Signings, Suggestions & Rumours Discussion

[Spartan117]

I am confident based on maths
We put 66 pts on cowboys with their origin stars
Next cowboys go close to beating Parra without their origin stars
Next Cowboys thrash Storm 45-20 with their origin stars and we almost beat Raiders who had won 6 out of last 7 and without the refs howler should have . Tigers win !

Im not so sure. 66 was a once off.

We have been winning the Stats for many of our Games this year (Which is great news)

Knights
Eels
Manly
Raiders

All these games were there for the taking.

No more excuses - We need to win these Games

 

[The-moP]

Alamoti looks to be a second row forward in waiting. He is slow.

He's quite stocky for a 19 year old .. i reckon a ball running lock .. with plenty of speed.

 

[851]

Im not so sure. 66 was a once off.

We have been winning the Stats for many of our Games this year (Which is great news)

Knights
Eels
Manly
Raiders

All these games were there for the taking.

No more excuses - We need to win these Games

And with a good 7, we would have won those games, therein lies our problem

 

[earl]

He can barely catch.....
Yet every second fan rates him??

He's not in the top 3 current centres or the top 4 back rowers at the club
- Why he still gets a run is beyond me?

He has his moments. He is big and fast. He also makes dumb mistakes and we saw last week how the ball can hit his chest and he still drops it.

I think he is a pretty good squad member and pretty good coverage off the bench.

 

[The-moP]

He can barely catch.....
Yet every second fan rates him??

He's not in the top 3 current centres or the top 4 back rowers at the club
- Why he still gets a run is beyond me?

Kepaoa .. is a winger/centre trapped in a backrowers body .. once he realises how big and strong he is, he could as damaging as Olakau'atu or Kolomatangi are for Manly and Souths.

Crikey i see the Bunnies are starting with Shaquai Mitchell at lock this weekend .. that's a damn big lock .. just wondering if he's got the stamina to go the distance .. they are up against the Snap Dragons and try to bash them out the game with all their big boys.

 

[tigerballs]

360 mentioned manly players tigers looking at fainu brothers and Haumole Olakau'atu.

2025

 

[batboy]

Kepaoa .. is a winger/centre trapped in a backrowers body .. once he realises how big and strong he is, he could as damaging as Olakau'atu or Kolomatangi are for Manly and Souths.

Crikey i see the Bunnies are starting with Shaquai Mitchell at lock this weekend .. that's a damn big lock .. just wondering if he's got the stamina to go the distance .. they are up against the Snap Dragons and try to bash them out the game with all their big boys.

Na.... Those mentioned can catch.
Benji has been gone for years - And he was putting balls down from Benji, Still putting them down.
Moreso, He doesn't stop to recover the dropped balls.... Runs it out downfield like he's just run the hundred in the comm games.
Zero urgency, Not a lot of skill.....

Can bark at the opposition on his way off after getting sent for stupidity though - That's something I guess?

 

[batboy]

And with a good 7, we would have won those games, therein lies our problem

Or even better performances from our Centres, Back Rowers, Fullbacks and Wingers...
Which we're now getting.

Of course - You're right though,
Next time we should get a halfback that can teach blokes with an NRL Contract to catch.

 

[Mighty_Tiger]

360 mentioned manly players tigers looking at fainu brothers and Haumole Olakau'atu.

Technically can’t offer until Nov but wouldn’t surprise if we aren’t aiming for 25 form some big shifts

19 of our current squad will either be gone or off contract potentially by then. Leaves alot of spots and cash to invest in.

 

[tony soprano]

2025

Yeh doesn't help they are contracted.

 

[tony soprano]

Technically can’t offer until Nov but wouldn’t surprise if we aren’t aiming for 25 form some big shifts

19 of our current squad will either be gone or off contract potentially by then. Leaves alot of spots and cash to invest in.

So players signed until 2025 can sign elsewhere November this year?

 

[Halbrowne61]

Nah that is just a standard response

Well I thought the most interesting thing was that he’s just completed the purchase of a new home in Newy. I’d say that’s a clincher.

 

[Halbrowne61]

Pretty sure Staines said the excact same and a few weeks later he was a Tiger.
Did Hastings say the same thing about staying here?

Thought he said he’d like to, but not sure he said he was.

 

[clontarfkid]

Technically can’t offer until Nov but wouldn’t surprise if we aren’t aiming for 25 form some big shifts

19 of our current squad will either be gone or off contract potentially by then. Leaves alot of spots and cash to invest in.

Forwards arent our highest priority,but Olaka from Manly is a potential Kikau or better,and much prefer him to a frizzled Frizell going on 33..we have plenty of experience in the pack already.
What position do the Fainu brothers play,and how close are they to NRL...good for 7 in 2024?

 

[jirskyr]

So why the hell did we shaft joffa , talk about putting the cart before the horse, crazy shit

Where did anyone say we released Joffa expressly to sign Frizell?

 

[851]

Or even better performances from our Centres, Back Rowers, Fullbacks and Wingers...
Which we're now getting.

Of course - You're right though,
Next time we should get a halfback that can teach blokes with an NRL Contract to catch.

Bang all you like about can't catch can't teach, doesn't make a lot of sense when arguing why we lost those early games, we were in a position to win them all, bar the Bronco's game, I would say it happened again last week against the Raiders, a good half would have got us home, or at the very least GP. Cronk, Alexander, Gallen, Parker and I could go on, all said we had no idea how to close the games out, Cronk especially was saying our halves should have got us home

 

[tony soprano]

Forwards arent our highest priority,but Olaka from Manly is a potential Kikau or better,and much prefer him to a frizzled Frizell going on 33..we have plenty of experience in the pack already.
What position do the Fainu brothers play,and how close are they to NRL...good for 7 in 2024?

One is forward, haven't seen much of him. He played In the centres against us due to injury. He's more built like a second rower but not sure what his preferred position is.

The other one is a half 6 or 7 and looks very likely.
Limited to no NRL games so would need some development.

 

[Camel2281]

One is forward, haven't seen much of him. He played In the centres against us due to injury. He's more built like a second rower but not sure what his preferred position is.

The other one is a half 6 or 7 and looks very likely.
Limited to no NRL games so would need some development.

The one who plays half is not even old enough to play NRL yet. He's started playing cup and is currently 17

 

[boonboon]

The one who plays half is not even old enough to play NRL yet. He's started playing cup and is currently 17

Turned 18 last week

 

[batboy]

Bang all you like about can't catch can't teach, doesn't make a lot of sense when arguing why we lost those early games, we were in a position to win them all, bar the Bronco's game, I would say it happened again last week against the Raiders, a good half would have got us home, or at the very least GP. Cronk, Alexander, Gallen, Parker and I could go on, all said we had no idea how to close the games out, Cronk especially was saying our halves should have got us home

Half did get us home, He didn't drop the ball from the short kick or give away the penalty....
He didn't get caught with the ball from dummy half moving wide at the death either.

I can't wait until we sign up these halves with a faultless 80 minutes you blokes all seem to think exist.