Signings, Suggestions & Rumours Discussion

2041 said:
I'm not saying this is definitely wrong but equally there's nothing especially insightful about saying players tend to be less athletically dominant at the end of their careers than the start, and I'm not sure why it would have anything to do with playing rugby union instead of league. Tuqiri left league at 23 and came back at 31. Rogers was 25/31. Thorn was 25/30. Burgess was 28 when he got back to Souths and he started off fine, but his body broke down - hardly surprising for such a physical player and something that I tend to assume would have happened even if he'd played league throughout.

I could also name a dozen physically incredible players who you wouldn't have wanted to sign in their 30s and who never played a game of union. Inglis was done at 31. Shaun Johnson hasn't been the same player physically for at least four years, and he's 32 now. Matt Moylan is 31 and he's had to reinvent his game because he doesn't pose the same threat ball in hand as he used to.

TBF I've often argued on here with people who want to sign blokes who may well be past it - or at least well past their peak - because they don't seem to understand that players age. A player of around 30 is very, very unlikely to be the same physically as they were at 22. I just don't think that has anything to do with playing rugby union.
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We have 3 forwards turning 30 this year, their first season with us, so I hope they haven’t peaked already?
 
balmain boy said:
They signed Charnze Nickol-klokstad for fullback.

So Martin, Johnson, Metcalfe and Volkman all vying for 2 halves spots.

Johnson gets one if he's fit, due to high salary and experience, unless he loses it via performance...

Then 3 into one is insane depth...! I'd have all three of their boys over Wakeham... And potentially Brooks, but he gets to prove himself first.
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What's the love affair with Volkman one slightly good game against a bog average tigers team in a trial the Rooster's don't lose good players
 
TigerSkins05 said:
What pisses me off .. and probably most of us on here is that right from the start we all knew that MM was playing us .. then delaying the decision again and again was only a RED flag to us all which only confirmed our doubt from the start .. except the club who were confident that we would land him .. !! MM played all along only to get the most money out .. yes $1.25 is less than our $1.4 .. but there is a lot of third-party money going on in the background with the Parra deal.

What worries me know is .. how asleep have the recruiting management team been during this pull the wool over their eyes trick by MM .. from the start they always said not to worry that they had a plan "B" .. well it's only 2 weeks out from the season start .. so what is this plan "B".. ??
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We didn’t know, but there was a strong sense he wasn’t coming, particularly after Pom told us he was going back to Eels to get them to increase their offer.
The way I see it...we are now playing the game of quid pro quo, a game we refused to play pre Sheens return because we got burnt badly.
Just accept it for what it is and be grateful that we have people in the organisation now who can play the off field game.
 
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Tiger_Fanatic3 said:
Victor Radley has committed to a new four-year deal that will keep him at the Roosters until the end of the 2027 season

Presumably on $1.2 million a season and with a couple of cars and a yacht thrown in

What freakin else
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He'll be lucky to see out another 4 years. Head knocks and the kamikaze way he throws his body around, I reckon another 2 yrs and he'll be way past his best.
 
851 said:
Brooks will need to have improved his short ball, he throws a stack of rocket hospital passes to his backrower, and Ice ain't gonna like those, ask Rowdy how good they are
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brooks needs to take 1 maybe 2 steps into the line, then pass. will set up plenty if he is capable of that. this steps are all in the head. he's either ben Simmons or Kyrie
 
twentyforty said:
We have 3 forwards turning 30 this year, their first season with us, so I hope they haven’t peaked already?
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To some extent they probably have, at least physically. Klemmer has turned into a workhorse rather than a game breaking force of nature, for instance. If he can keep being that for a few more years we'll still have a really good player, but there's no point pretending he's going to be what he was several years ago. Koroisau's game isn't really based on being a physical freak so I'm relatively optimistic about his prospects. I think Bateman is likely to be a really bad signing, though I'd love to be wrong of course.
 
weststigerman said:
Doesn't seem to have wore out the elite players. I'd be keen to get Wighton if he's worn out.
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Only at centre, dreadful 5/8. Plus Wighton gets in enough trouble in Canberra where the local Journos look after the Raiders, he would be a train wreck in Sydney. He can't handle his drink
 
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batboy said:
If the Raiders hadn't paid a shit tin to keep him, They could have kept him playing centre
and he'd have been the best centre to play in the NRL era - Including better than Inglis IMO...

He was a very good centre early on...
If he'd have stayed there instead of moving to Fullback and 5/8 just to earn his wage...
he'd have been absolutely enormous!!
He's won Origin at centre I'd fancy - Maybe a couple times....
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He also lost NSW an origin series at Centre when he made Kurt Capewell look like Mal Meninga reincarnated.
 
851 said:
Matt Rogers, Lote Tuquiri, Will Chambers, Brad Thorn there are more if you look
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Yeah I remember Matt Rodgers kick in the final moments of the 2003 World Cup was a raking touch finder to a metre past the 25 metre line with an English throw in to come. He should have gone to League in 2002.
 
Odessa said:
What's the love affair with Volkman one slightly good game against a bog average tigers team in a trial the Rooster's don't lose good players
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It wasn't just one game against us, it was years of dominance in league and union. Sure not all juniors kick on, but if you have enough junior stars at least some will kick on...
 
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