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Quote vastman="vastman"So I ask you for the umpteenth time - if he's still so good why is he coming to SL let alone one of its struggling teams?
There is no logic at the moment for any player still capable of getting a first team NRL slot doing such a thing.
The NRL is player rich but not so player rich they would let a player like Mead go unless there was a problem - sorry John but that how it worked.
He may still be a decent player but he won't be the player you seem to be expecting. Another Kevin Locke imho.
Finally this pace you're on about - I guarantee you he wouldn't get anywhere near Tom Johnstone or Mason Caton Brown in a foot race plus a few others dotted around SL.'"
You may well ask why does any talented NRL player come to Super League?
David Mead wants to play full back. But there have been no openings in such a slot for him in the NRL. So when he was made a generous offer by Catalans, he gratefully accepted.
The Gold Coast Titans, where David Mead played for almost a decade, has give Super League talents like Albert Kelly and Gregory Bird.
Watch here and you will see why the Catalans have acquired a top quality full back:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LuIWIMYoh6M |
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Quote vastman="vastman"So I ask you for the umpteenth time - if he's still so good why is he coming to SL let alone one of its struggling teams?
There is no logic at the moment for any player still capable of getting a first team NRL slot doing such a thing.
The NRL is player rich but not so player rich they would let a player like Mead go unless there was a problem - sorry John but that how it worked.
He may still be a decent player but he won't be the player you seem to be expecting. Another Kevin Locke imho.
Finally this pace you're on about - I guarantee you he wouldn't get anywhere near Tom Johnstone or Mason Caton Brown in a foot race plus a few others dotted around SL.'"
You may well ask why does any talented NRL player come to Super League?
David Mead wants to play full back. But there have been no openings in such a slot for him in the NRL. So when he was made a generous offer by Catalans, he gratefully accepted.
The Gold Coast Titans, where David Mead played for almost a decade, has give Super League talents like Albert Kelly and Gregory Bird.
Watch here and you will see why the Catalans have acquired a top quality full back:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LuIWIMYoh6M | |
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| Club Owner | 36149 | Wakefield Trinity |
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Quote JEAN CAPDOUZE="JEAN CAPDOUZE"You may well ask why does any talented NRL player come to Super League?
David Mead wants to play full back. But there have been no openings in such a slot for him in the NRL. So when he was made a generous offer by Catalans, he gratefully accepted.
The Gold Coast Titans, where David Mead played for almost a decade, has give Super League talents like Albert Kelly and Gregory Bird.
Watch here and you will see why the Catalans have acquired a top quality full back:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LuIWIMYoh6M'"
John you miss the point, must be my accent that's confusing you.
You're talking in the past tense - reputation in other words. I don't deny his past acheivments why would I.
I don't deny that Tony Myler was the most skilled player I've seen imo. However that was then this is now.
As you pointed out Wakefield have 4 sorry 2 top notch imports but I'm not pretending any of them are currently NRL standard. The only one that was is Pauli Pauli but that's a WAS.
Also he won't be surrounded by the same quality of players at Catalan or any SL club. Some of the tries you see in the NRL simply don't happen here because we lack the players with the ability. Many an Aussie in SL has come unstuck with that one. Although it sounds perverse SL is actually to slow for players like Mead to exploit he simply won't get the service.
I don't know who you're trying to convince me or you. One way or another the player you are getting is not the player on that footage - mark my words. |
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Quote JEAN CAPDOUZE="JEAN CAPDOUZE"You may well ask why does any talented NRL player come to Super League?
David Mead wants to play full back. But there have been no openings in such a slot for him in the NRL. So when he was made a generous offer by Catalans, he gratefully accepted.
The Gold Coast Titans, where David Mead played for almost a decade, has give Super League talents like Albert Kelly and Gregory Bird.
Watch here and you will see why the Catalans have acquired a top quality full back:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LuIWIMYoh6M'"
John you miss the point, must be my accent that's confusing you.
You're talking in the past tense - reputation in other words. I don't deny his past acheivments why would I.
I don't deny that Tony Myler was the most skilled player I've seen imo. However that was then this is now.
As you pointed out Wakefield have 4 sorry 2 top notch imports but I'm not pretending any of them are currently NRL standard. The only one that was is Pauli Pauli but that's a WAS.
Also he won't be surrounded by the same quality of players at Catalan or any SL club. Some of the tries you see in the NRL simply don't happen here because we lack the players with the ability. Many an Aussie in SL has come unstuck with that one. Although it sounds perverse SL is actually to slow for players like Mead to exploit he simply won't get the service.
I don't know who you're trying to convince me or you. One way or another the player you are getting is not the player on that footage - mark my words. | |
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| Quote JEAN CAPDOUZE="JEAN CAPDOUZE"Michael McIlorum's signing, coming on the heels of the sensational signing of David Mead, gives the Catalans a good chance of making the top 4.'"
but will it be the home or away form this coming season that lets them down once again? |
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| Quote tigertot="tigertot"A poor man's Greg Eden.'"
Jeez if he had one leg he'd be better than that.
No seriously your probably right.
Truth is the Aussies we get in SL these days just fill the gaps. |
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Nabil Djalout - Catalans to Hull KR
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| Player Coach | 2150 | Hull KR |
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| Quote headhunter="headhunter"Nabil Djalout - Catalans to Hull KR'"
On Trial only at this stage. |
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Hull kr and Leigh love to sign a French player, but their supporters seem to hate the French clubs. It’s a bit like every UKIP leader seems to have a foreign wife or girlfriend, while there supporters look unfavourably upon such people.
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| Quote Sir Kevin Sinfield="Sir Kevin Sinfield"Hull kr and Leigh love to sign a French player, but their supporters seem to hate the French clubs. It’s a bit like every UKIP leader seems to have a foreign wife or girlfriend, while there supporters look unfavourably upon such people.'"
I don't hate the French clubs at all. In fact there aren't many rovers supporters I know who do. I firmly believe they are good for our game. |
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| Quote Sir Kevin Sinfield="Sir Kevin Sinfield"Hull kr and Leigh love to sign a French player, but their supporters seem to hate the French clubs. It’s a bit like every UKIP leader seems to have a foreign wife or girlfriend, while there supporters look unfavourably upon such people.'" Never seen any resentment from Hull KR fans towards the French, in fact as a group they seem to be some of the most open and progressive fans. Leigh and some other clubs like Wakefield are a different story but it's unfair to bundle Hull KR in with them. |
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Barry McKenzie logic - mead can’t cant get a gig as an NRL fullback even though some clubs have fullbacks that’s wouldn’t get in SL teams so comes to a SL club in terminal decline = best full back in SL
Regards
King James
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| Quote Sir Kevin Sinfield="Sir Kevin Sinfield"Hull kr and Leigh love to sign a French player, but their supporters seem to hate the French clubs. It’s a bit like every UKIP leader seems to have a foreign wife or girlfriend, while there supporters look unfavourably upon such people.'"
Nothing against any French club, and i can say that about most Leigh fans.
The French people i don't hate, i actually know a few. Its the ones who think they are French i have no time for, you know the type. |
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