Toups signed on for another 4 years

[Yak]

It's interesting looking at Tupou's stats from the last 3 seasons. This year he is up on average running metres by about 10m on 2016, up by 30m on 2015. He's slightly down on average tackle breaks compared to both years, same for line breaks (although almost negligible). His tries are on track for what he got in 2015. Way up on 2016 (but he did miss a few games). Try assists are slightly up this year. His offloads are down on last year but way up on 2015. Tackle efficiency is slightly down on 2015, but much better than last year. He's already hit his 2 penalties conceded that he's kept it to in both '15 and '16. And his errors are actually way up this year on average. He's on 23 so far this year compared to a total of 25 last year from 6 more games. 2015 he hit 29 in 27 games. I can't find post contact metres across the 3 years but I'd say there is a significant difference in that this season (if you exclude line breaks). He looks to have put on an extra few kgs and worked on his timing in the tackle and that's meant he isn't able to be "caught" and driven back as easily.

I think really the biggest difference has been consistency. In both 2015 and 2016 he had periods where he looked like a beast but then equally long periods where he really struggled. This year he's just consistently done his job and carried us out of trouble.

[Thirteen]

Toups was fantastic with the kids at the holiday camp today. As was Manu and of course Mini.

[Horry]

Toups was fantastic with the kids at the holiday camp today. As was Manu and of course Mini.

Got there to pick kids up and they were hanging around for ages.

[Jacks Fur Coat]

Toups was fantastic with the kids at the holiday camp today. As was Manu and of course Mini.

That's great to hear, thanks Thirteen.

[Bigchook]

Very happy for toops to stay with us.

[Guest]

Toups was fantastic with the kids at the holiday camp today. As was Manu and of course Mini.

did you call him soft to his face tell him your grandmother could run harder than him

[Thirteen]

did you call him soft to his face tell him your grandmother could run harder than him

Unlike you I don't hide behind a keyboard. I've made it very clear in another thread who I am.

[Guest]

Unlike you I don't hide behind a keyboard. I've made it very clear in another thread who I am.

Who do you think you are? You want to write your real name on a forum like this and say those who don't are hiding? I always thought 13 was your IQ and you do a great job of constantly proving that.

[Guest]

Unlike you I don't hide behind a keyboard. I've made it very clear in another thread who I am.

so thats a no

[Thirteen]

Who do you think you are? You want to write your real name on a forum like this and say those who don't are hiding? I always thought 13 was your IQ and you do a great job of constantly proving that.

Keep hiding. If I behaved like you I wouldn't want anyone to know who I was either.

[Cockadoodledoo]

Toups was fantastic with the kids at the holiday camp today. As was Manu and of course Mini.

Did they pass on any defensive tips to Manu?

[novice chook]

did you call him soft to his face tell him your grandmother could run harder than him

Your rudeness and arrogance shows no bounds does it. Thirteen was being positive, and you had to turn it into a negative because you just can't help yourself.

[Guest]

Your rudeness and arrogance shows no bounds does it. Thirteen was being positive, and you had to turn it into a negative because you just can't help yourself.

the guy regularly calls out our players as soft his grandmother is tougher and other nonsense when presented with a chance to tell a player he didnt say it why not say it it's like how johnny tobin loves to tell everyone he personally knows skd yet talks shite about him on this website

[novice chook]

the guy regularly calls out our players as soft his grandmother is tougher and other nonsense when presented with a chance to tell a player he didnt say it why not say it it's like how johnny tobin loves to tell everyone he personally knows skd yet talks shite about him on this website

Perhaps Thirteen was following the good advice most of us were taught by our parents - if you can't say something nice to someone, best to say nothing at all. Especially at a kid's camp, where active little ears tend to pick up everything they shouldn't.

[Guest]

Perhaps Thirteen was following the good advice most of us were taught by our parents - if you can't say something nice to someone, best to say nothing at all. Especially at a kid's camp, where active little ears tend to pick up everything they shouldn't.

but talking all sorts of nonsense on a website behind a screen is acceptable i dont agree with that logic at all tupou and others have done their best to give the kids a great time i hope thirteen remembers how this camp made his kids feel next time he calls someone on our team soft and weaker than his grandmother