Re: Bulls rumour thread for 2012 season. : Thu Jun 09, 2011 7:55 pm  

mat wrote:

I wouldnt, if he wasnt a burgess he'd struggle to get a game in SL. most limited skillwise of the 4 brothers from what I've seen, although admittedly further advanced at moment than george or tom but they both look to have potential whereas luke seems to have reached his level already.

Brian Maclennan picked him every week because he's called Burgess? He's made 3 errors and 15 offloads in 11 games and averages almost 100 metres a match. He's young, he's British, he's different league to Hargreaves, and comfortably a match for Koppy and Scruton and years younger than Lynch.

Re: Bulls rumour thread for 2012 season. : Thu Jun 09, 2011 8:14 pm  

M@islebugs wrote:

Brian Maclennan picked him every week because he's called Burgess? He's made 3 errors and 15 offloads in 11 games and averages almost 100 metres a match. He's young, he's British, he's different league to Hargreaves, and comfortably a match for Koppy and Scruton and years younger than Lynch.

He has come on leaps and bounds this year.

Re: Bulls rumour thread for 2012 season. : Thu Jun 09, 2011 8:22 pm  

M@islebugs wrote:

Brian Maclennan picked him every week because he's called Burgess? He's made 3 errors and 15 offloads in 11 games and averages almost 100 metres a match. He's young, he's British, he's different league to Hargreaves, and comfortably a match for Koppy and Scruton and years younger than Lynch.

He's the definition of journeyman. We need to add quality

Re: Bulls rumour thread for 2012 season. : Thu Jun 09, 2011 8:27 pm  

We're in the running to sign Matthew Wright from Cronulla.
However, he's also being courted by Japanese Rugby Union's Kintetsu Liners. They have offered a player exchange deal for their twin sensations Takahiro and Jun Wong. However, Cronulla have so far rejected the offer as they don't believe two Wongs make a Wright.

Re: Bulls rumour thread for 2012 season. : Thu Jun 09, 2011 8:51 pm  

mat wrote:

He's the definition of journeyman. We need to add quality

A journeyman who's only played for one club?

Re: Bulls rumour thread for 2012 season. : Thu Jun 09, 2011 9:26 pm  

M@islebugs wrote:

A journeyman who's only played for one club?

stop splitting hairs, you know when I said journeyman i meant in the sense of being average. scruton and lynch are both better. hargreaves and kopczak roughly at same level as burgess, although I think bryn and koppy have more improvement left in them yet. we need to be bringing in players who are a genune step up in quality over what we already have if we want improve on the field. Academic really as luke will be off to souths to join crowes burgess collection ( I only hope we can hang onto tom long enough to get a decent transfer fee when crowe finally completes the set).

Re: Bulls rumour thread for 2012 season. : Thu Jun 09, 2011 10:32 pm  

mat wrote:

stop splitting hairs, you know when I said journeyman i meant in the sense of being average. scruton and lynch are both better. hargreaves and kopczak roughly at same level as burgess, although I think bryn and koppy have more improvement left in them yet. we need to be bringing in players who are a genune step up in quality over what we already have if we want improve on the field. Academic really as luke will be off to souths to join crowes burgess collection ( I only hope we can hang onto tom long enough to get a decent transfer fee when crowe finally completes the set).

A journeyman by definition is someone who has played at a number of clubs like Danny Sculthorpe. You are defining a player we call AVERAGE. Sod Luke Burgess anyway he is the weakest of the brothers.

[Bullseye]

Re: Bulls rumour thread for 2012 season. : Fri Jun 10, 2011 9:06 am  

I rate Luke Burgess, he's been Leeds's best front rower this season. He's more of an impact front rower than Lynch though so he wouldn't be a like for like replacement, if indeed we needed to replace Lynch which we don't yet. Anyway as has been said he seems to be set to go to the NRL.

As for the other rumours none of them really capture the imagination and I suspect they're all off the T&A board so can be taken with a pinch of salt.

Re: Bulls rumour thread for 2012 season. : Fri Jun 10, 2011 9:48 am  

Luke Burgess significantly better than Koppy and Hargreaves. His lazy lateral defence has tightened up, added some grunt and been a stand out performer in a hugely erratic side. To call him a journeyman is bizarre.

Re: Bulls rumour thread for 2012 season. : Fri Jun 10, 2011 10:00 am  

Roofaldo wrote:

We're in the running to sign Matthew Wright from Cronulla.
However, he's also being courted by Japanese Rugby Union's Kintetsu Liners. They have offered a player exchange deal for their twin sensations Takahiro and Jun Wong. However, Cronulla have so far rejected the offer as they don't believe two Wongs make a Wright.