Signings, Suggestions & Rumours Discussion

earl said:
I'm totally with you. There are so few options. When I state I don't like it the next question is who is better ? I don't have the answer to this.

Brooks to me is a no brainer assuming they can get him. He is a decent NRL half and has shown plenty of really good plays this year. He has very few downsides to his game.

In stating that Brooks isn't a marquee half and ideally we need one.

None of those options appeal to me. Maybe Townsend and then one of those players as a back-up. I think we need more options in the halves as well but that has it's limitations. Hastings gave us another option last year but he wasn't a good enough option to really improve us.

It's a really tough market and a really tough situation.
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He certainly is, no game awareness, and zero footy IQ, we need 2 new halves, even if they are both kids, or one kid plus Schuster, the Brooks experiment is 10 years deep and still failing.
 
Demps said:
I think we can do better than what we've currently got but the club is strangely fixated on persisting with Brooks.

Unbelievable man.
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Jedi and a few others are saying we keep Brooks because we can't get anyone better, I will say a few things on that, Brooks has never worked, so why persist, and how do we know they are not as good as Brooks. Brooks never gets dropped, has no accountability, how do we know how we play without Brooks.
Brooks may just be the handbrake to getting another half to sign, no kid wants to be stuck behind him, and no established half wants to carry the whole load as they would know Brooks is going to be no help
 
851 said:
Jedi and a few others are saying we keep Brooks because we can't get anyone better, I will say a few things on that, Brooks has never worked, so why persist, and how do we know they are not as good as Brooks. Brooks never gets dropped, has no accountability, how do we know how we play without Brooks.
Brooks may just be the handbrake to getting another half to sign, no kid wants to be stuck behind him, and no established half wants to carry the whole load as they would know Brooks is going to be no help
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Wonder if anyone has ever been honest with him and shared this info?

I gotta feel he's been praised his whole career and genuinely thinks he's good & surrounded by average players.

The club, his management and the people around him haven't done any favours for him professionally...
 
BlackWhiteGold said:
So after this NSW Cup performance with Sheens looking on, who thinks this season is the last we'll see Seyfarth, Simpkins, Laurie in Wests colours & our big halfback signing for '24 will be Kurt Falls!!!
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Seyfarth always stands out in NSW Cup and would more than hold his own at NRL level given more opportunity.
There is no doubt he will become an NRL top 17 regular elsewhere if we don’t give him that opportunity, he’s a much better player than he was 12 months ago.
I’ve always been critical of Laurie as an NRL fullback, but I’ve been highly impressed with his attitude and effort since being back in NSW Cup this season.
I think he lacks size and sheer speed to compensate for his lack of size, but he plays with a big heart, plenty worse than him playing NRL.
 
BZN said:
Congratulations @Demps 👍 for the respect shown to @WesternSuburbsBoy who I assume is/was a Magpies fan.
Your refreshing and unbiased attitude 🙂 is a 'massive' turnaround from that of 2... ex-Forum Leaders.
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Hahaha nah mate not a Magpies fan was actually born after the merger happened but grew up in Western Sydney. My dad was a Wests fan but.
 
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Vicious said:
Seyfarth always stands out in NSW Cup and would more than hold his own at NRL level given more opportunity.
There is no doubt he will become an NRL top 17 regular elsewhere if we don’t give him that opportunity, he’s a much better player than he was 12 months ago.
I’ve always been critical of Laurie as an NRL fullback, but I’ve been highly impressed with his attitude and effort since being back in NSW Cup this season.
I think he lacks size and sheer speed to compensate for his lack of size, but he plays with a big heart, plenty worse than him playing NRL.
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I’d be happy if we kept Laurie at the club as a backup fullback there is no denying his effort and he’s super competitive
 
Vicious said:
Seyfarth always stands out in NSW Cup and would more than hold his own at NRL level given more opportunity.
There is no doubt he will become an NRL top 17 regular elsewhere if we don’t give him that opportunity, he’s a much better player than he was 12 months ago.
I’ve always been critical of Laurie as an NRL fullback, but I’ve been highly impressed with his attitude and effort since being back in NSW Cup this season.
I think he lacks size and sheer speed to compensate for his lack of size, but he plays with a big heart, plenty worse than him playing NRL.
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Laurie was really good, Wests had no ball, possession was almost 70/30 to Penrith, and Wests played the last 10 minutes with 11 men.
Garner blew past Blore to score 2 tries, Reilly dropped the ball far too often, there was not much to get excited about in that team.
 
WesternSuburbsBoy said:
Hahaha nah mate not a Magpies fan was actually born after the merger happened but grew up in Western Sydney. My dad was a Wests fan but.
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Wow...I reckon You must be one of the youngest posters on here.
Western Sydney was a great part of Sydney when I was born there over 70 years ago. Much too crowded now for my liking. I now live in a regional area well north of Sydney.
I hope You have a long and happy stay on the WTF.
 
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