Where's the Matai option?

Well if we'd have signed Lockyer to play dtand off when he was at FB I wouldn't be moaning. Kearney has played SO for many years as a junior aswell, I think he'll do well and I have no worries.

the thing is...

as a junior player Brett never reached anywhere near the standard that Ben Jeffries reached, and it was only as a full back that he was able to find a first grade spot..

He will play his heart out at 5/8 but you had a better player in that position with Jeffries!

Kearney is a better full back than you have on your books... and will be a star if he is played in his proper position.

and... to answer aprevious poster... he is NOT a playmaker... he is a support player and very fast!

Jeffries never realised the potential he showed as a kid. On his day he was good but those days were few and far between.

. . . . and, IMHO, when the going got tough . . . . Jeffries usually went missing. Constantly. And then usually went on to state in the press that [i"some people ought to look long and hard at themselves in the mirror'[/i. The man must have been a chuffin' vampire . . . . with a picture of Sam on the wall behind him

Exactly.

The Wakey fans told us this when we signed him. They were right.

Those are words you don't often see together!

They were also right on Solomona (fitness, errors and penalties conceded), although IIRC he was OK for a season.

Jeffries is a bit of an enigma, granted. But the criticism here is way over the top. How many players stood up when things were tough? Virtually none. Jeffries is principally a support player, he is as good as almost anyone in SL, anyone (including Macca) who expected him to be the main creator is daft. Having said that his stats for assists are better than most in SL. If ever there was a player who disappeared inside his cauliflower ears when things get tough, only to ever appear when the team was dominant it is your greatest scrum half of the 20th century.

As you've reposted your mantra for the zillionth time, forgive me for pointing out for the zillionth time that when things got tough, we won . . . everything. Several times.

You need to reformat your HDD and reinstall your backup "Yes but no but yes but we won all those things DESPITE Deacon" argument.

Heath L'Estrange for me. Slick player who in my opinion didn't get the game time he deserved at Manly

I remember the 2003 cup final being one of the closest games we played in our successful period and it being a heck of a tough game. Deacon was instrumental in that win.

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