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Message: [QUOTE="WASSHHH, post: 3344051, member: 9424"] It’s the off-season, so I don’t think it’s necessarily the worst thing in the world to go down this rabbit-hole again. Smith is a lot of things, but I don’t believe stupid is one of them. I am pretty confident he would have at least thought something was off when he was asked to sign two contracts for the same term with different values. That aside, there is also the blatant tactical cheating (e.g. holding players in scrums for Slater to run through where the defence should have been) and the bordering on criminal, mutilating techniques the team employed, which Smith was a chief culprit of. Sure, the tactics and techniques may not have been strictly cheating, but they were absolutely against the spirit of the game (and have subsequently been outlawed), with the Storm and Smith gaining huge success off the back of them. So it’s fair to say I do have a bias against him. I guess it comes from (my perception of him at least) the bloke having a used car salesman win-at-any-cost approach that never sat well with me, which included when he was playing for QLD and Australia. I genuinely found it hard to support him and honestly never wanted him at the Broncos, so I was (and still am despite our results of late) happy that never eventuated. I just think the great players rely on their ability and skill to win games, not manipulating the referees and mutilating the opposition. [/QUOTE]

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