Signings, Suggestions & Rumours Discussion

Don’t think it’s desperate to identify talent before they are worth more.

He’s a decent chance to play for the Wallabies in the next year or 2.

Anyways, obviously not saying there isn't a risk associated, but not a bad gable to take the risk before value goes up.
Are you suggesting top 30?
 
Also, one player doesn’t work out and you can the idea all together? With that mentality you’d never sign a centre from NZ ever again due to Kepaoa.

Will Warbrick - a winger from NZ 7s. Melbourne saw the physical qualities needed, had patience and developed him.

It was actually really poor d by his opposite. Stops and is caught flat footed. Always way going to be beaten on the outside.
Just watch it, moves up in d and plants both feet. Nothing about a little swerve.
 
Are you suggesting top 30?
I think if he has a good year in 15 a side and proves that he can find gaps with less space, defend, kick pass (which most of our outside backs can’t do), then I don’t see why not. He’s a genuine player, not just a sprinter who plays rugby. He’s a great player who just happens to be really fast.
Benji signed a player who is mid to late 20s in playing provincial rugby in NZ.
 
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It was actually really poor d by his opposite. Stops and is caught flat footed. Always way going to be beaten on the outside.
Just watch it, moves up in d and plants both feet. Nothing about a little swerve.
Maybe, but I’ve seen him do it many other times.

Anyways, the point is we should be identifying talent. We need to understand where these players actually come from, their backgrounds etc
Being compared to another ex GPS sprinter who played 7s is a bit shortsighted.
The Roosters are signing talented players from rugby too. As did with RTS.
 
Why aren't we looking at Taylan May... He was a bit of a dropkick but seems to have metres and his game.has come on.hugely
100% to the minimum value rule. Souths and Easts have roarted this hugely...

Yet I put this, we can't go chasing Taylan May and Fox at the same time. Sure we can look at the Fox and we have the room on our wing.

Personally we should stay put on recruiting. We have so many players with ???
Sullivan ????? (Gun, ok or nothing.)
Fainu ???? still in reserve grade.
Sezer is he a Geezer or Turkey power?

That's just our halves. Will our forward pack keep punching on or do we need to upgrade someone?
Will our backline collapse?

Lets hold off recruiting anyone else just till we know what we are dealing with. 8 games in we will know where we suck:
backs (I suspect our weakness)
Halves (no idea how they will go).
Forward pack... (decent, may need improvement).

We need to see what team we have after all our recruitment efforts.
 
So the club signed one long shot guy from rugby, once, a decade ago, presumably for almost no money... and because that didn't work out you think we should never even contemplate the idea again?
Actually Tigers have signed several rugby blokes as speculators in the past few seasons. John Grant but also Jesse Parahi from the 7s team, Tristan Reilly and we gave the Randwick captain Ben Houston a train-and-trial for a year.

And just now we signed Alaimo from NZ rugby.

So I'm not saying don't do it, but it's definitely not a once-a-decade gamble.
 
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