McGuire/Funaki Incident

[unnerv1ng]

Any more info on the scuffle between Moose and Funaki?

 

[Renegade]

Re: Training incident

funaki said indeed and everyone was happy

 

[Dash]

Re: Training incident

funaki said indeed and everyone was happy

Brilliant.

Just realised it was the Big Show vs Funaki.

 

[Sirlee oldman]

Re: Training incident

How is Funaki going in ISC? He looks huge.

 

[noisetheory]

Re: Training incident

jeez. misleading thread title or what. got worried.

 

[ivanhungryjak]

Re: Training incident

EARLY one morning more than a few years back Wayne Bennett was in one of those wonderful sleeps that seemingly belong to only the winning coaches when a tap at the door awoke him.Was it one series of short taps, or two? Didn’t matter, Bennett climbed from bed and opened the door to see Gorden Tallis standing there with a hangdog expression.
It was about 5am and the Broncos were in Fiji for a pre-season camp.
“I just knocked out a teammate,” Tallis said.
“What?”
“I just knocked out a teammate.”
“Who was it?”
“Berro.”
Bennett grunted.
“Righto,” and turned and went back to bed.

Berrigan and Tallis wouldn't hold back. Pic Glenn Barnes.Tallis and Shaun Berrigan were sharing a few early hours drinks around the hotel pool when the banter got a little overcooked and they met in the middle of the pool.
Tallis hit Berrigan with a left jab. It was short but came with the element of surprise. Berrigan was expecting the right.
He fell unconscious below the surface and blood began colouring the water and two teammates jumped in to prevent him from drowning, which would have been a bad look so early in the season.
Tallis felt enough remorse that he knew he needed to tell Bennett immediately, although pulling Berrigan from the water failed to cross his mind.
Bennett realised such incidents happen from time to time in competitive environments.
So the coach will be unconcerned about Tuesday’s co-main event when Josh McGuire and Salesi Funaki came together for a brief rumba at training.

Sales Funaki and Josh McGuire get a bit steamed up. AAP Image/Dave HuntIn fact, while the smart coach doesn’t encourage it, they don’t always discourage it either and for a Broncos team trying to fight its way back to peak form, such a rush of blood might be just the kind of spark needed when they take on North Queensland in Townsville on Friday night.
Certainly the Broncos need to come dressed for some sort of fight.
While they have steadily improved they are nowhere near where they were last year and are still barely within shouting distance of Melbourne and the Cowboys’ performances last week.
A little blood at training doesn’t hurt.
Despite Bennett’s reputation as the game’s great disciplinarian he is more than accustomed to teammates throwing down. Tallis often featured.
“You want it to happen,” he said.
“I played with Shane Webcke and he played the way he trained and that’s why he had the career he had.”

Broncos biff good for club

Webcke was forever inflicting pain at training. He liked to run off a short ball and one afternoon at training Tallis saw him getting set for a run and blindsided him.
“The hardest I’ve ever hit anyone,” he said. “He chased me for the next 35 minutes of the session.”
Webcke had the blood up, revenge on his mind. No coach ever wants to coach that out of a player.
And while the Broncos are considered one of the blue-chip teams in the NRL, professional and polite, they are not adverse to dispensing a little old school justice when it is called for. Wherever that might be.

Webcke and Tallis - you wouldn’t want to get in the middle. Pic David Kapernick.Chris Walker began getting a bit lippy towards Tallis one afternoon at the Brisbane Show, the Ekka, and wouldn’t listen when more than one around him told him to quieten down.
“It was just a backhand,” Tallis said. “But it hit the spot.”
Moments later Walker’s brothers Shane and Ben carried Chris, his toes dragging behind them, into the men’s room to clean him up.
Another time tension got so high that Bennett finally had enough and told the trainer to organise a boxing night.
Webcke went in against Andrew Gee, two mates, while John Plath, Berrigan, they all got in on it.
Peter Ryan fought Allan Langer, Kevin Walters and Chris Johns all at once in a tag team, with Bennett the referee, and anybody that knows Ryan know he approached it like Tyson in the Catskills. There was some tagging out going on.
Originally published as Biff just what Broncos need: Kent

 

[Sproj]

"He fell unconscious below the surface and blood began colouring the water and two teammates jumped in to prevent him from drowning, which would have been a bad look so early in the season."

Now I am no expert but I imagine someone drowning wouldn't be a good look at any time.

 

[levikaden]

Didn't you see the video? Nothing in it, don't nibble on media bait.

/end thread

 

[unnerv1ng]

Saw the incident.. He took a swing at moose and it was broken up by other players.

 

[levikaden]

I'm sure youd have a swing at your mates too. NEXT

 

[Super Freak]

Moose just made an aggressive tackle.

He trains like he plays, and Funaki didn't like it so he had a go at him.

No punches were thrown, it was just a bit of shirt grabbing and pushing.

Media just trying to make it sound worse than it is.

Trying to make it sound like there is disharmony in the playing group, and maybe there is between those two, but that's all it was. Just one player not liking the fact that Moose was all over him aggressively.

 

[kat00]

I heard that flea graham hughes on talkin sport this arvo, I think you guys get it up there...

He said and I quote "I fear for the Broncs, all's not well, and it will probably come out in the next week or so, they are not a happy ball team"
I wonder if it's related or something different or is he just talking through his arse as usual?
Him and that Tunks are dead set Broncos haters.

 

[Sirlee oldman]

It's hard to believe Maguires form kept him out of the 4 nations squad. I wonder if it's incidents like this and his taunting the Blues team that caused Mal to drop him.

 

[Nashy]

It's hard to believe Maguires form kept him out of the 4 nations squad. I wonder if it's incidents like this and his taunting the Blues team that caused Mal to drop him.

I doubt Mal had much say in the matter.

 

[CaptainHook]

It's hard to believe Maguires form kept him out of the 4 nations squad. I wonder if it's incidents like this and his taunting the Blues team that caused Mal to drop him.

Could be. Or it could be his unforced handling errors in the finals against the Titans and Cowboys that cost him. Dropping the ball without a hand on him in some cases. Didn't cost us the game but it didn't help. He simply wasn't in good form towards the back end of the year.

 

[Cult]

Could be. Or it could be his unforced handling errors in the finals against the Titans and Cowboys that cost him. Dropping the ball without a hand on him in some cases. Didn't cost us the game but it didn't help. He simply wasn't in good form towards the back end of the year.

And yet he was still better than Klemmer.

 

[CaptainHook]

And yet he was still better than Klemmer.

I thought they were both average, tbh. Not saying Klemmer deserved a spot but two wrongs don't make a right. I'm ok with McGuire being overlooked.