Croker

[The better Robbo]

Is it too early in the year to call how good a player is after a few competent performances ?

In my opinion he's been more than just good pretty much all year. He was slow out of the blocks but his last 6 weeks have been very good. Remember most were predicting him to be useless so I'd say its fair to say those people already have agg on their face

 

[Woodsie]

@BOZO ... the truly ironic thing is ... that if ever two blokes personified the endless "Gung Ho" motivational memes from dead people you have literally plastered the pages of Silvertails with ad nauseam ... you know .. the ones about effort, determination, never saying die, never quitting, etc etc ... it is Croker and Parker .. I would have thought reading all your mantras ... that they would be your most admired ...

And yet they are the first, and constant targets of your abuse, distain and disrespect, simply because they are not as good as you would wish them to be ...

 

[The better Robbo]

Our New Zealand signing guy sounds very good . He has a complete game I hear
Do you know much about him ?

I rate him and think the new rules will suit him. He is fast and has a great running game. Id put Cust to 5/8 to cover Foz and bring Lawton off the bench when he is fit (in a couple weeks)
When Foz comes back Des will have a tough choice to make with Lawton and Cust.

 

[BOZO]

What have my mates got to do with it?

What have your mates achieved since 2017?

My mate Walker has achieved in his playing career much more than your mate Parker has the ability to ever achieve and dream of feathered friend

 

[40 years an eagle]

I rate him and think the new rules will suit him. He is fast and has a great running game. Id put Cust to 5/8 to cover Foz and bring Lawton off the bench when he is fit (in a couple weeks)
When Foz comes back Des will have a tough choice to make with Lawton and Cust.

Early Foran prognosis was 3 weeks...he may only miss the Parra game as we have the bye after it.

 

[BOZO]

@BOZO ... the truly ironic thing is ... that if ever two blokes personified the endless "Gung Ho" motivational memes from dead people you have literally plastered the pages of Silvertails with ad nauseam ... you know .. the ones about effort, determination, never saying die, never quitting, etc etc ... it is Croker and Parker .. I would have thought reading all your mantras ... that they would be your most admired ...

And yet they are the first, and constant targets of your abuse, distain and disrespect, simply because they are not as good as you would wish them to be ...

My mantra is

Any one can try hard
But only the competent ones can score tries

My passion is for Manly to be great again

 

[47MVEagle]

My mate Walker has achieved in his playing career much more than your mate Parker has the ability to ever achieve and dream of feathered friend

Oh okay.

Awesome, maybe one day, when Walker stops getting into trouble with the law, & recovers from all of his injuries (self-inflicted & on field), & gets to play his best position (based on his season 5 years ago) he'll show us if he's still capable of what he was capable of 5 years ago.

Until then I'm happy for a good bloke, local junior & solid defender to be playing in our team instead of him.

 

[BOZO]

I rate him and think the new rules will suit him. He is fast and has a great running game. Id put Cust to 5/8 to cover Foz and bring Lawton off the bench when he is fit (in a couple weeks)
When Foz comes back Des will have a tough choice to make with Lawton and Cust.

I think he lacks creativity and fines like most of the better 9's do

 

[Woodsie]

My mantra is

Any one can try hard
But only the competent ones can score tries

My passion is for Manly to be great again

That's wonderful ... I wish we had 17 International and future Immortals ... but ..

My point was about respect, or the lack of it ... not talent!

 

[47MVEagle]

My mantra is

Any one can try hard
But only the competent ones can score tries

My passion is for Manly to be great again

Can the competent ones also defend?

 

[Scorpio]

He is a super tough competitor and I hope he remains no.14 when Manase comes back.

You mean 'if'... I don't think anyone here knows how that situation will play out.

Both Croker and Cust looked good last night so I am coming around to keeping them both in rotation.

 

[BOZO]

That's wonderful ... I wish we had 17 International and future Immortals ... but ..

My point was about respect, or the lack of it ... not talent!

Most premiership teams do not have a full squad of international rep players
All Premiership winning teams have players that are of high capabilities

This is why teams have rebuilds to build on their weaknesses

 

[The better Robbo]

Early Foran prognosis was 3 weeks...he may only miss the Parra game as we have the bye after it.

That's positive. I'd still just use Cust at 5/8 to have minimal disruption to the rest of the team. Siro is back so he goes to bench. Everyone else stays the same.

 

[BOZO]

Until then I'm happy for a good bloke, local junior & solid defender to be playing in our team instead of him.

I am happy for a back that is capable of scoring tries , setting up try assists and making line breaks . Because that is what makes a more dominant Manly

To me it is all about Manly !!!

 

[Woodsie]

Most premiership teams do not have a full squad of international rep players
All Premiership winning teams have players that are of high capabilities

This is why teams have rebuilds to build on their weaknesses

What does that have to do with the notion of respect that we are talking about ??????

 

[BOZO]

What does that have to do with the notion of respect that we are talking about ??????

To me it is all about respecting and holding fast to our proud clubs winning ethos

 

[Woodsie]

To me it is all about respecting and holding fast to our proud clubs winning ethos

I'm out ...

 

[BOZO]

You mean 'if'... I don't think anyone here knows how that situation will play out.

Both Croker and Cust looked good last night so I am coming around to keeping them both in rotation.

We played a struggling bottom of the table team last night where there coach labelled them as soft and their worst effort of the year .

Plenty of more games against the more dominant teams to see how consistently players can perform against the best

Beating the mediocre teams does not make us great

 

[BOZO]

I'm out ...

Where are you going feathered friend ?

 

[eaglebuzz]

In my opinion he's been more than just good pretty much all year. He was slow out of the blocks but his last 6 weeks have been very good. Remember most were predicting him to be useless so I'd say its fair to say those people already have agg on their face

He has done everything he has needed to since Turbo came back, but he is still probably the third best hooker at the club. It's Fainu > Daylight > Lawton/Croker