Signings, Suggestions & Rumours Discussion

gallagher said:
Honestly, that's been said on here for the last 6 years.
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I've been reading a lot of the archived stuff on the forum and it has been weird to see how nothing much has changed. Even the debates.
Everyone is basically having the same old arguments, with just the coach or player being substituted/replaced with another person. (Benji needs a genuine half black beside him looked like the most frequently talked about topic.)
I honestly find some of the heated discussions bizarre as not many of the players being disputed went on to be top tier NRL players. Or they certainly wouldn't have made one bit of a difference in bringing us success, if they did stay here.
The potential recruitment talks are the most interesting reads, as there's about a dozen of the same posters rightfully questioning both value and worth (for us) of any targets. For example, in 2017 while everyone sounded content with either Graham, Packer and/or Matulino these persons named JWH, JFH, Bromwich, Klemmer, Hamlin Uele etc.,
I know there was no guarantee they'd come but considering the money invested in Packerlino I wonder if there was a genuine chance if we'd have put in a higher bid on the other mentioned players.

I do still enjoy reading everyone's take yet can't help but feel some of it's pointless (the arguments I mean) unless we can make a number of key signings, that will actually improve the overall quality of the roster. Guess I'm saying until we can do this everything probably stays the same for us.

FWIW I find the 2010 and 2011 threads the best.
 
balmain boy said:
Where did this nonsense of Sheens wanting two fast halves come from? This is a coach who for must of his tenure had John Morris and Rob Lui at halfback. Neither were fast. Moltzen may have played a handful of games at 7, but mostly at fullback.

The fact is a combo of Laurie, Doueihi and Hastings is awful. Atrocious. Who does the kicking? None of them have a long kicking game, none of them have much of a passing game, two are incredibly slow. There's just no way in hell that that will ever be our halves combo.

If we did let Brooks go we'd have almost an extra million to spend on top of our already sizeable war chest. We would definitely sign a halfback of some description. Maybe a Williams type. Or at the very least we'd sign one of the hottest young halves around as we could offer them money and playing time. Someone like Pezet seems a very likely option. He's a classic halfback with an excellent kicking game stuck behind rep players on long term contracts. I'd take him over Sullivan. Kelly on a train and trial playing NSW Cup is then a solid backup from outside the top 30, should things get desperate and at worst would be a decent addition for the Maggies.
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Lui was deceptively fast.
 
jadtiger said:
This is page 7343 and it is 7.43 am on 21st October.I wonder how many pages will be added today in regards to signings that are all speculation,I would say it will be a minimum of 15 but i hope at the end of the day the brains trust will have made a signing for us
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A good signing was announced yesterday in Charlie Staines. I'm sure our forum replicates other forums insofar as it relates to signing speculation.
 
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