SKD re-signs for 2 years

[ROC181]

Great news about SKD... that is all!

[stsae]

Great re-signing.

Sacked in SackOf.

More than 100 tries for our great club and another contract.

And to top it off SackOf is fuming over SKiDs success.

Its a win-win methinks.

[The Sack]

Great re-signing.

Sacked in SackOf.

More than 100 tries for our great club and another contract.

And to top it off SackOf is fuming over SKiDs success.

Its a win-win methinks.

You clown, fuming hey? LOL Good luck to SKD, he is lucky we lost RTS to the Warriors.

[John Corey]

It's definitely something to do with the Broadcast rights, I just can't figure out what the logic behind it is.

It seems like a massive risk to me.

Surely the logic is simply that the player managers are saying to their clients, "Do not sign beyond 2017 as with the TV rights deal I will be able to get you more in your next contract". (And of course the player manager gets more)

[Cockadoodledoo]

Surely the logic is simply that the player managers are saying to their clients, "Do not sign beyond 2017 as with the TV rights deal I will be able to get you more in your next contract". (And of course the player manager gets more)

Sort of but remember we offered RTS a 2 year deal and he signed for 3 years at the Warriors.

[stsae]

You clown, fuming hey? LOL Good luck to SKD, he is lucky we lost RTS to the Warriors.

LOL you are so easy mate, im sorry.

Not.

BTW I saw the better 1/2 comment. I could go there. I really could you know.

Remember I know.

[ROC181]

Great re-signing.

Sacked in SackOf.

More than 100 tries for our great club and another contract.

And to top it off SackOf is fuming over SKiDs success.

Its a win-win methinks.

100% agree STSAE! 100%!!!!

[redwhiteblue]

Great re-signing.

More than 100 tries for our great club and another contract.

Can I be a bossy know it all female now and say "I told you so!" ?
I think I've earned it for defending Shaun for so many years in this place.

[The Sack]

LOL you are so easy mate, im sorry.

Not.

BTW I saw the better 1/2 comment. I could go there. I really could you know.

Remember I know.

LOL, all you know is how to eat big boy, watch out or you will explode like your ego, nom nom nom. Seen your toes lately lol.

As for being easy, you'd now all about that.

Wow, you have nearly reached 10,000 posts. Are you celebrating eating nuggets big boy lol

[stsae]

LOL, all you know is how to eat big boy, watch out or you will explode like your ego, nom nom nom. Seen your toes lately lol.

As for being easy, you'd now all about that.

Wow, you have nearly reached 10,000 posts. Are you celebrating eating nuggets big boy lol

Well seeing its not affecting you and you clearly are not fuming by your on topic responses, maybe you can chew on this good story about The Great SKiD, nom nom nom.


Link: http://www.smh.com.au/rugby-league/l...005-2v0xv.html

Father inspires SKD's shot at glory

Date October 6, 2013
Daniel Lane

The turf where he'll put everything on the line to try to win the premiership on Sunday is sacred to Roosters centre Shaun Kenny-Dowall, who proudly revealed it's already hosted a moment seared in his family's folklore.
During the memorable spring of 2000, when Sydney glowed beneath the Olympic and Paralympic cauldrons, his father John Dowall stood with arms raised triumphant on the podium at the Olympic Stadium.
Despite falling an agonising six centimetres short of breaking the world record, the amputee's achievement to beat the highly fancied Chinese athlete Si Lao Ha and add a gold medal in javelin to the silver he had won a few days earlier as a shot putter was celebrated throughout New Zealand.
''There were a lot of Kiwis in the crowd - I could see the flags and they were fairly vocal,'' the Paralympic champion told the press 13 years ago. ''But, you know, it would have taken someone a lot better than me to beat me today.''

His father's self-belief, and determination to get on with life despite the setback of losing his foot in a lawnmower accident when he was five, had a profound impact on Kenny-Dowall. He readily nominated his father as the ''inspiration'' that would drive him in the premiership decider, expected to be a smash-up derby between flesh and bone.
''My dad … he's been with me the whole time,'' Kenny-Dowall said. ''I really look up to him. He's achieved a lot in his life and he's helped me get to where I am. He's got a disability; he's got one leg and he went to the Paralympics. So, as a kid growing up I watched how he went about preparing. He won a gold medal at the Paralympics in the javelin and a silver in the shot put. [The grand final] will be played at the same pitch where he won and it's pretty inspiring.''
Kenny-Dowall's father was by his side in 2006 when, after being told by the Warriors he was not on their radar, they bunked down in a backpackers' hostel at Bondi while he trialled for the Roosters.
''It comes down to preparation,'' he said of performing as his father did on the big stage.
''Hours and hours off the field of preparation and taking confidence out of knowing you've prepared well. That goes a long way to performing on the day. It's going to be a tough battle against Manly because they play a similar style to us, we're going to have to be 'on' in our defence. I'm happy with where I am right now. I'm confident I've been playing good football over the last couple of weeks and all I can concentrate on is preparing for this game.

You can't leave anything in the tank, it's the last game of the year and it's the most important game. We've left no stone unturned and I'm definitely looking forward to the challenge.''

[stringaz]

From my point of view, that article explains a lot about Shaun, especially playing on with a broken jaw in the gf.

Onya mate he bleeds RWB😉

[Guest]

I'm with you Stringaz. SKD is a champion.

[Tommy Smith]

SKD is one of those "heart and soul of the club" players.

Like Ricketson and more recently Mini before him; Skidsy now carries that all important flame along with the likes of Mitchell Aubusson and Jake Friend.

Legend.

[roooster15]

Cheers stsae I didn't know that about Skids dad I've seen him at the games he's one tough looking dude can now see why SKD is the way he is top read cheers

[Salvatori Grubber]

I'm on the dog n' bone so wont dig it out for you all, but there's a Fletch and Hindy interview discoverable on YouTube where they're interviewing Shaun and Isaac Luke ahead of the Anzac Test.

When Hindy tells Skid that he's number 2 on the all-time knock-on list (after some bloke who's had a hand transplant), due to him (Skd) having "feet for hands", Shaun just laughs good-naturedly. Admittedly Fletch points-out that he's scored over 100 tries.

Then a question about which NRL side you'd never play for. Luke squirms (as clearly he was in the midst of bailing on Souths) and Skiddsy says "The Rabbitohs", then to Fletch "you did, though - took 'em to a spoon didn't ya?", or similar.

Love the Skid.