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    Default Sam Burgess

    Looks like the shoulder injury has ended his career.

    https://www.nrl.com/news/2019/10/30/...te-retirement/

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    Quote Originally Posted by Buddy View Post
    Looks like the shoulder injury has ended his career.

    https://www.nrl.com/news/2019/10/30/...te-retirement/

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    A pity for him. A player that always lead from the front.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Belgian Saint View Post
    A pity for him. A player that always lead from the front.
    Yeah great player great guy . All the best Sam whatever you do next .

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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.

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    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.

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    Thompson to Souths then?

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    Default Sam Burgess Retired

    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.

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    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.

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    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.

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    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.

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    I sat elsewhere for the second half.

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    Quote Originally Posted by doc View Post
    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.
    I think you’ll find that Cipriani is a better ball handler than either Farrell or Ford and I doubt he’s ever been near Wigan.

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    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.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Cyprus View Post
    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.
    6 fingers 1/2 a brain

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    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/

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    Quote Originally Posted by Dux View Post
    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/
    He obviously needs help, but you wonder how someone that had it all ends up like this.

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    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.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Dux View Post
    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/
    On his way to pick up his kids as well. He needs to sort himself out, quickly.

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    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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    Quote Originally Posted by Reacher View Post
    I lost my respect for him when he developed a full Aussie accent. He sounded ridiculous.

    The alternative was broad Yaaarksher. I think switching accents was one of Burgess's better choices.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Reacher View Post
    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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    It is very difficult to avoid picking up that accent when you live there!

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    Quote Originally Posted by Wolfie McWolf View Post
    It is very difficult to avoid picking up that accent when you live there!
    The odd words and a twang yes I agree with. Not the way his accent was. Graham’s hasn’t massively changed nor has Hodgsons (he has been there a few years now)


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    Quote Originally Posted by Reacher View Post
    The odd words and a twang yes I agree with. Not the way his accent was. Graham’s hasn’t massively changed nor has Hodgsons (he has been there a few years now)


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    Must admit, my mate who lives in Perth has a right weird twang now although the last time I spoke to him it was 5 in the morning Perth time and he was on his way home after a night out.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Wolfie McWolf View Post
    It is very difficult to avoid picking up that accent when you live there!
    I lived there longer than Burgess without picking up an Aussie accent. At the time I was single so was working and playing rugby and sharing houses with Aussies

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    Quote Originally Posted by Belgian Saint View Post
    I lived there longer than Burgess without picking up an Aussie accent. At the time I was single so was working and playing rugby and sharing houses with Aussies
    Maybe the Belgian accent counteracts the “Strine”?

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