People underestimate what playing alongside such close bonds can do.
No argument there, I agree.
not particularly. prioritising a player out of the pathways over guys like Feledy, Craig, Makasini and potentially Large is the wrong way to go about things. De Courcey's a good player but we have players at a similar level, if not better.
What’s changed in a year? Papali’i is only 25, it’s not like he’s past his prime. When he was tearing it up at the Eels, I doubt anyone would have thought he could be trade bait after one season here. I’d love to get AFB here, but if a player Papali’i can flounder at our club, so can he.
I mostly agree
I think Simpkin is the only player in our squad that is surplus to us, yet could be of value to another club.
Getting rid of Klemmer to bring in AFB only marginally improves our position. Moving other players to bring in AFB and have him work with Klemmer, makes us way stronger.
We need to keep guys who actually want to be at our club & Stef is one of those guys. He has aspirations of captaining this club one day & he's not someone we should even consider letting go.
You wouldn’t know he played Origin this year.
I'll be the first to admit he didn't have the greatest season but tell me other then Api, Klem & Jahream which players did? Everyone keeps talking about trading Ice when he was the best back rower in the comp in 21/22
It’s ridiculous. If it was two poor years, maybe, but he was the most damaging forward in the game in those two years. That’s a fact.
I still reckon the underperformance of many of our players last year got down to the reality of WT having abysmal halves unable to set up plays nor give crucial passes for gap runners. Hopefully addressed with our new halves for 24 season- fingers crossed.
Agents and other randoms leak all sorts of crap to the media all the time, sure, but most of it is utter crap designed to make their client look better/more valuable at the expense of anything and anyone else.
Couldn't have hurt, we are very light on outside backs and more depth is never a bad thing
Unfortunately you always look better getting good ball from a quality half. I think that’s the answer to the change, as Chris Lawrence found out always running on to a pass into a brick wall.
I think the club has been trying with Nofa, Simpkin & AJ but nothing has eventuated of mutual benefit.
Was he?? I watched a parra game late in the season before he came to us, and it could have even been a semi final, and he missed a tackle in every try the opposition scored.
Sukkar already top 30 bra
