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Message: [QUOTE="HarryAllan7, post: 3459314, member: 9372"] As much as I like Flegler and the way he plays, his brand of aggressive, enforcer footy is being intentionally eradicated by the NRL. Big (completely legal) hits are often penalised now for no reason other than appearing violent, and with aggression and intensity comes the potential for arms or shoulders accidentally making contact with the head. Even if this contact is totally accidental (or even unavoidable) and no damage is done, it still results in ridiculous unnecessary sin bins, send offs and suspensions. Flegs has all the skills of a good prop, but the things that could make him truly terrific as a player are the same things that would make him a liability. More than happy for him to stay on reasonable money and hope he can try to reign it all in and find a way to exist in today's soft game, but I think a team would be stupid to pay an enforcer player like Flegler or Radley big bucks anymore. A player like Tallis nowadays would be exactly the same - a penalty and suspension magnet that hurts the team more than helps. Really unfortunate... would love to have seen a player like Flegler going bezerk in the 80s / 90s before everything became so pathetic. [/QUOTE]

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