Dan Carter's replacement is...

Benji Marshall? I reckon he would make a fantastic union first five. A great play maker and quick and all the good stuff a pivot needs. With all the salary caps in the NRL, the NZRFU should be able to get him with a good offer. Marshall is only 25, which would give him plenty of time to be the AB's first five for the 2015 RWC...

You like league when it suits ya huh?

Stop stealing our players rugby you dicks! Develop your own damn player base for fucks sake.

What if someone better than benji emerges between now and then... that plays rugby?

lol @ dalai. <3

I want to see Sonny Bill in a Warriors jersey.... Is that so wrong?

League is dying. The money simply isn't there. Even State of Origin is a boring spectacle nowadays and everyone in Aussie is switching to AFL.

Then pick him, as well!

Starting to admit that league players are superior is just the 1st step in your rehabilitation from code inferiority complex fish_boy




You still have a long way to go


PS Thought about starting s seperate thread but fk it this will do........Stuart being appointed NSW coach? In a FULL TIME position? WHAT.... THE..... FUCK....How does Ricki being an asshole full time help? Since when is coaching 3 games a year a full time job? How does he even get appointed after being so terrible for the Sharks and his history as Roos coach?

Things are just getting worse and worse for NSW fans

Benji has signed for the Tigers till he's 30.

He'll never leave the Tigers, and you can fuck right off if you think he will.

tbh Im suprised that the wallabie dont target more league stars. I mean...maybe they do and I dont realise it. But they are not being that successful either way. I dont think theres alot of point recruiting wingers like ET and Tuquiri. Need players closer to the ruck and dynamic forwards. ratue made a good point that Mateo might have been an option

I'm surprised people don't call FB on his habit of blatantly making shit up. If he knew what he was talking about he would know that the NRL had recorded a rise in average crowd attendances and a rise in television audiences. All this despite a catastrophic season for their arguably marquee team in the Melbourne Storm.

But yeah they're just all flooding across to AFL.... :rolleyes:

I'd be more worried if I were you about the actual recorded evidence of falling crowd and television audiences for Super 14 and the ITM Cup but you go girl! You keep making shit up. It's quite amusing...

heh, did anyone see the size of the crowd at the ITM cup final?

It was laughable :>

edit: this year was also the 1st time that more AKL'ers cared about the NRL than the domestic rugby comp...

Benji is an awesome player
but he's not big enough
He might be a fantastic rugby fullback though

So you base your judgements on traitors?

Why would we be traitors... you know there's an AKL team in the NRL right? :>

Also in spite of the NRL still having a DISMAL tv deal compared to AFL. We get more live NRL games aired here than most of Australia does currently.

This.

Besides, as briliiant as he is, he doesn't have the long / tactical kicking game, nor the goal-kicking ability to match Carter or be a long-standing All Blacks fly half.

yeah, he's pretty much the worst goal kicker in the NRL. Which can be very very frustrating for a tiger supporters.

Too many times we've lost games because we're racking up 4 point tries and the opposition is racking up fewer tries but at 6 points a piece