Signings, Suggestions & Rumours Discussion

The Chad said:
Mataulino was very good, when fit. Cleary signed smart. Even Packer was a smart signing. The issue was CLEARY LEAVING.

Mataulino's knee was the only thing that stopped him & he medically retired instead of holding on. Packer was ALWAYS Cleary's guy, and once Ivan left, Packer lost his way. Maguire never really clicked with him obviously & the rest is history.

Cleary's signings were not bad. Josh Reynolds, when he was on the field, was very good. What made Reynolds a bad signing? Re-signing Benji. It had to be one or the other, or let Brooks go.

Cleary had a plan. He just bailed once a better one became available.

Taylor wasn't popular, but he had zero funds & a poor squad & a core group of players with a manager that notoriously causes issues. He wasn't exciting, but he can develop & spot talent. He's also responsible for Alex Twal being a Tiger- and got some of the best out of him too.
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Look, I agree with you.

Reynolds wasn't a bad signing, especially considering WHERE WE WERE! 20/20 hindsight, he was a Horrible signing. Yet we were a team that lost our Big 4 (bar Brooks) and lost Taupau/ Ryan Pappenheusen/JAC/ every star bar Nofo and Brooks! Seriously that is bad. Ofcourse we should have looked at James Maloney instead of Reynolds, yet Maloney may not have come here. Maloney doesn't come, maybe Benji doesn't come back.

I totally agree with you, the bad signing sadly was Mbye. yes he still took the field but he never provided 700k worth of value to the team. Sometimes 200k, sometimes 400-500k but never that "gun that wins games".

just on Taylor: "Taylor wasn't popular, but he had zero funds & a poor squad & a core group of players"
Taupau, Moses, Brooks, Nofo, Suli (for however many months), Pat Richardson (who Taylor punted), Woodsy when he was good, Blair may have still been around... Taylor had something and something more then our other coaches IMHO
 
Speaking with a roosters friend who is in the know Joseph Suaalii is all but out the door this year uncle Nick wants him gone ASAP so maybe a few weeks left but the other bit of information I have is that Brandon Smith is off side with the whole Rooster's squad and he has a few weeks to fix everything he has done off field wrong or bye bye they want to bash the you know what out of him for what he has done to other players in the squad they are refusing to play with him

He has been a very naught boy
 
Odessa said:
Speaking with a roosters friend who is in the know Joseph Suaalii is all but out the door this year uncle Nick wants him gone ASAP so maybe a few weeks left but the other bit of information I have is that Brandon Smith is off side with the whole Rooster's squad and he has a few weeks to fix everything he has done off field wrong or bye bye they want to bash the you know what out of him for what he has done to other players in the squad they are refusing to play with him

He has been a very naught boy
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this sounds a lot like that fake whatsapp message that’s been going around
 
Odessa said:
No mate not at all he has a problem that affects many people
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I heard he has issues with gambling and the Columbian marching powder, has borrowed money from a fre players and owes quite a bit. Not sure how much truth there is to it, but that it what I have heard.
 
Odessa said:
Speaking with a roosters friend who is in the know Joseph Suaalii is all but out the door this year uncle Nick wants him gone ASAP so maybe a few weeks left but the other bit of information I have is that Brandon Smith is off side with the whole Rooster's squad and he has a few weeks to fix everything he has done off field wrong or bye bye they want to bash the you know what out of him for what he has done to other players in the squad they are refusing to play with him

He has been a very naught boy
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What has he done. Sorry I'm not up with the media.
 
batboy said:
I'm really perplexed as to where this Metcalf talk comes from....
Reaching at it's best!!

The kid can play, But any calls for him are based off less than a dozen games in the NRL - total!!
And like, 2 games in the last 18 months....
He might replace a Wakeman type,
But he's not getting a gig as a starting (certainly senior) half at any club in the immediate future.

Te Maire would be the best bet - He's got that class about him.....
But even he struggles to stay on the park (We already have AD for that)
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Look, TMM would have been a good recruit, 5 years ago. He was a Tigers Junior we punted and I don't see that experience or lift in bringing him back.

If he came back on massive Unders, sure. Brisbane is doing much better without him and we don't need him.
 
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