It hasn’t happened yet but if it does I certainly back the plan. Shaun Johnson and Matt Burton in the halves compliment each other beautifully. Sj takes on the line, can put a runner in a hole and has a decent short kicking game. Burton is a game manager with a long kicking game and great running game. 

Lol. Hold that. I think I jinxed it

Lol. The idea lasted 16 mins....

Bugger you probably jinxed the Cheese as well 🤔

Our club simply can’t get signings done. Missing out on Shaun Johnson isn’t terrible but it’s like API Korrisau all over again. Supposed to announce SJ today and he backflips and signs with the Warriors. How many players have been linked to our club and we missed out on? Barrett was supposed to attract good players. 

And…. Newsreader is off to Melbourne it seems. As reported by Brent Read. 

Its abit of a double edged sword....
A player on decent coin going to a cellar club, will have all eyes on him because of his pay packet (refer Foran, Cotric etc). Some of these guys dont want that level of attention and pressure.
On the flip side, by going to a cellar club they should be able to stand out quite easily and look a cut above the rest....

Just depends on the player I guess....

Linked in the media, doesn't mean signing at our price.

Barrett is apparently liked on a personal level by many players, other coaches may have personalities that make them less popular.

Players sign for money, opportunity and success in that order.  
The personality of the coach only comes into it if a coach and player can't work together.

That's a shame and I worry if this club has broken out of its shackles yet or is still stuck paying has-beens big bucks and not upgrading promising younger players.

With DWZ gone, Meaney is the best fullback option we have so they better have a big name signing for fullback lined up or I will be super critical of coach and recruitment team.

If their expectation is JAC for fullback, I worry about their ability to have a plan B for this team as I dont think JAC is the answer. If its Avo, I'd like to see him in that role for at least 4 or 5 games before this season ends.

Meaney isn't official, Avo was good at fullback in the lower grades.
We will not have JAC as plan A with no plan B.

Not unhappy about that. But unfortunately we will most likely replace him with an overpriced dud. The club doesn’t seem to have a plan. Or at the least, one that is working. 

When did Avo play fullback in the lower grades? I remember him playing centre and in the halves occasionally. 

Gee now I have done it.

We are definately not signing Harry Grant and Paine Hass 😁

He definitely played a fair bit of fullback in Flegg.

Reserve grade seemed to be when he moved to the centres or the wing.

Fair enough. I don’t get to watch the younger grades like I used to. And haven’t been that interested since Barbs came through for us. Wish I had more time to drink and watch footy 😂 

Woman's  SOO tonight. Women's  sport can be very competitive but unfortunately  it's usually like men's  sport in slow motion.

So like the Bulldogs???...

No the women are faster...

It will be very interesting to see if Meany plays better or worse in the Storm system. I would not be surprised if he does very well for hem. And that is something we have been missing since the early 2000’s. Most players played better in our system. 

Both coaches pay key attention to ensuring they have smart players in their team.
Bellamy is the master of this. No one comes close. No one.
Many coaches of the past focus on players who give their all, play through fatigue or injury etc.

These days, if you dont have smart players 8n your team, you have lost before taking the field. The more the merrier but you really only need them in your spine and ideally at hooker, half and fullback. The rest can be workhorses.

Its hard to argue against the formula given the Storm has been in just about every final series in the last 22 years and no less than 10GFs in that time....

We need to tick all the boxes, good players in sll key positions is essential.

The right players don't need as much coaching...

Any mistake Bellamy makes only plays 2-3 games tops...

BSmith, Papsmere, Munster and Hughes are hardly what most would call smart footballers. Grant is, but he hasn’t played much and the Storm are still killing it.

I understand you love this idea that smart players are the answer but I don’t think you have any evidence to prove that point. and although I agree we need experienced spine players I would take the Cheese over almost any other hooker. And I doubt he could pass a primary school maths test

I think you underestimate how good a footy brain Munster and Hughes have. Hughes is one of the most underrated halfs in the comp. 
Paps is all talent atm with abit of footy brain but he is still young and will harness it over time. 
B Smith is all talent and desire. 

Just because some of these guys are larikins doesnt mean they dont have footy brains. 

Gutherson and DCE are also larikins but both have exceptional footy nous.

I agree when you say footy nous. Just not smarts. But I would argue there are no halves in the complete without footy nous. You learn that coming through the grades. And I would also argue that there are ‘smarter spines’ in the comp then in the Melbourne team but with far less talent. That is why the coach of Melbourne must take some credit. 

Just a James Bond nostalgia article for the few of us on here interested :

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-57511356

I guess my point is. Im not sure we have a coach that is either capable of attracting the right players or instructing them on how to play the game to their potential. 

That U.S report into UAP’s I was talking about has been released. And while as ambiguous as you’d expect a Gov committee report to be, it’s also unequivocal about what these things are not.

They are not weather phenomena, birds, camera artefacts, sunspots or, and this part’s important - secret U.S technology. Or any other known illusionary phenomena. They are solid three dimensional… things.

The only things not ruled out are either technology from other nations who’s development over several decades were not detected by U.S intelligence services.

Or, of other unknown origins.

You can talk all you want about coaches and intelligent footballers and footy nous. That's all well and good, but there is also a little bit of "divine intervention" from the NRLol. Take the storm as an example....Good side..tick...Good coach......tick....plenty of 'footy nous'....tick... BUT, the team is is the AFL heartland and if they were to underperform those that have a local interest would soon get lost to the game. The same would be said of a team based in Adelaide or even Perth, so the NRLol must apply the rule of "reasonable adjustment" to a team such as the storm. I believe that if there was such a thing as a true "level playing field" some of these spectacularly successful clubs would look rather pedestrian against the rest of the competition.

Zef, anyone who understands the true vastness of the universe yet thinks that the only lifeforms in existance are unique to this planet are very narrow minded indeed. You mentioned earlier that you believe that life does exist elsewhere but the distances involved for physical travel would be prohibitive. What do you think about dimensional travel to explain their existance.

It’s only a quick trip across a vast plain and the ice wall we call Antarctica!!!... Or inter dimensional lizard people...
If no one can hear you scream in space, does space really exist???... 
#Dog-anon...