Why Newcastle's Mata'utia brothers said no to Canterbury coach Des Hasler
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Yeah, and now he's living in the US he has probably more chances of having to dodge bullets!!
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He's in San Francisco, he has to dodge bullets of a different kind....
Actually, rumour has it he enjoys..... them. It? Dick. Whatever. He likes the peen.
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After watching today's game, thank god that these flops backflipped on us. They look NSW Cup standard at best and who knows who we'd have lost with their contracts burning through our cap.
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Yeah, but under Des and behind our forwards........blah blah blah
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We should be thanking them tbh. We offered them 4 year contracts on decent money and they would have been chewing up a fair bit of our cap if they came across. We almost got sucked into the hype about them.
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The only one who had any chance of being a star was Sione, but even he has a bad attitude, bad defence, goes missing in attack.
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Thank god some of crushers master plans never came off ,these guys ,Fifita on ridiculous money fuk me
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Lol. So true, nice way of looking at it,
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Not only that, Fifita and his brother are among the biggest dickheads to ever play the game. After their terrible treatment of a junior referee last year their thuggish behaviour should have seen them barred for live from rep footy. I wouldn't have wanted these thugs to ever be a part of our club, full stop. Good riddance!
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Playing Sione in the backrow so soon is such a poor decision from Brown. Kid is 19.. Never played there before.. Had a strong game v Raiders but long term.. No
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Wasn't Sione a Fullback?
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And he played for Australia, lol
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I guess they figured if they want to spend more time with their mum, Newcastle would be the best place.. They'll have plenty of time after round 26.
Brown said he didn't want to for another couple of years but injuries forced his hand. He was great yesterday too - 123m 29 tackles and looked pretty dangerous whenever he had the ball. If he stays in the back row I reckon he will be in the Origin and Australian team in 3 or 4 years
Other brothers aren't anywhere near as good
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Didn't Wayne Bennett say that Sione was going to be one of Knights best ever players and have a great career at Fullback?.
what prompted the switch to second row? Sorry I haven't had the chance to watch many Newcastle games.
what prompted the switch to second row? Sorry I haven't had the chance to watch many Newcastle games.
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Was playing crap at fullback so they had to move Gagai there. He's young and probably isn't ready to be the star of the team they need him to be. Newcastle's cap management is either the worst or they must not have many TPA's.
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