Title: Sonny Ball
Author: Paul Muckley
Text Type: Biography
Date Finished: 31/3/17
Summary
This book is about the NRL career and life of Sonny Bill Williams.
It speaks about all the problems and controversy of him changing codes and changing teams.
It shows he wasn't money hungry but just wanted to experience new sports, codes and team environments.
Personal Response
I related to Sonny Bill himself because we both had to make a difficult choice in thinking about changing teams/sports. He wanted to make a move over the ditch to Super Rugby at the Chiefs and I wanted to move clubs from Hornby Panthers to Linwood Keas. It was a hard choice for him because he had mad a massive fan club in the NRL and it was hard for me because my family plays for Linwood but all my mates play for Hornby. It just shows me how family and communities are so loyal and that its a hard choice to think about changing teams.
This text gave me insight into how people have to make difficult choices in every day activities. Just having to make a difficult choice in sport would be easy compared to choices presidents have to make. It would be easy because sports decisions only effect you and your team but choices from presidents effects a whole country, I'm linked to this because both effect me.
I was shocked when Sonny just dumped his manager for a new one like he was nothing. When he didn't get his manager to understand his point of view. So he decided to go out and get him a new manager. Non-surprisingly he got the same manager as his good mate boxer Mundine. He just walked out because he wasn't being treated fairly and he made the best move because he has experienced new things that weren't available at the Bulldogs like playing for the All Blacks in the World Cup win and playing in the 2016 Olympics on the New Zealand Sevens team. I link to this because I have left a team when I was younger because I left my Union team and I went to League and I've experienced so many things that I would've never gotten to try if I was still back at Union.
yo i liked how you related to sonny bill because of the changing sports and teams and how you had to decide which club you wanted to go to
ReplyDeleteI really like how you related the text to yourself and you explained why and how you related to Sonny Bill. It made me think about how people feel when they have to make decisions about major things. I think you could include quotes or lines from the text that you read and place them on your reading blogs.
ReplyDeleteIt's great that you can see the struggle that someone like Sonny Bill goes through. Even though he's so famous, you can feel that same pressure that he feels. Do you regret changing your team (Linwood/Hornby)? You've written a developed response for your first response. Next time, make sure you give TWO developed responses.
ReplyDeleteI've tried my best at fixing it up but i'm not 100% sure if it's fixed fully
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