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Some parts of Sydney are great especially if you have a lot more than a million dollars and can afford the Eastern Suburbs or the Beaches, most can not and live in the West or South West.
Brisbane is a good sized City that is not a sprawling giant like Sydney.
It may not have Sydneys beaches but most City Beaches like Bondi are horribly over crowded and over rated.
Brisbane has the Gold Coast and the Sunshine Coast either side of it.
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Perth is by far best, I can afford to live a 5 minute walk from the beach and we have the best weather in the whole country for outdoors. Shame it's so bloody far from anywhere!
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| I'm 167 steps to the sand. Perth is a goer. Brisbane? Full of aussie s tbh. 
Tomkins will go wherever he wants.
Spotted George Burgess in a moon boot yesterday. A precautionary measure apparently. His brother Tom has shed lots of weight and had a few issued with ball retention tbh. ie he knocked on about 3 or 4 times. |
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[b:1crbsr9w] Toulouse for Championship in 2017, Super League in 2021!
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At Brisbane Tomkins will have his fellow countryman Jack Reed.
At St George-Illawarra he will be just the Lonely Pom.
Where Tomkins will not be in demand:
Melbourne: Billy Slater
Canterbury: Ben Barba + Sam Perrett
South Sydney: Greg Inglis
North Queensland: Matt Bowen
Manly: Brett Stewart
Canberra: Reece Robinson
Parramatta: Jarryd Hayne
Sydney Roosters: Roger Tuivasa-Sheck
Newcastle: Darius Boyd
New Zealand Warriors: Kevin Locke
That leaves as Tomkins possibilities, apart from Brisbane and St. George-Illawarra, Wests Tigers, Penrith, Gold Coast, Cronulla
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| Quote: JEAN CAPDOUZE "At Brisbane Tomkins will have his fellow countryman Jack Reed.
At St George-Illawarra he will be just the Lonely Pom.
Where Tomkins will not be in demand
Not as sure as you about Canberra or the Roosters where mini has been playing fullback and is OOC.
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Word is that Inglis will be back at Melbourne shortly
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| Quote: The Clan "Word is that Inglis will be back at Melbourne shortly'"
It will take some negotiating he is contracted to Souths till the end of the 2017 season. |
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Ben Barba also rumoured to be on his way to Brisbane, if true Tomkins won't be going there.
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| Quote: jonny the leyther "
You've obviously never been, the western suburbs of Sydney are a bit of a dump, and that's being kind 
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I think Tomkins would be a huge coup for the NRL. It's certainly increase interest in their comp from over here.
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[b:1crbsr9w] Toulouse for Championship in 2017, Super League in 2021!
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| Quote: Wellsy13 "I think Tomkins would be a huge coup for the NRL. It's certainly increase interest in their comp from over here.'"
Especially true if he goes to a club which doesn't yet have an Englishman. You would have UK fans watching Souths (Burgess brothers), Canterbury (Graham), Melbourne (Widdop), Parramatta (Hock and Mossop), perhaps Brisbane (Reed), plus Tomkins' club.
The other side of the coin is that Australian RL fans will become more interested in the England national team when it plays Australia and even New Zealand. The Burgess brothers are already very popular with Souths fans, and I heard one TV commentator say last weekend that George Burgess already has "a cult following" among Souths fans. So it is a boost for the international game to have so many top quality and very popular English players in Australia's NRL. |
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[quote="Odemwingie":34o3cs52] I hope his career is over.(regarding danny mcguires injury 2010 play offs)[/quote:34o3cs52]
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| Quote: christopher "You've obviously never been, the western suburbs of Sydney are a bit of a dump, and that's being kind ![]()
You sound like someone who has never been, let alone live there. Ashfield, Balmain, Quakers Hills? That's just a few nice places. The to put the west of Sydney all in the same column is a massive generalization.
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Regardless of the NRL links it seems that a lot of people will be very surprised if he is not a Union player soon.
Hope not though.
Saracens keeps being mentioned.
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| Quote: JB Down Under "Roosters if $BW leaves, knights if Tinkler stays solvent or Broncos though they rarely splash big cash for an"import".
Panthers or Parra would be favourites but who wants to live in west Sydney?'"
He doesn't have to live in Western Sydney to play for Parra. He probably would pick a Sydney team though, as others have said, more fellow English players and Sydney is great City, depends whats he is after though.
Wouldn't mind seeing him at the Roosters, Mini isn't going to be there forever. |
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