There was never a QRL bid, QRL voted in April 1987 for a team and it was unanimous 10-0. Then on the 14th when they met to vote for either the Broncos or Jeans West- Broncos won 7-3.
BRL clubs voted 8-0 for the Broncos.
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There was never a QRL bid, QRL voted in April 1987 for a team and it was unanimous 10-0. Then on the 14th when they met to vote for either the Broncos or Jeans West- Broncos won 7-3.
BRL clubs voted 8-0 for the Broncos.
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Can we call Fifita, Buster from now on?
GCBRONCO
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heartly87
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If a man can't manage his own affairs he isn't worth ones salt.
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Your thoughts @Huge ? I can’t seem to quote the whole post so you will have to go back and read this post of Dave’s words about his mum.
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Thoughts? Well, like everyone else on this planet I have my own as Fifita doubtless does too. Also, not every word out my mouth is the whole truth or rather not everything I say is the complete story. What Fifita publicly states is unlikely to be what he says privately, I mean that's also true for most I'd imagine.
No matter what he said about his Mum he's his own man and I'm positive that he has his own private thoughts. Regardless of his public statement about Mum her thoughts are not necessarily his. He never stated he wanted to play comfortable football, she did.
What are your thoughts? Is it possible she was trying to say he, her son wanted to be comfortable in his new workplace? Or that he wanted to be comfortable with his decision?
This is so similar to the ridiculous assertion that Boyd thought rugby league was 'just a game'. Where this differs is that Fifita didn't even make the statement in question. It's taken out of context and attributed to Fifita but he cannot and should not be condemned for a statement another made about him.
If you cannot acknowledge he has no responsibility for anothers statements then it's pointless to discuss it further. I won't be anyway so feel free to have the last say
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Kennedy is up there with the worst players in the NRL. How he keeps getting games is beyond me.
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There are far worse. He’s not a world beater, but I think with consistent game time he can be quite solid benchie and has a nice offload on him
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Thoughts? Well, like everyone else on this planet I have my own as Fifita doubtless does too. Also, not every word out my mouth is the whole truth or rather not everything I say is the complete story. What Fifita publicly states is unlikely to be what he says privately, I mean that's also true for most I'd imagine.
No matter what he said about his Mum he's his own man and I'm positive that he has his own private thoughts. Regardless of his public statement about Mum her thoughts are not necessarily his. He never stated he wanted to play comfortable football, she did.
What are your thoughts? Is it possible she was trying to say he, her son wanted to be comfortable in his new workplace? Or that he wanted to be comfortable with his decision?
This is so similar to the ridiculous assertion that Boyd thought rugby league was 'just a game'. Where this differs is that Fifita didn't even make the statement in question. It's taken out of context and attributed to Fifita but he cannot and should not be condemned for a statement another made about him.
If you cannot acknowledge he has no responsibility for anothers statements then it's pointless to discuss it further. I won't be anyway so feel free to have the last say
As you’ve said before about others, I can’t read his or anyone else’s mind or his implied thoughts, I can only go by what he said and what he said was pretty clear. I’ll also leave it here.
But on another point you’ve raised there (and this is NOT to condemn Boyd as I’ve never done so for his comments), there is an interesting discussion here that I think would be interesting to delve further into.
Boyd said it was just a game, James Graham this week said he believed the sport was something he was willing to die for. McKinnon, JYY and Dwyer, etc have ended up permanently disabled. Concussion is a huge issue for a number of players. How seriously should players take this game?
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Could you imagine the penalties and suspensions for the tackling too hard on the NRLs new pet projects poster boy tpj would get though?!
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a suspension for him is guaranteed this week ... it's just a matter of what charge the NRL can manufacture
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James graham is clearly a fucking moron
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Have you heard him speak? He clearly isn’t, I love the way he speaks.
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Anyone who says they’re willing to die for a game of footy is cooked in the head
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I don’t agree with his view, I’m more toward the Boyd view but he definitely isn’t a moron, in fact he seems to have thought it more than most footy players I’d imagine.
I respect him for expressing his view in such a well thought out way, it’s pretty sad to call someone who puts out a view like he did in a respectful and well phrased way ‘cooked in the head’. I’ll take it you haven’t watched the segment.
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That would slightly mis-representing what he actually said or at least the context in which he meant it.
I'll paraphrase a little, but essentially what he said in it's entirety was that football had given him a purpose and meaning in his life (let's not forget, this is a career and a significant part of their legacy as a person, not just a 'game of footy' for these guys) and that he made the conscious decision to play on accepting that their was some risk that he may do permanent damage to his brain in doing so, but he was prepared to accept that risk because of what playing football meant to him as a person and in the overall scheme of his life.
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