NRL 2022 Finals Week 1 Discussion

"Take away the stuff on the back pages"

You mean the stuff that he should be constantly suspended for Dan? That stuff?
 
It's an all too common story too.

Dearden - flying at the Cowboys

Coates - Playing well at Melbourne, much better than he did with us

Lodge - Turned the Rorters season right around as soon as they signed him

Hunt - Basically the Dragons best player

Yes there have been the predictable failures as well like Milford, Fifita, Joe O and Roberts, but they hardly play on the mind when their sides are finishing at the bottom.
Macca, got worse
Ese’ese, got worse
Lui, got worse
McGuire, got worse
Bullemor, got dropped
Isaako, Isaako’d

What’s more telling is Hunt was the first in a while that actually got better…

lodge/Coates doing “well” is what Newcastle long refer to the Knights effect. Look at how bad most of the knights players (sans Matt Gidley and Bedsy) became after Joey retired
 
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