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Billy wanted to play at the MCG same as cam same as cooper...case closed...he was always having surgery

Watch him come back for the finals. This is a bloke worked around the clock in a knee injury to play in, score two tries, and win a World cup final at Old Trafford.

Mark my words, if Melbourne go deep enough in 2015, he will play again.

steaming stormer wrote: The problem is that when this story came out in the origin lead up, it's unfortunately made him look like he was putting Qld ahead of Storm, but reality is it probably has made no difference to what our season looks like if he didn't play origin and just had the surgery beforehand.

Missed three Storm games, plays Origin, misses two games, plays Origin, has season ending surgery. Miss five club games because you're not fit to play, but you can get up for rep games.
You can see why people think he puts Origin before Storm.

And the fact he gets paid whether he plays Storm games or not, and on top of that collects the average Australian yearly earnings for the two origin games he plays - you have to admit it doesn't look good.

TC wrote:

steaming stormer wrote: The problem is that when this story came out in the origin lead up, it's unfortunately made him look like he was putting Qld ahead of Storm, but reality is it probably has made no difference to what our season looks like if he didn't play origin and just had the surgery beforehand.

Missed three Storm games, plays Origin, misses two games, plays Origin, has season ending surgery. Miss five club games because you're not fit to play, but you can get up for rep games.
You can see why people think he puts Origin before Storm.

And the fact he gets paid whether he plays Storm games or not, and on top of that collects the average Australian yearly earnings for the two origin games he plays - you have to admit it doesn't look good.

Agree

Well said TC. I also agree.

I totally understand it not looking good - absolutely. I think it's been handled poorly no doubt. We don't know what's been discussed behind the scenes though. It may have been agreed on that if he was only going to be able to get up for 1 more game, then they were happy to bring Munster straight in and let him have his crack at the G. He certainly doesn't owe the club for his years of heart, service and publicity he's generated in my opinion

Handled poorly? Try abysmally!

It's apparent that for a lot of fans - especially the Melbournians who don't give a damn about origin - the situation has left a very bitter taste in the mouth.