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More clickbait from ruck.co.uk
DIR By: DOK
Date: May 6, 2022, 2:58 am
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Harlequins wasted over £1m on some of the worst signings in Prem
history
HTML https://www.ruck.co.uk/harlequins-wasted-over-1m-on-some-of-the-worst-signings-in-prem-history/
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Re: More clickbait from ruck.co.uk
DIR By: raedarius
Date: May 6, 2022, 3:14 am
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When it comes to Ruck, don't encourage them. Ignore them and
hopefully they'll go away.
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Re: More clickbait from ruck.co.uk
DIR By: Quinston Churchill
Date: May 6, 2022, 4:03 am
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I read it. To be fair, they weren’t a million miles off on some
of them. A bit of recency bias though.
Amazing Travis Ismaiel didn’t make the list.
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Re: More clickbait from ruck.co.uk
DIR By: JammyGit
Date: May 6, 2022, 4:04 am
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They also have no idea how much we spent on them. It's basically
an article that says we signed some end-of-career players who
played like guys at the end of their career, plus a couple of
poor performers and one massive injury problem.
Woo.
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Re: More clickbait from ruck.co.uk
DIR By: oakhaven
Date: May 6, 2022, 4:31 am
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Any article worth its salt about Quins' failed signings would
have included Cronje, Henjak, Luscombe, James and Barry, among
many others. The recent ones feel like relatively small fry
really!
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Re: More clickbait from ruck.co.uk
DIR By: poorfour
Date: May 6, 2022, 4:46 am
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Those players certainly didn't have the impact we might have
hoped - though Ashton might have come to rue leaving in January
given how the season turned out.
Some of the others range from harsh to downright objectionable,
though. Catrakilis is the most egregious - calling a guy who got
a freak life threatening injury in his first match a "waste"
shows a complete lack of empathy or even understanding of what
rugby is. And if that injury had not happened, we might not have
seen Smith develop as fast as he did. It's not what I'd wish on
any one, but the Cat's sick pay is a very fair price for what
Quins ultimately got.
PDJ never performed to the level we might have expected but it's
at least partially excused by what he was going through off the
pitch.
IIRC, the coaches spoke pretty positively about Sackey - he was
hired to do a pretty specific job covering some long term
injuries, and did the job. I'm not sure if Goneva was in the
same category, but he's the one I'd call out most as a bad buy.
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Re: More clickbait from ruck.co.uk
DIR By: FatQuin
Date: May 6, 2022, 4:51 am
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Dr. Roberts not mentioned but the Cat is? Bizarre.
#Post#: 89898--------------------------------------------------
Re: More clickbait from ruck.co.uk
DIR By: JammyGit
Date: May 6, 2022, 5:01 am
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I watched the good Dr play super rugby the other day. He threw
an intercept for a try and got a yellow card. Those are the only
notable things he did in that match.
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Re: More clickbait from ruck.co.uk
DIR By: Quin At All Costs
Date: May 6, 2022, 5:02 am
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--- Quote from: oakhaven link ---
>
> Any article worth its salt about Quins' failed signings would
have included Cronje, Henjak, Luscombe, James and Barry, among
many others. The recent ones feel like relatively small fry
really!
>
--- End Quote ---
de wet Barry is my personal Worst Quins Signing in the years
I've been following the team (2004 onwards). I imagine he was
on decent money as a recent and much-capped Springbok
international, but, as I recall, he was blunt in attack and
reckless in defence. I remember Luscombe being underwhelming,
but Barry for me was actively awful. Factoring in the level of
player (seasoned international), assumed cost, age (29),
expected role (1st-choice centre), he's hard to beat.
Picking out players who were clearly signed as short-term cover
/ squad back-up, for one-season or less, as the article does,
seems rather pointless in a list of useless signings.
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Re: More clickbait from ruck.co.uk
DIR By: poorfour
Date: May 6, 2022, 5:16 am
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The experience of Barry is coloured by his red card for that
high tackle on Mat Tait (which was overturned at the citing
panel based on the replay, which showed that Tait tripped into
the tackle - it would probably have been a yellow even by
today's standards).
But I think Stuart Abbot and Geo Cronje trump Barry, simply
because they never played at all.
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