News No fracture and injury not career-ending but Foran may need reconstruction

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Fuck sake, with a reconstruction that's like 30 weeks. Won't be available to mid season probably.
 

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Yeah don't pay them out and make sure they can't walk or play with their kids anymore............
If Foran decided to retire (which he won't) the club would happily back that too. We shouldn't be forcing any 29 year old into retirement who only has a year to go with us.
 
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He's not the future of the club, he won't be there in 2021 unless he's on minimum wage, we may as well just bench him and move on with new halves in 2020.
 

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So given it was an option international game does that mean we can get a cap discount next year?
If we can hopefully we get a few signings done and front load also to get us in a better position moving forward.
 

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He seriously needs to think about how his body will shape up after he retires. The more recos etc the worse for him the rest of his life. I read his family is very wealthy. You would think he'd have a few investments also as he's been paid decent coin for most of the last 10 years.
 

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So given it was an option international game does that mean we can get a cap discount next year?
If we can hopefully we get a few signings done and front load also to get us in a better position moving forward.

If he is out till mid season that surely means we get half his next year salary in compensation... adding that to what we have left would result in a handy player number 30, we could even afford to bring Mitchell over next year let alone 2021
 

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What a fucking gronk of a signing. He was injury prone 3 seasons before he was signed for this shit fucking contract. Des should be put up on fraud charges. Fucking disgrace.

All the best in your recovery Kieren.
 

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If Foran decided to retire (which he won't) the club would happily back that too. We shouldn't be forcing any 29 year old into retirement who only has a year to go with us.
Mate if he doesn't want to retire then he is the only person in this world other than maybe you that thinks he should kick on. The bloke can barely walk now.

There comes a point in teamsports when you must do what is right for the team and not necessarily just yourself. A selfless act. It's not as if he will come out of it financially worse off, he will get his money the big difference is that he is releasing us from the burden that he is/was and always will be. He needs to know that he is stopping us from using that money towards a younger healthier player/s and us becoming competitive again. If he goes on he can get fuked!
 

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Mate if he doesn't want to retire then he is the only person in this world other than maybe you that thinks he should kick on. The bloke can barely walk now.

There comes a point in teamsports when you must do what is right for the team and not necessarily just yourself. A selfless act. It's not as if he will come out of it financially worse off, he will get his money the big difference is that he is releasing us from the burden that he is/was and always will be. He needs to know that he is stopping us from using that money towards a younger healthier player/s and us becoming competitive again. If he goes on he can get fuked!
Foran doesn't want to RETIRE. It's more then one more year with us, it's after that too. Unless HE is persuaded otherwise it doesn't matter what other people think. At the end of the day he has a contract. Don't blame Foran but the people that put him on that contract if you didn't think it was justified THEN.
 

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Foran doesn't want to RETIRE. It's more then one more year with us, it's after that too. Unless HE is persuaded otherwise it doesn't matter what other people think. At the end of the day he has a contract. Don't blame Foran but the people that put him on that contract if you didn't think it was justified THEN.
When does his contract expire?
 

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He wont be short of a quid he's old man's the boss of walmart maybe he could work there lol
 

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Foran doesn't want to RETIRE. It's more then one more year with us, it's after that too. Unless HE is persuaded otherwise it doesn't matter what other people think. At the end of the day he has a contract. Don't blame Foran but the people that put him on that contract if you didn't think it was justified THEN.
Of course you can start to blame someone when they can't carry the load anymore but continue to take a spot. At the point you can no longer put in for the team and hold the line and become a burden then a decent person will step aside, fukin oath! His team will never admit it BUT if they were honest they would be thinking that he should not be there taking up so much cap. Blokes on minimum wage playing every game would be saying WTF to someone getting 1.2mil for playing maybe 1 in every 2 games overall. Yes he is contracted and no-one can force him out BUT no-one should have to. Next year is his last and if Dogs management sign him again in anything other than some coaching thing then they no-longer deserve to be running the club, it's negligent management. I don't blame him for signing on that silly money but I will blame him if he doesn't do the right thing!
 

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Fuck me sideways! Who picks up the medical bills for all this shit, we could have built Steve Austin by now for cheaper.
We can rebuild him. Bigger, stronger, faster than before. We have the technology. With bionic knees, ankles and toes he will run faster than before AND be more elusive. With new bionic shoulders and disks in his back he will feel like hes 20 again.

He will hill harder than a locomotive, be able to leap tall buildings with a single bound....oops mixing up my cyborgs and superheros again goddam it. Thank you rep football for giving us this excuse to turn Foz into a superhuman rugby league player...the best the world has ever seen.

Maguire says play on eh...no medical retirement...nothing to see here. Would you REALLY expect anything less than this from a coach of a rival team who desperately wouldnt want us to free up $1.2m of cap space???

Will be banking on those MRI scans showing the mess that his shoulder is now in. If Gillett and Burgess can medically retire it will positively take the cake if Foz cant. As anyone that has gone to an open training session can attest...the poor bugger gets around like an 85 year old. I for one dont want to see him struggling through another 6+ months of rehab...only to get back out on the field and something else falls off. Its not worth it Foz...get better and we will gladly employ you in a coaching capacity.
 

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We can rebuild him. Bigger, stronger, faster than before. We have the technology. With bionic knees, ankles and toes he will run faster than before AND be more elusive. With new bionic shoulders and disks in his back he will feel like hes 20 again.

He will hill harder than a locomotive, be able to leap tall buildings with a single bound....oops mixing up my cyborgs and superheros again goddam it. Thank you rep football for giving us this excuse to turn Foz into a superhuman rugby league player...the best the world has ever seen.

Maguire says play on eh...no medical retirement...nothing to see here. Would you REALLY expect anything less than this from a coach of a rival team who desperately wouldnt want us to free up $1.2m of cap space???

Will be banking on those MRI scans showing the mess that his shoulder is now in. If Gillett and Burgess can medically retire it will positively take the cake if Fox cant. As anyone that has gone to an open training session can attest...the poor bugger gets around like an 85 year old. I for one dont want to see him struggling through another 6+ months of rehab...only to get back out on the field and something else falls off. Its not worth it Foz...get better and we will gladly employ you in a coaching capacity.
Exactly mate, that's all I'm saying. What's the point in becoming a full cripple?
 

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Mate if he doesn't want to retire then he is the only person in this world other than maybe you that thinks he should kick on. The bloke can barely walk now.

There comes a point in teamsports when you must do what is right for the team and not necessarily just yourself. A selfless act. It's not as if he will come out of it financially worse off, he will get his money the big difference is that he is releasing us from the burden that he is/was and always will be. He needs to know that he is stopping us from using that money towards a younger healthier player/s and us becoming competitive again. If he goes on he can get fuked!
I wouldn't want to retire at 29 either no matter what anyone says. Yes he is and has been a burden, but one we can manage for his last year with us.

I just think it's the right thing to do by the player which can only bring good things back to us. The Club's commitment to the rehabilitation of it's players surely doesn't go unnoticed.

It's something Canterbury should be proud of in my opinion. To persevere as bulldogs do.
 
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He wont be short of a quid he's old man's the boss of walmart maybe he could work there lol
Just bring him in on a coaching capacity. He’s got the brains just the body letting him down. Poor bloke, just has to call it a day.
 
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