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| I've seen outstanding performances from both (especially Kelly) but I've not seen either look like a dominant play maker.
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| I feel guilty for going in a big sulk about that French hooker now boobydooby or what ever his name is? These look better signings 
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| Is there any rugby league players left that haven't got problems
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| Albert Kelly is a good player.
He is a quality playmaker with a good kicking game, a good running game and a good passing game.
He should go well with Maurice Blair. I'm pretty sure they are friends (both play for the Newcastle Yowies in the Koori knockout)
The problem with Kelly is that he is a two pot screamer who just starts doing stupid things any time he gets near a beer.
He was the next big thing when he was at Cronulla, but was sacked after several incidents (all minor). At Newcastle he was on a strict code of conduct and was looking good in reserve grade before being sacked after one late night incident where he broke a light outside a nightclub. At the Titans he got a lot of firstgrade time and people were again saying he could be a future SOO player. I think he had injury problems after that, because I haven't heard much about him this year.
You should sign Timana Tahu too. He is good friends with both those guys. Timana organises the Newcastle Yowies side for the Koori knockout and has had both those guys in the side, and Timana is a very mature guy who would keep them in line.
Travis Waddell (Aboriginal hooker recently released from the Newcastle Knights) is another good friend of those guys, and a very solid player looking for a club.
His cousin, Greg Inglis, could solve your fullback problem.
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| Now that's more like it!
Seen Kelly a fair bit and has the xfactor, more than pleased with his signing.
Only seen Blair play in the centres, any more info on him Roopy, regarding playing in halves?
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| Albert has potential to be the best half in SL, although can be a bit Greg Eden like, Blair is an average centre IMO. Last season can't remember him scoring a try or making a break when I watched them. Although you could have said the same about Blake Green.
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| I can't find any articles on the net that set down the terms for Kelly's suspension (for being a Cronulla player in 2011), but the players at the Knights in the same boat (Snowden and Smith), can't rejoin the squad till round one I think, so no off season contact with the squad.
If it's the same for Kelly, that will make life pretty hard for your coach - the main playmaker not being able to take part in the plays till just before season kickoff.
On the plus side, he spent most of a season playing with Josh Mantellato and they had a good understanding re kicks for the wing, and he has worked with Blair, and spent some time in the same team as Costigan, but only a few games I think.
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Kelly sounds like a talent, if he can stay on the rails. Certainly not going to help us play more robotically, as Murdoch suggested we should, and I could see his point. Chester clearly had a different vision, and if it works it should be crowd-pleasing. If...
If we get Myler on loan as well, then I'll very pleased with the quality, especially in this market. We'd still probably lack a player to control and direct, but they're few and far between and often have other limitations anyway.
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| This will get the girls at the KR shop going into overdrive handling the rush for memberships on the never-never, especially with the deadline for the 9mth deal on Monday.
I gave a sigh of relief when I read Rovers had signed Blair & Kelly, relieved we haven't gone down the Campese route although, if the HDM can be trusted, there still might be another half back on his way (hopefully Dureau).
From what I have seen and read about Blair and Kelly, they are both very strong defensively, have a good turn of speed and like to attack the line. Kelly has his moments though, so we can expect Hall-type inexplicable blunders, on the plus side (and there's plenty) he has that Xfactor to create something out of nothing.
The squad is shaping up nicely (cue a new 2015 starting line-up thread), and with 2/3 more signings on the horizon it is unrecognisable with 2014s. Looking at the 'ins' I don't think there is one dodgy defender, an area Chester has taken personal responsibility for, an area that has been Rovers nemesis for too long. If the rumour relating to Dudson is right then he will be another to fit this genre.
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| Quote roopy="roopy"I can't find any articles on the net that set down the terms for Kelly's suspension (for being a Cronulla player in 2011), but the players at the Knights in the same boat (Snowden and Smith), can't rejoin the squad till round one I think, so no off season contact with the squad.
If it's the same for Kelly, that will make life pretty hard for your coach - the main playmaker not being able to take part in the plays till just before season kickoff.
On the plus side, he spent most of a season playing with Josh Mantellato and they had a good understanding re kicks for the wing, and he has worked with Blair, and spent some time in the same team as Costigan, but only a few games I think.'"
With the RFL, you never can tell. Bans generally haven't applied to training over here. They might take a different stance with this than they have for other types of issues (breaches of registration rules, or on field misdemeanours, for example). Hopefully we'll have sounded them out. I'm sure the lad wouldn't want to miss out the Army training camp in Scotland.
it'll probably take a while to sort his visa in any case and it doesn't sound like we're going for an ultra-structured approach in attack.
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