Official Kade Snowden

phoenix said:

i love kade as a player but he is holding our whole club to ransom,this is the problem with kade and his new found ego,we have what 32 fg players,38 nyc players and i`d say 32 (storm) not included nsw cup players all fighting for a position with the sharks.how the hell can management (who are walking the financial tight rope)plan anything with snowden being a peanut about all this,he is 1 player and yes we need him but he knows that hence the $400,000 price tag. by them giving him all this time to make his mind up.what is that saying to the 90 or so players that state there cause to the club that they should sign them. or wanting to leave the club cause they are frustrated with no offers put on the table yet because of financial situations with kade,at least a few who are due for renewal would be filthy with kade cause we need to know what the f*** is going on to keep the ones we want .that is not profesional, the club should be holding the cards not (what do we do if he leaves)it should be here is the offer if you aint happy lets talk then when all is exhausted start looking else where and move on and i know that communication with contract talks in the 20s is pathetic and was like that under ricki to the point where the club wouldn`t know who is even off contract and or who they want unless they were reminded.why wouldn`t other clubs swarm our 20s when they are showing great promise and we are being way too faithfull with our failing fg team,this whole snowden thing is way out of hand.no way in hell would i pay that much knowing he is playing the field like a women will a gold plated p****.this is the problem, desperation to keep a great player out ways everything even logic thats where we are going wrong,and it always happens at the sharkies,i think it is time to expect nothing less than perfection, thats what makes a club perfect and those who say money is the issue ,would you be saying the same if bennet was the coach, no he`d pay basic money for good players on the pretense that theyd become great players.you think he would of payed j smith on the money we are paying or toops i think not. the broncs dont tolerate failure neither should we no matter the price.you would be amazed the money some would play for if they dont have many options.I think its time to close the door and build our own culture,i think flano can do it but we need to play the game not the player

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snowman said:

400k is overs, but he deserves overs

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puma1355 said:

I agree let him go and as part of the deal secure Jr Sau.....I'd also go for Dave & Tony Williams, A.Fifita and B.Kite...... and secure B.Roberts..i dont think we are in the position to sign a halfback so give up now...
on the rumour front im hearing J.Mannah is gone to dogs swap deal with Roberts...

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Born&bred said:

If you want people to read ur posts - ffs use punctuation and paragraphs



Listen to this - ffs don't underestmate his impact - better than any other forward we have by a country mile - except Gal..

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phoenix said:

sorry i didn`t know i was in a english assessment but thanks for the heads up!.

ffs didn`t you read the parts where i said i love kade as a player and yes we need him you twit this is the problem with people like you too focussed on punctuation and one player when that one player is stopping the progress of a whole club.

You wanna sit here and pick on my paragraphs when 1 player is f***ing us over,i want kade to stay but not if the morale of the team suffers because of him,no other club would tolerate that s*** unless they were desperate and ffs you sound desperate picking my s*** up instead of realising that we are holding back signing future players if he was going to leave all along.

frustration leads to stupidity and im sorry but you sound stupid.

re read what i said d*** h*** and stop trying to be something when your not:inyouget

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SF said:

Mate I've read your posts, and they are good - but they are hard to read. I have to concentrate just to get to the end. If you've got something good to say like you do, then you may as well have people reading it. Just add a few link breaks like above. Cheers.

:cheers

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Paul Crawley From: The Daily Telegraph May 04, 2011 12:00AM

NEWCASTLE told Kade Snowden he was free to leave in 2007, when the Knights junior still had a year to run on his contract. At that point Snowden was a big, lazy thug with next to no discipline - and was flat out playing 10 minutes of football without running out of gas.

Today he is a Kangaroo. The best young front-row talent in the land.

How did we get here?

I remember someone telling me this story a while back, about the day Snowden finally got serious.

He arrived at the Sharks with a two-match suspension still to serve from his time at the Knights. All he wanted to do was fight, headbutt and carry on like a mug.

Anyway, he was playing mostly lower grades at the time and his career was at the crossroads.

In his first game back from suspension, Snowden let rip with another headbutt - and copped another ban.

So coach Ricky Stuart hauled him in. "You are disrespectful and undisciplined," Stuart barked, "now piss off. I don't want you."

Snowden only ever wanted to prove how tough he was, but the attitude was wearing thin. Like Brian Smith before him, Stuart was all set to cut him loose.

Snowden waited for an eternity outside the coach's office.

"I don't understand?" Snowden questioned when the coach finally emerged.

"Mate, we don't do that here," Stuart told him again.

"You come here and you serve two games on our time. Then you go out and let go with another cheap headbutt."

They say that is the moment when the message finally smacked Snowden right between the eyes.

Since that day he has focussed every aspect of his life on becoming a better footballer.

The better man bit, as is always the case, takes care of itself.

In a couple of weeks, Snowden will have to decide if he will stay at the Sharks next season or return home to Newcastle. I'm told it's not a done deal - but Wayne Bennett wants him.

They will meet next week to sort out the best way to get him home.

It's worth pointing out Snowden wants to go home.

What a transformation the last three and a bit years have been. Snowden is no longer a 10-minute footballer. He is no longer a thug.

Last week he played the best part of the entire game. If there is a criticism these days it's that he's doing too much, trying too hard.

Right now some people believe it would be wrong for Snowden to walk out on the Sharks, given the opportunity they provided him with when the Knights told him to get lost.But answer this: what would you do if you were in Snowden's boots today?

The 24-year-old has the chance to get in on the ground floor of what will become a new dynasty at Newcastle. He comes from Newcastle. Nathan Tinkler wants him. Wayne Bennett wants him.

Yesterday, on the Gold Coast, Snowden was packing down alongside Kangaroo legend Petero Civoniceva in the countdown to Friday night's Anzac Test against the Kiwis.

At club level his team is flat out winning a game. Seriously, what would you do?

All season this young warrior has been tossing and turning over which way to go, worrying about what people might think.

As a young kid his best memories were going for early surfs with his old man Chris back home in Newcastle.

When Snowden got a late call-up for the Test team this week, after David Shillington pulled out injured, the first phone call Snowden made was to his dad.

They are real tight.

It's safe to assume that if he does decide to take up the Newcastle offer, he will be forced to return home for less money than what Cronulla can afford to pay him because of the Knights' salary cap constraints.

But this is not about money - it's about opportunity.

Snowden says he would love to play under Bennett, which you can understand, given Bennett has won seven premierships.

He says he will meet the master coach next week.

There is now a genuine interest from Newcastle to sign him.

I understand that only a couple of days ago it was really up in the air.

Snowden does care about his mates at Cronulla.

He worships Sharks skipper Paul Gallen, his Kangaroos teammate.

Still, Snowden dreams.

I asked him on Monday if he thought it possible to achieve the dreams he has as a player while playing for the Sharks.

You could see him struggling to answer the question without insulting his mates.

"I'm not really sure," he offered, reluctantly.

"It would be more of a chance at Newcastle than what I have at Cronulla."

He wasn't meaning to be insulting, just honest.

"I would love to go home, just to be around the family. And I love Cronulla, they have done the right thing by me.

"I'm hoping to get it done by the next couple of weeks.

"I just want to get it out of the way. I have got an idea, but I just don't want to say too much."

He really doesn't have to say any more.

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sharkys26 said:

the only thing i dont like is this (comment I asked him on Monday if he thought it possible to achieve the dreams he has as a player while playing for the Sharks.

You could see him struggling to answer the question without insulting his mates.

"I'm not really sure," he offered, reluctantly.

"It would be more of a chance at Newcastle than what I have at Cronulla.")


if you think just cos you have a shark on your jersey you carnt win anything. bad bad bad we should not have players with that mind set. goodbye snow

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