Player Konrad Hurrell
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From being a fool on the footy show... Did you not see Manu pull him to the side a couple of times and tone him down, sure they were having fun no problems there, but there is a boundary to keep too. So nothing real serious that's going to destroy the club. but could be embarrassing PR wise.
Mate no point in dropping that and not letting us know. The place is a shambles it's best to get it out in the open even if it's just rumour so we can understand more clearly with who the buck(pardon the pun) stops. We've had enough bs who are these twits.
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Konnie needs singing lessons he's pathetic, improve his singing could improve his mental fortitude or at least when he posts himself singing at a concert it won't be so disturbing yo my ears.
What's silly? If Kyrios doesn't improve he only hurts himself, if Konnie doesn't improve he hurts his teammates as well, and Konnie has a lot he needs to improve.
There's one thing that always separates "champions" from the "talented"...
Attitude.
It's why Konnie will never be a champion.
Attitude.
It's why Konnie will never be a champion.
If anyone bothered to read this article we would not be debating Konnie now. The Rugby high performance team identified exactly what we have taken 3 years to discover about the deficiencies in his game and in his character.
"We did a lot of analysis on both of them," recalls Auckland high performance director Ant Strachan. "Konrad was a bit more physical and a bit bigger. Malakai was better in his footwork, dexterity and speed and repeat speed endurance. He was one of the fittest players actually, recording up around 19 to 20 in the yo-yo test.
"Konrad's pass and catch was marginal, particularly off his left hand, and he had a tendency to plant his feet on defence and put his head down. He couldn't kick either.
The concern with Hurrell as a rugby player was his lack of repeat speed. His size was an obvious strength, a less obvious weakness. There wasn't much evidence either of Hurrell being an exploiter of space once he'd bulldozed his way through the first line of defence.
If posters took a little time to read some of the great stuff that gets posted here they would spend less time defending a very talented player at schoolboy level who cannot and will never adapt at adult level because of his flippant attitude.
depends on if it's the running yo-yo test, or the yo-yo test that involves dipping your hand into a bucket of chicken
No I think your wrong cause Kyrios is kinda representing his country. I haven't heard any ex Olympian greats come out and bash konrad where Kyrios has had a few. So on that basis I think that concludes that Kyrios is worse.
Good day to you sir
I think everyone probably read that article when it was first posted a couple of years ago mate.
My comment at the time was along the lines of- I wish league in nz had the luxury of being able to choose between so many great athletes like union does but unfortunately beggars can't be choosers.
Inruin
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When you summarised the imp. points out of that article in your post, you missed out one -
"It was our view with Konrad that we were looking at an athlete who was ideally suited to league."
so whats your point?
The point being that if we had done our homework we would not have paid the outrageous salary that he is now getting for being off the field more than he is on it. Most on here were impressed in his first season and called for his re-signing when all he ever did was "exactly as that article says" stampede over lesser opponents from 10 or 20 meters out. While he did make an impact in that first year he has never been able to repeat it and spends more time in Reserve grade banned or warming the pine.
He's hardly been a 1 season wonder, last year was pretty good when you consider he was playing with a busted wrist for much of it and started the season with a bout of morbid obesity.
