Re: Its Minichiello : Fri Aug 15, 2014 9:00 pm  

Whiting will be what he always is, a utility player, every season, we get will Whiting get a game and every season he plays over 20 games ( although he may fall slightly short this year).

After Thompson's impressive start this year he has been very poor the 2nd half of the season and needs to have a good finish and pre season.

Re: Its Minichiello : Fri Aug 15, 2014 9:02 pm  

Sheldon wrote:

The difficulty signing Australian players at the moment is they have such disregard for SL it's untrue. Only last week I watched Soward laughing saying his spell at London was great cause he could get fat and drink beer. Bowen was doing the same just before the WCC.

I'd have Minichiello over Pritchard every day of the week though.

No way Bowen could drink beer and get fat playing at Wigan, he might of thought he could, but it wont of happened. In fact, i think your talking poop

Re: Its Minichiello : Fri Aug 15, 2014 9:09 pm  

Sheldon wrote:

The difficulty signing Australian players at the moment is they have such disregard for SL it's untrue. Only last week I watched Soward laughing saying his spell at London was great cause he could get fat and drink beer. Bowen was doing the same just before the WCC.

I'd have Minichiello over Pritchard every day of the week though.

Soward didn't do a bad job of getting fat at ST George either .

He also said this about his time at London
“It was just such a fantastic three months. Tony told me to play footy. He told me to chip and chase, kick, step, go to the other side of the field, do whatever I wanted. I loved footy again. And I realised what it was I loved about footy.

Re: Its Minichiello : Fri Aug 15, 2014 9:12 pm  

Mrs Barista wrote:

Why's that?

Firstly I'm not a fan of "impact" players. To many errors in their game. Pritchards also a bit lazy in pre season and keeping himself in nick, the injuries are catching up with him.

Re: Its Minichiello : Fri Aug 15, 2014 9:13 pm  

Tinkerman23 wrote:

No way Bowen could drink beer and get fat playing at Wigan, he might of thought he could, but it wont of happened. In fact, i think your talking poop

There's a interview of Bowen before the WCC of him laughing with Fittler about his weight gain in pre season.

Re: Its Minichiello : Fri Aug 15, 2014 9:15 pm  

Sheldon wrote:

Firstly I'm not a fan of "impact" players. To many errors in their game. Pritchards also a bit lazy in pre season and keeping himself in nick, the injuries are catching up with him.

I'd add getting rid of the shoulder charge has taken a big part of his game away as it has with a few big players this season .

Re: Its Minichiello : Fri Aug 15, 2014 9:17 pm  

B0NES wrote:

Soward didn't do a bad job of getting fat at ST George either .

He also said this about his time at London
“It was just such a fantastic three months. Tony told me to play footy. He told me to chip and chase, kick, step, go to the other side of the field, do whatever I wanted. I loved footy again. And I realised what it was I loved about footy.

What's that got to do with how serious he took it? Shall I ignore his interview last week?

Re: Its Minichiello : Fri Aug 15, 2014 9:18 pm  

Sheldon wrote:

What's that got to do with how serious he took it? Shall I ignore his interview last week?

You brought it up .

Re: Its Minichiello : Fri Aug 15, 2014 9:24 pm  

B0NES wrote:

I'd add getting rid of the shoulder charge has taken a big part of his game away as it has with a few big players this season .

It hasn't effected the top players, I actually think it's effected the smaller players more. Players like Josh Reynolds and Chris Sandow have had to improve their technique.

Re: Its Minichiello : Fri Aug 15, 2014 9:32 pm  

Sheldon wrote:

It hasn't effected the top players, I actually think it's effected the smaller players more. Players like Josh Reynolds and Chris Sandow have had to improve their technique.

I agree with how its affected the smaller players more , But I think some of the impact of the big hitters like Masoe , Williams , Pritchard has really lessened imo. Stupid decision to get rid .