Signings, Suggestions & Rumours Discussion

[Tiger_Fanatic3]

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

 

[twentyforty]

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".. ??

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.

 

[yeti]

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

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.

 

[Tiger_Fanatic3]

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.

Cap is just a slang term that lads at the chooks use according to Uncle Nick. Salary cap??
Never heard of it

Radley is the aldi version of Cam Murray

 

[the_third]

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

a house. you forgot the house

 

[the_third]

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

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

 

[Camel2281]

Brooks needs to dig into the defensive line and not slide across it. he makes plays so far from the defenders at times it becomes very very easy to defend.

Agree with that. If he does ever go in towards the line he throws a short hospital pass

 

[2041]

We have 3 forwards turning 30 this year, their first season with us, so I hope they haven’t peaked already?

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.

 

[the_third]

Agree with that. If he does ever go in towards the line he throws a short hospital pass

at million miles an hour

 

[Camel2281]

Doesn't seem to have wore out the elite players. I'd be keen to get Wighton if he's worn out.

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

 

[Camel2281]

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....

He also lost NSW an origin series at Centre when he made Kurt Capewell look like Mal Meninga reincarnated.

 

[the_third]

He also lost NSW an origin series at Centre when he made Kurt Capewell look like Mal Meninga reincarnated.

he would fit right in at WT then

 

[Nonotmeagain]

Matt Rogers, Lote Tuquiri, Will Chambers, Brad Thorn there are more if you look

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.

 

[Camel2281]

He did?
They both play left....
Pretty sure you're talking about when Gutho made Capewell look like Meninga...

But don't let the actual facts of the game / series get in the way of you having a crack at someone.

Capewell played right centre

 

[balmain boy]

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

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...

 

[InBenjiWeTrust]

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

Hopefully he will be 99% Kyrie and 1% Simmons🙏

 

[tigerballs]

You make a very good point and if that was Sheens that came up on with that one, he was pretty much on point from what I got to see.

Just for the record, I always thought Asu could be a pretty good centre but looks like he might go alright one spot closer in as well.

Looks like a real beast this year.

I won't be surprised if he starts in 13

 

[hammertime]

Disagree

Who?

 

[Needaname]

If only either of them were as good as the players you likened them too...

We are also not paying Laurie or stains 1m a season. (Not sure what Edwards is on but he is likely severely underpaid )
Anyway it was more a reference to playing styles to assist people pulling apart both their games.
Stains makes a lot of meters and although his slight frame he is quite an efficient player in that regard.

 

[diedpretty]

Both when on their game are direct runners as well, they do straighten into the line and it will create issues if our forwards dominate. They play opposite sides & can compliment each other nicely.

Brooks side is lined with Papa as a hole runner (expect Brooks to go to the line with short pass at line to Papa), mixed with Naden outside of Papa who has some pace and is looking primed with Laurie out the back.

We know AD will run also, just hope Laurie hovers on his inside hip. AD is right handed and when he takes the line on often has the arm free looking inside whilst drawing the inside defender. Then because of his running strength it will allow the outside backrower & centre to benefit if aggressive on the line runs which we saw his options in trial.

I’m nervous but excited to see both have the ability to play attacking footy, they will make mistakes but if they are allowed to play have no doubts they will put on a show.

it is a very nice left side - Brooks.Paps. Naden and either Staines or Jnr Tupou - a lot of pace and should be ok defensively.