Dr Kingfish
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Dr Kingfish
@GregPankhurst
Seasoned IT Recruiter who has a PhD thingy.
Clownsville, sometimes Sydney Katılım Mart 2009
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@Football_Serge @FOXNRL Grothe was indeed a winger. And he was epic
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'HE IS THE GOAT' 🙌
A former NRL flyer has declared Brian To'o as the greatest winger to ever play rugby league. 😮
To'o is a four-time premiership winner, two-time Dally M winger of the year and two-time Brad Fittler Medallist.
NRL DAILY 👉 bit.ly/47ggMn9

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@beavington_ @NQRL1995 @DanielZentner2 @_m_j_1_1 @colinjadams1 @karts95 @behind_th_8ball @elv06_ @JamesMMA10 @guttso77 @reibs12 I’m sure they all rotated thru the back row. Maybe not Hannant
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@GregPankhurst @NQRL1995 @DanielZentner2 @_m_j_1_1 @colinjadams1 @karts95 @behind_th_8ball @elv06_ @JamesMMA10 @guttso77 @reibs12 they weren't exactly "line benders" yeah?
And they're were not all playing 2nd row, you're comparing apples with bananas....
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@beavington_ @NQRL1995 @DanielZentner2 @_m_j_1_1 @colinjadams1 @karts95 @behind_th_8ball @elv06_ @JamesMMA10 @guttso77 @reibs12 Lowe, Hannant & Cooper played SOO. Big Jase was Big Jase. Bolton played 246 first grade games. Pretty handy meat and potatoes outfit that
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@GregPankhurst @NQRL1995 @DanielZentner2 @_m_j_1_1 @colinjadams1 @karts95 @behind_th_8ball @elv06_ @JamesMMA10 @guttso77 @reibs12 we won a comp with meat and potatoes backrowers that weren't exactly hit up metre eaters.......
I'd actually just like for Sam Macintyre to stop giving away repeated sets in D...... 👀
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@NQRL1995 @DanielZentner2 @_m_j_1_1 @beavington_ @colinjadams1 @karts95 @behind_th_8ball @elv06_ @JamesMMA10 @guttso77 @reibs12 Sam Mac is something of a poster boy IMO when it comes to dilution of our squad. Honest but lacks impact & ability to bend line
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@DanielZentner2 @_m_j_1_1 @beavington_ @GregPankhurst @colinjadams1 @karts95 @behind_th_8ball @elv06_ @JamesMMA10 @guttso77 @reibs12 Mikaele should take all of Lodge's minutes as the bench prop with Hess, Lodge may take a role similar to what Lahrs got on the weekend though
I think I'm almost all the way out on McIntyre tbh
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@beavington_ @_m_j_1_1 @NQRL1995 @DanielZentner2 @colinjadams1 @karts95 @behind_th_8ball @elv06_ @JamesMMA10 @guttso77 @reibs12 I think we need more impact from Cotter. I’m reminded of Paul Bowman. His qualities are wasted in a struggling side
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@guttso77 @nthqldcowboys Luki & BigJase not hold some responsibility here?
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Watching that Adam Doueihi try again, the board at the @nthqldcowboys may as well just pull the trigger and sack Payten now. The lack of effort on that play (including the lead up) is as bad as it gets. They’re not turning that around quickly. Titans will beat us on Sunday #NRL
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@beavington_ @NQRL1995 @colinjadams1 @_m_j_1_1 @karts95 @behind_th_8ball @elv06_ @JamesMMA10 Family or what?
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@GregPankhurst @NQRL1995 @colinjadams1 @_m_j_1_1 @karts95 @behind_th_8ball @elv06_ @JamesMMA10 Kuli was never staying in NQ.....
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Put a fork in Todd. He's done:
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#NRLtigerscowboys #NQcowboys @nthqldcowboys
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@NQRL1995 @colinjadams1 @_m_j_1_1 @karts95 @behind_th_8ball @beavington_ @elv06_ @JamesMMA10 If we lost anyone because of Leilua signing that’s fucked.
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From the reports I've seen in 2023 we had Dearden, Gilbert, Nanai & Luki all on less than $200k, Hammer & Drinky on around $250k and Robson & Cotter on less than $400k - that's a tonne of cheap talent
As cap room opened we've upgraded Drinky to $750k (while Hammer took $800k from the Dolphins), upgraded Robson to $750k and Cotter to $800k, upgraded Nanai to $550k in 2023 with annual jumps to now $900k, upgraded Luki to $650k, upgraded Dearden to $700k+
Gilbert left for family reasons and we shouldn't have let Hammer go with a year still on his contract
Finefeuiaki wasn't even a development player when he debuted for us in 2023, was on the league minimum in 2024 (~$140k) and then got $625k from the Dolphins in 2025
The problem is twofold - we replaced those cheap 2022 deals with guys like Valemei, McIntyre, Edwards, Paulo, Clifford, etc. for similar money to what those young blokes were getting, hence the overall squad quality has dropped and why I say we should focus more on developing juniors than external signings
We also had expensive deals like Chad on $800k, we signed Leilua for $750k+ (instead of trusting in Nanai & Luki to develop) and had a back-ended deal for Holmes which peaked at $1.15M as his form deteriorated
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@NQRL1995 @colinjadams1 @_m_j_1_1 @karts95 @behind_th_8ball @beavington_ @elv06_ @JamesMMA10 For every diamond there will be an absolute shitload of rocks
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Yeah but Jahrome Hughes is also on his third club and won a Dally M, so you can't discount them entirely
Some of the clubs best signings have been "journeymen" in that we were there 3rd or 4th club - Paul Rauhihi, Matt Sing, Brent Tate, Willie Tonga, Travis Norton... even Gavin Cooper left us for the Titans & Panthers before eventually coming back
But you absolutely shouldn't rely on them to the extent we have in recent years
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@NQRL1995 @colinjadams1 @_m_j_1_1 @karts95 @behind_th_8ball @beavington_ @elv06_ @JamesMMA10 Why couldn't we afford to keep them? It's not like we had awesome players in every position
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In regards to the squad - we were successful in 2022 in large part to juniors on cheap contracts playing well above their pay grade
This is also exactly how Penrith were able to be so successful for all these years
When it came time to resign them, we couldn’t afford to keep them all but didn’t have the juniors to replace them with so went with journeymen and veterans which obviously hasn’t been anywhere near as successful
To me, the future success of the club is reliant on juniors developing into first graders and actually getting game time
This is why I was so frustrated with the way Kaiden Lahrs was used last year - he should have just been allowed to make some mistakes and play through it, instead he’d get hooked and played 10-15 minutes a game
We have talent, but the guys on the bottom 15-30 contracts need to overhauled, which lucky enough we can do this year - problem is there is a lot of competition so we’d still be overpaying…
Developing juniors is the key!
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