I've been wanting to post a big post for the last couple of days, but I wanted to read everyone's posts first. And now that I've finally caught up I'm almost speechless.
But lucky for all my three fans out there I'm not.
So here goes.
Manu has been a terrible player his whole career. Put his skills in Michael Jennings body and he'd be a shit reserve grade player struggling to get the call up from Fox. Physical talent is something you're born with, not something to be emulated. But fuck me what a talent tho a. Any player who looks up to Manu for advice is doing them self no favors IMO.
Konrad Hurrell is a muppet. Jim Henson would have loved having his hand up Konrads working parts. How he failed as a first grade player is the stuff of legend. 26 now and all I can say is look at how Blake Furgusons new club is traveling. Poison comes in many forms.
Mutts, I know I'm not supposed to call him that, but fuck it. He's the real disappointment for me. A really great player who just never got the guys around him that could have lead him to the top. Packer knew how to get Matulino beating the world. But now he's stuck with these morons. If he goes to another club I'll still follow him and hope he goes well.
The other guys will get the wet bus ticket treatment for sure.
One thing that I now believe is this. There is a core of players who want to kick ass for the club and they are finally getting the backing from the top that they deserve.
I'd like a new checklist for players at the club.
First question:
Do you want a premiership ring?
Answer yes. Move on to the next question. Answer no. Bye bye

.
Fuck these guys who just want to be rich and famous.
Part 2/////////
So cappy has finally shown us his balls. Or are they Doyles? We all knew he had them. But now we really know.
Cappy is getting the royal treatment from JD. No other coach in the NRL gets better service from their CEO. None has in the past, and probably none ever will again. What's Cappy going to do with this? Is he going to learn how to love his players the way JD does? Only time will tell.
And finally, JD. What a colossus. Drops Manu, Hurrell (who was already dropped, so he got double dropped (shove that on your twitter feed Ko-nads)) Mutts, Thompson and the other two. Amazing.
Times they are a changing.