The Silver Fern

@Nepia said in The 2019 NRL Preview of the Warriors:

@ACT-Crusader said in The 2019 NRL Preview of the Warriors:

Yeah @Sneakdefreak you surely are on the payroll. Well we should be able to afford you now we’ve offloaded SJ.

Heard from a sauce that there might be some controversy coming our way

We've missed on controversy so far so we're due ... it seems weird you saying 'our/we' for a team not from Canterbury. It would likely be impossible to select a Kiwis team of players with the links to Canterbury.

It’s a big year for me. The Warriors are having their 25th anniversary and it happens to coincides with my own 25th anniversary of my first ever throw the remote at the TV moment....

@raznomore said in NRL 2019:

The latest doing the rounds is a current star of the NRL has got a 17yo up the duff

Stating the obvious here - while controversial, at least that's not illegal (making the assumption it was consensual), not like a most other off season league controversies....

as if we needed another lesson about recording yourselves doing 'fun' stuff... pretty shit that someone is trying to drag these guys down so many years after the fact. Bit of a non-event and if anyone is surprised by the antics then .... not much you can do for em!

A bit of an update on league boy, Jordan Mailata, who is trying to get drafted. Apparently he did well at his pro day.

Massive rugby player Jordan Mailata impresses scouts at pro day Massive rugby player Jordan Mailata impresses scouts at pro day

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I can see him being an undrafted free agent and just being a camp body, but hard to see him being anything more. His athleticism for his size will be intriguing for some teams to want to at least take a look at him.

I'm wondering what position they'd try him out in. You'd normally associate someone with his size with either an offensive tackle or defensive tackle.

First squad named and they name everyone:

VODAFONE WARRIORS

1 ROGER TUIVASA-SHECK (c)

2 TUIMOALA LOLOHEA

3 DAVID FUSITU’A

4 SOLOMONE KATA

5 KEN MAUMALO

6 MAFOA’AEATA HINGANO

7 SHAUN JOHNSON

8 ALBERT VETE

9 ISSAC LUKE

10 CHARLIE GUBB

11 BUNTY AFOA

12 RYAN HOFFMAN

13 SIMON MANNERING

Interchange:

14 ERIN CLARK

15 JACOB LILLYMAN

16 SAM LISONE

17 ISAIAH PAPALI’I

18 BODENE THOMPSON

20 MASON LINO

21 JAMES GAVET

22 BLAKE AYSHFORD

The Hayne Plane is back at Parramatta and already bringing the good scandals. He's been accused of rape while he was living his dream as a 49er in the NFL.

This article, Loose Pass, shows what a mess PRO Rugby is in.

CEO Doug Schoninger sent out a mail to all players and coaches, informing them that their contracts were being terminated, but also slightly ominously reminding them that they were still employees of PRO Rugby until the termination was carried out. The mail ... ... could neatly be summed up as: – We’re not paying you – But you’re still our employee for the time we’ve paid you for – So you don’t talk to the media without our permission – Because in reality, we’re using you as an all-in bargaining chip with USA Rugby The rugby world would be better off for having the USA and Canada continue to emerge as a credible professional zone, but this spat has set that evolution back a good couple of years and has cost USA Rugby some good people. The argument of who did bad first is long irrelevant now. It’s time for closure, reflection, learning. And then it is time to try again.

I expect to see Cleary named coach with Stacey Jones as his assistant for the RLWC (If Ivan doesn't get a HC role in 2017).

<p>Draft day and LA is on the clock....money on Jared Goff being the first pick overall. Reminds me of Alex Smith so probably not a bad pick by LA (as long as they stick with the same coaching plan unlike San Francisco did).</p>