Lote

[Pfitzy]

And yet can you understand any handwriting from your local doctor? Not a fucking bit.

Back to the topic - Lote was a big figure in our game and very important from a marketing point of view. I think the positions he attained were largely due to his skill though.

I miss blokes like him and Dell in rugby because the rest are largely rent-a-quote private school boys with fuck all interesting to say besides. Well obviously Sharpey and Van are exceptions :lmao:

 

[Epi]

I miss blokes like him and Dell in rugby because the rest are largely rent-a-quote private school boys with fuck all interesting to say besides.

Well said.

 

[Pfitzy]

And can I add before the wowsers jump in: I do not for any minute condone their actions and the light in which they cast rugby. I never, EVER want to see Rugby take the same stance as League i.e. "Rape is OK if you win us the game" because I think we're above that.

 

[rugbywhisperer]

so, deductively speaking - private school bores don't rape - is that it

 

[Pfitzy]

Absolutely: I fully believe the buttsex between private school boys is consensual 8)

 

[Biffo]

Lote .... I miss blokes like him and Dell in rugby because the rest are largely rent-a-quote private school boys with fuck all interesting to say besides. Well obviously Sharpey and Van are exceptions :lmao:

High class, Mate.

 

[Biffo]

Absolutely: I fully believe the buttsex between private school boys is consensual 8)

You are on fire tonight. What's the chemical?

 

[Pfitzy]

Just havin a dig The chemical is

VICTORY!!!​

 

[Reddy!]

Tahu is also playing well for the Eels. I think there is a trend, play rugby for at least 2 season, then go back to league and dominate.

 

[cyclopath]

To put it simply, Nick, yes.

See? You medicos always complicate stuff. When the MRI pointed out that I had a split tendon in my ankle, it took the silly bugger doing the report about 16 words to say which tendon

Radiologists get paid by the word!! :lmao:

And medicos by the sentence.

Think this grammarist hadn't noticed your writing style and speculated on your occupation?

Nah, mate, I get paid to do stuff, I'm a surgeon!! Nothing heals like cold steel and all that.
Now lawyers....pontification pay and oxygen thievery.

 

[Reddy!]

Ah surgeon, they'll give you any excuse so they can operate $$$

 

[Cutter]

He was always quick enough, Spook, the Tahs trainers reckon he was always 1 or 2 in the squad over 40m, I seem to recall.
The reasons he tailed off in rugby are many - bulked up a bit too much, endured years of inept backline play at the Tahs where his main function seemed to become a battering ram, didn't fare much better at the Wallabies in latter years. I think he lost the instinct in attack he brought with him when he came to rugby. He developed bad habits with his running - too sideways, off flat foot starts rather than hitting the ball at pace, a common trait in Aus teams in recent years. As I said, I think the speed was always there - I doubt it was lost then suddenly found again.
Feedback from team-mates seems to be that he was a good team man, and trained and prepared well. There has not been a rush of ex-teammates bagging him since he went.
I appreciate you dislike him, but to say he didn't train or care is a bit much.

There are more defenders in rugby and Lote never learnt the wingers no. 1 rule: use the sideline. All good wingers (Clerc, Shane Williams, Sivi, Habana, Rococoko, the one and only Rupeni, Heymans) use the sideline. Lote seemed afraid of it and cut back in too often. His runs were often back into traffic whereas those other guys more often look for the paint and try to stay just inside it. The Heymans try against the ABs is a classic example of not having much space and using every millimetre of it. This is one of my favourite tries of all time actually. A real pleasure to watch.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iWPkxSua8_g&feature=related

 

[Pfitzy]

And the stupid Kiwi commentators are confusing him with Vincent Clerc! :lmao:

 

[Scarfman]

That's one of the great tries.

Anyway, since you are all slowly coming around to my point of view, I'll leave well enough alone.

 

[Langthorne]

I miss blokes like him and Dell in rugby because the rest are largely rent-a-quote private school boys with fuck all interesting to say besides. Well obviously Sharpey and Van are exceptions :lmao:

I guess you mean rugby in Australia, or does that apply to other countries too?

This isn't the first time you've had a go at private school boys - what's the story there? do you have some unresolved issues you need to deal with? Do you feel in some way wronged?

 

[Pfitzy]

Nope, not at all. Proud product of the public school system, and didn't even understand the concept of "boarding school" until a couple of people I knew left to finish their senior years elsewhere.

What I don't like is how rugby fails to spread its wings because private schools have a stranglehold on who gets a run at higher levels. Not the GPS' fault of course, it has just always been that way, and why we're viewed from the outside as a minority sport for white people named Charles, and those cuzzies who didn't bother playing league.

 

[Reddy!]

You have a case NTA. From my experience, having the right surname will get you places in the private school rugby system.

 

[RugbyFuture]

Nope, not at all. Proud product of the public school system, and didn't even understand the concept of "boarding school" until a couple of people I knew left to finish their senior years elsewhere.

What I don't like is how rugby fails to spread its wings because private schools have a stranglehold on who gets a run at higher levels. Not the GPS' fault of course, it has just always been that way, and why we're viewed from the outside as a minority sport for white people named Charles, and those cuzzies who didn't bother playing league.

....not all private schools are boarding schools, i certainly didn't go toa boarding school, although i know what you mean about the "minority sport for white people called charles" thing my mates thought i was a westy coz i lived past the lane cove river, although the werent into rugby that much either, but still.

The private schools are the strength for australian rugby so its only fair that they reinforce them, but its also important they spread outwards. its also important to notice there are public schools all over the northern districts and north shore who play rugby over mungoball. its still a bit ponsy but a start.

 

[spectator]

Absolutely: I fully believe the buttsex between private school boys is consensual 8)

:lmao: Priceless!

 

[Pfitzy]

I'm here all week. Tip your waitress if she's not fat, and try the veal