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Post by Deleted on Jun 20, 2017 11:16:22 GMT
Couldn't possibly chose between Sa'u and Kopczak, both total professionals and good family types.
There has to be something in that both are very settled and seem to live such clean lives away from the game, you could never dream of either of them turning up in the headlines for something that has happened in their private lives.
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Post by hammerlessnail on Jun 21, 2017 11:12:48 GMT
For me, the obvious answer is Michael Dobson, as classy a half-back as we've had in a generation or more.
However, there are a couple more candidates. Strange to think that it's less than four years ago that we sat in the whatever-it-is suite at the stadium while Marwan reeled off the list of players the club had signed. We were brimming with optimism, but it soon turned out that those signings were a bunch of crocks and crack-pots, has-beens and never-will-bes, with the odd decent player added to the mix. In the intervening period, the club has been as stable as a rocking horse on a rope bridge, with Winding-Up Petitions, points deductions, an ill-advised appeal against a points deduction, near relegation, Twitter spats, pointless battles against the RFL, a revolving door of CEOs, a revolving door of coaching staff, fans fighting on the pitch, players rescuing family members from 'fans' fighting on the terraces, players banned for racist abuse, players banned for contact with a match official, players walking out, players being suspended by the club, the owner threatening to leave, the owner threatening to stay, and on and on. Through all of that, just two of the players from that initial cohort have stood by the club, and are still there now. So, maybe the best signings of the Koukash era are Junior Sa'u and Greg Johnson.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 21, 2017 11:16:53 GMT
For me, the obvious answer is Michael Dobson, as classy a half-back as we've had in a generation or more. However, there are a couple more candidates. Strange to think that it's less than four years ago that we sat in the whatever-it-is suite at the stadium while Marwan reeled off the list of players the club had signed. We were brimming with optimism, but it soon turned out that those signings were a bunch of crocks and crack-pots, has-beens and never-will-bes, with the odd decent player added to the mix. In the intervening period, the club has been as stable as a rocking horse on a rope bridge, with Winding-Up Petitions, points deductions, an ill-advised appeal against a points deduction, near relegation, Twitter spats, pointless battles against the RFL, a revolving door of CEOs, a revolving door of coaching staff, fans fighting on the pitch, players rescuing family members from 'fans' fighting on the terraces, players banned for racist abuse, players banned for contact with a match official, players walking out, players being suspended by the club, the owner threatening to leave, the owner threatening to stay, and on and on. Through all of that, just two of the players from that initial cohort have stood by the club, and are still there now. So, maybe the best signings of the Koukash era are Junior Sa'u and Greg Johnson. Don't forget crackheads
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Post by rednotdead on Jun 22, 2017 20:18:42 GMT
I had to reread that, the first time I read it as "cocks and crack pots". I suppose either would have fitted
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Post by mrg on Jun 22, 2017 21:42:36 GMT
For me, the obvious answer is Michael Dobson, as classy a half-back as we've had in a generation or more. However, there are a couple more candidates. Strange to think that it's less than four years ago that we sat in the whatever-it-is suite at the stadium while Marwan reeled off the list of players the club had signed. We were brimming with optimism, but it soon turned out that those signings were a bunch of crocks and crack-pots, has-beens and never-will-bes, with the odd decent player added to the mix. In the intervening period, the club has been as stable as a rocking horse on a rope bridge, with Winding-Up Petitions, points deductions, an ill-advised appeal against a points deduction, near relegation, Twitter spats, pointless battles against the RFL, a revolving door of CEOs, a revolving door of coaching staff, fans fighting on the pitch, players rescuing family members from 'fans' fighting on the terraces, players banned for racist abuse, players banned for contact with a match official, players walking out, players being suspended by the club, the owner threatening to leave, the owner threatening to stay, and on and on. Through all of that, just two of the players from that initial cohort have stood by the club, and are still there now. So, maybe the best signings of the Koukash era are Junior Sa'u and Greg Johnson. [ Wow. I'm ashamed to admit I didn't realise those 2 have stuck with us through the turmoil of all the above. Good on 'em and I was a fan of them both anyway but they've gone up even more in my estimation for that.
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