Who plays Hooker

[Rooster89]

Just throw in the kid from SG ball. We can't afford to numerous positional changes for one change.

[OMR]

Using Radley at hooker would a waste of talent, I’d rather have a debutant play there, or Butcher if needed.
who is the chookpenner who first floated the Manu to hooker post? He may finally get his wish.

[Thirteen]

Using Radley at hooker would a waste of talent, I’d rather have a debutant play there, or Butcher if needed.
who is the chookpenner who first floated the Manu to hooker post? He may finally get his wish.

I think he was banned after that comment. As was Large Mike who said Teddy was shit.

[King Salvo]

Utilise the rotating dummy half with no designated dummy half -closest player to the tackled player is the dummy half- It happens during the game as the dummy half is not always there to play that role.

[Easts75]

Passing skills?

No.

Butch has no skills

[top_joe]

Utilise the rotating dummy half with no designated dummy half -closest player to the tackled player is the dummy half- It happens during the game as the dummy half is not always there to play that role.

I am keen on seeing that (but maybe against Dogs, not Storm), what would you use the extra player for?

[ism22]

Just throw in the kid from SG ball. We can't afford to numerous positional changes for one change.

What was the go with that comment from Robbo?

SG Ball is U18's isn't it? Or did the SG Ball hooker turn 18 this year or something? Either way he isn't in our 30 and we can't use him so it's just an odd comment?

[Grant Hedger]

Robbo’s playing mind games. He wasn’t serious about using SG Ball hooker.

[Cockadoodledoo]

What was the go with that comment from Robbo?

SG Ball is U18's isn't it? Or did the SG Ball hooker turn 18 this year or something? Either way he isn't in our 30 and we can't use him so it's just an odd comment?

Mate, why are your posts pretty much all factually incorrect? Players outside the top 30 can play, you have what’s known as a second tier cap for these players. They just need to be Roosters contracted players.

[NorthChook]

Who is the Flegg number 9? Why is the SG ball hooker out ranking him?

update: apparently a kid called Koby Rugless. J Marshke played a lot of the bears game today at dummy half (I would say more than C.Thomas?

[Thirteen]

Utilise the rotating dummy half with no designated dummy half -closest player to the tackled player is the dummy half- It happens during the game as the dummy half is not always there to play that role.

And who defends in the middle?
No. Just no.

[Rooster1908]

Maybe Storm might lend us Harry Grant before our next game like they did with the tiges

[The Skeez]

Who is the Flegg number 9? Why is the SG ball hooker out ranking him?

update: apparently a kid called Koby Rugless. J Marshke played a lot of the bears game today at dummy half (I would say more than C.Thomas?

This Kobe and Coby. Rugless and Thomas

Thomas Deacon and Rugless are both amateur boxing champions.

[The Skeez]

Thomas Deacon and Rugless are both amateur boxing champions.

Paul Kent wrote:

Joel Keegan coached boxing at Umina PCYC for almost 20 years and tomorrow, when he opens his new gym, Complete Boxing, in West Gosford. The Sydney Roosters brought their Harold Matthews team to Keegan because in one of their junior reps, Thomas Deacon, they saw the type of mental strength they want in all their players.

“He’s a good leader and a damn good player,” said Roosters recruitment boss Daniel Anderson, who added coach Trent Robinson is also impressed.

“Robbo has invited him to do some pre-Christmas training with the NRL team.”

Deacon, 18, has trained with Keegan for years. Another Roosters junior rep, Kobe Rugless, 19, also trained with him since before he was a teen.

Both won two National Youth titles under Keegan but have abandoned the fight game to put on weight and make a go of it in the NRL.

Like Deacon, Rugless will also be invited to train with the NRL team before Christmas.

For both young men, both slightly embarrassed about the fuss here, their dream is as close as next week, when State of Origin is played in Adelaide.

That goes to the heart of Keegan’s coaching, which often begins when his fighters are much younger than when NRL head coaches get them, when character is still forming.

He took Rugless to China as a 12-year-old, sparring with the Beijing boxing squad and giving as good as he got every day.

“Wasn’t flustered, wasn’t out of his depth,” Keegan said. “He never doubted why he was there.”

It was a temperament forged in the gym, and now witnessed at the Roosters.

The same went for Deacon, who he took to England as part of the Australian squad.

“Usually when you go to gyms half the kids you’ve organised to spar don’t turn up, but these gyms, half of them were gypsies, or just tough young kids,” Keegan said.

“They all heard that the Australian team was over and so every gym we walked into they were all there waiting for us.

“Tommy went through the north of England sparring twice a day. They all tried to test him …”

It goes without saying Deacon was up to it.

Character, the gypsies discovered, was permanent. Forged in a boxing ring, where values matter.

[Rooster89]

Yeh it was an odd comment but he said it so maybe it was an off the cuff remark with no thought to it or maybe we can get him in on special grounds?

It doesn't seem like Robbo to say anything off the cuff. He is usually pretty calculated in his talks

What was the go with that comment from Robbo?

SG Ball is U18's isn't it? Or did the SG Ball hooker turn 18 this year or something? Either way he isn't in our 30 and we can't use him so it's just an odd comment?