Signings, Suggestions & Rumours Discussion

[Fainu Brothers]

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Poor bloke. Unlucky for the Dogs. Hopefully he makes a return. As for Jeremy Marshall King he wasnt much chop when he left, was a slow burn at the Dogs and has turned into a decent starting 9. No way he is coming here to play understudy to Api.

 

[Halbrowne61]

Poor bloke. Unlucky for the Dogs. Hopefully he makes a return. As for Jeremy Marshall King he wasnt much chop when he left, was a slow burn at the Dogs and has turned into a decent starting 9. No way he is coming here to play understudy to Api.

I kinda think we’ve got the hooker position covered.

 

[Tucker]

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Another young gun introduced too early whose body can’t hack it.

 

[innsaneink]

Benji had at least 3 so he'll be OK.

And dwyer only ever had one... Comparing means nothing

 

[tony soprano]

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Super coach ciraldo played as a 13 and he injured his neck.

 

[Halbrowne61]

Anyone know if we re-signed Staines?

Excellent question C, very little info about Charlie since he got injured ( the second time).
I’d like to think we have coz he didn’t do much wrong this season.
Anyone out in Tigerland got any mail ?

 

[Halbrowne61]

Super coach ciraldo played as a 13 and he injured his neck.

Wow T, sorry scoop, what a coincidence.
Maybe it’s a Canterbury curse ! 😆

 

[Fainu Brothers]

Wow T, sorry scoop, what a coincidence.
Maybe it’s a Canterbury curse ! 😆

Hate Gus and that Dud coach Ciraldo (trent Barrett 2.0). I really hope we make the climb up the ladder before they do. And they continue to “build within” and try sign anyone with a heartbeat

 

[Halbrowne61]

Seems he's been in at concord Training a bit this off season....
Another reason he should be kept.

Maybe Bellamy sent him a training plan to prepare him for move south ?

 

[Halbrowne61]

I love Bula. Thought he was amazing this year, particular playing in a pretty poor backline. I loved his fitness and how his body stood up to a fair bit of attention. He's talented and I hope he will be a really good first grader and hopefully our long term fullback, but generational talent? That's a pretty high bar to jump.

My concern with Bula is what I call second year syndrome. Whenever a new guy breaks into the top grade and gets the big bucks, his follow up season can be quite patchy, for a variety of reasons.
I think he’s going to get targeted a lot more this year and being lightly framed, hope he doesn’t get too much punishment.
Remember a similar thing happened to Teddy, who will ever forget Ryan James breaking his jaw at LO. Pleaded accidental but I was directly in line and believe me he had destruction in his eyes.
I hope Bula gets through ok and had another good year and puts my syndrome to bed.
We need both wingers working hard out of the back field to take some pressure off him.

 

[Betterdays22]

My concern with Bula is what I call second year syndrome. Whenever a new guy breaks into the top grade and gets the big bucks, his follow up season can be quite patchy, for a variety of reasons.
I think he’s going to get targeted a lot more this year and being lightly framed, hope he doesn’t get too much punishment.
Remember a similar thing happened to Teddy, who will ever forget Ryan James breaking his jaw at LO. Pleaded accidental but I was directly in line and believe me he had destruction in his eyes.
I hope Bula gets through ok and had another good year and puts my syndrome to bed.
We need both wingers working hard out of the back field to take some pressure off him.

I agree. Good sign is I thought he was targeted pretty heavily second half of last year and seemed to stand up to it. Don't think Nofo is the guy you want taking the heavy work off Bula.

 

[Betterdays22]

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If this was the Tigers they would absolutely cop it

 

[Tucker]

My concern with Bula is what I call second year syndrome. Whenever a new guy breaks into the top grade and gets the big bucks, his follow up season can be quite patchy, for a variety of reasons.

You do realise that this phrase has been around for ages and you didn’t coin it?

 

[crazycat]

I'm all in on Bula at 1, but if medical reports on Paps ankle are positive, he would be huge for us. Imagine Bula and Staines on the right, Toa and Tupou on the left, with Paps' speed and ball playing chiming into the backline? We could tear teams apart if our halves get it right.

So, Hypothetical...

What if we swapped Tupou and Bula in 2023. Would we be praising Tupou's work at nr1 and lamenting how many tries Bula let through on the wing? Honestly would we?

Paps would be huge for us. He is broken, he could add something to the team. Latrell played in the final game for souths from the bench. He hardened the Souths defense and looking on got a better team.

I don't think we should sign Paps (unless he comes for stupid low money. 400k a season, ofcourse).

Bula has done great at Fullback. Yet I can remember Cronk saying of Slater "no one picks up how much work Billy does for us in defense". Bula is in his rookie year. He doesn't have Fullback sense, he is learning to 'read plays' not perfect his defensive positioning.

It would be great to get someone like Paps or Gutho to help guide Bula. Everyone was for Daine Laurie till the stat's showed he wasn't bringing the ball back fast enough and we were loosing meters. I am still for Daine Laurie because a better coach would have picked up that he wasn't bringing the ball back fast enough and I would vastly prefer Laurie > Sullivan (I know Contriversial. Sullivan prove me wrong).

We really need an experienced back to get our position and backline defense sorted. Olam is my pick, but I could see Paps working nicely... except there is no way we can afford him.

 

[crazycat]

You do realise that this phrase has been around for ages and you didn’t coin it?

Hey, he joined in 2022. What kind of standard do you expect from the poster here?

 

[The Chad]

You do realise that this phrase has been around for ages and you didn’t coin it?

You know when you hear something, but nobody reacts, even though it's blatantly weird or worthy of comment, and you question yourself?

Until you said something I was starting to doubt myself.

 

[tony soprano]

My concern with Bula is what I call second year syndrome. Whenever a new guy breaks into the top grade and gets the big bucks, his follow up season can be quite patchy, for a variety of reasons.
I think he’s going to get targeted a lot more this year and being lightly framed, hope he doesn’t get too much punishment.
Remember a similar thing happened to Teddy, who will ever forget Ryan James breaking his jaw at LO. Pleaded accidental but I was directly in line and believe me he had destruction in his eyes.
I hope Bula gets through ok and had another good year and puts my syndrome to bed.
We need both wingers working hard out of the back field to take some pressure off him.

Bula walks on water according to this forum.

 

[innsaneink]

Bula is an important part of what I call our spine....the 1 6 7 9 main players who touch the ball the most and steer things around

 

[bptiger 0]

Another young gun introduced too early whose body can’t hack it.

And what have we done , put our whole future on kids , god help us

 

[earl]

Bula walks on water according to this forum.

I reckon he is pretty good but he hasn't shown that explosive ability to dominate a game like the top players and fullbacks do.

I'd like to see Papenhuyzen here to give us some elite speed and somehow fit both of them in. Papenhuyzen has shown that ability to dominate a game.

Sure he'd be a risk but at his best he is elite.