Signings, Suggestions & Rumours Discussion

[batboy]

Who said we want to replace him with a $500k player?
I’d imagine we’d be aiming a lot higher.
Whether anything comes to fruition we’ll have to wait and see.

Having zero (0) halves signed to the club next year when you need 3-4 tells me (as it should you) that we’ll need to be buying more than one.

I hope we are aiming higher, but we tried that - got no where…
and that was when there were quality players actually off contract. The fact that there are no quality halves off contract, and we need at least 3 to run the squad leaves me at (like I said)

We won’t replace a player of Brooks calibre for 500k - despite the super coaches opinions here… we’ll be lucky to find one player of that calibre - will cost us more than 500… and, even then - we’ll still be 2 short!!

 

[crazycat]

Maybe two young guns and an old boiler to help steer them … old boiler can come on as a reserve if they’re sh*tying the bed during the game

Rookie's have a far better chance of working IF they are behind a strong pack.

Last year it was a wipeout.

This year, we could hire Tyson Frizzel + a rookie half. Looking at how Wakeham worked out, Sheens and Marshall seem to bring the best out of the halves.

Yet never hire a rookie without a strong pack to back them up.

 

[batboy]

Rookie's have a far better chance of working IF they are behind a strong pack.

Last year it was a wipeout.

This year, we could hire Tyson Frizzel + a rookie half. Looking at how Wakeham worked out, Sheens and Marshall seem to bring the best out of the halves.

Yet never hire a rookie without a strong pack to back them up.

No one has the Titans in the 8 this year - and their pack monstered ours….
Why is ours going so good?

Frizzel would help…. (Gotta get him yet)
He also made us look silly earlier in the year.

 

[Mindless_Puppet]

While talks that Brooks and Schuster would swap clubs has been denied with WT stating they have NO interest in the Manly five-eighth (SMH)

It’s down played, there was interest in Schuster (not swap) but who knows where it’s at now.

 

[Coastie_Tiger]

I just watched the 360 segment (I know) about Brooks and they all thought our offer for Brooks was about his true worth. So we can all stop arguing about his salary the rugby league oracles have spoken

 

[Mindless_Puppet]

I just watched the 360 segment (I know) about Brooks and they all thought our offer for Brooks was about his true worth. So we can all stop arguing about his salary the rugby league oracles have spoken

Anasta is like god mode of footy knowledge 🤢🤮

 

[balmain boy]

I would rather put someone like Laurie, Zane Camroux, Reilly at five eighth for the remainder of this year and keep Wakeham at 7. We are more than likely not going to make the 8 so at least these guys get a shot. Brooks is gone so why waste time on him. Someone like Volkman could possibly be lured now with the right incentives, why waste time on a guy who is leaving and is poo.

Utter insanity.
We don't have any halves prospects over the age of 17.
You'd rather lose every match for the rest of the season and make ourselves an extremely unattractive option for players? We have to pick our best available players until perhaps the last week or two.
Wakeham and Camroux would be our worst ever halves pairing and we'd probably lose every match by at least 40 points...

 

[tigerap]

No way in the world we should entertain upping our offer and getting Isaac Moses into full contract swing mode, he will play us all over again

It’s a poker match between Issac Moses and the WT…which is why Moses got Brooks to call Bunji, so the club panics….The club will not budge on its offer to Brooks…

 

[Telltails]

It’s a poker match between Issac Moses and the WT…which is why Moses got Brooks to call Bunji, so the club panics….The club will not budge on its offer to Brooks…

Yes - Never thought for a minute Moses was ever going to allow Brooks to sign off on the first offer of a significantly reduced contract at this club, whether he stays or not. What will be interesting is the noise he tries to generate around interest from other clubs. I expect to hear leaks of offers and interest coming from everywhere - how much of that is true will remain to be seen largely on where he ends up.

 

[tony soprano]

Funny - Brooks money wasn’t mentioned until last season… by anyone.
Reading here you’d think he’s been on 1.2 million dollars for the last 10 years,..
He’s had a couple years on overs - and a couple years on unders early on,..

No matter how you look at it
- We CAN NOT replace Luke Brooks for 500k…
Won’t happen - even second stringers are on close to that…

Seems like the Titian's game changed a lot of things.

 

[supercoach]

The funny thing Brooks would have got a fat inflated contract if we had signed MM as Issac Moses would have used his contract to get inflated deals for his other clients. In a way Issac Moses has sold Brooks up the river

 

[tony soprano]

The funny thing Brooks would have got a fat inflated contract if we had signed MM as Issac Moses would have used his contract to get inflated deals for his other clients. In a way Issac Moses has sold Brooks up the river

we usually out bid ourself.

 

[Spartan117]

I just watched the 360 segment (I know) about Brooks and they all thought our offer for Brooks was about his true worth. So we can all stop arguing about his salary the rugby league oracles have spoken

Totally Agree with the assessment.

People get emotional because he is a Great guy. (He's one my Absolute Favs)

We need a better Halfback / Quarterback. A decision maker. A Leader

Past performance IS A Future indicator.

Dont believe the Managers Propaganda and the Click bait

 

[CornerPost]

Just throwing up some ideas for discussion.. looking at realistic options for 24-25, halves and a outside back seem to be a priority.. leaving out trindal and Metcalf as it's unlikely their clubs wouldn't let them go (I know we wouldn't).. 7-TeMairi Martin.. Smart, good short kicking game, calming influence, ex tiger.. 6- Conner Tracy.. played in the halves all his juniors, very quick, knows the concept of a 3 on 2 🙄.. 4/5 Lachlan Miller.. Olympic 7's background, elusive, fast, great backup for Bula.. then hopefully some of our Matts and SG Ball juniors ( large,Conti, Matai etc) might've matured enough to be first graders..
1 Bula
2 Toupo
3 Toa
4 Naden/ Miller
5 Miller/ Naden
6 Tracy
7 TMM
What are some of your "realistic" options for 24-25 ?
P.S. wouldn't mind Frizell for a year or two either..

 

[gregjm87]

Just throwing up some ideas for discussion.. looking at realistic options for 24-25, halves and a outside back seem to be a priority.. leaving out trindal and Metcalf as it's unlikely their clubs wouldn't let them go (I know we wouldn't).. 7-TeMairi Martin.. Smart, good short kicking game, calming influence, ex tiger.. 6- Conner Tracy.. played in the halves all his juniors, very quick, knows the concept of a 3 on 2 🙄.. 4/5 Lachlan Miller.. Olympic 7's background, elusive, fast, great backup for Bula.. then hopefully some of our Matts and SG Ball juniors ( large,Conti, Matai etc) might've matured enough to be first graders..
1 Bula
2 Toupo
3 Toa
4 Naden/ Miller
5 Miller/ Naden
6 Tracy
7 TMM
What are some of your "realistic" options for 24-25 ?
P.S. wouldn't mind Frizell for a year or two either..

TMM has a very limited kicking game. Not sure if Tracey is much of a kicker as he has been stuck in the centres but I wouldn't be confident of him being released after what happened with Dykes/Miller this year.
The most likely contracted 7 I think we could get, with a kicking game and some NRL experience, is Toby Sexton.
There are a heap of untried obtainable 6s playing decent Reggie's footy. Maybe look at someone like Atkinson (Sharks/Jets) or Robinson (South's Logan), might work out but wouldn't have overly high hopes.

 

[TigerNeddyK]

My point being you said it was a reasonable offer, I don't believe the reported $550K is reasonable if he can get $700K or $800K elsewhere. He may have been happy to take a lower than market offer, but it seems we lowballed him. Hence my point, we shall see, if he gets the $800K or you are right and he is only able to attract offers around $500K

Mate, we dodged a FREaKING bullet .. 11 years of Brooks choking whenever the game is on the line !! Stuff that .. I’m glad he’s gone .. happiest ive been in years ..

 

[TigerNeddyK]

Funny - Brooks money wasn’t mentioned until last season… by anyone.
Reading here you’d think he’s been on 1.2 million dollars for the last 10 years,..
He’s had a couple years on overs - and a couple years on unders early on,..

No matter how you look at it
- We CAN NOT replace Luke Brooks for 500k…
Won’t happen - even second stringers are on close to that…

OMG .. plenty of better players playing Q cup halves and KOE cup .. brooks has played us into 10 years of no finals .. stats do not lie in this case

 

[Betterdays22]

Can't see any club with halves in the mix for origin releasing any genuine back up players until the origin period is finished. Parra, Sharks, Dragons for example. That takes us up past the June 30 deadline to sign players for this year. I am so worried about where this year is headed and what impact that might have on a) player morale and b) potential signings for next year.

Roster management (when it comes to the halves) has been so so poor this year, and as a consequence this season is yet again a write off.

 

[CornerPost]

TMM has a very limited kicking game. Not sure if Tracey is much of a kicker as he has been stuck in the centres but I wouldn't be confident of him being released after what happened with Dykes/Miller this year.
The most likely contracted 7 I think we could get, with a kicking game and some NRL experience, is Toby Sexton.
There are a heap of untried obtainable 6s playing decent Reggie's footy. Maybe look at someone like Atkinson (Sharks/Jets) or Robinson (South's Logan), might work out but wouldn't have overly high hopes.

I think? Atkinson just resigned by Cronulla that's why I thought Tracey might be looking for an opportunity.. haven't seen much of Sexton since he was dropped.. no nothing about Robertson but I'll keep an eye out.. hopefully better than Pellow.. Fulton needs to earn his money by sounds of it..

 

[jirskyr]

It’s a poker match between Issac Moses and the WT…which is why Moses got Brooks to call Bunji, so the club panics….The club will not budge on its offer to Brooks…

It's interesting that as soon as Brooks announced he was going to market, most of the clubs in question distanced themselves.

That's not to say they aren't interested of course, but I think it does tell you that he's not going to swan into a new team on a big salary, because they know he's not negotiating from a position of power.