Signings, Suggestions & Rumours Discussion

teddy23 said:
Angus Crichton will end up in Rugby unfortunately. Pretty much inevitable.

If we want an edge forward however, look no further than Helium Luki..... Benji/Morris/Farah/Heighno and the boys can give Todd a call and try get something done.

Finefueiki and Nanai have those 2 edge rower spots locked up for the next decade.
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Wanted Luki a few years back also.
He has had some bad luck injury wise but he is quality and has a high work rate that is effective.

Thought we were after Finefueiki?
 
Mighty_Tiger said:
Wanted Luki a few years back also.
He has had some bad luck injury wise but he is quality and has a high work rate that is effective.

Thought we were after Finefueiki?
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We are zero chance of getting Luke who I just read has te-signed with the Ciwboys or Finefueki.
Both will stay with Cowboys long term, we have to make our recruitment targets more realistic.
 
Vicious said:
We are zero chance of getting Luke who I just read has te-signed with the Ciwboys or Finefueki.
Both will stay with Cowboys long term, we have to make our recruitment targets more realistic.
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It’s interesting because they have a major logjam forming something will have to give for them - can’t see one of them wanting to be a bench player for a few years.
 
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Mighty_Tiger said:
It’s interesting because they have a major logjam forming something will have to give for them - can’t see one of them wanting to be a bench player for a few years.
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You could be right, but the way I see it we will be struggling to attract anyone who is a top 17 regular at their current club.
That’s not the end of the world as there is plenty of quality who are not currently on their teams top 17, they are the players we should be targeting contracted or not.
 
Vicious said:
You could be right, but the way I see it we will be struggling to attract anyone who is a top 17 regular at their current club.
That’s not the end of the world as there is plenty of quality who are not currently on their teams top 17, they are the players we should be targeting contracted or not.
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That’s not the case though.

We managed to lure Papa, Api, Klemmer, Olam, Bateman, Fainu and Luai. It’s clear we can attract players now. We were close on AFB as well.

The key is the right players and balance whilst ensuring the development squad supporting them can develop.
 
Camel2281 said:
Angus Crichton now is still 3 X Seyfarth
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The thing is, you have absolutely no idea if that's true or not. He missed a chunk of last season with mental health issues and some pretty frightening rumours about what might be behind those. When he did play last season, he scored once in 13 games (yes, that's not the only stat that matters but it's not nothing that his try scoring rate has gone from one in two or three games in 2020-21 to one in four then one in 13), he's been left out of the round one team by the Roosters and he's a small back rower in his late 20s with the accumulation of injuries that implies. Maybe he's still good but you absolutely cannot definitively say he is given there are more red flags flying than a military parade in the USSR.

What you mean is: Angus Crichton in 2021 was 3x Seyfarth. Now, he might still be but equally he could be 1.5x Seyfarth or 0.5x or 0x. You've no idea. What you can be 100% sure of is that he'd be 3x Seyfarth's salary. The idea that we might end up with Crichton and Bateman chewing up $1.5m a season between them for the next three years is frankly terrifying. Paying Bateman that amount of money for that long is why we have to play Seyfarth in the first place.

For the last time (ha ha): players are not who they were 3-5 years ago.
 
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