Re: Hurrell : Mon Mar 01, 2021 7:44 pm  

Marty Grrrrrrrrrr! wrote:

For me next year is stand off year and i want a truly top class 6. If Koni is willing to take a cut to stay to enable that to happen i would happily give him a new deal. Hes our biggest threat but he needs to cut out the errors.

A top class stand off wouldnt come cheap but would set the team up nicely with Gale in the halves.

Eh lets worry about this season first tho.

Think we have 7/8 out of contract at the end of this year so there will probably be some cash to splash. Hopefully the recovery from covid will create a bit more cash also.

Re: Hurrell : Tue Mar 02, 2021 12:06 am  

bdrhino wrote:

Think we have 7/8 out of contract at the end of this year so there will probably be some cash to splash. Hopefully the recovery from covid will create a bit more cash also.

Hope so. Only time will tell.

Re: Hurrell : Tue Mar 02, 2021 7:50 pm  

lionarmour87 wrote:

He seems to be good for dressing room moral too

moral is eat less

Re: Hurrell : Tue Mar 02, 2021 9:17 pm  

doc-rhino wrote:

moral is eat less

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Re: Player | Konrad Hurrell : Wed Mar 03, 2021 2:05 pm  

What do our S&C coaches do? He was overweight when he first came here and he's never lost that. Similar to Lolohea, now look at him since he's gone to Salford. Lost a lot of weight and looks a better player. Before I get jumped on, I know Hurrell has lost his mother and that's tragic as I understand he's a big family man. But to be at this stage where we are coming into a key part of pre-season, to be 10Kg over the weight he want's to be is just mind boggling.

I like the spirit of Hurrell, but sometimes it's like he wants to act about and clown around to make the crowd and camera's laugh rather than get his head down. When the team really need to muck in he sometimes goes missing.

Re: Player | Konrad Hurrell : Wed Mar 03, 2021 3:54 pm  

RonnieGinger wrote:

What do our S&C coaches do? He was overweight when he first came here and he's never lost that. Similar to Lolohea, now look at him since he's gone to Salford. Lost a lot of weight and looks a better player. Before I get jumped on, I know Hurrell has lost his mother and that's tragic as I understand he's a big family man. But to be at this stage where we are coming into a key part of pre-season, to be 10Kg over the weight he want's to be is just mind boggling.

I like the spirit of Hurrell, but sometimes it's like he wants to act about and clown around to make the crowd and camera's laugh rather than get his head down. When the team really need to muck in he sometimes goes missing.

Whoa that's simply not true. Puts his body on the line every week, carries like a prop when they are tired....
Just likes a McDonald's but too much...

Re: Player | Konrad Hurrell : Wed Mar 03, 2021 4:21 pm  

Agree with that. He's being playing prop come centre for two years now. Makes tonnes of metres scores lots of tries and sets plenty up. He did drop a lot of ball in his first season, but when you are teams main /only attacking threat there is tendency to try too hard. When he moved to the right last year he looked great. Dream Team two years in a row as well.

Re: Player | Konrad Hurrell : Wed Mar 03, 2021 4:40 pm  

He's also really cut out the mistakes (especially defensive ones) since moving to the right centre position.

Hasn't he made the dream team for the last two years?

Re: Player | Konrad Hurrell : Wed Mar 03, 2021 4:57 pm  

RonnieGinger wrote:

What do our S&C coaches do? He was overweight when he first came here and he's never lost that. Similar to Lolohea, now look at him since he's gone to Salford. Lost a lot of weight and looks a better player. Before I get jumped on, I know Hurrell has lost his mother and that's tragic as I understand he's a big family man. But to be at this stage where we are coming into a key part of pre-season, to be 10Kg over the weight he want's to be is just mind boggling.

I like the spirit of Hurrell, but sometimes it's like he wants to act about and clown around to make the crowd and camera's laugh rather than get his head down. When the team really need to muck in he sometimes goes missing.

Lolohea did lose weight when he first went to Salford but he soon put it back on.Did you see the size of him in the CC final?

Re: Player | Konrad Hurrell : Thu Mar 04, 2021 5:08 pm  

It amazes me that some fans think that the weight of an individual player is somehow the sole responsibility of the coaching staff. Yes, they can provide guidance on what players should be eating and how they should be training, but at the end of the day some players are just bad trainers. Of course, they should be more professional as individuals. But this has to be balanced against the positive contribution they can bring to the team.

For example, it is alleged (I think in Frank Endacott's autobiography) that David Solomona was a bad trainer - and it used to show in some of his UK appearances. That said, even carrying a few extra pounds (or stone!), no-one would doubt that Solomona had the ability to single-handedly win a game for his team, on a regular basis. Like it or not, Hurrell is probably in this category, even though Leeds could probably use him a bit more effectively.