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Re: Sonny bill : Tue Nov 05, 2019 8:03 pm  
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Toronto have just announced that they've mad a big error and actually signed the old blues singer, Sonny Boy Williamson.

:lol: nice :wink: In all seriousness I’m not convinced one bit about SBW, been good but you can say that about quite a few ex NRL players. Personally I would have spent the money on some younger players with future in front of them.
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Re: Sonny bill : Tue Nov 05, 2019 8:12 pm  
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:lol: nice :wink: In all seriousness I’m not convinced one bit about SBW, been good but you can say that about quite a few ex NRL players. Personally I would have spent the money on some younger players with future in front of them.


Agree, BLM. Talisman signing that will bring lots of good publicity, but if Toronto are serious about making it in SL they should be investing in bringing on young Canadian talent.
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Re: Sonny bill : Tue Nov 05, 2019 8:20 pm  
I don’t expect him to be the same player he was six years ago, but he’s still got that star appeal that would make me go to a game just to watch him in the flesh. I’m looking forward to see him play at Belle Vue.
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Re: Sonny bill : Tue Nov 05, 2019 8:37 pm  
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I don’t expect him to be the same player he was six years ago, but he’s still got that star appeal that would make me go to a game just to watch him in the flesh. I’m looking forward to see him play at Belle Vue.

I don’t disagree one bit on that, a big crowd puller, I recently played against Paul Gallen and Adrian Morley something I thought I’d never do in my life time so I get the wow factor but if it goes boobies up I can’t see him playing in the championship.
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Re: Sonny bill : Tue Nov 05, 2019 8:54 pm  
Big lads mate wrote:
I don’t disagree one bit on that, a big crowd puller, I recently played against Paul Gallen and Adrian Morley something I thought I’d never do in my life time so I get the wow factor but if it goes boobies up I can’t see him playing in the championship.


I can’t either. But for a lot of fans this is a once in a life time opportunity to see a true rugby superstar play at our club. Hopefully it’ll put a few hundred on the gate.
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Re: Sonny bill : Tue Nov 05, 2019 11:24 pm  
great for the game and great for Toronto
if they have the money they need to make a splash in their first year - well played I say.
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Re: Sonny bill : Wed Nov 06, 2019 7:59 am  
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Toronto in SL Is the most exciting, marketable, positive thing to happen in RL for years, typical of RL fans to knock it and simply look for negatives and we wonder why RU has left us for dead. SBW, perhaps the greatest Rugby player ever, wow what a signing, what a statement of intent I am genuinely excited to see him play, not since wanting to watch Wally Lewis, Ray Price and Jonathon Davies have I had such an interest in seeing one player take to the field.


You keep saying this but it makes no sense to me

Yes in a circus freak kind of the way it’s interesting but nothing more, it’s a truly naive way of viewing the game IMHO.

He’s too old to build a team around so in RL terms it’s a weak signing to a team that is weak to start with, one that needs depth more than star turns.

However, what really stinks to me is that it one more example of why this club is unsustainable in the future. So I ask you again and please no more fairy stories, when the money runs out and it will, how without any domestic infra structure will Toronto survive?

It won’t, it’s all pie in the sky until somebody makes them address the issue. All other SL clubs create juniors something you seem to support so how can you exempt Toronto, it should have been a pre- requisite imo, it would have been for Fev!
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Re: Sonny bill : Wed Nov 06, 2019 8:53 am  
Im not sure how he will cope with week in week out rugby. No doubt Sonnys provided magic moments in both codes but not sure he will provide anything like the impact he used to. Im sure hes also been offered a share in the club and maybe a promotional type of position will take Centre stage .
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Re: Sonny bill : Wed Nov 06, 2019 10:55 am  
I don't really buy the idea of x or y journeyman player saying "he's getting that - why can't I?" because the answer is quite simple.

Bigger picture - this money is TWP's to spend, and they've made a decision to go for a big impact, star signing, to generate some razzmatazz around their entry to SL; fair play to them - it might work, it might not, and if it's the latter, it will have absolutely no impact on any other team.

If nothing else, it will probably add a couple of hundred female walk-ups to most games; my OH describes him as the most beautiful man she's ever seen - which obviously didn't bother me at all.
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Re: Sonny bill : Wed Nov 06, 2019 10:59 am  
Have Toronto paid their creditors yet?
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