Signings, Suggestions & Rumours Discussion

A first grade forward pack is not 5 players....it is a dozen players that will all have to fill in over the period of a season. We will have some impressive "names" in the pack for this year and that should win us quite a few games.

The problem will be injury and possibly rep selection. We have some bright young forwards who can fill in here or there but we dont have experience in the lower grades. As soon as we lose an Api, Bateman or Klemmer for a few consecutive weeks we will struggle, especially against the stronger clubs.

We need to start the season well and be 12-14 points after 10 rounds as I think we will fatigue come the rear end of the season.
 
We will find out soon enough if we are heading in the right direction. IMHO, fresh air has already removed that odour of rottenness "the same old", "we will never change" and "we better sell everything and close down" we were immersed in for too long!
"Damn the torpedoes! Full steam ahead!" 🐅 💪
 
I’d just wait a year no point loosing a quality player who’s in our future plans if we have already secured a his services for 2024

If parra season falls off the rails towards the middle of the year then we can start to ask for an early release
 
finnzo said:
I’d just wait a year no point loosing a quality player who’s in our future plans if we have already secured a his services for 2024

If parra season falls off the rails towards the middle of the year then we can start to ask for an early release
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I'm sure we have one or two players we're willing to trade if an early release is contemplated (if Moses is coming). I'm sure we know which player(s) the club is prepared to trade and it may well be financially beneficial for the player(s) to go. Win win.
 
Probably the only forward in last years side, that would have walked into another first gde side- Joffa. Stef, Blore, Pole as yet have not done much, but show promise (how many times have we heard this ?) Then Bateman who played his best football years ago, and may be past his use buy date. And people think we should trade Joffa ! - Crazy .
 
I don’t understand this horse trading concept of giving up a player to encourage the release of another player?
Unless of course, our player is super keen to go to that club?
I remember in the case of the Moma/Laurie deal, we lost more than we gained. Moma left angrily, he was thrown out on the street like garbage. It didn’t matter that he was our leading try scorer, and imo, it was counterproductive to team building.
 
twentyforty said:
I don’t understand this horse trading concept of giving up a player to encourage the release of another player?
Unless of course, our player is super keen to go to that club?
I remember in the case of the Moma/Laurie deal, we lost more than we gained. Moma left angrily, he was thrown out on the street like garbage. It didn’t matter that he was our leading try scorer, and imo, it was counterproductive to team building.
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That’s the first I read that he was angry. He agreed to leave fairly quickly I believe. He didn’t have to go anywhere. I think he made the right choice for him.
 
Glenji95 said:
They won’t be letting Joffa go after we re-signed him too on most likely a solid deal for him. Joffa makes our 17 easily if fit.
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What’s going on with some of our supporters, brooks and nofa have been bagged so much I would think they played for another team now there’s a push to bag joffa who was our best forward last year , for god sake get of the players backs and start supporting them
 
sleeve said:
Probably the only forward in last years side, that would have walked into another first gde side- Joffa. Stef, Blore, Pole as yet have not done much, but show promise (how many times have we heard this ?) Then Bateman who played his best football years ago, and may be past his use buy date. And people think we should trade Joffa ! - Crazy .
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To be the best of my knowledge only 1 supporter on here believes that we should be trading Joffa to the eels.It will not happen and nor should it as he was our best player last year imho.
I am sure that Joffa will be in the 17 each week and mostly in the starting 13 quite possibly with a (C) after his name as befits a man who seems to be the heart and soul of the club
 
sleeve said:
Probably the only forward in last years side, that would have walked into another first gde side- Joffa. Stef, Blore, Pole as yet have not done much, but show promise (how many times have we heard this ?) Then Bateman who played his best football years ago, and may be past his use buy date. And people think we should trade Joffa ! - Crazy .
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Yes Joffa played great last year in a side where we came last and a very ordinary forward pack.

Joffa is not a better front rower than klemmer and Stef has way more upside. We even have Pole coming through

Joffa is not a better second rower than Papali or Bateman

Is he the ballplaying lock we want probably not

Joffa is a bench front rower on good coin and the onpy forward worth some coin you could possibly trade
 
If a player wants to sign with us that’s great but moving players on who would like to stay is not a great look , main reason is we signed that player to play for the Tigers , Joffa as a trade is nuts , he is coming to the age these guys really stand up he will have some solid players to help him out like Klemmer and Pappi , He was our best player last season in a team that got belted in the forwards all year , we removed the crap , replaced with good players now let’s start supporting here guys , now if a players is dragging his feet or disrupting the new way then that’s different , yes offer him up as he most likely would want to move on , Joffa and Ken to stay along with AD , if Mosses comes and he and brooks pair up then AD to centre or move on would be offered up I think
 
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