Signings, Suggestions & Rumours Discussion

Spartan117 said:
Firstly, Voldemort - He who can not be named (That's serously funny)

Secondly, Dont forget Brandan Wakeham for the majority of the year.

Im hoping for a much better showing than 15th. Our Leadership/Decision Making on the park cost us at least 4x games. That changes everything

Im a thinking 11th on 2024...
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Yes he totally under played the importance of leadership and on field crucial decisions that the halves make.

A lot of times thats the difference between winning and losing.

Its why we have moved on a guy who couldnt get it done and taking a 1.2 million jump into Luai.
 
hammertime said:
I think we can wait to see how things pan out first before jumping onto an outside back. We've got a few blokes who might grab some of those spots. Naveen, feledy, Aliamo and Lobb. We've also got doueihi coming back and Galvin who might start there. I'm not giving up on naden either.

If we can offload noffa, then maybe, but otherwise I'd be patient and see if anyone leaps up first.

Given where we are at, it's a year to try to unearth a diamond. Not overpay for an established player.
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It really does show how bad that Nofa contract is for us, it is hamstringing WT development of players.

I saw somewhere in an article somewhat recently that Nofa wasnt interested in trying to look elsewhere in NRL, not interested in ESL, just wants to sit back and loaf at WT biding out his time, If thats true, bearing in mind his negative actions for the team / team spirit, I'd just get rid of him- pay him out and be gone with him.
 
Some points from this morning's SEN interview with Richo:

* Luai sent over the signed paper work the night before (2nd of January). Richo was aware that Luai wanted to hold a press conference, but had no idea when. He was made aware of the press conference at 10am yesterday morning
* "(Luai) is an exciting person to have on board .. a game changer for us"
* Luai wants to be face of the club and he is a massive coup for us marketing-wise
* Richo hinted that Bulldogs were very much in the picture to land Luai's signature
* "Young Galvin is going to be a superstar .. young Latu is going to be a superstar"
* "Luao" (I wonder how long it will take for him to say Luai's name correctly)
* "(the squad) is not as balanced as we would like it"
* "We'll change a fair few things .. we already have .. over the next week we'll change other things .. which will come out .. new signings and a few other things .. with staff and that"
* "How Benji is as a coach we will find out over the next few years"
* "I've got a very good vision of where I want us to go"
 
My takeaways from Richo interview:
* Luai didn’t sign a contract with us until last night, he informed the media he will do a press conference at 10am ish (before club sent announcement out)
* Richo son is best mates with Ciraldo and up until last night didn’t know if he was coming or heading to bulldogs.
* roster and staff changes to be announced over next 7 days.
* mentioned development spot free that needs to be filled
* subtle hint re Fainu and Galvin as 5/8ths mention both as superstars, interesting that Sullivan was an after thought
* Richo focus is governance and structure to simplify/manage over next 60 days get it going before season starts to take pressure off the footy side.
* did mention changes to happen on pathways, development side
* Richo isn’t comfortable with the balance of the roster next 12mths will be of focus to mould it into something for next 2-3 years, he did point out this year we need to win games.
* expect changes in our media area, he made specific mention on that.
* when asked about expectations for this year he didn’t set one, took total pressure off the coach/team on this one


Its really refreshing to hear a proper CEO lead us he just controls the media brilliantly and they listen/respect him.

It’s early days, people talk about players and coaches being the best signings a club makes to win more but Richo could very well be our best.
 
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