OFFICIAL Jarome Luai - #295

I see you've put your villains cape back on now
that he's signed, Mr Contrarian. You're mad to
think that the Panthers view him as 'expendable'.
They offered him 3 years but the $$$ fell short
What are you taking about? He’s the best signing we’ve ever made. But they offered him less money cos they prioritised others ahead of him.
 
We were all frothing at the idea of getting Mitchell Moses as an organising half. Luai got 2 less Try assists than Moses last year and 3 more Line break assists than Moses last year. In a team with Cleary the dominant playmaker, they are impressive stats.
They are interesting stats given with the loss of Kikau the Panthers attack took a while to get going and a lot of the plays were redirected to the right side of the field until they promoted Sorensen into the starting side. He also had Peachy outside him for a lot of the year and newby Turuva.
 
I consider Moses the better player, however Luai is the better fit imo.
Disagree, Moses has a better long kicking game. But truth be told that only came about after he spent a season working with Andrew Johns.
Luai has a decent kick on him but hard for it to stand out alongside Nathan. It needs to be the focus in preseason 25. And we would do worse to look to hire a premier kicking half to work alongside our halves in the preseason.
 
Penrith were banking on Luai's loyalty to stay,
his coach publicly derided him and then they
went and prioritised others over him. Their loss
our gain - whichever way you look at it. He's class
I wouldn’t say it was banking on his Loyalty that was part of it I guess, but I they were expecting that he would be content to be like 99% of the rest of the players in the competition and play a role in a successful set up.
 
I wouldn’t say it was banking on his Loyalty that was part of it I guess, but I they were expecting that he would be content to be like 99% of the rest of the players in the competition and play a role in a successful set up.
If anything, they were hoping.
 
It was a perplexing call at the time, which became a stupid call as it continued to drag out.
I think you’re 100% right. Cleary will rue the way he handled this.

Ivan Cleary is the guy we have to thank. In an effort to try and scare off any buyers for Luai, by questioning his ability to control a team, he actually gave Luai the motivation to look elsewhere. If he took another approach and praised Luai he may just have been happy to take unders and stay put.

Thank you Ivan, not only did we finally nail a big fish, but we have a big fish who will want to prove a point and rub his last boss’s nose in it. You can’t buy motivation like that

It was a perplexing call at the time, which became a stupid call as it continued to drag out.
I think you’re 100% right. Cleary will rue the way he handled this.
It was so unnecessary. He could have completely ignored it or said he'd be ok or "we'll wait and see". But he went out and provided motivation to a player who feeds off it by saying it's a risk which no doubt is directly infiltrating the player market negatively and could have made Jarome earn less for his family in the future. Very inconsiderate and unethical. Ivan may have intended it to get rid of Jarome so Nathan can own the team fully, but if he intended to keep him, Ivan must have been drunk again. Because there's no way you make those comments if you want to keep him
 
I see you've put your villains cape back on now
that he's signed, Mr Contrarian. You're mad to
think that the Panthers view him as 'expendable'.
They offered him 3 years but the $$$ fell short
Penrith offered Luai 850K (same as Edwards and Yeo). Luai responded "KnowYourWorth" on insta, and now he's got a 5 year 1.2 million dollar deal in a rare bracket of players
 
What are you taking about? He’s the best signing we’ve ever made. But they offered him less money cos they prioritised others ahead of him.
They offered luai the same as Edwards and Yeo. All on 850K. And while I rate luai as a better player outside the penrith system, edwards and yeo are way more important to penrith's play style than luai is
 
Disagree, Moses has a better long kicking game. But truth be told that only came about after he spent a season working with Andrew Johns.
Luai has a decent kick on him but hard for it to stand out alongside Nathan. It needs to be the focus in preseason 25. And we would do worse to look to hire a premier kicking half to work alongside our halves in the preseason.
Peter Breen (Rugby Bricks) has been spending a stack of time with our boys this offseason, to the point where I think he may even be on the coaching staff. I'll post his Insta below, there is a stack of content of him with our boys at Concord.


a lot of Breen's work focuses around the overall striking of the ball and accuracy. Marshall, Morris and Farah have enough footballing IQ to ensure the halves put the ball where it is required.
 

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