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Dunbar

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  1. 1 hour ago, bobbruce said:

    I suppose you just can’t tell I remember a few years ago Lomax being visibly upset about something McDonnell had done. Turned out he hadn’t done anything. Shows you can’t judge it off player’s reactions. 

    There are obviously exceptions but I would be inclined to think that on the whole the players would have a good insight into whether an action was deliberate or not.

  2. 2 hours ago, LeytherRob said:

    If Armstrong is fit, then Hodgson takes a wing. It’s that easy.

    Hodgsons biggest strength is kick returns and getting through plenty drives/metres in early set, that’s literally a wingers job in the modern game. 
     

    Leigh fans generally have long held an infatuation with any fullback that’s willing to do the dirty work. No one really apprecated how good McNally was at the time because he didn’t run it like a prop coming off the back fence but everyone was enamoured with Mitch Brown, even though his speed and link up play were non existent. It’s always frustrated me but it’s just a reminder that the average RL fan actually doesn’t know a great deal about the game. Thank god our fans don’t pick the team is all I’ll say.

    I know I'm only an average Rugby League fan but if I were looking at Armstrong and Hodgson in the same team it would be the former on the wing and the latter at full back.

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  3. 21 hours ago, N2022 said:

    He's the star of a Panthers side that bossed NRL but repeatedly failed in WCC ...

    You can't really count the World Club Challenge because when they win the Australians are the best in the world and when they lose it's because it is only a trial game and they weren't trying. So it is unfair to judge them on it.

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  4. 4 minutes ago, Click said:

     

    They've uploaded the tribute for anyone that missed it or wants to rewatch

    Billy Boston is obviously a giant of our sport and the honour is so well deserved.  But I cannot get over how joyful he looked during the whole thing.  A great tribute to a great man.

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  5. 5 hours ago, Futtocks said:

    Hollie-Mae Dodd seemed to be involved in most of the good things Cronulla did in their thrashing of Canberra.

    I hope she wasn't involved in the good things Cronulla did seeing as she was playing for Canberra. 

  6. 36 minutes ago, EagleEyePie said:

    You'd think there's a good chance that would be the case assuming Smith plays more like he did last night and less like he did the week before. There's no doubt that when Smith is at his best he's the ideal scrum half for England. His style of play fits so well alongside both Williams and Lewis.

    There were some really good players in the 2018 England side that's for sure. When you consider Welsby, Newman, Smith, Havard, McDonnell, Smithies, Holroyd and Trout are already in the England picture, Wilson was called into the squad last year and has a good chance of being a regular in the future if he continues to develop. Then Sam Walters was probably behind only Ese'ese as the form prop in Super League with his early season form. 

    Then you've got the 2 Senior's, Scott, Mustapha and Shorrocks heavily involved in Super League this year too. 

    I actually think it might have been even better than the 2002 Academy side that beat the Schoolboys in Australia:

    Melling (Wigan); Gardner (Leeds), Barker (Leeds), Bridge (Bradford), Wray (Wakefield); Mathers (Leeds), Robinson (Wigan); Bailey (Leeds), Beswick (Wigan), Barton (Wigan), Wilkin (St Helens), Langley (Bradford), Hock (Wigan). Subs: Gallagher (Leeds), Johnson (St Helens), Saxton (Castleford), Horne (Hull).

    The Aussies were not too shabby either with the likes of Zac Cini, Stephen Critchon, Bradman Best, Star To’a, Jason Saab, Jock Madden, Tom Dearden and Tommy Talau.

  7. Was a strange Origin series this year.

    NSW were dominant in game 1 in Queensland and despite the jump Queensland got in the first half of game 2, NSW outscored them 5 tries to 4 and were arguably the better side.

    But in game 3 they just weren't in it, didn't look like getting on the score sheet and from the first set Queensland just outplayed and out enthused them.

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  8. 2 hours ago, Thunder Road said:

    Should have happened decades ago.

     

    Kevin Sinfield next . What has Lewis Hamilton done..

     

    Apart from the joint-record seven Formula One World Drivers' Championship titles?

    Feels like the Life of Brian 'What have the Roman's done' bit.

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