet but he still puts in big minutes and hasn’t really done anything wrong but his kicking game needs work

Greenwood has stepped up so far. Il concede Mose could get hands on ball more but what he does is generally high quality. Garbutt is making most players stats look poor.Tomkins is the leader on pitch. Hauraki has gone well. Robbie and Linnett for me need to get stuck in more but Linnett still new and I think Rob may be carrying a niggle? I like our pack so far and Lannon Jewwit and Scruton will all do a job. Just need Lunt back and firing but no time frame on/If he returns? Lawler ilike his defence but not great at hooker. Addy still on comeback.Consdering everything we are doing ok really

Re: That London : Mon Feb 18, 2019 10:28 pm  

craig hkr wrote:

Greenwood has stepped up so far. Il concede Mose could get hands on ball more but what he does is generally high quality. Garbutt is making most players stats look poor.Tomkins is the leader on pitch. Hauraki has gone well. Robbie and Linnett for me need to get stuck in more but Linnett still new and I think Rob may be carrying a niggle? I like our pack so far and Lannon Jewwit and Scruton will all do a job. Just need Lunt back and firing but no time frame on/If he returns? Lawler ilike his defence but not great at hooker. Addy still on comeback.Consdering everything we are doing ok really

Agree about Greenwood gone very well so far pity he won’t be playing on Saturday Linnet is playing SR something he hasn’t really done much in his career but seems solid enough we’ve got 2 wins without playing that well really

Re: That London : Tue Feb 19, 2019 9:24 am  

fun time frankie wrote:

Agree about Greenwood gone very well so far pity he won’t be playing on Saturday Linnet is playing SR something he hasn’t really done much in his career but seems solid enough we’ve got 2 wins without playing that well really

That's the huge positive. We have won twice and have a lot of improvement to come. They appear a team in an upward improvement. Best thing about all 3 games is the defence. Least points conceded of the teams who have played 3 games.
They have coped well with injuries too. Linnet has bounced from centre to 2nd row each game. The first choice 9 and 1 aren't available.Addy, Lawler, will get better. It all had a lot of potential.
Hauraki, Lawler,Linnet, Drinkwater, Tomkins, Garbutt, have all improved our defence.

Re: That London : Tue Feb 19, 2019 11:16 am  

Burtons Forearm wrote:

Or maybe they would come back to the NRL far better forwards and tear it up for evidence see

Burgess x3
Graham
Cooper
Hodgson
Soliola
Morley
Gavin Miller etc etc
There is a very long list of Englishmen and Aussies forwards who have come from our league and dominated the NRL. Something about our league improved the forwards.

Garbo always had it in him to play at a pretty high level. His under 20s career at the Newcastle Knights was very interupted with injuries, but after that he spent a year playing for Newcastle Wests and led them to a premiership with amazing stats for the year. He did so well that a few NRL clubs offered him a contract and he signed with Melbourne for a few years. He couldn't break into the Melbourne side, but he played for their feeder club in the Qld cup and again had amazing stats - so good that Brisbane signed him. He was always knocking on the door of playing NRL, but just signed with 2 sides that had really strong forwards and couldn't find a spot for him. If he'd have signed for Newcastle when he had a chance, he'd probably be a 200 game NRL player about now.

Re: That London : Tue Feb 19, 2019 3:33 pm  

roopy wrote:

Garbo always had it in him to play at a pretty high level. His under 20s career at the Newcastle Knights was very interupted with injuries, but after that he spent a year playing for Newcastle Wests and led them to a premiership with amazing stats for the year. He did so well that a few NRL clubs offered him a contract and he signed with Melbourne for a few years. He couldn't break into the Melbourne side, but he played for their feeder club in the Qld cup and again had amazing stats - so good that Brisbane signed him. He was always knocking on the door of playing NRL, but just signed with 2 sides that had really strong forwards and couldn't find a spot for him. If he'd have signed for Newcastle when he had a chance, he'd probably be a 200 game NRL player about now.

Cheers mate,hope alls good with you.

Re: That London : Tue Feb 19, 2019 10:11 pm  

roopy wrote:

Garbo always had it in him to play at a pretty high level. His under 20s career at the Newcastle Knights was very interupted with injuries, but after that he spent a year playing for Newcastle Wests and led them to a premiership with amazing stats for the year. He did so well that a few NRL clubs offered him a contract and he signed with Melbourne for a few years. He couldn't break into the Melbourne side, but he played for their feeder club in the Qld cup and again had amazing stats - so good that Brisbane signed him. He was always knocking on the door of playing NRL, but just signed with 2 sides that had really strong forwards and couldn't find a spot for him. If he'd have signed for Newcastle when he had a chance, he'd probably be a 200 game NRL player about now.

Good luck in the coming season.

Re: That London : Wed Feb 20, 2019 6:08 am  

Burtons Forearm wrote:

Good luck in the coming season.

Cheers.
Fun fact - Mitch's father, Big Pete, was the best offloader I've seen - all massive arms and legs and impossible to wrap up. He played for NSW country in the '80's, when that meant something.