K for Keary K for koq!!

[Guest]

Luke is on a trip of vengeance.. 2017 is tha year of the Koq!

[4 the all in brawl]

Have you been on the Turks again Mad Elvis.
What the hell is a Koq? A Russian Rooster?
Hoping Keary has a big year as it could help our final chances if he fires as Pearce tends to play well when his partner is firing.

[ism22]

And why do these ads think I want to buy some stupid, over-priced spinning top? Good to see that my adblockers have tricked Google to the point where all they can 'target' me with is over-priced spinning tops.

I'm stupid, but not stupid enough to pay $100+ for a spinning top. If I wanted one, I'd pay more like 50c and get one of those awesome wooden ones that you rev up using a bit of string.

Alas, I do not want a spinning top.

Edit: yes it is 3:54am. I've been up since 2:30am patting my son who refuses to sleep. Apologies if I sound a bit vague. I am pretty out of it...

[Mickie Lane]

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[Maxy Walker]

I dunno about Keary. I would have been more than happy to see Watson stay at 6.

The fact Souths we're happy to let him go raises some pretty obvious warning bells. I just don't have a good feeling about it.

[Tommy Smith]

Keary is much better than Watson at this stage of his career.

I agree with Turk Incarnation #58 on this - Keary will have a great year, injuries permitting.

[Tommy Smith]

Roosters recruit Luke Keary talks Russell Crowe, leaving the Rabbitohs and working with Andrew Johns

Dan Walsh
22 minutes ago
DAN WALSH@dan_walsh64
Source: FOX SPORTS

LUKE Keary is bang on.

“There’s nothing in the manual” when it comes to storming out at 3am after a sledge from Russell Crowe, an Academy award winner who doubles as your boss.

Even for rugby league, that’s a new one.

Keary is on the money again when you ask what he’s learned, almost 12 months to the day since the infamous Nana Glen stoush that marked the beginning of the end for him at Souths.

“You realise you’re not going to get along with everyone that you meet in any form of life.”


Crowe later apologised for his role in the pre-season bust up. And Keary found another club.

It just so happened to be the Bunnies’ archrivals across Anzac Parade.

Where “not really knowing any of the players” and the prospect of an “absolute fresh start” at the Roosters held serious appeal for the 24-year-old.

After the most tumultuous season of his career, Keary is relishing a drama-free pre-season with the Chooks and the chance to hone his scrumbase partnership with Mitchell Pearce — another who’s hunting some more positive headlines in 2017.

As for that manual, the pair are now being schooled by the bloke who wrote it, Roosters halves coach and Eighth Immortal Andrew Johns.

“The sessions with Joey, Mitch and the other boys are unreal,” Keary told foxsports.com.au.

“I’ve worked with Matty (Johns) before at Souths and we still have a yarn every now and then but they’re pretty similar in how they go about things.

“The best halfback to play the game — you’re trying to chew up everything he says to you.

“The little things are unreal, talking about how to read the game and read different defenders and game situations, you’re trying to take everything he says in and apply it in the game.”

Remembering the last time a Johns brother took a serious hands on interest in Keary, a breakout season and a premiership ring followed soon after.

But so too did an alarming 2015 drop-off for the cardinal and myrtle, prompting Crowe’s withering ‘you didn’t earn your money last season’ to Keary, and the five-eighth’s 3am walkout of a boozy pre-season camp at the Hollywood star’s north coast property.

By June, he was leaving Redfern for the Roosters, spurning offers from the Dragons and both local and Japanese rugby franchises after being swayed by Trent Robinson’s sales pitch.

“You learn from things like that and it’s not ideal, but it’s something that happened,” Keary said of one of the more eventful nights of his career.

“I don’t know if it got dealt with right or wrong or something in between. It’s just something that happened and you just move on.

“You realise you’re not going to get along with everyone that you meet in any form of life.

“It could be work, family, anything. You learn to work with different people that you might not want to, you might not get on but you learn to work with them and it’s just something you’ve got to deal with.

“You’ve got to try and perform your best no matter what’s going on around. It’s professionalism I guess.”

Despite denials from the club afterwards, the writing was on the wall at Souths from that moment on for Keary.

He was on around $400,000 a year when Crowe told him he wasn’t providing enough bang for the celebrity owner’s buck.

So did he leave with the genuine blessing of Crowe and coach Michael Maguire, who admitted in hindsight that the pre-season camp was a mistake?

“I guess you’d say we’re on good terms, I don’t know,” Keary says.

“Once you leave a club you don’t really keep in contact too much. I guess you’d say good terms.

“Definitely good terms with all the boys there. We had some really good times over the four or five years I was there.

“I wouldn’t have done anything different on my end, it’s footy isn’t it? No one really gets to stay at one club any more do they? That’s just how it is.

“I enjoyed my time there but I’m also now moving on and it’s about the Roosters.”

Keary’s first crack with the Tricolours could come at the Auckland Nines, while the serious stuff starts on the Gold Coast in the first week of March.

Three weeks later it’s the oldest rivalry in the game, when his former club host the Chooks at ANZ Stadium.

At least there’s something in the manual on that one.

[Maxy Walker]

Keary is much better than Watson at this stage of his career.

I agree with Turk Incarnation #58 on this - Keary will have a great year, injuries permitting.

That's what's known as revisionism Tommy. As in, I doubt very much that you had much of an opinion of Keary when he played for Souths. Now he's with us you're desperately trying to convince yourself that he has the goods.

[Darkone]

Have always liked Keary,

Now's he's with Mitchell Pearce, could turn out to be a class combination.

Let's see how he can unleash Gordon

[Tommy Smith]

That's what's known as revisionism Tommy. As in, I doubt very much that you had much of an opinion of Keary when he played for Souths. Now he's with us you're desperately trying to convince yourself that he has the goods.

That's called an assumption, Max.

Keary tore us a new one in the 2014 Prelim and was the class no.6 that made the difference in getting that team over the edge to a title.

Like everyone else at Souffs he's gone downhill since but I'm confident that with a new environment he'll rediscover his best form. He's a running 5/8 which I always like.

[Maxy Walker]

That's called an assumption, Max.

Keary tore us a new one in the 2014 Prelim and was the class no.6 that made the difference in getting that team over the edge to a title.

Like everyone else at Souffs he's gone downhill since but I'm confident that with a new environment he'll rediscover his best form. He's a running 5/8 which I always like.

It was their pack and the refs that tore us a new one in the 2014 prelim. Keary had sweet fa to do with it. Come on Tommy, you know that.

I would bet London to a brick that you had not a single positive comment to say about Keary until he signed with us.

[johnnysekret]

I dunno about Keary. I would have been more than happy to see Watson stay at 6.

The fact Souths we're happy to let him go raises some pretty obvious warning bells. I just don't have a good feeling about it.

You're a smart man, Souths were ecstatic to see him go.

His bad points:

Has no kicking game
Suspect in defence
Has an awful dummy no one falls for and he gets smashed every time
Cannot control a game
Tends to go missing when the chips are down
Loves to tell the coach how to coach
Puts team mates offside by openly blaming them when he has a bad game

His good points:

Has moments of attacking brilliance

I have seen almost every game he has played. Watson has more natural ability than Keary and if you're seriously relying on Keary to solve your halves problem then you REALLY have a problem. Not a good partner for Myth either because he's also incapable of a decent kicking game or controlling a game.

Good luck.

PS: If you want to get the best out of him, play him off the bench as a fill in hooker. He goes well there and gets the team moving forward. He had some of his best games for Souths being used this way.

[Spirit of 66]

I have seen almost every game he has played. Watson has more natural ability than Keary and if you're seriously relying on Keary to solve your halves problem then you REALLY have a problem. Not a good partner for Myth either because he's also incapable of a decent kicking game or controlling a game.

You might be right. Many of the Vermin squad had their reputations artificially inflated by the unprecedented saloon passage they received from the referees in 2014. Once their welfare penalties were withdrawn in 2015 and 2016, a lot of their stars looked pretty ordinary.

Maybe, like Michael Gordon, he's been signed as a stop-gap until some of our younger players earn their stripes.

[Headless Chook]

You're a smart man, Souths were ecstatic to see him go.

His bad points:

Has no kicking game
Suspect in defence
Has an awful dummy no one falls for and he gets smashed every time
Cannot control a game
Tends to go missing when the chips are down
Loves to tell the coach how to coach
Puts team mates offside by openly blaming them when he has a bad game

His good points:

Has moments of attacking brilliance

I have seen almost every game he has played. Watson has more natural ability than Keary and if you're seriously relying on Keary to solve your halves problem then you REALLY have a problem. Not a good partner for Myth either because he's also incapable of a decent kicking game or controlling a game.

Good luck.

PS: If you want to get the best out of him, play him off the bench as a fill in hooker. He goes well there and gets the team moving forward. He had some of his best games for Souths being used this way.

Good luck with Robbie Farah. Good thing Keary has moved on, would be hard having two players in the squad blaming everybody else for their shortcomings

[Johnny Tobin]

I spoke to Keary recently and he told me that he had only met Russell Crowe a handful of times. Very surprising. The impression is that he is always hanging around the team.