Re: Tom Johnstone hia : Fri Apr 02, 2021 10:47 pm  

Not good enough NRL clubs would be queueing up to sign him if he became available. Demetrius said he'd be at the front of the queue.

Re: Tom Johnstone hia : Sat Apr 03, 2021 5:47 am  

Teltry wrote:

Not good enough NRL clubs would be queueing up to sign him if he became available. Demetrius said he'd be at the front of the queue.

You see, our friend Steph gets a bad reputation for being a troll, but in reality he just finds it difficult to add punctuation, what with his small device and failing eyesight.
What he meant to say was:

Personally, I don’t think. He’s good enough for the NRL.

Re: Tom Johnstone hia : Sat Apr 03, 2021 7:46 am  

Just seen that OZ R L are on about having a hia bench e.g. If a winger goes of you can bring a three quarters on .And it does not effect the interchange. Been a few player' injured in games this ,week , leaving teams short on the bench in second half. May work, may not work .But they seem light years in front of our S L in every thing they do

Re: Tom Johnstone hia : Sat Apr 03, 2021 8:26 am  

Teltry wrote:

Not good enough NRL clubs would be queueing up to sign him if he became available. Demetrius said he'd be at the front of the queue.

For all the excitement he brings going forward he would have to improve massively in defence, he can tackle but he’s no idea where to stand and I fear he’d be targeted and then slaughtered by the Aussie press. The main concern is keeping him fit enough to play at least half the games a season,

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Re: Tom Johnstone hia : Sat Apr 03, 2021 8:31 am  

alegend wrote:

Just seen that OZ R L are on about having a hia bench e.g. If a winger goes of you can bring a three quarters on .And it does not effect the interchange. Been a few player' injured in games this ,week , leaving teams short on the bench in second half. May work, may not work .But they seem light years in front of our S L in every thing they do

They used to do this years ago with u23s playing first and use them as subs.
Let's face it. You need a big squad to do that. Aussies are always going to be more equipped than we are for that.

Re: Tom Johnstone hia : Sat Apr 03, 2021 8:40 am  

This is where I don’t get the rules

Contact above the neck is an automatic sin bin regardless of being deliberate or not

Isa clearly belted Tommy in the chin, we lost one of our best players off the back of that and nothing was done to Isa

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Re: Tom Johnstone hia : Sat Apr 03, 2021 8:42 am  

musson wrote:

This is where I don’t get the rules

Contact above the neck is an automatic sin bin regardless of being deliberate or not

Isa clearly belted Tommy in the chin, we lost one of our best players off the back of that and nothing was done to Isa

My view exactly.

Re: Tom Johnstone hia : Sat Apr 03, 2021 9:00 am  

Little willy wrote:

As good as TJ is he's made of paper

Pathetic comment.

Re: Tom Johnstone hia : Sat Apr 03, 2021 9:05 am  

vastman wrote:

Pathetic comment.

Vasty in a way I understand what he saying, TJ to me looks in great shape but you are always nervous every time he takes it in if he’s going to get back up and that is just the way his body his made by the look of things

Re: Tom Johnstone hia : Sat Apr 03, 2021 9:29 am  

MOPSEY LIVES ON wrote:

Vasty in a way I understand what he saying, TJ to me looks in great shape but you are always nervous every time he takes it in if he’s going to get back up and that is just the way his body his made by the look of things

My view is because Tom is the only player we have who ever tries to do anything and you won’t like this but he’s the only player we have that other teams fear.

Without him we are nothing so he gets special attention.

Finally for heavens sake a concussion injury has nothing to do with fitness or your body type. It’s pure bad luck for any player and one he isn’t allowed to play through.

We get nervous when TJ gets hit due to 2 ACL’s and the fact that 90% of our match winning potential has gone.

Truth is one third of the current Trinity team could be made out of paper but who’d know as most of them never do anything that’s ever likely to get them hurt.

Harsh? Maybe but there is some truth in it.