HaroldBishop
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Doesn't seem to take as many hitups as Talakai. That's not a knock on Jesse btw, he's very good in that area as well.
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Takes approx 1/3 as many 1 pass hit ups, although leads Sifa in dummy half runs 6 to nothing.
Regardless of whether one is on a better side for it given targeted kicks or not the numbers do suggest Talakai takes more.
Side v side Talakai+Ronnie averages 14, Ramien+Katoa averages 11 (with Katoa doing a lot of the heavy lifting on this side)
HaroldBishop
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Yeah I'm certainly not complaining, both great at taking effective hitups. Just don't agree with the criticism by some of Talakai.
Yeah as Burg said, we are playing badly and losing the ruck.
The correction to that is not to move Talakai from centre because 'teams have figured him out' it is to not play like knobs and to actually get back to winning in the middle so he has some time and space.
Someone can argue moving him because they think he'd be more effective for team in the middle (or edge) if they want but it's certainly not him specifically losing us games at the moment from centre, or us doing well everywhere else and can't win because teams are shutting specifically just him down.
It starts in the middle for us at the moment.
We are 4-1 in games BHU has finished (4-2 he's played but him and Dale both went off injured and it was against Storm).
Games where at least one of BHU or Dale finishes the game healthy we are 5-1 games where neither plays or neither finishes game healthy we are 1-3 (and we only played one good half in the one we won).
Funnily enough we go better with our best middles on the park.
I was thinking that too
I don't think he is that much of a target tbh, he gives away some height but usually competes well and is safe, we got unlucky he was also blinded at the same time.
I think other than the top 20%ish of contested catch making wingers have the exact same issue in that spot.
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Think you'll always get it after a big game like he had
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Wonder how that foot is
He was sat down in the sheds whilst rest of boys were doing Up Up Cronulla
He was sat down in the sheds whilst rest of boys were doing Up Up Cronulla
Super Impose
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Yeah - hope he’s ok - hope Toby gets lucky..
1 more big effort required before a much needed bye ..
I'll take Manly Talakai one one leg any day.
Tiger Shark
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When Ramien is back curious to see if Talakai goes back to the bench to help the forwards while we’re down on troops.
HaroldBishop
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Not a bad idea
NRL Physio saying he thinks it looked like the kind of ankle sprain with sharp immediate pain and quick swelling but quick recovery time.
If it is he could be a chance for this weekend.
If it is he could be a chance for this weekend.
Our second most runs
Bundy Shark
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Great news, I heard the last part of the. NRL Guru pod where he mentioned some funny name of a injury which is so rare world wide but was concerned it might be what Sifa has, apparently, whilst they can come back from the injury the athlete is never the same again.
I'm curious what that is now, is Guru's pod decent? He seems alright on Bloke in a Bar.
Probably unlikely Talakai has an extremely rare injury...
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I like it, but I suppose, like all things, it’s an acquired taste.
For regular footy content, he has stuff every day, depending on what’s news, it could be anything from a short 10min pod on daily news, match preview, match review to Avery detailed analysis. He regularly asks for feedback, as to what he can do better, which will bring in more listeners etc.
The only thing I don’t tune in to is fantasy football or SuperCoach, which seems to be very popular for others. (No interest in it)
Whilst I don’t agree with everything he says i genuinely like him & to me, seems like a likeable knock around sort of guy.
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Lisfranc?
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That’s the one!
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Buy you're saying there's still a chance!
Okay I chased this up, he wasn’t saying it was rare he was saying it was variable in how impactful it was.
Commonly up towards 12 weeks but can be minor (4-6 weeks) or if requiring surgery can be more like 3-6 months.
Similar area of foot bones injuries can also be very complex to heal. Whole area gets bad blood flow.
Woods was out for approx 3 months with foot fracture in this area for us a few years back.
I thought it looked like they were treating Talakai as an ankle sprain in game though. Anyone hear anything otherwise yet?
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