Waynesaurus
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ivanhungryjak
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theshed
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Imo you give Coates, Dearden, and Staggs an extra 50-100k each this year if they agree to terms for their next contracts (assuming the new contracts are reasonable).
holdzy
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pagey
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Not a clue .
Kooly87
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Paul White is Homer and Snake is Isaac Moses.
It really is damning that Paul White reminds us all of so many Simpsons characters.
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Finbar
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I think you can. We could probably pay off the contributions we are making to Dragons and Wests for Bird and Offa as well, so we don't have to sacrifice as much of our salary next year (not sure how long we have to cover them both for).
Foordy
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The big one (Bird) is this season only
Big Pete
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Not at the time.
They needed somebody to mind JT, so they re-positioned Thaiday and brought in Harrison to partner JT. The Gold Coast were one of the form teams of the competition at the time, while Parker had missed the majority of the season up to that point. Queensland would go onto put a record on NSW and Harrison never gave the selectors any reason to drop him.
broncsgoat
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That's fair enough but Parker was out performing him for a long time at club level. Harrison getting the jersey over him for being solid in origin while the Future Immortals kept winning games was a bit stiff (from Parkers pov).
holdzy
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He actually didn't miss out too much at the expense of Harrison. 2-3 years where Myles, Tunza, Webb and Dallas Johnson were filling out the second row/lock.
Big Pete
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It's also worth noting that Ash largely played on the left edge for Queensland, while Corey didn't play his best footy until he went back to the middle as a lock forward. Corey only played on the edge once for Queensland and while I wouldn't call him bad, he clearly wasn't comfortable.
Parker really had to earn his place in the Queensland Team. He was written off after the 2004-05 series where he failed to impress and he just didn't mount a convincing argument until 2010. When he earned his shot in 2011, he quickly established himself as one of the key members of the team which is a credit to him.
There were also murmers that Mal didn't want him in the team because of his attitude (which appeared to keep Moose from getting selected as well).
Parker really had to earn his place in the Queensland Team. He was written off after the 2004-05 series where he failed to impress and he just didn't mount a convincing argument until 2010. When he earned his shot in 2011, he quickly established himself as one of the key members of the team which is a credit to him.
There were also murmers that Mal didn't want him in the team because of his attitude (which appeared to keep Moose from getting selected as well).
Alec
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Ash Harrison was a great played for QLD. He wasn't a bash and barge forward, but he was a smart player, good in defence, had a good pass on him and ran good lines. I haven't looked into it much, but Inglis's impact in Origin dropped around the time Harrison stopped getting picked.
holdzy
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And Lockyer retiring. Only six tries after that.
Although the first series Harro wasn't picked we lost. Interesting.
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Twbapony
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Was he tackling our boys as well, that's 5.7 tackles a minute.He averaged 454 tackles a game in 2020?
No wonder the bloke was tired. That’s more than some blokes make in a season.
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WASSHHH
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The old ‘tackle anything that moves’ instruction from the coach!
Alec
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So that's why our defensive line never moved - the geniuses defending would be absolutely confused.
theshed
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We didn’t have much possession
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