666 - Number of the Beast

[EaglesDontTweet]

News.com.au: How Manly can survive with no Blake Green replacement

Link: http://www.news.com.au/sport/nrl/ho...t/news-story/7faa824b4aa2648c381d0fbe22ea4cc5

 

[EaglesDontTweet]

The article above doesn't say much but Beaver is right about the half who gets the gig having to be the controller of the play.

Having Blake Green erased the memories somewhat of the prior year where the opposition targeted DCE, repeat sets were rarer than a half full house at a Sydney NRL stadium, and quite often the fifth tackle play ended up with Lewis Brown, who despite trying his best, shouldn't have been put in that position.

If Hastings is the only "specialist five-eighth" in the senior squad then he has to be considered first in line you would think.

 

[SeaEagleRock8]

I must say I’d rather Carney than Hodkinson.
Carney will have a lot to prove , and let’s face it he’s been dumb but unlike the Donkeys prize signing, he hasn’t been jailed.

I think he avoided jail, thanks to anomalies of the US criminal system where money seems to be able to help buy you a better deal.

Meanwhile it's wonderful to see he is being paraded on the NRL home page with a 5 minute front page feature puff piece of an interview so we can all get to know the Bronc's likeable new boy.

I am well aware rugby league likes to think of itself as the game that offers second chances but I'm nevertheless still shocked to see the game's official site unconditionally promoting this bloke, after what he did.

 

[Bearfax]

I think he avoided jail, thanks to anomalies of the US criminal system where money seems to be able to help buy you a better deal.

And this doesnt happen here in Australia? Not as badly but it certainly does happen.

 

[Bubbler]

666. If the beast is what we want, we can look no further than this man.

 

[BOZO]

666. If the beast is what we want, we can look no further than this man.
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The photo is an example of .....
The price we pay when we do stupid things .

 

[nightster]

do you do stupid things Bozo?

 

[nightster]

so only 7 of us were on Croker ... catch up the rest of you

 

[Spartan Eagle]

666. If the beast is what we want, we can look no further than this man.
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His aim is very good even when drunk. Have to give him credit for that at least.

 

[BOZO]

do you do stupid things Bozo?

Every day of the week feathered friend 😛

 

[BOZO]

so only 7 of us were on Croker ... catch up the rest of you

We will catch up on the trials and not with your crystal ball 😉

 

[EaglesDontTweet]

News: SMH - Mitch Jennings

Manly Sea Eagles coach Trent Barrett says Lachlan Croker ready to partner Daly Cherry-Evans

Manly skipper Daly Cherry-Evans was once an unheralded rookie looking to establish himself alongside a superstar halves partner, and Sea Eagles coach Trent Barrett is confident young-gun Lachlan Croker can do the same this season.

Croker, 21, is tipped to start the season in the No.6 jumper as uncertainty around the club's salary cap continues to complicate plans to replace departed five-eighth Blake Green.

The Sea Eagles were on Monday granted a third extension to respond to an NRL breach notice, first issued in December, for alleged salary cap breaches.

The club had been linked to both Mitchell Pearce and Trent Hodkinson, who have since signed elsewhere. Barrett said recruitment efforts had been severely hamstrung as uncertainty around the cap continued.

Full story here: http://www.smh.com.au/rugby-league/...partner-daly-cherryevans-20180207-h0vec1.html

 

[Mitch]

Interestingly the NZ warriors CEO has confirmed Ata Hingano has been released today, although he wasn’t aware of his intended future club. Obviously our hands seem tied at the moment but the 20 year old would be a reasonable signing.

 

[SeaEagle9413]

Long-term pain: How Sea Eagles avoided losing points https://www.nrl.com/news/2018/03/27/long-term-pain-how-manly-sea-eagles-avoided-losing-points/

 

[HappilyManly]

Not sure I really understand how bad the long term pain is. Surely $330k is equivalent to an average first grader, say a Lewis Brown type? I think we could survive without Lewis.

We struggled last week

 

[Bearfax]

Not sure who the 28 players we already have on our list, but I think Anderson and Funa were on the apprenticeship level (or whatever they call it). Those two need to be in the 30.

 

[Woodsie]

Just to be a pain in the arrse ...but the number of the beast is in fact 616 .. not 666.

 

[Bearfax]

Just to be a pain in the arrse ...but the number of the beast is in fact 616 .. not 666.

Ah someone with a theological background. Are you also going to tell us it was the numerical number for one Nero.

 

[Woodsie]

Ah someone with a theological background. Are you also going to tell us it was the numerical number for one Nero.

Sorry to disappoint, but no theological leanings whatsoever, just a mind full of a lot of disconnected and mostly useless factoids .... of which papyrus 115 is one.

One Nero??

 

[Bearfax]

Sorry to disappoint, but no theological leanings whatsoever, just a mind full of a lot of disconnected and mostly useless factoids .... of which papyrus 115 is one.

One Nero??

Its suggested fairly strongly that numbers were often used to hide true meanings by early Christians, who had to hide their identity to avoid persecution especially in Rome. According to many theological specialists, early Christians saw the end of the World within their life time, and John of Patmos ( a small island in the Aegean) who wrote the Revelation of John was suggesting that reference to the Beast and the final days, was actually referring to Nero, who was one of the worst persecutors of the early Christian believers. John of Patmos is a shadowy figure and some have suggested he is John the disciple in his older years