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My hamstrings are still a bit tender after Xmas cricket so I will describe it
Shaun Johnson runs like a steady drumbeat on the ground thud, thud, thud, nothing fancy, almost boring. Defenders hear that rhythm and think they know exactly where he’ll be next.
Then, without warning, the rhythm breaks.
It’s like someone walking toward you and, at the very last step, not being where your hand expects. One foot plants hard — you’d feel it as a sudden stop of force, like a doorframe catching your shoulder — and the next step is gone. He hasn’t sped up. He hasn’t slowed down. He’s just… elsewhere.
To the defender, it’s the feeling of reaching out to grab an arm and closing your fingers on air. Your weight is already committed. Your balance is already wrong. Your body keeps going the old way while SJ is already brushing past your hip. The magic isn’t power or speed, it’s timing. He waits until the very last heartbeat, until the defender is sure, and then removes the ground from under that certainty.
Shaun Johnson’s sidestep isn’t about moving fast.
It’s about making everyone else move wrong.
Case in point, his try against the Kangeroos, Wellington 2014.
Picture the moment before it happens.
The ball reaches Shaun Johnson and everything feels tight — defenders close, space squeezed flat, the noise heavy and pressing. Australia are set. They think the moment is contained.
Then SJ moves.
He doesn’t burst. He glides.
One step to invite them in — just enough to make the defence lean. You can almost feel their weight shift toward him, boots digging in, Cam Smith committing to a future that’s already wrong.
SJ’s hits the turf — sharp, final — and the world tilts.
The defenders reach for where he was. Shaun is suddenly brushing past their outside shoulders, so close you’d feel the rush of air as he slips by. There’s no collision, just a series of missed certainties. Arms scrape jersey. Hands clutch nothing.
Now there’s open ground, and you can hear it:
the sound changes.
Footsteps spread out.
The crowd’s noise lifts, pitch rising like a held breath breaking.
Greg Inglis lunges, desperate, off-balance, and Shaun swerves again, lighter this time, almost playful, like stepping around a puddle you noticed late.
Then it’s the line.
The grounding is clean, calm, almost casual — as if the chaos behind him no longer exists. For a heartbeat, everything stops. Then the eruption from the crowd comes crashing down.
That try isn’t remembered because of speed or strength.
It’s remembered because, for a few seconds, Shaun Johnson rearranged reality and the Kangaroos were left chasing a version of him that was never really there.
The magic isn’t power or speed — it’s timing. He waits until the very last heartbeat, until the defender is sure, and then removes the ground from under the opposition’s certainty
Shaun Johnson runs like a steady drumbeat on the ground thud, thud, thud, nothing fancy, almost boring. Defenders hear that rhythm and think they know exactly where he’ll be next.
Then, without warning, the rhythm breaks.
It’s like someone walking toward you and, at the very last step, not being where your hand expects. One foot plants hard — you’d feel it as a sudden stop of force, like a doorframe catching your shoulder — and the next step is gone. He hasn’t sped up. He hasn’t slowed down. He’s just… elsewhere.
To the defender, it’s the feeling of reaching out to grab an arm and closing your fingers on air. Your weight is already committed. Your balance is already wrong. Your body keeps going the old way while SJ is already brushing past your hip. The magic isn’t power or speed, it’s timing. He waits until the very last heartbeat, until the defender is sure, and then removes the ground from under that certainty.
Shaun Johnson’s sidestep isn’t about moving fast.
It’s about making everyone else move wrong.
Case in point, his try against the Kangeroos, Wellington 2014.
Picture the moment before it happens.
The ball reaches Shaun Johnson and everything feels tight — defenders close, space squeezed flat, the noise heavy and pressing. Australia are set. They think the moment is contained.
Then SJ moves.
He doesn’t burst. He glides.
One step to invite them in — just enough to make the defence lean. You can almost feel their weight shift toward him, boots digging in, Cam Smith committing to a future that’s already wrong.
SJ’s hits the turf — sharp, final — and the world tilts.
The defenders reach for where he was. Shaun is suddenly brushing past their outside shoulders, so close you’d feel the rush of air as he slips by. There’s no collision, just a series of missed certainties. Arms scrape jersey. Hands clutch nothing.
Now there’s open ground, and you can hear it:
the sound changes.
Footsteps spread out.
The crowd’s noise lifts, pitch rising like a held breath breaking.
Greg Inglis lunges, desperate, off-balance, and Shaun swerves again, lighter this time, almost playful, like stepping around a puddle you noticed late.
Then it’s the line.
The grounding is clean, calm, almost casual — as if the chaos behind him no longer exists. For a heartbeat, everything stops. Then the eruption from the crowd comes crashing down.
That try isn’t remembered because of speed or strength.
It’s remembered because, for a few seconds, Shaun Johnson rearranged reality and the Kangaroos were left chasing a version of him that was never really there.
- a sharp shift of pressure
- a vanishing point of contact
- followed by the sound of him accelerating away, footsteps suddenly lighter, quicker, retreating.
The magic isn’t power or speed — it’s timing. He waits until the very last heartbeat, until the defender is sure, and then removes the ground from under the opposition’s certainty
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@Warriors55 please note your instruction for this round The Little General demands you recruit a player he he coached at Intl level or played with (Club or Intl level) in next round or 50% chance he will walkout.
@Muddogz Thanks for your SJ story well done. For the Radradra $300 increase in contract please ASAP go into the squad tracking thread and update your transactions for the whole game and yesterday and show the $300K in your calculations so that Chris can inspect it and be satisfied
Also while I have everyone none of the winners from yesterday have updated the Squad tracking thread afterwards. Everybody please update the squad tracking thread EVERY round or I will be handing out infractions. The squad tracking thread is vital it be kept up to date as it allows everybody to assess everyone else's team lists and be informed as to who stands where. It is very important. Infractions in coming for non compliance.
@Warriors55 please note your instruction for this round The Little General demands you recruit a player he he coached at Intl level or played with (Club or Intl level) in next round or 50% chance he will walkout.
@Muddogz Thanks for your SJ story well done. For the Radradra $300 increase in contract please ASAP go into the squad tracking thread and update your transactions for the whole game and yesterday and show the $300K in your calculations so that Chris can inspect it and be satisfied
Also while I have everyone none of the winners from yesterday have updated the Squad tracking thread afterwards. Everybody please update the squad tracking thread EVERY round or I will be handing out infractions. The squad tracking thread is vital it be kept up to date as it allows everybody to assess everyone else's team lists and be informed as to who stands where. It is very important. Infractions in coming for non compliance.
From now on, anyone using AI to help them with their challenges will be disqualified for their challenge and have an additional 50% loading added on player potentially walking out.
Hodges Agency and the players represented believe in authenticity, and would like that mirrored with teams bidding for such players.
Hodges Agency and the players represented believe in authenticity, and would like that mirrored with teams bidding for such players.
Can I ask how is the 50% or 30% chances they will walk out finalised?
Is it luck (some kind of random generator) or is it just someone picking yes they will walk out or no they won't on a whim?
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Why does it matter Warriors? Why would you take this gamble?
Algorithm mate. Your bidding history, rep with Hodges Agency etc plays some part but for this one consider it a flat 30% chance each round. You are free to accept to take that chance, just acknowledge it. Your decision plays a part in future interventions too.
Ohhhh… imaging a button on the website with the % chance inputted that the affected player has to press between a set time that will generate a random outcome.
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Maybe he sees a better winger available and Semi is not worth the risk, and would rather another team take the chance on him - on the expectation that the same challenge will be provided.
Or he is a gambler.
Anyway people can certainly decline challenges. But there is always a cost
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It is 50% chance and for Stacey Jones not SemiMaybe he sees a better winger available and Semi is not worth the risk, and would rather another team take the chance on him - on the expectation that the same challenge will be provided.
Or he is a gambler.
Anyway people can certainly decline challenges. But there is always a cost
The Little General demands you recruit a player he he coached at Intl level or played with (Club or Intl level) in next round or 50% chance he will walkout.
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I apologise for my tone here Warriors - your question caught me off guard. As some friendly advice though the whole game this year is called Player Agent Game. It is all about Chris Hodges creating mayhem and interventions. The intervention to Muddogz is costing him $300 000 so you are not the only one and won't be the last to cope a stiff intervention. I think I had in the rules a warning that it will get challenging at some times during the game and to do your best to roll with the punches. Anyway sorry if my response was sudden.
Sorry, let me rephrase it. I am going to try and meet the requirements but if someone bids too high on said players and I can't go higher, I would like to know how it is decided if they stay or go.
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If the player is a chance of walking out, it will be noted in the intervention. If not noted, no chance.
Contracts are made to be paid, not broken.
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Yes, I wasn't complaining about it and I am happy to roll with the punches. I just wanted to know that If I can't spend $3m to get Simon Mannering or Benji Marshall or some such player which could potentially derail my squad, what would happen. Hodges answered that now, thank you.
I fear for teams who are keeping cash and thinking they will get a bargain top level player in later rounds.
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Chris if he makes a really strong attempt to get someone but say Wizards rocks up with his bionic wallet and offers $4M will you grant some leniency that he made a really strong attempt - your instructions for him to comply with are partly out of his control?
Is it possible to keep things to minimal device requirements? Just a bit difficult when away on holidays with only a phone to access & occasionally off the grid.
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