Cameron has let this drag out unnecessarily to feed his ego. He probably thinks that the entire public in Australia has been on there edge on their lounge seats, waiting with baited breath & unable to sleep desperately wondering wether Mr Smith would retire in the end nobody really could care less. It says a lot that he has played around 20 years with the storm with various records (Most points scored, most games) etc AND THE MELBOURNE STORM AND THE STORM DIDN'T EVEN GIVE HIM A SEND OFF. I used to like watching the Storm play & used to have a lot of respect for the achievements until the truth came out exposing their cheating ways. Even when caught there was no sign of remorse. I am a Eels fan & when the truth that the team of super stars should not have been even on the field & cheated their way to the 1999 pemiership. It left a very bitter taste. Cameron, good bye & good riddance.
@@helpstopanimalabuse8153 your a legend! Cam Smith's fans are a mix but to deny that he is a rule manipulater and should have been pinned by the officials along time ago is straight denial. Cam is a genius but the current game is a circus.
I love the mastery of the dark arts aka shithousery, I love the knee drops, the elbow drops etc. the game has lost so much aggression over the years, so I love the proverbial ‘grubs’.
Look here's the thing, I'm a massive Cowboys fan and Jonathan Thurston is my favourite player of all time. But I have to say for a fact... that Cameron Smith is the G.O.A.T 🐐 He's played the most games in NRL, he's scored the most converted points in NRL, he's won a lot of premierships for Storm and he's probably played the most games for QLD in State of Origin. I'm not a huge fan of Smith, but he is the G.O.A.T 🐐
A lot of people don't like him because he's a far smarter player and person than they will ever be. He knew the rules better than the refs and he knew how to exploit weaknesses in teams but also get the best out of his team. He's the GOAT as far as I'm concerned.
Never seen a calmer player in big games, the impact this has on others is so underrated, add to that a kicking game from god, p4p strength and an underrated skill set and it’s all over
The best part of Cam Smith was his ability to get caught up in the play the ball , slowing the opposition down but doing it without ppl realising .. best player I've seen
Yeah the grubbiest part too! Lol I admit he was a clever player but the NRL were dumb for not pressuring the refs to pin him and others like him sooner. That's part of being a ref, understanding when a player is manipulating around the rules and punish them, let them know you know what they are doing and put the flow back in the game the way it's meant to be.
There will never be a player like Cam Smith for a long while, the odds will tell you maybe in the next 10-15 years someone half as good turn up, the mollycoddled youth coming through don't have the resilience.
@@turboteddy4912 Cronk and Slater were 7/10 players that were made to look better than they were by good coaching and Cam smiths game management. You grab any half decent FB or half in the NRL and raise them in that Storm system an they'd look pretty good too. Johnson, Reynolds, Hunt, Cleary, DCE, Moses, Flanagan, Pearce? Tell me when to stop
@@jordanious7711 you can now also give more points to Cameron Smith after Storm derailed at the end of the year and during the finals season without him. He was a leader aswell.
Go storm bye Cameron thanks for all the wins we will all miss you have a good life and everyone reading this go go go storm you will always be the best 😭😭😭😭🥺🥺🥺🥺🥺👋👋👋
Must have been hard for Hoops to vomit out a compliment for Cam. Out of everything, the best thing about Cam is to constantly dig the knife into the Sydney media.
The nsw\ Qld cehtric game still can't get o ver The fact that one of the greatest teams and producers of great talent, like smth and Slater are in Melbourne the sports capital of the world. Cam is the goat. Winners are grinners and losers can please themselves.if he hadn't played in Melbourne he would be popular . Thankfully cam didn't care about popularity , he cared about being the best he could. And the storm culture allows that to happen. Well done Cameron Smith , well played Champ, to us Victorians you ll always be the GOAT. 🏆🏆🏆
Cam is the GOAT because of consistency! Andrew Johns missed significant number of games due to injuries between 2000 and 2005. Also Brett Kimmorely had the number 7 spot for 99 and 2000 which forced Joey to go to the hooking role, thanks to Nswrl boards silliness.
Conduit player like Xavi for Barcelona. Makes a team tick. Just can play, read the game, run a game. Proper player. Players player. Fitler. Johns. Lewis. Just play the game at a Level we can all appreciate but can not emulate. Coaches try, but these gus are just different.
Great video about Cameron Smith, exceptional played and deserves the accolades. A side note, the commentators mentioned 8 origin series in a row, Smith and Lockyer were helped dramatically by Gallen. See Smith and Lockyer were both thinkers with exceptional football minds, whilst Gallen was whinging at the referee. You would see Smith and Lockyer organising the troops to take advantage of this time and maximising the opportunity of the situation. Rugby League is a tough game sure, however you can only bash your way to a successful result so far, when you realise the speed between the ears always out-performs brutality, then you think your way to the win. Come in Smith and Lockyer, two of the fastest footballs who have played the game.
LARA 100000000000000% CORRECT... NSW DIDNT LIKE THE FACT THAT CS WAS A WINNER, AND WHAT A WINNER, THROW POPPY SEED SYNDROME INTO IT AND THERE IS YOU REASON WHY HE WASNT LIKED AS MUCH...
@mikin lirou absolutely agree,the way he talks u can almost hear the jealousy come out,these players are doing the one thing he could never do and that's play sports at a top level lol
If I had to compare Smith to anyone else with a similar career and stature (and the way he carried himself on and off the field) it would be Richie McCaw for me, not MJ.
Cam was absolutely brilliant. But Johnny Raper was also a reasonable player, and I think still the GOAT: great vision, great defence, great attack, great passer, great leader.
Why are the wins from the years the storm cheated counted ? Every game during that period is a loss not a win 06'07'08'09'10 that's over 100 games taken off his stats. Thats the whole point of punishing cheaters otherwise it becomes worth cheating. Remember he was not some innocent he and other players signed 2 contracts with different cash values as well as being "given" boats and other expensive items. Yeah give him praise for the good things he did but dont forget and ignore the bad.
@@tonysimon6312 So when they say won most premiership games at 310 they're not counting them ? i have no problem with them counting him taking the field but all those games are a loss. So how about you stop being an idiot and actually look at the screen and listen to what is said
So I wonder who will be the new GOAT this year, seems soon as one retires there is always a new goat. I remember them calling Thurston the Goat up until he retired then the 1st game after he had retired Smtih was now the Goat so who is next.
@@louiscypher6772 No he didnt. He said that he had taken ECSTASY at certain points throughout his career, which is wrong but certainly didnt have any influence on his footballing ability like steroids would
@@louiscypher6772 So did I, recently. And if you're comparing the two and still want to call Smith a legend you might want to consider the fact that Cameron did enough for the NRL to strip him and his team, of which he was captain, of 2 premierships
Correct me if I'm wrong but I haven't ever seen a whole segment that is contributed to (outside noise and jealousy) of a NRL player in my lifetime. Where was this for Cronk? A storm teammate, Thurston? Again a teammate but no let's bag the greatest player ever! Geez (FOX) 🦊 sports you are certainly living up to your name, unfortunately.. How about we flog off the dirty infiltrates within this scumbag channel and actually try and promote the game?
Couldn’t even let him have his day of retirement without attacking him. This is why journalists are so hated by the public.
Facts. These guys sound like E news and Hooper thinks hes a psychologist. Its pathetic
Cameron has let this drag out unnecessarily to feed his ego. He probably thinks that the entire public in Australia has been on there edge on their lounge seats, waiting with baited breath & unable to sleep desperately wondering wether Mr Smith would retire in the end nobody really could care less. It says a lot that he has played around 20 years with the storm with various records (Most points scored, most games) etc AND THE MELBOURNE STORM AND THE STORM DIDN'T EVEN GIVE HIM A SEND OFF. I used to like watching the Storm play & used to have a lot of respect for the achievements until the truth came out exposing their cheating ways. Even when caught there was no sign of remorse. I am a Eels fan & when the truth that the team of super stars should not have been even on the field & cheated their way to the 1999 pemiership. It left a very bitter taste. Cameron, good bye & good riddance.
@@helpstopanimalabuse8153 your a legend! Cam Smith's fans are a mix but to deny that he is a rule manipulater and should have been pinned by the officials along time ago is straight denial. Cam is a genius but the current game is a circus.
@@helpstopanimalabuse8153 would never have guessed you were an eels fan 🤦🏻
They are called NSW people
I hate this disrespect towards Smithy he isn’t one of the Goats he is the Greatest of all Time period.
Gi shits all over him
Hard to compare eras , if he wasn’t such a dickhead and didn’t rub a lot of people the wrong way he’d be talked about in that way
I love the mastery of the dark arts aka shithousery, I love the knee drops, the elbow drops etc. the game has lost so much aggression over the years, so I love the proverbial ‘grubs’.
@@CoryInTheHouseThatsMe 😆😆😆
@@jackthelab6755 the day Curtis Scott slogged Walker in the eye was a proud day for me as a fan of the sport
Look here's the thing, I'm a massive Cowboys fan and Jonathan Thurston is my favourite player of all time. But I have to say for a fact... that Cameron Smith is the G.O.A.T 🐐 He's played the most games in NRL, he's scored the most converted points in NRL, he's won a lot of premierships for Storm and he's probably played the most games for QLD in State of Origin. I'm not a huge fan of Smith, but he is the G.O.A.T 🐐
No more. Can’t. Play games. For. Qeenland
hooper is such a flog
Lil baldy
You too 😂😂😂
Jealous much?
A lot of people don't like him because he's a far smarter player and person than they will ever be. He knew the rules better than the refs and he knew how to exploit weaknesses in teams but also get the best out of his team. He's the GOAT as far as I'm concerned.
Never seen a calmer player in big games, the impact this has on others is so underrated, add to that a kicking game from god, p4p strength and an underrated skill set and it’s all over
Congratulations Cameron Smith you’re such a great player and amazing leader and a wonderful person... best wishes to you and your family... cheers
NSW. Games
Ah shut up .
Hes a absolutely legend...
They just carry on don't they
The best part of Cam Smith was his ability to get caught up in the play the ball , slowing the opposition down but doing it without ppl realising .. best player I've seen
Yeah the grubbiest part too! Lol I admit he was a clever player but the NRL were dumb for not pressuring the refs to pin him and others like him sooner. That's part of being a ref, understanding when a player is manipulating around the rules and punish them, let them know you know what they are doing and put the flow back in the game the way it's meant to be.
GREATEST OF ALL TIME cameron smith
What a legend! Congrats mate
There will never be a player like Cam Smith for a long while, the odds will tell you maybe in the next 10-15 years someone half as good turn up, the mollycoddled youth coming through don't have the resilience.
Cronk was better
@@turboteddy4912 hahaha good joke
@@turboteddy4912 Cronk and Slater were 7/10 players that were made to look better than they were by good coaching and Cam smiths game management. You grab any half decent FB or half in the NRL and raise them in that Storm system an they'd look pretty good too. Johnson, Reynolds, Hunt, Cleary, DCE, Moses, Flanagan, Pearce? Tell me when to stop
@@jordanious7711 you can now also give more points to Cameron Smith after Storm derailed at the end of the year and during the finals season without him. He was a leader aswell.
Do you like him or you don’t he is one of the greats
Honestly I wanted him to see him play one more year for another club but congrats smith. You're the goat.
One photo shows Simonsson getting an ear pull, everything else showed it wasn't. Rubbish example, Hooper is such a hack.
Go storm bye Cameron thanks for all the wins we will all miss you have a good life and everyone reading this go go go storm you will always be the best 😭😭😭😭🥺🥺🥺🥺🥺👋👋👋
Cronk won more premierships.
Just wanted to see Smith have one last game in front of his Melbourne home crowd. 🐐
I think Lara was totally correct. People hate winners, and Cameron Smith if nothing else, is a winner.
Then why aren’t slater and Cronk hated?
Have a think about your comment
@@codiefoster4923 and Thurston Locky Sterling ..he was a massive tool that cheated the cap and broke someone's neck
@@jasonm1288 whos neck did he break?
He is the greatest of all time 👍✋
Must have been hard for Hoops to vomit out a compliment for Cam. Out of everything, the best thing about Cam is to constantly dig the knife into the Sydney media.
The nsw\ Qld cehtric game still can't get o ver The fact that one of the greatest teams and producers of great talent, like smth and Slater are in Melbourne the sports capital of the world. Cam is the goat. Winners are grinners and losers can please themselves.if he hadn't played in Melbourne he would be popular . Thankfully cam didn't care about popularity , he cared about being the best he could. And the storm culture allows that to happen. Well done Cameron Smith , well played Champ, to us Victorians you ll always be the GOAT. 🏆🏆🏆
Yeah like all those great home grown Victorian talents
Cam is the GOAT because of consistency!
Andrew Johns missed significant number of games due to injuries between 2000 and 2005.
Also Brett Kimmorely had the number 7 spot for 99 and 2000 which forced Joey to go to the hooking role, thanks to Nswrl boards silliness.
1. Cam Smith
2. Lockyer
3. JT
4. Johns
Lara is 100%
Be interesting to see a stat on how many times he was in the top 5 of the dally m awards every year of his career 🤔
They talk about cheap shots... but they have Michael Ennis on the panel.
And James Hooper... the biggest cheap shot dog
Can smith the 🐐🐐🐐🐐🐐🐐🐐🐐🐐🐐🐐🐐🐐🐐🐐🐐🐐
Conduit player like Xavi for Barcelona. Makes a team tick. Just can play, read the game, run a game. Proper player. Players player. Fitler. Johns. Lewis. Just play the game at a Level we can all appreciate but can not emulate. Coaches try, but these gus are just different.
Fans were tired of him always winning. There is a direct American comparison in Tom Brady.
Two GOATs pissing off fans of opposing teams for years.
The Art Of Winning.
Great video about Cameron Smith, exceptional played and deserves the accolades. A side note, the commentators mentioned 8 origin series in a row, Smith and Lockyer were helped dramatically by Gallen.
See Smith and Lockyer were both thinkers with exceptional football minds, whilst Gallen was whinging at the referee. You would see Smith and Lockyer organising the troops to take advantage of this time and maximising the opportunity of the situation.
Rugby League is a tough game sure, however you can only bash your way to a successful result so far, when you realise the speed between the ears always out-performs brutality, then you think your way to the win. Come in Smith and Lockyer, two of the fastest footballs who have played the game.
His work as a referee stands out for me. The greatest referee of all time!! 🐐
LARA 100000000000000% CORRECT... NSW DIDNT LIKE THE FACT THAT CS WAS A WINNER, AND WHAT A WINNER, THROW POPPY SEED SYNDROME INTO IT AND THERE IS YOU REASON WHY HE WASNT LIKED AS MUCH...
All caps ..we liked Locky and Thurston..Smith is a pos even booed in his Testimonial at Suncorp
I remember the time he signed two contracts and never owned it. Fond memories.
Storm are dirty grubs
I remember when your team actually won a premiership... Fond memories 🤭😉
@@a-moe4932 too bad Storm couldn't win back to back, unlike the mighty Roosters 🐔🐔🐔
@@a-moe4932 I remember when he cared for Alex McKinnon in such a touching manner. Fond memories.
@@a-moe4932 I remember my team produces local talent to win premierships. Fond memories.
Hooper needs to chill out with the serial killer chat
Cam Smith is like a Boss chess player !!!!!!!!!!
Kent giving Smith a compliment! Holycrap
@mikin lirou absolutely agree,the way he talks u can almost hear the jealousy come out,these players are doing the one thing he could never do and that's play sports at a top level lol
Cameron Smith one of the best players but also one of the games biggest grubs.
Cam Smith is the GOAT. Who's better? He's won everything, at all levels.
It’s hard to compare different eras mate definitely one of the greats just a shame about the way he went about it
Norm Provan
He’s definitely top 3 with John’s and Thurston. It’s hard to definitely say. Most peoples opinion don’t count because they can’t get over the bias
So has Darren Lockyer, what's your point?
@@khankake9576 Lockyer 😂😂 he never even won a dally m. Wasn’t even top 3 halves of his era. Kidding yourself
2 words: Serial Winner!
Goats- C smith, J Thurston, D Lockyer, A Johns and B Slater.
And Cooper Cronk
You can’t compare Michael Jordan and Cameron Smith 😔
I know right smithy is way better
@@spendiggity9324 no
If I had to compare Smith to anyone else with a similar career and stature (and the way he carried himself on and off the field) it would be Richie McCaw for me, not MJ.
Cam was absolutely brilliant. But Johnny Raper was also a reasonable player, and I think still the GOAT: great vision, great defence, great attack, great passer, great leader.
The sole goat
All she does is smirk and never actually make a poignant comment. Why the hell is she even there to begin with.
legend
Cam smith is TBE. No. One breaks his records.
It's a tie between signing two contracts and helping paralyse someone with his grubby tackling
Dick
Oh..Did he tackle Mckinnon?
Until he wins 3 in a row and scores two tries in each, dethrones King Wally at Origin level and takes his Australian jersey he is no where near it
Nrl 360 is 🗑🗑🗑
Unlike other immortals, during Smith's career Australia had its worst record in over 60 years.
Can you link a source to back up your clam??,
Just wondering.
@@baileygilbert2899 Yes
Thats cause he played against way better kiwi teams
@@Jp-do9ny To be the best you have to beat the best. Past immortals did that at all levels against better English teams.
@@boganbob2708 Congratulations on being the dumbest person ever on the internet 👍
Awesome player , definitely an immortal! I think Joey was just a touch better.
New. Games. For. Ringleader western. Times
*The GOAT
If he played in a Sydney club you wouldn't hear the the end of it🎉🎉🎉....Up the Storm!!!!!
When hoops mentions greats he forgot Cronk.
Cooper Cronk is a myth
Constantly played well before the line
Boring to watch
You have to admit, the retirement was weird. I wonder what discussions were happening behind the scenes.
I don't like Smith as he pushes the rules all the time & gets away with it. He is the 1st to complain if anyone else does the same thing.
Why are the wins from the years the storm cheated counted ? Every game during that period is a loss not a win 06'07'08'09'10 that's over 100 games taken off his stats. Thats the whole point of punishing cheaters otherwise it becomes worth cheating. Remember he was not some innocent he and other players signed 2 contracts with different cash values as well as being "given" boats and other expensive items. Yeah give him praise for the good things he did but dont forget and ignore the bad.
They're counting games played not games won genius. Take the result away for cheating, he still took the field. Stop being a baby...
@@tonysimon6312 So when they say won most premiership games at 310 they're not counting them ? i have no problem with them counting him taking the field but all those games are a loss. So how about you stop being an idiot and actually look at the screen and listen to what is said
Cameron is a 🐐 G O A T ⚡⚡⚡⚡💟⚡⚡⚡⚡
The STORM. Going. USA. Games
Statue for Craig !
Lmao hooper is so disrespectful 🤣
QLD GOAT
No more. Can’t. Qeenland
Goat
So I wonder who will be the new GOAT this year, seems soon as one retires there is always a new goat. I remember them calling Thurston the Goat up until he retired then the 1st game after he had retired Smtih was now the Goat so who is next.
John Hopoate
100% mate! Nobody was calling smith the goat when Thurston was playing
No Smith was always the GOAT
@@wahlabalwarrior3010 no, no he wasn’t
@@Zmart30 yes he was is and always will be the GOAT
Smart player not dumb
Hooper needs to leave fox for good. The game is shifting from that toxic style of journalism
He deserves to be a legend. If they can put that drug cheat as one then cam should be there.
How was he a drug "cheat"? He took ecstasy which last I checked doesn't exactly fall into the performance enhancing category
@@lukesutherland477 He admitted on national television that he took cocaine his whole career.
@@louiscypher6772 No he didnt. He said that he had taken ECSTASY at certain points throughout his career, which is wrong but certainly didnt have any influence on his footballing ability like steroids would
@@lukesutherland477 I watched the show where he said it.
@@louiscypher6772 So did I, recently. And if you're comparing the two and still want to call Smith a legend you might want to consider the fact that Cameron did enough for the NRL to strip him and his team, of which he was captain, of 2 premierships
Good. Let’s move on
Ayo P.K the wife basher
Wheres Paul Kent's highlights 🤔😂
Cooper retired a cookie. The other two have statues coz they were one club players!
*chook
I'd put money on those phone calls being from Cheese
Cooper Cronk was better
Johns was a DRUG CHEAT!!! Shouldn't be an immortal!! What a disscrace!!
Bullshit 😂
Cooper doesn't deserve it.
You can't have a mortal standing with 2 gods...
I'm glad Smith🐐 has retired so that we don't have to hear Kent and Hooper spew out garbage out of their mouth's about the legend!🤦♂️🤡
He is one of the greatest but he is not the greatest of all time
How is it anybody's business what Cameron Smith does off the field? A lot of salty people on that panel!
Correct me if I'm wrong but I haven't ever seen a whole segment that is contributed to (outside noise and jealousy) of a NRL player in my lifetime. Where was this for Cronk? A storm teammate, Thurston? Again a teammate but no let's bag the greatest player ever! Geez (FOX) 🦊 sports you are certainly living up to your name, unfortunately.. How about we flog off the dirty infiltrates within this scumbag channel and actually try and promote the game?
GRUB not GOAT
Manly fan, and can't disagree, although I always hated his guts
Union > league
Cancer > union
@@Jp-do9ny they don’t play league in heaven. Union all the way
Union is great if you like 100 penalties 5 min scrums 10 mins of gameplay and empty stadiums
@@jasonm1288 just jealous union has proper scrums. Theres no point with the scrums in league. The forwards should just have a quick picnic
Jordan/Smith comparisons..please! OTT journalistic crap, as per usual from Hooper.
Smith is a Grub
Jarryd Hayne 09 season has more highlights than Smiths career
In a Rugby League player's poll an overwhelmingly 49% of the players voted the Storm as the dirtiest team in the competition.
Whipe your tears mate,don't forget to whipe your ass to.
Smith ain't a Goat hes a Skunk
I still would take Cooper Cronk any day of the week.
Nothing like Michael Jordan
20; years get off his back more to life then sport mate
Salty Blues hahaha
Andrew Johns is the GOAT
I would have thought more of a mule
Cameron Smith a poser
He is a great player, but not a great bloke
So you have met Cam in person?
@@wahlabalwarrior3010 don’t need to, seen his sportsman like conduct on the field tells me all I need to know.
@@HKap9 no it doesn't what people do on the field is very different to what happened off it
@@wahlabalwarrior3010 your right - I’m judging him from the way he acts on field - a complete dick, he is probably a nice guy off the field.
@@HKap9 so how can you say he's not a good bloke In general being a dick on the field is different to being a dick off it
Congrats to the 4th best player of all time
Goat