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| Quote JEAN CAPDOUZE="JEAN CAPDOUZE"Haven't people noticed that Sam Burgess sees himself in some kind of competition with Sonny Bill Williams for the title of Golden Boy of World Rugby (both codes)? Sam Burgess is constantly measuring his status against SBW's. That is why he going to RU. He wants to chase SBW all over the park and smash him into the ground. He can't do that again after this year if he stays in rugby league.
Meanwhile anyone seriously interested in the game of rugby league ought to watch the opening game of the NRL season: Sydney Roosters vs South Sydney Rabbitohs on Thursday March 6th. Watch Burgess try to smash SBW at every opportunity -- in attack and defence. I am going to be interested to see how many times Burgess gets penalised for illegal and perhaps dirty play, and if he gets sent off. SBW is cool, calm and collected. He might even laugh at Burgess and Burgess will get even more angry.
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| Quote Kiwi Shane="Kiwi Shane"Sam Burgess wants to be Sonny Bill... but the reality is he isn't really fit to lace the great mans boots. Sam Burgess could play until he is 100 and he would still never be part of a side that wins a grand final or a rugby world cup.'"
Hmmmmmm. Williams played 4 minutes of the 2011 RUWC final and might as well have played less in last years league final. What a god awful display from the kiwis, as much as the semi final was an absolute classic, let's not get carried away about the kiwi performance. There was only two pieces of incredible skill, and a high degree of luck in NZ's first try, that kept you in the game, let alone won it for you. The reason why New Zealand were so bad in the final is down to the pounding they got from England.
Kiwi Shane, you need to take your head out of your arrogant national sport pages. You threw everything at England, and had it returned in more than equal measure.
As for Sam Burgess, Utube is full of him and George smashing New Zealand forwards all over the pitch. Type in fun fui moi moi if you don't believe me. Google will also bring it up. Now, just to be clear, I'm not saying Sam is better than SBW, I actually believe the latter is more likely to be a successful inside centre, but Sam hits as hard as any forward there has been in the professional game, he runs excellent lines from deep and has exceptional footwork for such a big man.
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| Quote LincolnDEVILSFan="LincolnDEVILSFan"The reason why New Zealand were so bad in the final is down to the pounding they got from England.'"
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| Quote Kiwi Shane="Kiwi Shane"Oh dear
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Please don't try and argue otherwise, as good as Australia were, NZ were equally as bad. They were a poor relative of the side that turned up snarling at England the week before. If you don't think your boys were completely broken, then they must have completely lost their bottle on the big occasion!!!
Seriously, you need to get your opinions somewhere other than the New Zealand sports pages.
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| Quote Shifty Cat="Shifty Cat"Tbf to the poster, I read it as though he was saying the NRL can easily replace Burgess due to their production line, like he says here.
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And I've already addressed that by saying they can't, he's the best forward at Souths and one of the best in the league. To easily replace him you need Souths full pack to be better than him.
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| Quote Sheldon="Sheldon"And I've already addressed that by saying they can't, he's the best forward at Souths and one of the best in the league. To easily replace him you need Souths full pack to be better than him.'"
Why is it that great RL players always become average or worse once they switch to another code......I have never experienced insecurity to equal that of your average RL fan and Aussies are the worst!
Quote Sheldon="LincolnDEVILSFan"Seriously, you need to get your opinions somewhere other than the New Zealand sports pages.'"
New Zealand were utterly "shot" after the semi-final. Australia were always going to win the RLWC easily if they beat England in the opener. Dotting Fiji in a semi-final was perfect preparation for meeting a tired pack the following week.
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| Quote gutterfax="gutterfax"Why is it that great RL players always become average or worse once they switch to another code......I have never experienced insecurity to equal that of your average RL fan and Aussies are the worst!
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Their a different level tbh.
Souths silence and the stories that are getting leaked out in the press are annoying. I'm tempted not to bother making the long trip every two weeks, i won't bother at all if they sign Blake Ferguson, I might just pick the top city games of the round.
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| Quote Sheldon="Sheldon"Their a different level tbh.
Souths silence and the stories that are getting leaked out in the press are annoying. I'm tempted not to bother making the long trip every two weeks, i won't bother at all if they sign Blake Ferguson, I might just pick the top city games of the round.'"
How could Souths fit Blake Ferguson in under the salary cap? Anyway aren't London Broncos chasing Blake?
Blake probably can't play in the NRL this year because of his "catch a snatch" conviction. However he has proven himself very sociable and will be the ideal Super League centre under the superb coaching of New Age guru Tony Rea.
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| Ferguson won't be back in the NRL for a very long time, if ever. he also will not get a UK visa with a sexual assault conviction. Blake is heading for the building site if he is lucky.
If Sam leaves I can guarantee Souths will still finish top 4, NRL will still get the same viewing and attendance figures, the billion $ media deal will still be there and the telegraph will still fill pages slagging RL off. The days of a player being bigger than the game are long long gone, I hope he doesn't go as i enjoy watching him play but if he does my enjoyment of watching the NRL and seeing Souths choke will not be diminished in any way.
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| Nobody said any different, well apart from Souths been top 4, the point was like Falou, Hunt, Rogers, Salior, Tuquri, Willams and Thorn, off the top of my head, their abilities will be/were missed and the comp is of lesser standard because of it.
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| Quote Sheldon="Sheldon"Nobody said any different, well apart from Souths been top 4, the point was like Falou, Hunt, Rogers, Salior, Tuquri, Willams and Thorn, off the top of my head, their abilities will be/were missed and the comp is of lesser standard because of it.'"
I disagree, apart from the clubs that lost them where the loss of one of your top players does have an impact, the game itself hardly notices. Even outstanding players have a short peak where they are indisputably the very best, 2 or 3 years, so the passage of time itself will do the job of the yawnion dollars. The next superstar is always waiting to be discovered.
Keeping the game itself watchable and entertaining is a far more important issue for its future. Its sad on individual level that good players are wasting their talents in yawnion but no more than that. You can't polish a turd and the world's finest athletes couldn't make the 6 nations watchable.
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| Quote Erik the not red="Erik the not red"I disagree, [uapart from the clubs that lost them where the loss of one of your top players does have an impact, [/uthe game itself hardly notices. Even outstanding players have a short peak where they are indisputably the very best, 2 or 3 years, so the passage of time itself will do the job of the yawnion dollars. The next superstar is always waiting to be discovered.
Keeping the game itself watchable and entertaining is a far more important issue for its future. Its sad on individual level that good players are wasting their talents in yawnion but no more than that. You can't polish a turd and the world's finest athletes couldn't make the 6 nations watchable.'"
But that's my point.
When you say the next superstar is waiting to be discovered would you rather they play with other superstars are bang average players?
Union might be boring to us but more people watch and play it in the world than League.
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