Retired #26: Cale Hooker - Has announced his retirement at season's end 🍷

[Lore]

Contract Status: Retiring at the end of Season 2021
Last Game Played: Round 19, 2021 (omit)
Injury Status: n/a

 

[Don Won]

Well that's not good. Without Cale and Hurley, no chance of competing against giants. Nobody we have in waiting is great at playing on talls.

Hartley deserves a crack. Has been super solid

 

[rumply]

Yeah he became a big liability late, would have taken him 5 minutes to get off the ground!

 

[BOMBERS 4 LIFE!!!!]

Hartley deserves a crack. Has been super solid

Cant wait for him to give away dumb frees to players like Tex and Jenkins in the goal square.

Rather take our chances with Zerk

 

[Fin ice Smuggler]

Cant wait for him to give away dumb frees to players like Tex and Jenkins in the goal square.

Rather take our chances with Zerk

Might be both Hartley and zerk?

 

[BOMBERS 4 LIFE!!!!]

Might be both Hartley and zerk?

Hope not hopefully Hooker is ok

 

[TheGreatBarryB]

Looked fine after the game and in rooms

 

[Old Campaigner]

Geez he looked sore in the last quarter. Good on him pushing through what must've been quite a bit of pain, even though his output was well below what we'd normally expect he was still a presence down back.

 

[scottmclaren]

If he can get himself up for Friday nights game that would huge — then rest him v Gold Coast.

 

[Bunk Moreland]

If McKernan is spending long periods in the ruck then he has to play forward. You need a strong marking target, it straightens us up so much.

And I’ve always been in the Hooker = back camp.

But a big marking target like that is just too important.

Sort out the backline with Ambrose, Hartley, Francis and BZT.

 

[Mercurial89]

If McKernan is spending long periods in the ruck then he has to play forward. You need a strong marking target, it straightens us up so much.

And I’ve always been in the Hooker = back camp.

But a big marking target like that is just too important.

Sort out the backline with Ambrose, Hartley, Francis and BZT.

It's also so huge for Tippa too. Because it gives him his reference point to work back on. When we don't have that he gets stuck wandering around up field or too deep or himself becomes the bailout.

But tbh you put hooker anywhere on the ground he will make an impact.

 

[JayJ20]

We always start scoring heavily once he goes forward. Our defence also holds up. With Daniher out, he must play forward for the rest of the year.

 

[jmoo wan]

seriously- how many games as he won us by being such a stud full forward?

 

[TheFrenchCut]

Without a doubt the best forward that inexplicably isn't allowed to play forward in the game

 

[JayJ20]

He needs to play forward permanently. What part of that does Woosha not understand?

 

[Maddogm]

That's one sexy sexy Hooker

 

[Maddogm]

He needs to play forward permanently. What part of that does Woosha not understand?

If he played forward the whole game we probably lose

 

[JayJ20]

If he played forward the whole game we probably lose

We conceded 96 points. Hartley can do the job.

 

[Beerfish]

Mr clutch.

 

[fairbump_playon]

You just knew he was going to kick it. He knew it, we knew it, Gold Coast knew it.

Legend!!!

 

[Rednblak]

Defensively he is not like he was earlier in the year looks slow to react sometimes (could be carrying an injury ) reckon he has become a better target inside 50 and is a genuine matchwinner gives us a strong presence and should stay there, hartley was good last week combining well with ambrose and was stiff to miss against gold coast

 

[Beerfish]

Trying to trade him to The Gold Coast in a deal to get Josh Caddy to us is the second most shameful thing this club has ever done.

 

[yodellinhank]

Trying to trade him to The Gold Coast in a deal to get Josh Caddy to us is the second most shameful thing this club has ever done.

Behind sacking Hird?

 

[Darealrath]

He looks slow as in defence but throw him forward and he's getting separation like Jeremy Cameron or beating his man back to the goal square.

 

[Bunk Moreland]

Trying to trade him to The Gold Coast in a deal to get Josh Caddy to us is the second most shameful thing this club has ever done.

Second most?

 

[Bunk Moreland]

He needs to play forward permanently. What part of that does Woosha not understand?

Funny thing is I don’t think he was playing forward. He was on May at the time and just followed him up there.

As soon as he kicked it he was straight down back on him again.