Brandon Smith skips mid season review, club issues breach notice

[The Real King]

What happened Nick?
Lodge, Smith, Fafita aren't Roosters type of players. Might be time for the great man to retire.

[Rooster_6]

What happened Nick?
Lodge, Smith, Fafita aren't Roosters type of players. Might be time for the great man to retire.

Lodge is an odd shout.

Bloke is on track to break the record for most clubs by a single player.

[Eggspert]

Something doesn't make sense.

The review was the very next day after the Cowboys loss. I think the club is more professional than that by not contacting him on the day of the review to summon him to a meeting.

This review communication surely would have been brought up some time on the Sunday to the players for the next day.

Surely the club doesn't do all its important communication to players by phone.

For him to say he didn't know it was on after being told personally it was....well that won't go well for him.

[SupermanSupportsEasts4Eva]

Not defending Smith, but unless I see/hear something official from the club or Robbo I'm putting this down to a story that has been blown out of proportion by the journos. In the article he says that he owns the mistake. Let's see how the club responds. Until then there's no point falling for journo BS.

[BondiBob]

Unfortunately there is noise about town that there more significant issues with Smith than this. If things continue he may not be with us next year

Me thinks his major problems is fitness he just can’t play big minutes and seems to be carrying excess weight may be better off at lock with Watson or smith at hooker

[Vasco]

Rugby league is a job. If your manager schedules a meeting you show up. And if they call you, even if it's 2am, you answer.

[dice]

What happened Nick?
Lodge, Smith, Fafita aren't Roosters type of players. Might be time for the great man to retire.

We won premierships with LOD, Tetevano, and Fergo.

Robbo fancies himself as a psychologist.

[theGman]

We won premierships with LOD, Tetevano, and Fergo.

Robbo fancies himself as a psychologist.

Brian Smith acolyte.

[bondi.boy]

That’s all we need. It will be interesting to see whether this affects his selection for the next game.

The general opinion in this forum seems to be that he's not fit and "is gassed after 10 minutes"...and as such we don't need him.
Maybe we could spend the $850,000 more wisely.

[bondi.boy]

Psychology is major factor in every facet of life today.

[ism22]

Rugby league is a job. If your manager schedules a meeting you show up. And if they call you, even if it's 2am, you answer.

Yeah nah... if my boss calls at 2am I'm not picking up.

Now can we can this discussion and focus on beating the frigging Eels?!? I'm in bed with wretched COVID symptoms and quite frankly don't give a fark whether or not Cheese attended a meeting. The facts will all come out eventually and making broader claims based on innuendo (about our own family) is quite frankly unproductive.

[bondi.boy]

What happened Nick?
Lodge, Smith, Fafita aren't Roosters type of players. Might be time for the great man to retire.

LOL
Surely that's a joke.

Lodge was only ever a cheap fill-in, experiment.
Smith played well at the Storm.
Fifita was Second rower of the Year in 2023.
Trent was confident he could have him reach his full potential.

[Eggspert]

Rugby league is a job. If your manager schedules a meeting you show up. And if they call you, even if it's 2am, you answer.

His manager isn't his boss. They've got nothing to do with a mid season review.

The club is. Robbo is.

If anyone calls me outside of business hours or at 2am then I'm telling them to go get stuffed!

The Roosters would have told him about this in normal hours. Looks like it's all on him.

[bondi.boy]

Yeah nah... if my boss calls at 2am I'm not picking up.

Now can we can this discussion and focus on beating the frigging Eels?!? I'm in bed with wretched COVID symptoms and quite frankly don't give a fark whether or not Cheese attended a meeting. The facts will all come out eventually and making broader claims based on innuendo (about our own family) is quite frankly unproductive.

Sympathy.
I'm in bed with covid, tested positive Saturday.
It's horrible.

[Johnny73]

As the Clash put it "Back in the garage with my bullshit detector".

I am reminded again why I hate bye weeks.