Re: Sam Burgess Union debut : Sat Mar 07, 2015 8:02 am  

If you look close enough you can see his soul slowly fading. Yes the wages are higher, yes there's more commercial opportunities to be had, yes you will have greater exposure to the overall population but when your career is over Sam and the fickle 'general public' forget your name and the prestigious brands drop you for the next rising star, what kind of legacy will you leave behind?

Re: Sam Burgess Union debut : Mon Mar 30, 2015 7:13 am  

I honestly don't think Burgess is right. If you look at the photo below from his latest match, you'll see him tackling an opponent that he would have absolutely smashed last year. Like all players who haven't got or have lost their bottle, he is (possibly subconsciously) keeping his head out of contact. Poor lad. Not surprising if it has badly affected his game psycologically; face smashed and no end of metal plates and pins in it now. Can see him finishing his RU contract then having to retire early.

Re: Sam Burgess Union debut : Mon Mar 30, 2015 7:16 am  

http://www.sportinglife.com/rugby-union/live/match-reaction/65896/ford-bath-can-do-better

http://www.sportinglife.com/rugby-union/live/match-reaction/65896/ford-bath-can-do-better

Re: Sam Burgess Union debut : Mon Mar 30, 2015 8:09 am  

Mr Churchill wrote:

I honestly don't think Burgess is right. If you look at the photo below from his latest match, you'll see him tackling an opponent that he would have absolutely smashed last year. Like all players who haven't got or have lost their bottle, he is (possibly subconsciously) keeping his head out of contact. Poor lad. Not surprising if it has badly affected his game psycologically; face smashed and no end of metal plates and pins in it now. Can see him finishing his RU contract then having to retire early.

You do realise that Burgess has the ball in that picture and is being tackled, he is virtually past the man!

Re: Sam Burgess Union debut : Mon Mar 30, 2015 9:06 am  

Yes. Sorry. You're right. I did notice that on closer inspection after I had posted. But my main point stands I think.

Re: Sam Burgess Union debut : Mon Mar 30, 2015 11:10 am  

All you have done is highlight the fact that SB is playing a club game in Ireland in front of 50,000 fans, something that he could never do in RL. And that you subscribe to BT just to watch Union

Re: Sam Burgess Union debut : Mon Mar 30, 2015 2:27 pm  

Maybe I'm mistaken but I'm sure I saw Sam playing infront of 80k + for his last club game in RL ?

I also just seen a report of his latest game in Union playing infront of a massive crowd of 3,900 in the home of a conference level soccer team.

Quite easy to twist facts to suit your agenda isn't it

Re: Sam Burgess Union debut : Mon Mar 30, 2015 6:42 pm  

Mr Churchill wrote:

Yes. Sorry. You're right. I did notice that on closer inspection after I had posted. But my main point stands I think.

What was your main point?
All you have shown through this entire thread is that:
You are prepared to pay to watch a game you neither like or understand
That unsubscribing from BT sport seems to take an entire season
That Sam Burgess is finding the transition from one sport to another
that you need to get out more and stop cyber stalking sam burgess.......let go, he's gone to the dark side

Re: Sam Burgess Union debut : Mon Mar 30, 2015 7:51 pm  

tenerifeRhino wrote:

Maybe I'm mistaken but I'm sure I saw Sam playing infront of 80k + for his last club game in RL ?

I also just seen a report of his latest game in Union playing infront of a massive crowd of 3,900 in the home of a conference level soccer team.

Quite easy to twist facts to suit your agenda isn't it

Was that game in Ireland, which as you full well know was my point? Quite easy to ignore the main point to suit your agenda isn't it?

Re: Sam Burgess Union debut : Fri Aug 14, 2015 11:28 am  

Pity the RU world cup will interfere with media coverage of the climax of the Super 8s and Grand Final etc. But never mind. I see Sam Burgess will be making his debut for the England RU team on Saturday night. Well done to him after playing in only about 20 games of union. Thinking about it, with all his playing and training in Rugby League from a young age he'd probably hardly ever seen a game of union before playing it.

Although I'd like to see Sam back in Super League next year (or probably more realistically in 2017) I do hope the nature of the England RU games this year are such that Sam gets the opportunity to display his world class abilities as a rugby player. But this is union, so I'm not betting on it.