James Kool

[James Kool @Kooly87]

@Matt_Camenzuli To be honest mate, it’s spent most of its time in the last two decades flying the Queensland flag, but that’s because you guys couldn’t win an Origin series for all those years… 😜

[James Kool @Kooly87]

@LeagueFreak You forget Uncle Nicke runs the entire NRL. The rest of the comp is just there to placate that old cunt’s fantasies.

[James Kool @Kooly87]

@adawesy1 @nat_sinclair93 Precisely. This is a team that made O’Sullivan, Cogger and now Cole all look like superstars in the last couple of seasons…

[James Kool @Kooly87]

@JelisaApps @7NewsSydney Any sympathy for the poor fucker he removed from the game 7 minutes in by any chance? Sob story for the perpetrator but not a lot being said about the actual victim. Fuck the media in Sydney is disgusting…

[James Kool @Kooly87]

@HawkReport @WahManChi What the fuck does their form matter? They’re still the best players that fairly mediocre side actually has access to, and every one of them is better than the guys they had filling in today. Cleary is a single player that is surrounded by a dozen other Rep stars every week.

[James Kool @Kooly87]

@HawkReport @WahManChi Imagine thinking you’re the only depleted side out there, like Johnson, Tohu (their Captain), RTS, Metcalf etc are just figments of our imagination and don’t matter. Warriors we’re missing basically their entire spine and their nobodies just spanked a side stacked with Rep stars.

[James Kool @Kooly87]

@FkinBradLad @HawkReport @WahManChi More outs than Penrith had, that’s for sure. The Penrith players left are basically all Rep players top to bottom too, while most of the Warriors guys wouldn’t even get recognised if you walked past them in the street.

[James Kool @Kooly87]

@9_Moley Picking a 19 year old with 11 First Grade games that have mostly been just ok for an Origin debut has classic NSW selection written all over it…

[James Kool @Kooly87]

@nat_sinclair93 That Warriors side is pretty mediocre at full strength, and that’s before accounting for them having more guys out today than Penrith did…

[James Kool @Kooly87]

@user26194735 @nat_sinclair93 Yeah, I’m sure heaps of Broncos fans packed out Suncorp, a stadium that they already have access to every second weekend of the year, on a day when their club isn’t even playing… 🤦🏻‍♂️

[James Kool @Kooly87]

@BaseNrl @9_Moley To be completely fair, I’m sticking to guys who played almost exclusively at Centre their whole career so bias from other roles doesn’t spill over…

For mine, it’s easy:

#3 Renouf #4 Meninga

[James Kool @Kooly87]

@topdrivesgame Audi Quattro

[James Kool @Kooly87]

@9_Moley Harry Grant - it isn’t even close.

[James Kool @Kooly87]

@pennypanthers22 @ancientnicker @nat_sinclair93 @mandrake_man I’m a Queensland fan, you’ll get no arguments from me…🤞

[James Kool @Kooly87]

@pennypanthers22 @ancientnicker @nat_sinclair93 @mandrake_man It’s roughly what Penrith currently had him on, which is a fine amount for a guy of his ability and his role in the team. Plug Townsend into that Penrith side and he’s likely a world beater. Jack Cogger couldn’t get a game at the 16th place Bulldogs but at Penrith he got a ring.

[James Kool @Kooly87]

@pennypanthers22 @ancientnicker @nat_sinclair93 @mandrake_man Queensland will be spewing that this probably ends his Origin prospects for the time being. Going to be hard to get that lucky with his replacement you’d think.

[James Kool @Kooly87]

@ancientnicker @pennypanthers22 @nat_sinclair93 @mandrake_man Not doubting his ability - he’s an adequate backup to the greatest Half in the game when feeding the best backline in the game off the back of the best Forward pack in the game and if you’d recruited him in that role for about $600k a year you’d be fine - but they didn’t… 🤦🏻‍♂️

[James Kool @Kooly87]

@nat_sinclair93 @mandrake_man Please. A challenge maybe, but they instantly become a strong top 8 contender when you add Cleary. Adding Luai likely sees them still running no higher than 9th if things go well. Meanwhile, Penrith will roll on and statistically they’ll barely notice he’s gone.

[James Kool @Kooly87]

@thethnksiget @ancientnicker @NBWT__ Like I said, Tigers doing Tigers things and taking a very expensive stab in the dark and seeing if they can make it stick.

[James Kool @Kooly87]

@ancientnicker @NBWT__ @thethnksiget His actual numbers are mediocre at best even ranked against other 5/8’s across the comp, many of whom also share the playmaking duties with a dominant Half - and this is despite having one of the greatest sides in history at his disposal. How does that gets better at Wests now?