Jake Turpin Discussion

[Broncorob]

Most pundits said the same when Locky switched to 6. It wasnt an overnight sensation. Cook took some time. I reckon Turps can be a good choice playing in the current system
...harsh on anyone

 

[Broncorob]

Everyone is loving Grant at moment. If 9 is the major player as gets spruiked why havent Easts won the last 2 comps. Turps will be ok NRL week to week as a 9 is tough. We are closer than you think. its definitely mental. can do 40 to 60

Nee Coach!

 

[Broncorob]

Everyone is loving Grant at moment. If 9 is the major player as gets spruiked why havent Easts won the last 2 comps. Turps will be ok NRL week to week as a 9 is tough. We are closer than you think. its definitely mental. can do 40 to 60

Nee Coach!

Easts Bris

 

[Aldo]

Once again, as soon as we lose Turpin mid game, we go to absolute shit. He has to be one of our more vocal players.

I tend to think it was more when Haas and Carrigan were off the field. Offa and Kennedy offered nothing last night.

 

[Jedhead]

I tend to think it was more when Haas and Carrigan were off the field. Offa and Kennedy offered nothing last night.

Too true. Whatever if it's true we're paying Joffa $600K we're paying him $480K too much. Even at that I think he does not earn minimum wage most weeks.

 

[Aldo]

Too true. Whatever if it's true we're paying Joffa $600K we're paying him $480K too much. Even at that I think he does not earn minimum wage most weeks.

When our bench forwards gone on, our intensity drops off dramatically. I didn't mind Riki though. He had a crack for his first game.

 

[BroncsFan]

Man Turpin is injury-proned, you're not getting much value out of him if he keeps getting himself injured. Actually, I wouldn't mind if Turpin gets offloaded to another club.

Won't have a squad left in the recruitment and retention team take advice from this forum.... in fact maybe they have been listening to this forum if the amount of players released in the last 18 months is anything to go by.

Apparently no one in the squad is any good

 

[rnabokov]

Most pundits said the same when Locky switched to 6. It wasnt an overnight sensation. Cook took some time. I reckon Turps can be a good choice playing in the current system
...harsh on anyone

Turpin needs to run the ball. Even his mentor Macca ran the ball more than him. I don't recall one run from him before he went off, running at the line, selecting a pass. Paix ran immediately he came on. He wasn't brilliant but his energy and enthusiasm lifted our momentum as soon as he came on. Turpin has a lot to learn about dummy half play. If he can, then he will be great because other aspects of his game there are good.

 

[Sproj]

Turpin needs to run the ball. Even his mentor Macca ran the ball more than him. I don't recall one run from him before he went off, running at the line, selecting a pass. Paix ran immediately he came on. He wasn't brilliant but his energy and enthusiasm lifted our momentum as soon as he came on. Turpin has a lot to learn about dummy half play. If he can, then he will be great because other aspects of his game there are good.

I don't know, his service was pretty rubbish last night, Turps. It could have been the broken hand though.

 

[Mister Wright]

30mins last night and 0 runs. Not a single run from dummy half.

I don't know, his service was pretty rubbish last night, Turps. It could have been the broken hand though.

He broke his hand a few sets before he went off, so can’t use that as an excuse. He was ordinary last night and that type of performance is becoming the norm, not “just a once off” kind of performance.

 

[Mustafur]

Love the guy, he is doing his best but needs help he is as close as he has ever to being a proper 80min player but he needs some help still.

 

[Dexter]

It's hard to judge him because we rarely win the ruck but at the moment there isnt a lot of difference between his and maccas game except for thre odd big tacke.

 

[Wolfie]

He will never be an effective 80 Min hooker unless he changes how he plays, and if he does that he won't be the same player. Been saying since I first saw him, he is brilliant in short, high impact spells. Let's him do what he is good at otherwise he will always have these dips in form because no player on the planet can play with his intensity for 80 mins every week.

 

[Mister Wright]

Turpin was great in round 1. He had energy & Spark. Since then, he has been a plodder. Slow play the balls, running on the 4th when nothing is on and basically stinking it up.

Still waiting for the ‘Turpin is God’ brigade to explain to me how he is an upgrade on Macca?

 

[Mr Fourex]

Turpin was great in round 1. He had energy & Spark. Since then, he has been a plodder. Slow play the balls, running on the 4th when nothing is on and basically stinking it up.

Still waiting for the ‘Turpin is God’ brigade to explain to me how he is an upgrade on Macca?

He's faster......younger.......in general, better.

 

[Mister Wright]

He's faster......younger.......in general, better.

No point being faster if you don’t run.

 

[Sproj]

He’s cheaper, that’s important.

 

[Kimlo]

He’s cheaper, that’s important.

Yeah 300k vs 600k I'll take Turpin everytime.