Burton is such a **** 5/8. Don’t think they lose much there with him going to the centres. He can still kick etc similar to how manly used Jamie Lyon for a few years when he played centre but was like a third half.
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Is better than the opposite way though. I still think Burton can be a great 6, he's just killed his development moving to a **** side to be the guy before he was ready.
Throw him in the 6 at Penrith and everyone would be frothing on him.
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Is better than the opposite way though. I still think Burton can be a great 6, he's just killed his development moving to a **** side to be the guy before he was ready.
Throw him in the 6 at Penrith and everyone would be frothing on him.
Karl is out, potentially for year
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True, but I'd say a hutch/Sexton halves combo is equally uninspired.
All you need to see is how Mahoney went from looking like a top tier hooker to a bottom tier one. Dogs had no go forward and no platform to play off.
He didn't magically become **** and Burton isn't either.
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Read something about him trying to avoid surgery the other day, not exactly sure how that'd work.
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I thought surgery was the only thing that would allow him to play again?
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That's what I thought as well but it was a tweet from Gus that said he was weighinghis options
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I see what you’ve done there with the Eels mate ….
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Few rumours around we want a promising junior from them, similar to Bradbury deal.
Gus might put up more of a fight but feel like they’re more interested in getting him than we are releasing him
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Crichton and Xerri will be their centres and Tracey to fullback when it’s done
Yeah we have no motivation besides being g nice to him to release him.
Weakens us and strengthen opponents.
What have bulldogs/gould ever done for us?
Chipped in towards Woods? They wanted him out
You want him, make it worth our while
Finally! I’d be asking for them what we need. A middle forward. They don’t really have anyone that would strengthen us there. So therefore **** em. We keep Tracey.
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Does it weaken us that much if we let him go?
If dykes and Kennedy go down again yeah. If they stay healthy we’ll be fine I believe.
Surely Iro is next in line to play centre. Tracey down to our 2nd3/red back up in the backs behind Dykes, Iro
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We'd have been ****ed without him this season.
If we don’t get many injuries, no
Bit of a ‘rather have him and not need him’ situation.
Could throw all your decent depth pieces away thinking does it weaken us that much…
we don’t know if Dykes will do any training for fullback. He might, especially if Tracey was to leave. He might be focused on 5/8 though.
Tracey might be 2nd choice right centre. If not second choice left at least Iro would have to be extremely close (talking as though Talakai unchanged of course). I’ve never seen Iro play right I don’t think.