not at all, but I have a better understanding of ME than anyone else could ever have.....

I also know what I have and haven't done

but hey, a bunch of strangers on the internet know best.

I've lived in my skin for many years, I know me, I know how I function.


anyway, Crooks................

You are really (B)oring.

feel free to stop reading anything I post, you've got another 5 weeks off school yet.

"Bloooody hell, I've been 12 stern for 20 years now, I'm definitely doing everything right".

is your coursework complete?

(sorry, I meant probation)

Once again a thread threatens to be derailed...

Here's a question to try and get things back on track. What's peoples preferred centre options? Sa and Yeamo, Crooks and Yeamo, Crooks and Sa? Can be for the present or the future.

Edited to make sense.

I see Sa and Crooks if not next year then the one after, if Crooks does in fact bulk up a bit.

Thanks for making senses of my original post

But with us likely to sign a new centre and even looking at the NRL for options. If he's from overseas I expect him to be a starter and not back up. Us going with four centres who's likely to fall down the pecking order?

It's difficult to look beyond this season as it seems we're in the market for a new centre for next year.

Out of those three (assuming we don't get a new centre), as they are right now I'd go with Yeaman & Sa. Like Cal says, if Crooks can add that bulk in pre-season, hopefully get some confidence back too, he'd play his way in before either of those two as he has the ability.

Probably somewhere between 5 and 10kg at a guess, get into the mid 90's. Pace doesn't need to suffer at all with the correct training.

a few kilos, I don't think he'll lose much pace and if anything a higher volume of muscle mass will increase strength and power so greater acceleration, which is arguably more important than top speed in RL.

Good to see realism from you and Errlee Berd, a few kilo's is realistic, with nothing else to do other than train he can do it, especially with professional assistance.

That's what I was told too when he first came on the scene