Ron E. Gibbs
First Grader
No more Trents, please.
Trent Merrin
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Dankseagles
Reserve Grader
Yeah Probably the weakest Manly backline since the days of Ashley Alberts and Steppa (was that his nickname)?
Ryan
Journey Man
Yeah hahaha, I actually liked Paul Stephenson. Went to The Sharks after us. He was actually better than Parker, Taufua, Elliott and Suli.
Dankseagles
Reserve Grader
Suli has a far bigger ceiling but agree, needs to show it....Parker and Elliott I would agree with.
Taufua at his best was 5 x the player Stephenson could ever be....still better now on old legs imo....
Ryan
Journey Man
Tuafua has had long injuries in both of his last two years. He scored 2 tries in 12 games, or one try per 6 games, last season.
Steppa (playing centre as.well as wing) scored 17 tries in 47 games (or there abouts), so his average conversion is much healthier than Taufua's last 2 years .
Also, Steppa was.outstanding under the high ball. Taufua is awful. Steppa rarely made mistakes.
Steppas issue was lack of line breaks and speed. His defense was great.
That being said, our current centre pairing couldn't score if their lives depended on it. A line break? I wish.
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Yep I recall Stephenson was good in the air and his hands...solid backup player all day....Taufua is only a shadow of what he was, but don't let the stats fool you on tries ect, he makes many powerful charges only few can coming out of trouble, but his pedestrian play the balls at times undo this good deed. Both at their peak I take Taufua by a distance.
frank stokes
I discriminate indiscriminately
Has announced his immediate retirement - seems one week of training alongside McGuire was one too many!
'Selfless' Merrin calls time to make way for new breed of Dragons
The last remaining player at St George Illawarra from their 2010 premiership-winning team, Trent Merrin, has announced his immediate retirement from the NRL.
www.nrl.com
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40 years an eagle
Bencher
Making room for Widdop?
master blaster
Bencher
Or Marty
frank stokes
I discriminate indiscriminately
I tell you what , a player who knows he’s done stepping down and not taking any money for the rest of his contract is a bloody fine thing to do for your club !!
That’s a very VERY rare occurrence.
That’s a very VERY rare occurrence.
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