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Player Addin Fonua-Blake

Date of Birth
Nov 6, 1995
Birth Location
Meadowbank, New South Wales, Australia
Nationality
  1. 🇦🇺 Australia
  2. 🇳🇿 New Zealand
  3. 🇹🇴 Tonga
Height (cm)
189 cm
Weight (kg)
123 kg
Position/s
  1. Prop
Nickname
AFB
Warrior #
252
Warriors Debut Date
Mar 13, 2021
Warriors Debut Details
NRL 2021, Round 1, Gold Coast Titans
Warriors Years Active
  1. 2021
  2. 2022
  3. 2023
  4. 2024
Signed To
Cronulla-Sutherland Sharks
Signed From
Manly-Warringah Sea Eagles
Junior Club/s
Mascot Jets
Previous Club/s
Manly-Warringah Sea Eagles
Current Club
Cronulla-Sutherland Sharks
Rep Honours
  1. NZ
  2. Tonga
Awards/Honours
  1. Warriors Captain
  2. Dally M (Positional Award)
Status
Active
Wikipedia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Addin_Fonua-Blake
Rugby League Project
https://www.rugbyleagueproject.org/players/addin-fonua-blake/summary.html

NZWarriors.com

Seems like a guy who walks his own path rather than a team player but it's all speculation, we have no idea what's going on unless we know him personally.
I like that you give people the benefit of doubt.

But for mine, with Webster making a stand down call, I guess I trust Webster and I have thing about how important team culture is for the Warriors (I say more important than at any other NRL club).

It would have sucked for a lot of our boys, especially the younger ones going "where is Addin?" in the dressing room at a time where they really deserved to be enjoying what for them (having beaten Penrith against the odds and coming straight from NSW cup) should have been the team celebration of their young lives.

I also believe that a simple request by Addin to his coach would have been enough courtesy to see him allowed to go take some time with his family or whomever he took off to be with before the flight.
 
Happy to be wrong.
I can’t help but feel this is a case of “if the teams going all good, then algud.” If not, I’m out.

Those 4 losses in a row might have been to straw that broke the camels back. Regardless of the fact the boyz won against Penrith. His mind is made up. “I’m outta here”.

As I posted in a different thread. There was a small clip of Addin with the bench lads and it just seemed weird. (I’m surprised the warriors released it, cause it seemed pretty obvious to me.)
 
HI time packing a sad did coincide with the signing of JFH. Maybe he doesn’t like all the positive attention that was given.

Why on earth would a player leave the changing room early?? Surely there is someone guarding the door to stop people getting in that says… where the feck are you going pal?
 
Do we even know why he did it? He is not the first nor will he be the last player that will be stood down. Apart from the last game the guy has been playing elite. Hardly the sign of a dropped lip. Would wait until after the bye before we start crucifying the guy.
Nah but you certainly wouldnt catch me leaving my job without telling anyone i report to, especially if its a known standard and results in disciplinary.... unless i gave zero fucks....
 
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