I agree.

Putting all your Burgess eggs in the same basket is basket-case folly and will fail miserably when it really counts.

McNamara and England - consider yourself warned!

Hype does not equate to real substance when it really matters.

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How to spot Burgii sycophants?

They'll tell you the Burgess Bros were wholly responsible for Souths march to the Semi Finals this year.

They'll resort to providing selective stats in order to fit their Burgii agenda.

They'll also tell you today's loss wasn't their fault

Sadly the Burgess family have been in the media spotlight ever since the first one signed for Souths. It's a well known fact the whole family wanted to migrate to Australia. Russell Crowe has certainly used the 'all 4 brothers are playing for Souths' thing for all it's worth. The family (for whatever reason) are the darlings of Fairfax media and it's impossible to read the SMH page online without some story about one or other of the Burgess family. Sam and Luke go to the beach. Luke goes swimming. Sam jumps off a wharf into the sea. Luke and Sam meet a young fan at the beach and shake his hand. Sam rides a scooter. One of them gets his bits out. One of them apologises for smashing a car window. The whole family play on the X Box. Julie shaves her legs.

The media are probably to blame. They have built them up to be some kind of incredible talent who can single handedly propel Souffs to their first premiership since whenever.

As we saw today it doesn't always go to plan.

+1

The Burgii request you shine their off-season shoes Johnny.

I'm sure you won't let them down.

That sounds like check mate then WE. Don't knock your king over - we all know what being owned feels like. You scuttle off to your trolling attendances thread now. Leave talking about the actual game to people who have actually played it and know a little bit about it.

You more than most.

The media hype surrounding that family is truly cringeworthy. It is to be hoped their fawning flock aren't quite as visible during the RLWC as they have been in Australia.

At least the NRL Grand Final won't be treated as another episode of The Burgess's... Season 2, Episode 4 - BREAKING NEWS - What Julie cooked up for her lads for pre-Grand Final breakfast, EXCLUSIVELY LIVE from the Burgii Residence. Whoop! Whoop!

We can at least be thankful for that.

No-one on here has challenged my statistics and I bet few keyboard trolls on here have ever pulled a shirt on or have any real knowledge of the game.

They are too busy in their armchair, hiding behind their keyboard and counting empty plastic seats at Huddersfield, Wigan and Saints.

Lol, you moan when the media ignores the game and you moan when the media hypes up the game by making players stars. Souths didn't lose because of the forwards, the pack more than matched Manly's.

The Burgess brothers are very good rugby players. Tom and Luke are easily holding their own in the toughest rugby league competition on the planet and Sam and George are world class. It would seem that some RLFans would prefer these four were not in our game, I am certainly not one of them. Whatever the media attention in Sydney, they are a million miles from household names in their native country and if I was at the RFL or RLWC I would be all over them as the face(s) of the game