Looks like the shoulder injury has ended his career.
https://www.nrl.com/news/2019/10/30/...te-retirement/
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Looks like the shoulder injury has ended his career.
https://www.nrl.com/news/2019/10/30/...te-retirement/
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What a phenomenal player he has been for club and country.
I look at the GB team with him not in it and think ‘who is our enforcer’, we haven’t got one.
One of the very best to play the game, massive loss.
Sorry. Didn't see this thread.
Yep. Absolutely beast of a player. One of my favourite players to watch no matter who he was playing for.
Thompson to Souths then?
Absolutely gutted I won't get to see this guy rip it up against the Ozzies ever again.
Became one of the best British players of all time for me.
Good luck to him in his next chapter.
It’s a shame the way it all worked out with Burgess. He should have come over a year earlier though if he truly wanted to integrate himself into the game before the World Cup. His best rugby was all at 6 and it became apparent he was never going to be an international standard 12 whereas with his defensive capabilities plus his ball carrying ability he could have been a top class 6. The whole thing was mismanaged from the very start.
Forwards win games. The backs decide by how much.
The union guys at England level don't have a clue where to play league converts who played in the pack. Most would make excellent 6,7 or 8s in union but the coaches for some reason expect them to play in the centres. Andy Farrell played his last season at Wigan mainly at prop yet somehow got shoe horned into playing centre years after all Wigan fans knew he had lost the pace of his younger days. Bizarrely the best game I saw Farrell play in Union was at Fly half when he came on as a sub for the BaaBaas when his range of passing and pass selection was on another level compared to the union guys. The only England union players capable of decent cut out passes are Owen Farrell and George Ford who learned their trade in league.
There is a lot of truth in that post but it also reminds me of being at an international match at Leigh I had the luck to find myself sitting next to two ladies who were Wigan fans and half way through the first half I politely said to them this is England you have come to watch not Wigan , because they only noticed the Wigan players . That is what doc did then.
I sat elsewhere for the second half.
Do Wigan have a forum now? It's just bizarre how they use this forum to engage around their team and not really general RL.
It’s looking like Sam Burgess is in free-fall at the moment. I hope he’s got someone who will give him good advice.
https://www.seriousaboutrl.com/burge...gs-test-37267/
It's really sad to see stuff like this.
I do think the likes of cocaine, etc... are a lot more rife in sport, and also in general than what I considered it would be, say 10 years or so ago. I always grew up with the belief that elite athletes wouldn't touch banned substances, but you soon realise that they are lot more rife in normal every day life than what you really know, and they are taken by sportspersons at all levels - grass roots, right the way up to the elite.
Sorry but I have little sympathy for him. Yes he’s had to finish his career through injury but so have lots of other athletes who wouldn’t have been on anywhere near as much money as he has been on.
He proved what a bloke is he by threatening his father in law, using his size to intimidate him not to mention allegedly abusing his wife. There’s been a lot of dirt on him that seems to have been as a result of a detailed investigation which when you look at the evidence is quite compelling.
I lost my respect for him when he developed a full Aussie accent. He sounded ridiculous.
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