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[Resurrected] Why does everyone gang up on Watmough?
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The Royal Soup
First Grader
he went well for parra
Ryan
Journey Man
When you become disillusioned with the very thing you love, given the literal monetary and blood sacrifices you've made, given all the passion and emotion, it would be so, SO hard not to have a voice.
He's human, mate.
He bled maroon and white, and you almost don't GET more Manly. He wanted to be a one club player, but the young crew didn't want to sacrifice to stay together. They wanted as much as they could get, as fast as they could get it.
And it broke us apart, and quite literally, we haven't won a GF in 11 years since (and many of those years have been really disappointing performance wise).
Some players (Gift, Choc, Beaver, Matai, Snake and many others) should NEVER have to play for other clubs.
manly al
First Grader
Took a little while to reach his full potential but can 't be in dispute with his wonderful career for Manly. Tough , speed and determination , generational player really . Was unfortunate the way he parted ways with Manly and his questionable attitude at the time but pretty insignificant in the overall scheme of things . Think that at one stage he stayed a bit below his market value but tend to think that it was not that much . In essence and like any other professional and even ruthless type sporting code , club loyalty and vice versa in many cases only goes so far and for a range of reasons . More inclined again to look at Choc "s time with Manly in a good light and anything after , no big deal . Thought that his son or one of his sons was in the Manly junior system now but not totally sure
Shoe1
Journey Man
Johnny Gibbs said at the time that manly offered him a fair contract of 650 per annum for 2 years. But he wanted longer and parra gave him 4 years! He lasted less than 1 right?
I think he could have left without trashing manly, it’s not like manly sacked him, and manly were correct on how much time he had left.
I think he could have left without trashing manly, it’s not like manly sacked him, and manly were correct on how much time he had left.
Yeah I am with you 100%. He bled for us while he was with us, and while he blew up on his way out, that clearly came from a position of deep hurt with what happened at the club.
Some people are able keep their emotions under control - that was never one of Choc’s attributes…
@Ryan ??? Dont think it was close to that much ,was it ?
Ryan
Journey Man
Not even close.
Shoe1
Journey Man
I know you got one of his contracts faxed to you accidentaly Ryan, but I didn't think it was that last one just before he jumped ship? I could be wrong of course! Just going off what Johnny Gibbs said on his radio show at the time.
I think where Watmough lost me was his constant sniping for a while about the situation with DCE. He made his point, and I can respect that......then he just kept going on and on about it.
He sort of reminded me a bit of Shane Warne and his beef with Steve Waugh.....fine you have an issue, you've mentioned it.....but just constantly bringing it up got very tiresome.
He sort of reminded me a bit of Shane Warne and his beef with Steve Waugh.....fine you have an issue, you've mentioned it.....but just constantly bringing it up got very tiresome.
Ganging up on Watmough is the only option. Bags not taking him on 1v1.
Ryan
Journey Man
Yep, was the last one. Actually, it was a modification of a pre-existing contract mate, where he was taking a haircut to help the club facilitate other players.
Pittwater Legend
We brought back Geoff Toovey!
If you saw Choc play in 2009 you’d understand why. It literally took 5 guys at a time to stop him
SeaEagle007
Reserve Grader
Choc and Brett Stewart were the players i went to watch in those days, followed by Matai, Lyon, Beaver , actually all of them what a fkn great team we had
MadMarcus
Toovey for NRL CEO
But mainly we went to see George Rose
QueefRichards
Bencher
Some of Watmoughs runs across the defensive line to bust through gaps were excellent. Huge potential for Olakauatu to replicate that
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