Tahu: The Tahs farked me up

[Spook]

That'll learn ya.

http://www.smh.com.au/news/lhqnews/i-rated-deans-but-the-tahs-did-me-no-favours/2009/10/17/1255624772685.html

 

[waratahjesus]

so he wanted to play the one position and never be benched or moved so he could learn the game?

i met him a few times, seems like a nice bloke but i dont really feel like the tahs are going to miss him, would much prefer rob horne and beale to be the centre pairing.

 

[chief]

Just another league player blaming it on something.

Brett Stewart blames it on his hormones and how they don't go well with alcohol.
Greg Inglis blames it on his girlfriend.
Nate Myles blames it on the hotel and how they had a lack of toilets.
Timana Tahu blames it on the tahs.
The sharks blame it all on Matty Johns.

Fuc*ing hell. They should just shut up and stay away from the press.

 

[waratahjesus]

danny wilder wouldnt have anywhere to get an exclusive then!

 

[louie]

just another article where they hail how great rugby league. we have such narrow minded media in this country.

''A lot of people look at rugby though league goggles. I tried to do that in my first year and it stung me a couple of times, trying to think as a league player.

''It's something you can't do because they're different sports.''

pretty much. i agree that the tahs did fuck him a lot. shouldn't have gone in first place.

 

[louie]

danny wilder wouldnt have anywhere to get an exclusive then!

my most hated guy in Australian sports media. what a tool. do you read this sunday column? just a bunch of liars and insider junk. its like who weekly.

 

[TheRiddler]

just a bunch of liars and insider junk. its like who weekly.

A sad indictment on the populist "culture" that plagues Australian society. Bunch of sad muppets who have to live their miserable and pathetic lives vicariously through the un-notable achievements of others. :angryfire:

While Tahu praised the medical staff, he said it took the Waratahs 12 months to work out how to properly manage him physically.

You mean it took the Tahs a year to ascertain what a physical wreck they were working with and work out the best way to hold you together, a body that was supposed top-class in league but couldnt last a couple of games in union.

Quit your whinging Tahu, noone really cares.

 

[fatprop]

just a bunch of liars and insider junk. its like who weekly.

A sad indictment on the populist "culture" that plagues Australian society. Bunch of sad muppets who have to live their miserable and pathetic lives vicariously through the un-notable achievements of others. :angryfire:

While Tahu praised the medical staff, he said it took the Waratahs 12 months to work out how to properly manage him physically.

You mean it took the Tahs a year to ascertain what a physical wreck they were working with and work out the best way to hold you together, a body that was supposed top-class in league but couldnt last a couple of games in union.

Quit your whinging Tahu, noone really cares.

Tahu apparently had the same kind of hamstrings problem as Elsom. Both required were to change their running style and that takes time.

The problem for RL converts is the lack of time they get to learn a new sport, S14 comp is too short to let someone learn. The original talk was to send him to Ireland for a half a season before his first season, but he was injured.

I think that should be his epitaph but he was injured.

 

[naza]

You mean it took the Tahs a year to ascertain what a physical wreck they were working with and work out the best way to hold you together, a body that was supposed top-class in league but couldnt last a couple of games in union.

What a farking liar. He was broken when we got him. We should have gotten a refund.

In his own words - http://www.rugbyheaven.com.au/news/...for-seven-years/2008/03/18/1205602372742.html

"I never really opened up 100 per cent in sprinting since I was 20 or 21," Tahu revealed on the latest edition of NSW Rugby podcast Tah Talk. "All through the season, even my NRL seasons, I would always hold back because it's a fear I have got of tearing my hamstring again if I opened up to 100 per cent. If this works, hopefully it will make me more confident and might bring a new dimension to my game."

However, Tahu said he had found it easier to carry the injury in rugby league than in union.

"I usually held myself back, just took it easy or looked for support, just cruising. In union, you have to be running 100 per cent all the time," he said. "I didn't really need to run 100 per cent [in league]. I either had to try and break the line, look for support, or most of the time [I was] always looking for support. I never really ran out to my full length of stride."

And I don't have any time for blokes who think they're entitled to a spot.

 

[Blue]

You mean it took the Tahs a year to ascertain what a physical wreck they were working with and work out the best way to hold you together, a body that was supposed top-class in league but couldnt last a couple of games in union.

What a farking liar. He was broken when we got him. We should have gotten a refund.

In his own words - http://www.rugbyheaven.com.au/news/...for-seven-years/2008/03/18/1205602372742.html

"I never really opened up 100 per cent in sprinting since I was 20 or 21," Tahu revealed on the latest edition of NSW Rugby podcast Tah Talk. "All through the season, even my NRL seasons, I would always hold back because it's a fear I have got of tearing my hamstring again if I opened up to 100 per cent. If this works, hopefully it will make me more confident and might bring a new dimension to my game."

However, Tahu said he had found it easier to carry the injury in rugby league than in union.

"I usually held myself back, just took it easy or looked for support, just cruising. In union, you have to be running 100 per cent all the time," he said. "I didn't really need to run 100 per cent [in league]. I either had to try and break the line, look for support, or most of the time [I was] always looking for support. I never really ran out to my full length of stride."

And I don't have any time for blokes who think they're entitled to a spot.

Spot on and it's Naza. Fark me. :fishing

What a petulant shithead and I though Tahu was a nice bloke. The league lot are mopping it up and make no mistake will use it for months toe come to remind everyone abotu how crap Union is in this country. Now can we stop importing league players unless they come across on their own accord?

 

[louie]

but it's Australia's great game!!!

 

[Epi]

What a petulant shithead and I though Tahu was a nice bloke. The league lot are mopping it up and make no mistake will use it for months toe come to remind everyone abotu how crap Union is in this country. Now can we stop importing league players unless they come across on their own accord?

Should stop bringing them across here. If they want to go to Europe and play a full season or two and prove they can play then fair enough.

Hickey is an embarrassingly shit coach however...

 

[Gagger]

He seems to have conveniently forgotten that despite the fact that he never really did anything for the Tahs, he still got a shot at the Wallaby jumper - which he well and truly f*cked on his own accord in the massacre of Jo'burg - and was even still in the squad right up until he went back to mungolism.

Two years of over inflated wages, a rehabbed hammy and Wallaby caps for free, I'd say he did pretty well.

This is obviously his penance bit to get back into League. Pretty pathetic.

 

[Blue]

Exactly. All this "poor little old me". Piss off.

One can't help but wonder how he would have gone at the Brumbies where the coach actually gives a shit about the backline. :fishing

 

[Spook]

In fairness to Tahu, he really played really well in SA when the Tahs won 3 on the trot. I think he would have been quite a good player for Australia. Tahs should have left him at 13 and moved Beale to 12 earlier. Even stuck with Horne at 12.

 

[Ash]

In fairness to Tahu, he really played really well in SA when the Tahs won 3 on the trot. I think he would have been quite a good player for Australia. Tahs should have left him at 13 and moved Beale to 12 earlier. Even stuck with Horne at 12.

Agree. I think there was a small whinge there, but Tahu does have a point. A back like Tahu learning the game shouldn't be chopped and changed as much as he was. The Tahs did drop the ball on his development, no doubt about it. Start at wing, move him in, give him some starts, stay patient...they couldn't even do that right.

I do think that Tahu is a loss to the Tahs.

However - agree 100% with the points about him being broken on arrival.

 

[waratahjesus]

In fairness to Tahu, he really played really well in SA when the Tahs won 3 on the trot. I think he would have been quite a good player for Australia. Tahs should have left him at 13 and moved Beale to 12 earlier. Even stuck with Horne at 12.

Agree. I think there was a small whinge there, but Tahu does have a point. A back like Tahu learning the game shouldn't be chopped and changed as much as he was. The Tahs did drop the ball on his development, no doubt about it. Start at wing, move him in, give him some starts, stay patient...they couldn't even do that right.

I do think that Tahu is a loss to the Tahs.

However - agree 100% with the points about him being broken on arrival.

dont think you can blame the tahs for how he was used, guy turned up, injured himself, and then fought for his spot back, if horne had stayed fit, i would always back him ahead of tahu at 13, if tahu had stayed fit it might have been a different story, the guy is a great footballer and could have developed into anything, he was only ready to go 50% of the time so i dont see why he feels he should have kept a starting spot.

 

[The Chosen]

Hopefully we won't see too many more of these `messiahs' coming from League. I don't see a run-on team for a Super 14/15 franchise as a `development site'. This is what the various Academy teams are for. Any one coming into a run-on team needs to be able to hit the ground running- something that Tahu could not do consisteamtly!

 

[Scarfman]

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