Q Cup 2010

[Foordy]

Gibb plays second row and specialises on terrorising the left hand side and will always offer up an offload.

I'm not sure we really need any more second rowers as i think we are pretty good in that position, although he may be a good depth signing, in the event that we get a few injuries in that position.

IMHO, Thaiday, Te'o and Parker should be the starting back row for us in 2011, with Gillett and Glenn the next in line back ups.

 

[Flutterby]

OK - sibling bragging alert.

CONGRATULATIONS to the Hornet for winning the prestigious Loft Medal at Easts Presentation night. The Loft Medal is awarded to a player based on their ability, dedication, club interest and desire to win.

Also congrats to John Lang who was awarded Easts Life Membership.

 

[Aeetee]

Woohoo way to go Kev. That is awesome and so deserved. You can tell every time he walks on the field and plays that it was deserved. So gunna get me an Easts Jersey with Hornet on the back now lol

 

[Foordy]

CRONULLA and Melbourne have agreed on a historic NSW Cup joint venture.

Sport Confidential can reveal Melbourne will place their over-age lower graders with the Sharks feeder side in an unprecedented move that brings two rival NRL clubs together at the lower tier.

Desperate to cut costs after the salary cap blow-out, Melbourne decided to scrap their stand-alone NSW Cup team several months ago. The Storm flirted with Newtown and Brisbane Easts before settling with the Sharks, who are also under immense financial strain.

NSWRL boss Geoff Carr last night confirmed the clubs had agreed to merge, with only board approval from the league required to finalise the joint venture.

"Another big factor was the two head coaches - Craig Bellamy and Shane Flanagan," Carr said.

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"They've worked together previously at Origin level, so there's a good relationship there."

Newtown, meanwhile, will remain as the Roosters' feeder club, while Wests and Balmain will enter separate sides next year, despite a push from elements within Wests Tigers for them to join forces.

http://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/sport/ ... 5932587217

So, does that mean that the Easts QLD cup team have screwed themselves by severing ties with the Broncos, after the Storm decided to merge their NSW cup team with the Sharks instead of a feeder aragnement with Easts. are they now left with no NRL team for their players to have a chance to play for?

also how will this work between the 2 NRL clubs, when selecting players from their feeder team that are outside their top 25?

 

[Flutterby]

I don't think Easts have screwed themselves. Their thing with the Broncos has always just been on a year by year basis and may still be put in place again for 2011. But IMO, Easts have always gotten very very little from the Broncos arrangement. They were never a feeder club and at best most years saw one or two woefully out of form or injured players foisted upon them for a couple of games. The best thing Easts ever has gotten from the arrangement was Lagi Setu this year, when he unexplicably fell out of favour with Ivan.

 

[Coxy]

Inexplicably.

 

[Foordy]

I think the club would be better off with one "official" feeder club where all of our contracted players that are not required for NRL duty play their footy. like the days when we had Toowoomba as our sole feeder club. although that may cost us more to run, i think we would be better because of it and it would be nice to see our new CEO implement it.

 

[Coxy]

I think some other QRL clubs whinged that it gave the Broncos' feeder club too much advantage.

 

[BroncoMatt]

With the introduction of the NYC it was the Broncos decision not to field a full feeder team. It was purely a dollar saving decision

QRL Clubs had/have no issue with a feeder team arrangement being too strong. There were some complaints about players
being "warehoused" by the Broncos. Being offered a Broncos contract but with no immediate NRL plans.

Hence the current situation was born. The Clubs said if you aren't going to use them, keep them with us until you need them.

 

[ethos]

http://www.foxsports.com.au/league/...ssistant-coaches/story-fn2mcuj6-1225940321998

Former rugby league internationals Kevin Walters and David Kidwell have signed on as assistant coaches with Melbourne Storm.
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The Storm also confirmed they had formed an alliance with Queensland Cup club Brisbane Easts, as well as NSW Cup side Cronulla.

Under the partnership arrangement, Storm will send NRL squad members not playing in their first-grade squad to either Cronulla or Brisbane Easts.

wtf is going on. So now Kevvie's off to Melbourne, who on earth will be coaching Easts?

 

[Bucking Beads]

I was wondering the same thing...

 

[Aeetee]

Well unless he is going to coach the Tigers and assist Bellyache from here, then its a bot of a head scratcher?

 

[ethos]

Well unless he is going to coach the Tigers and assist Bellyache from here, then its a bot of a head scratcher?

That's what I thought initially, so hopefully that's the case and he just coaching the Storm players who are up here and flying down occasionally. But people who get the tag of 'assistant coach' are generally more involved than that though.

*edit

Just found this..

Coincidentally, Walters was set to resume his Australian coaching career at Brisbane Easts, before he agreed to return to NRL level with the Storm.

Melbourne Storm CEO Ron Gauci praised Brisbane Easts CEO Des Morris for allowing Walters to accept the Storm assistant coaching role and described the new partnership arrangements as historic.

http://rleague.com/db/article.php?id=37910

..so it looks like he is gone.

 

[Aeetee]

well thats just **** ed. Who are they going to bring back now?

It better be Smithy or Econemedies!

 

[Bucking Beads]

well thats just **** ed. Who are they going to bring back now?

It better be Smithy or Econemedies!

who cares they will have the storm all over them.

 

[Big Pete]

Storm or no Storm, Easts will always be awesome.

 

[Jeba]

Aeetee, Flutterby and ethos = part Storm fans [icon_razz1

 

[Bucking Beads]

Storm or no Storm, Easts will always be awesome.

not in my crazy fat head.