I'm sure he'll enjoy the banter in training with Diskin.

of course you were Pinocchio
i'm glad that all these hostilities were sorted out then and just in the nick of time too judging by the way all the players/squad members and coaching staff hugged mac at the final whistle at this years gf then eh?

if i was you i would stick to gossiping about those rumors regarding your neighbours on your street pal

Re the above few quotes I thought that sinfield etc eluded to the fact there were some issues within the squad regarding roles etc and cross and burgess going seemed to suggest getting rid of the niggle. Not too sure it was all to do with Brian, and any disharmony seemed to get sorted out.

I've heard that a lot of the problems stemmed from the previous regime and that it's just taken some time to get through some tough times. Sinfield has denied this in a post match interview but I wouldn't expect anything less.

The problems are well documented. Namely the fractious Oz/Kiwi camp split involving previous coach, Eastwood, Buderus, Poching et al. And the split wasn't quite how everyone would imagine I gather!

Clearly the disruptive elements have gone and well done to Brian Mac. I do recall at the very start of the year saying he would do a good job there. I hate to say it but.......

You don't though, do you?

i'd argue that the disharmony within the camp that you refer to,was more related to the previous regime in charge of the coaching set-up than the appointment of brian mac,hence why bluey, willie and franny have since left the club.

judging by the way the clubs fortunes have been so rapidly turned around during his first season in charge would indicate that your source was incorrect would it not and that mac actually remedied this disharmony?


how many fans would "you lot" equate to?
i'll admit that there was a minority of young and idiotic morons in our south stand that took to booing mac when things weren't going too well.the more seasoned supporters who have stood on the terraces prior to 2004 have witnessed far worse than our early to mid seasons performances

So are we signing Lee Smith or what?

Nope!

I remember reading a contentious tweet from smithy basically ridiculing the fact that Luke burgess couldn't make the rhino's team but was ripping up trees in the NRL! I don't think tweets like this from lee's twitter account help him in the popularity stakes with Brian mc, however I don't think Brian makes his team selection personal it's just that smithy ain't got what it takes to get into the rhino's team not when the young guns are streets ahead of him

Who?

Yeah I saw that tweet and as I'm based over here I've obviously submerged myself in NRL I've seen burgess in action. Made good meters looked good in defence but in souths must win game to make the play offs he came up with errors that cost souths the game. Luke will need to sort his game out big time. He won't last five mins in a Madge team with those errors in his game.

By Lee Smiths logic when all was said and done Mac new best, Mac had the last laugh.

Agree re Luke Burgess's last game, although to be fair he didn't lose the game all on his own - Sandow and Isaac Luke were dreadful. Luke B does need to work on ball security generally (as does Sam BTW) and also cut out the 'no look' offloads, which nearly always end up with the ball on the deck.