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Re: Thomas Mikaele : Fri Mar 31, 2023 1:59 pm  
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Ben Harrison, Tom Lineham, come on - we’ve been generous to the extreme

We still have plenty of credit in the bank for giving you Nat Wood & Benny Westwood for peanuts 20 years ago!
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Re: Thomas Mikaele : Fri Mar 31, 2023 2:20 pm  
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We still have plenty of credit in the bank for giving you Nat Wood & Benny Westwood for peanuts 20 years ago!

OK.

Thanks for them, but we also gave you Anthony England and Rob Butler.

Tanginoa will be acceptable to make up for your deficit.
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Re: Thomas Mikaele : Fri Mar 31, 2023 2:58 pm  
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We still have plenty of credit in the bank for giving you Nat Wood & Benny Westwood for peanuts 20 years ago!


peanuts? we gave you good money and had to get rid of our dancers to pay for that.
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Re: Thomas Mikaele : Fri Mar 31, 2023 9:40 pm  
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OK.

Thanks for them, but we also gave you Anthony England and Rob Butler.

Tanginoa will be acceptable to make up for your deficit.


Don't forget Chris Riley...
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Re: Thomas Mikaele : Fri Apr 21, 2023 1:58 am  
Fitzpatrick should be bull whipped naked around Vicky park for letting this lad go without first recruiting a replacement.

He was one of our best props… the other being Vaughan.

Big Mistake Karl.
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Re: Thomas Mikaele : Fri Apr 21, 2023 6:20 am  
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Fitzpatrick should be bull whipped naked around Vicky park for letting this lad go without first recruiting a replacement.

He was one of our best props… the other being Vaughan.

Big Mistake Karl.


Mikaele wanted to leave before the season started, KFP convinced him to keep going and we’d try to support him and his family - he did. He then asked to go home again, we asked him to stay with us until McGuire was back - he did. In that time he played fantastically. I think Mikaele was very professional and tried to help us out during a difficult patch injury wise.

If word gets round we don’t allow NRL players to go home if they have issues or they are not happy, we’re not going to get many good players coming over to us from the NRL.

What I would be critical of KFP for is signing someone as quickly as possible and bringing the wrong guy in. We are well on course to finish top 4 and we know better than most that SL titles aren’t won in April.

We wait for the right guy.

Also, had we signed someone average and they had helped us just get over the line against a Wigan side who weren’t great, and a busted Saints side, we would be sitting pretty thinking we were unbeatable. As it is we’ve been shown we need to move up a couple of notches yet - that’s valuable.
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Re: Thomas Mikaele : Fri Apr 21, 2023 8:17 am  
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Fitzpatrick should be bull whipped naked around Vicky park for letting this lad go without first recruiting a replacement.

He was one of our best props… the other being Vaughan.

Big Mistake Karl.

Disagree. What could KF have done? Held him against his will? We've just been unlucky with injuries in the forwards, it's just bad luck, simple as that. Vaughan, Bullock, Harrison, Dudson, Kasiano, Philbin, McGuire, Thomas and Whitehead is plenty.

It's the back line where we've been neglectful. Mata'utia is not good enough and it's probably going to be his last season. Ratchford, too, is not good enough, especially to play centre. Neither possess any pace and we badly need to use the Mikaele money on a new centre, even with Wrench returning from injury soon.
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Re: Thomas Mikaele : Fri Apr 21, 2023 9:35 am  
last night showed the bad side of ratch at centre, i dont think he's been particularly good during the winning run either.

pants decision making and lots and lots of moaning and begging of the ref.

that behind the back pass as well..
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Re: Thomas Mikaele : Fri Apr 21, 2023 9:47 am  
The only thing KF and club could have done is ensure TM's replacement was on board before the start of the season, but the cap may have prevented that.
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Re: Thomas Mikaele : Sat Apr 22, 2023 5:01 pm  
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Mikaele wanted to leave before the season started, KFP convinced him to keep going and we’d try to support him and his family - he did. He then asked to go home again, we asked him to stay with us until McGuire was back - he did. In that time he played fantastically. I think Mikaele was very professional and tried to help us out during a difficult patch injury wise.

If word gets round we don’t allow NRL players to go home if they have issues or they are not happy, we’re not going to get many good players coming over to us from the NRL.

What I would be critical of KFP for is signing someone as quickly as possible and bringing the wrong guy in. We are well on course to finish top 4 and we know better than most that SL titles aren’t won in April.

We wait for the right guy.

Also, had we signed someone average and they had helped us just get over the line against a Wigan side who weren’t great, and a busted Saints side, we would be sitting pretty thinking we were unbeatable. As it is we’ve been shown we need to move up a couple of notches yet - that’s valuable.

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