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Sounds like an accidental head butt. Beale doesn't strike me as the type of bloke to strike a coach or team mate. Lee would be able to tell you though.
The Tahs 2009
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Lee Grant
John Eales (66)
Well it's a pity that happened but at least he's honest about it.
I'm disappointed in him but I am also disappointed in the Tahs for not tracking him properly. I know the arguments to that about being a professional player and yarda yarda, but I thought that's what they would do with inactive players as a matter of course, especially with teenagers and especially one with Kurtley's background, which is hardly mainstream.
Yeah, other youngsters have done better than him in sport handling themselves in such situations including aborigine youngsters, but I thought he would be someone they would keep a better eye on.
He had better turn his diet around because his mum is a large lady and he obviously has her genes.
I reckon Halangahu should start in the Super14 if his trial form is good. I've been saying that he should be starting in a few Super games this year because he has been one of the best players in Sydney club rugby recently. So maybe it should be from the start with Kurtley earning back the respect he has lost, from the bench.
Halangahu hasn't shown us a lot in the S14 but maybe that will change in 2009.
I'm disappointed in him but I am also disappointed in the Tahs for not tracking him properly. I know the arguments to that about being a professional player and yarda yarda, but I thought that's what they would do with inactive players as a matter of course, especially with teenagers and especially one with Kurtley's background, which is hardly mainstream.
Yeah, other youngsters have done better than him in sport handling themselves in such situations including aborigine youngsters, but I thought he would be someone they would keep a better eye on.
He had better turn his diet around because his mum is a large lady and he obviously has her genes.
I reckon Halangahu should start in the Super14 if his trial form is good. I've been saying that he should be starting in a few Super games this year because he has been one of the best players in Sydney club rugby recently. So maybe it should be from the start with Kurtley earning back the respect he has lost, from the bench.
Halangahu hasn't shown us a lot in the S14 but maybe that will change in 2009.
Lee Grant
John Eales (66)
Geez - at least we Tahs fans know where the bottom of the barrel is now because everything above it has been cleaned out.
Thomson I understand - they were looking for someone decent overseas and obviously couldn't find one. He has been in the Tahs professional Academy this year. Had Byrnes stayed in Sydney I think he would have got this rookie gig. We Tahs fans will hope that Mumm and Caldwell stay healthy as I don't think much of this bloke.
The two teenagers in the professional Academy, or JWs, Kane Douglas and Siviteni Mafi, have a lot of promise but are far away physically from playing S14 rugby, especially Mafi, but I have hopes for them 2-3 years down the track as they have a bit of quality. Maybe Tompson is hired as a stopgap.
I saw that Tilse was chosen to tour with the Tahs to Fiji and I thought it was inexplicable as he was Links worst contracting blunder IMO. How can we expect a player who can't make his club's 1st grade side to perform in the S14? And why another LHP?
Dave Dennis may be a very good player except every time I've watched him play. OK he's a bit of a second-class Dean Mum and can run with a ball in club rugby. He would be a goodish club 6 if he was bigger and taller but he isn't. I don't know why this guy gets a full contract (he was a rookie this year) when Coridas can't get a gig except in the JWs, - and he is always hurt.
He must be a hell of a trainer.
Sua must be in the professional JWs. As 3rd string scrummie he would have to be a pro.
Noddy - you're not winding us up are you?
Noddy?
Thomson I understand - they were looking for someone decent overseas and obviously couldn't find one. He has been in the Tahs professional Academy this year. Had Byrnes stayed in Sydney I think he would have got this rookie gig. We Tahs fans will hope that Mumm and Caldwell stay healthy as I don't think much of this bloke.
The two teenagers in the professional Academy, or JWs, Kane Douglas and Siviteni Mafi, have a lot of promise but are far away physically from playing S14 rugby, especially Mafi, but I have hopes for them 2-3 years down the track as they have a bit of quality. Maybe Tompson is hired as a stopgap.
I saw that Tilse was chosen to tour with the Tahs to Fiji and I thought it was inexplicable as he was Links worst contracting blunder IMO. How can we expect a player who can't make his club's 1st grade side to perform in the S14? And why another LHP?
Dave Dennis may be a very good player except every time I've watched him play. OK he's a bit of a second-class Dean Mum and can run with a ball in club rugby. He would be a goodish club 6 if he was bigger and taller but he isn't. I don't know why this guy gets a full contract (he was a rookie this year) when Coridas can't get a gig except in the JWs, - and he is always hurt.
He must be a hell of a trainer.
Sua must be in the professional JWs. As 3rd string scrummie he would have to be a pro.
Noddy - you're not winding us up are you?
Noddy?
nah mate,
just going off the Tahs Player Profile page
http://www.nswrugby.com.au/HSBCWaratahs/PlayerProfiles/NSWPlayerProfiles.aspx
It seems updated as it has Scotty Fava.
Still, only 30 players. 3 more to add.
just going off the Tahs Player Profile page
http://www.nswrugby.com.au/HSBCWaratahs/PlayerProfiles/NSWPlayerProfiles.aspx
It seems updated as it has Scotty Fava.
Still, only 30 players. 3 more to add.
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Michael Lynagh (62)
Good to see one of Australia's most weird choices for a contract, SuperProp(tm) Tilse, will be kicking around next year again (if Noddy wasn't playing around). If ever there was a waste of a spot, this guy takes the cake. Also good to see that the Tahs ignored the starting props in his club team (letting them go to the Reds and Brumbies) to instead choose a player who deservedly plays 2nds.
Good to see guys who get shown up at club level get the gig. Showing you shouldn't discriminate for skill, which is good in this politically correct day and age. Never hire the best for the job, better make it random. I'm putting up my hand for a spot in 2010.
Dennis? Guess the loss of Lyons and Elsom but the acquisition of Fava left a hole for a perma-injured seat warmer who isn't even the best 8 / 6 in his club...the best getting overlooked by the Tahs, of course. I guess Davidon's age works against him, though. If Fava, Palu, Mowen, Coridas and Robinson all get injured, then Dennis may get a shot. Good pick up.
Who is Wykes playing for? Didn't he (or a player like him) leave the Force and come back east to either the Tahs or the Brumbies?
Good to see guys who get shown up at club level get the gig. Showing you shouldn't discriminate for skill, which is good in this politically correct day and age. Never hire the best for the job, better make it random. I'm putting up my hand for a spot in 2010.
Dennis? Guess the loss of Lyons and Elsom but the acquisition of Fava left a hole for a perma-injured seat warmer who isn't even the best 8 / 6 in his club...the best getting overlooked by the Tahs, of course. I guess Davidon's age works against him, though. If Fava, Palu, Mowen, Coridas and Robinson all get injured, then Dennis may get a shot. Good pick up.
Who is Wykes playing for? Didn't he (or a player like him) leave the Force and come back east to either the Tahs or the Brumbies?
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Any news on the Tah pre season training?
the gambler
Dave Cowper (27)
Think you will find he is out injured for the season. Had a shoulder recon and is expected to be out for 9 months. Was going to be involved with the sevens but is going to miss that as well.
Lee Grant
John Eales (66)
Having written above that I didn't think much of Tompson, now I find out that he's playing for the Rats next season.
Geez he's a star - what a player.
But seriously folks he will be a good replacement for Cameron Treloar at Rat Park at club level. I think. He wasn't noticed in schools rugby; so I hope that he's one of those guys who are late bloomers.
Geez he's a star - what a player.
But seriously folks he will be a good replacement for Cameron Treloar at Rat Park at club level. I think. He wasn't noticed in schools rugby; so I hope that he's one of those guys who are late bloomers.
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