Signings, Suggestions & Rumours Discussion

Olam is a spent entity and signing him would be worse than signing James Roberts. Losing Blore for him would be ridiculous. Blore was pushing for starting spot with us and Olam was playing QLD cup. One is on the up coming off his first relatively full season and showed a ton of promise and the other clearly fell off a mile. Terrible business if we do it.
 
Roar_Power said:
Unfortunately I think Matamua will be caught between the cracks. Touted as the next big thing, only to be lost as younger guys like Laulilii come through the ranks.
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It will all come down to this year. He will have every chance to figure it out this season and Kit is still only on dev squad so Justin will have one year and one year only to demonstrate he shouldn't be swept aside for Kit. I agree with you I think Kit is the better prospect for NRL. Justin has "ESL star" energy.
 
426Tlgerland said:
Needs to be moved on along with Tumeth
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Our younger players require an incentive to stay or they'd be off to a stronger club. It doesn't mean they don't have the talent to play NRL, just that they require time to develop. Tumeth looked very comfortable in the NRL trial and defended strongly.
 
a_dog said:
It will all come down to this year. He will have every chance to figure it out this season and Kit is still only on dev squad so Justin will have one year and one year only to demonstrate he shouldn't be swept aside for Kit. I agree with you I think Kit is the better prospect for NRL. Justin has "ESL star" energy.
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Kit will be able to play this year though.
 
Todd Packer said:
As bad as Matamua was I thought it was a pretty low act to not put him back on for the final 10 minutes and give him a chance to redeem himself.
The game was done.
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Playing 9 has exposed a lot of flaws I'm his game.

Just nt sure how much of that was due to playing out of position at 9.
 
tigermate said:
lol.

The Sharks got Hynes.

The Broncos got Reynolds.

Without a controlling half we're in the bottom 4.

We don't have one.

Sullivan, Fainu -- none of them are controlling halves.

Everyone believing they are -- are living in hope and dreaming.

Without a genuine number 7 -- we're going to be back of the pack.

The ONLY HOPE we have is that Sezer somehow has some miraculous, turn the clock back, it's Sezer from 4 seasons ago season, that he hasnt had since moving overseas and that no other club could spot.

If he fails -- we're ......
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Yet that was all of 2023.
Hey Mitchell Moses, come back, Come be our halfback... Pleaze.
Hey Mitchell Pearce, follow your dads footsteps, come be our halfback
Hey Shawn Johnson, NZ extraordinare. Come be our halfback and leave NZ??

Hey XYZ player...
We looked pathetic. Whats worse:
Not only did we punt Hastings.
We had Madge, Michael McGuire. Former coach of Adam Reynolds. We could have made the offer to stay in Sydney. Adam signed with a bottom of the ladder Broncos.

But hey, clearly we wanted Hastings. Then we dinnit want him. Then???

My view, fix what we can. Backline structure, defense and tackling. That way when we get an organising half we will have the team for them.
 
How do we use Blore as a player swap? He isn’t signed up next year and we have our full 30 positions filled don’t we? Melbourne could just sign him direct. We’d need to swap someone else for Olam.
 
Tiger Stripes said:
After tonight's game I think Stef. was very ordinary. Very disappointed with his energy output/aggression.
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I didn't watch the game but he really needs to pick up his game. He has the ability to be a Petero Civoniceva prop but he needs a lot of work to get to that level.

I don't care about aggression per se. I want to see good hard runs, solid hard hitting defense and quick play the balls.
 
GNR4LIFE said:
I wouldn’t read too much into Stef’s game. Its post season and he hasn’t played in 6 weeks.
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Depends what 'to much' is. Lazy efforts in defence and only the odd decent carry. It's pretty much how he plays about 70% of his games. It's the type of performance we should expect from him at this point.
If he can ever find a way to play his best consistently he will be a heck of a front rower. Just is yet to do so.
 
a_dog said:
Olam is a spent entity and signing him would be worse than signing James Roberts. Losing Blore for him would be ridiculous. Blore was pushing for starting spot with us and Olam was playing QLD cup. One is on the up coming off his first relatively full season and showed a ton of promise and the other clearly fell off a mile. Terrible business if we do it.
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You see the thing with Olam - the space btwn the ears is operational.
 
GNR4LIFE said:
I wouldn’t read too much into Stef’s game. Its post season and he hasn’t played in 6 weeks.
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I relate him to Petero although he is nowhere near that level yet. I remember Petero taking some time to get up to form I assume because he was a big guy. I think Stef is similar. It might take him some time to get into form and then he needs a good run with injuries/suspensions.
 
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