Riddell is the new Kouparitsas

[Geohood]

Get used to it!!

[Spanner in the works]

Get used to it!!

You make baby Jesus cry.

[Guest]

I totally agree. Piggy is useless. Koups was useless. At least Koups wasn't a fat tub of shit. **** Off Piggy Riddell NOW! He offers absolutely nothing.

[Andrew Walker]

I totally agree. Piggy is useless. Koups was useless. At least Koups wasn't a fat tub of shit. **** Off Piggy Riddell NOW! He offers absolutely nothing.

Now now temper temper. Try challenging yourself by expressing yourself without using that foul language

Cmon with a bit of effort even you can do it.

[Guest]

Everytime he ran the ball i thought i had sat on the remote and hit slow mo!
It looks like he's jogging on the spot!

[Guest]

Now now temper temper. Try challenging yourself by expressing yourself without using that foul language

Cmon with a bit of effort even you can do it.

Why do you have to start? Did you not read the message from Chris yesterday. I am not angry at all.

You may remember the FONK campaign from last season; ie, **** off Nick Kouparitsis. This can actually be said with a smile on your face and not in anger. It is funny Andrew.

Unfortunately, the acronyms don't work as well for Piggy.
FOMR, FOPR, etc.

How about PROP - Piggy Riddell Overweight Passenger?

[Guest]

Now now temper temper. Try challenging yourself by expressing yourself without using that foul language

Cmon with a bit of effort even you can do it.

By the way Andrew, it may amuse you to know that among other qualifications I do hold a Masters in Linguistics. Yep, unbelievable but true. I just enjoy swearing.

[BUDDY]

I would take that as an insult to Koups.

[Guest]

Don't agree. Koups showed no improvement at all......Riddell has the talent, experience, and just needs to become match fit....he has shown glimpses of his skill...and he is nowhere near as overweight as he was before he went to the UK and doesn't really deserve the Piggy jokes any more.
I think he has a lot to offer.
I AM NEVER WRONG.........but sometimes I am mistaken.

[Juggler]

Everytime he ran the ball i thought i had sat on the remote and hit slow mo!
It looks like he's jogging on the spot!

Speaking of which - Ryles & Myles (in attack) aren't much faster ATM!

[BUDDY]

Don't agree. Koups showed no improvement at all......Riddell has the talent, experience, and just needs to become match fit....he has shown glimpses of his skill...and he is nowhere near as overweight as he was before he went to the UK and doesn't really deserve the Piggy jokes any more.
I think he has a lot to offer.
I AM NEVER WRONG.........but sometimes I am mistaken.

I think some of those players in the Origin Legends game showed more talent, experience, skill and fitness than Piggy.

[Guest]

I just watched a replay of the first half against the Dogs and even though he was reputedly playing with a niggling injury, Piggy didn't go nearly as badly as people are making out. He certainly isn't flash. He certainly isn't a high class dummy-half anymore. But he is more than competent. Our go forward was strong the whole time he was out there, and he contributed to it. His passing is very accurate; he makes good choices about which side of the ruck to go to, and whether to pass short or long or flat. He doesn't telegraph it either, which is what you always see from a makeshift dummy-half when a team's regular dummy-half goes down injured. The idea that we can just "manufacture" a dummy-half to play like that with the season already in full swing is a complete fantasy. It is one of the most specialised positions in the game, and opposition defences would read an amateur in the role far too easily. Our go-forward would suffer and there would be less pressure on the defence to compress, giving us less opportunites to use our flair out wide.

If Riddell doesn't play; Friend must play for 80 minutes. It's just a question of how much extra impact Jake has by coming off the bench. Probably a fair bit, given that he is a guy who throws himself into a game with frenetic involvement rather than pacing his play.

[Guest]

By the way Andrew, it may amuse you to know that among other qualifications I do hold a Masters in Linguistics. Yep, unbelievable but true. I just enjoy swearing.

But are you cunning?

[Guest]

But are you cunning?

Not as cunning as I used to be.

[Guest]

I just watched a replay of the first half against the Dogs and even though he was reputedly playing with a niggling injury, Piggy didn't go nearly as badly as people are making out. He certainly isn't flash. He certainly isn't a high class dummy-half anymore. But he is more than competent. Our go forward was strong the whole time he was out there, and he contributed to it. His passing is very accurate; he makes good choices about which side of the ruck to go to, and whether to pass short or long or flat. He doesn't telegraph it either, which is what you always see from a makeshift dummy-half when a team's regular dummy-half goes down injured. The idea that we can just "manufacture" a dummy-half to play like that with the season already in full swing is a complete fantasy. It is one of the most specialised positions in the game, and opposition defences would read an amateur in the role far too easily. Our go-forward would suffer and there would be less pressure on the defence to compress, giving us less opportunites to use our flair out wide.

If Riddell doesn't play; Friend must play for 80 minutes. It's just a question of how much extra impact Jake has by coming off the bench. Probably a fair bit, given that he is a guy who throws himself into a game with frenetic involvement rather than pacing his play.

Well said Mark, unlike some of the people here who would like to see an entirely different 17 picked every week, you seem to be able to balance all the facts and not go into panic mode after a loss.