The Folau is tweeting he is happy at the Giants

Very nice

With SBW set to earn £1.3M a year I can't really see him ever wanting to earn £200K (tops) in a wet and cold SL.

SBW is in sport purely for the money it seems. Even if he does rejoin the NRL, it will be for one year only and probably largely to promote his boxing career. Sadly he has listened far too much to what Mundine has to say.

Isn't that why most of go to work - for the money - why do we expect sportsmen to behave differently to how we would? Their career is very short and at the end of it SBW will have made more money than most and more money than he would have he had remained in the NRL.

And in truth, is still arguably one of the best players in the game of either code.

Not something too players could ever have said.

i watch the chiefs every week to see how sonny is doing over there and hes the best in the world in union, but he was never close to being the best in the nrl he had huge potential but he was allways injured. I also think he will have a shock when he goes back to the nrl at the moment hes got it cushy in union and looks to have lost alot of pace and on the weekend he was blowing up.

At least he'll be able to hit people in the face with his shoulder again and won't have to bother using his arms in the tackle.

He's like a bottled explosion in union, you don't get the full fat SBW experience - semi-skimmed at best.

People can go where they like and do what they like when it comes to work. Good for him, good for the NRL marketing people.

I forgot about his boxing - isn't he NZ heavyweight champion or something like that?

Sadly, you appear to have listened far too much to what white Australian views have to say on the matter.

My issue with SBW is solely down to how he shafted his teammates and fans on leaving the Dogs mid-season, whilst preaching loyalty and claiming the issues were all the fault of the Dogs. Mundine's an idiot full stop, just as many 'white Australians' are.

You're the one who's raised race - maybe you're the one with the issue? Especially since you have absolutely zero idea about who I 'listen to'. Don't let that chip on your shoulder get any bigger if it's going to make you start calling people racist with zero evidence.

Jamie Lyon did the very same at Parramatta. Your silence on that is deafening BTW. Feel free to target your angst towards SBW instead however.


In your opinion and the opinion of funnily enough... many white Australians. If only he was an idiot, a racist idiot and a druggie like Andrew Johns for instance. He might be perceived as a legend instead? Or perhaps not.


How convenient. Yes, many of them certainly are.


Thanks for the lesson in projection.


Chips on shoulders? You mean like erm... Mundine... for instance?
Whatever floats your boat.

Be a bit weird to vent about Lyon in a thread titled "SBW" wouldn't it? I mean, you just did and everything, but for other people it's not really an inexplicable absence is it?



Again, quite hard to see what Andrew Johns has to do with this topic? If you want to bring it up, you could always have asked about BR's views on him, rather than assuming that because he hasn't cropped up on a thread about someone else that you can infer those views?

For the record, I'm not too bothered what SBW, Lyon or Johns do or did. If SBW either appears in some RL that I watch (i.e. not the NRL) then that will interest me, and if he makes it beyond domestic level (I don't watch much NZ boxing I'm afraid) in his boxing career then he might catch my attention too.

I cant believe he is only 26

Been around for years ! ! !

AP/KS/Bill - all your little points above are complete nonsense and irrelevant to that discussion. You have clearly implied on a public forum that I am a racist. Please provide some evidence, or withdraw the assertion.

Just in case it helps as you appear very slow at times, my non-discussion of the behaviour or actions of people un-related to this topic doesn't count as evidence of anything.