Brad Parker confirms retirement

[XV-1]

Bring him back for next week can’t do much worse

He absolutely defends better than Garrick.

 

[ALinda]

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It was great to see this at Brookie today and the club pay tribute to Brad and Woodsie with their families. Would've loved to hear the interviews with both of them - any chance they were recorded? If so, could @The Wheel or someone please ask for a replay?

All the best to Brad who I'll always remember as courageous, fearless and a great defensive centre for us. I hope he has no long term effects from the several concussions he had over the years.

 

[Mark from Brisbane]

Plenty on here spent years knocking him, but he played 100 first grade games for Manly.

He’ll be a Sea Eagle forever.

A winner in my opinion.

 

[jbb/james]

Big fan of Brad. Gave everything he had, every time

Never struck me as a player that either felt comfortable in firsts or suffered from nerves or something. He just never let the ball come to him and made unforced errors as a result

Seems like a manly thing to do to retire with one year remaining. Another spot in the 30 open

Good luck hank, the ginger ninja
Hands like flippers but **** he earned your respect the hard way
To parker

 

[Mark from Brisbane]

Big fan of Brad. Gave everything he had, every time

Never struck me as a player that either felt comfortable in firsts or suffered from nerves or something. He just never let the ball come to him and made unforced errors as a result

Seems like a manly thing to do to retire with one year remaining. Another spot in the 30 open

Good luck hank, the ginger ninja
Hands like flippers but **** he earned your respect the hard way
To parker

Yep he won’t go down as one of our legends , but he gave everything he had and I guess that’s all you can do , just a pity some of our journeymen don’t follow suit.

 

[The Wheel]

It was great to see this at Brookie today and the club pay tribute to Brad and Woodsie with their families. Would've loved to hear the interviews with both of them - any chance they were recorded? If so, could @The Wheel or someone please ask for a replay?

All the best to Brad who I'll always remember as courageous, fearless and a great defensive centre for us. I hope he has no long term effects from the several concussions he had over the years.

Trying to find out Linda

 

[MW66]

Well played Brad. Always gave 100% and played to the best of his ability. As many have mentioned I will never forget his tackle on Sivo - just watch recent weeks on how hard Sivo is to stop.

 

[The Wheel]

It was great to see this at Brookie today and the club pay tribute to Brad and Woodsie with their families. Would've loved to hear the interviews with both of them - any chance they were recorded? If so, could @The Wheel or someone please ask for a replay?

All the best to Brad who I'll always remember as courageous, fearless and a great defensive centre for us. I hope he has no long term effects from the several concussions he had over the years.

Stay tuned

 

[lsz]

This is the sort of player that can make a club.

Loved by all his teammates, really got everything out of his talent and hopefully has gotten out of the game with his body in a decent condition.

 

[Eagle 1]

Always did the tough kamakaze carry's coming of our line, and ran the straight lines for the classic try. We'll miss you Parks, feet up and take it easy.

 

[joeboy]

Great line runner, great defender, great clubman and from all reposts great bloke.

Had his limitations and frustrated the hell out of me from time to time, but wrung every bit out of what he got given. If he had more pace he would’ve been a very fine player indeed

Well played hank, enjoy what’s next.

 

[Cliffy's Jockstrap]

All the best to you Prince Harry, King Ranga, wishing you good health and happiness. Always liked you.

Played strong, done good.

 

[Kiwi Eagle]

Just listened to him on the latest Matt and Cooper Johns podcast

Seems like a very good guy, one thing that stuck out to me was his Trent Barrett story. He won our player of the match in a game we didn’t play well, in the video session Barrett addresses the team and to make his point about players need to step up says “Brad Parker, 7/10 player, 7/10 strength, 7/10 speed, 7/10 bloke” etc, all the other players are pissing themselves laughing, shows how poor Barrett is as a coach, can see the message he was trying to send but so poorly worded. Parker said he was sitting there and knew what Barrett meant but thought he was a better bloke than 7/10 haha

 

[LeonardCohen]

Just listened to him on the latest Matt and Cooper Johns podcast

Seems like a very good guy, one thing that stuck out to me was his Trent Barrett story. He won our player of the match in a game we didn’t play well, in the video session Barrett addresses the team and to make his point about players need to step up says “Brad Parker, 7/10 player, 7/10 strength, 7/10 speed, 7/10 bloke” etc, all the other players are pissing themselves laughing, shows how poor Barrett is as a coach, can see the message he was trying to send but so poorly worded. Parker said he was sitting there and knew what Barrett meant but thought he was a better bloke than 7/10 haha

I don't know Trent personally, so take it with a grain of salt, but I have heard people suggest that he is not the sharpest tool in the shed. I can image that when you're called upon to do so much communicating (part of being a FG coach), no amount of wanting to be good at it, can mask over the cracks that would inevitably appear from time to time. I'm sure Trent had every intention of being a good coach and an effective communicator, but it's not something you can manufacture when it's such an integral and everyday aspect of the job.