Signings, Suggestions & Rumours Discussion

[balmain boy]

We simply have to recruit. Our first grade squad is the weakest in the comp, our NSW cup side is the weakest in the comp.
We can't just say we have some good teenagers, job done, they can all just pay first grade at a good level... We already have too many kids in our top 30, and more joining next season, we need to lose some and replace them with first graders
I wonder if Broncos would entertain a Willison for Faaugutu swap? They can't afford to keep Xavier but they'd get a cheap prospect who's a local boy with a decent upside?
Maybe we can swap Feledy for Sam Stonestreet. I don't know, bit I'd certainly be looking at what clubs are open to deals

 

[Vicious]

We simply have to recruit. Our first grade squad is the weakest in the comp, our NSW cup side is the weakest in the comp.
We can't just say we have some good teenagers, job done, they can all just pay first grade at a good level... We already have too many kids in our top 30, and more joining next season, we need to lose some and replace them with first graders
I wonder if Broncos would entertain a Willison for Faaugutu swap? They can't afford to keep Xavier but they'd get a cheap prospect who's a local boy with a decent upside?
Maybe we can swap Feledy for Sam Stonestreet. I don't know, bit I'd certainly be looking at what clubs are open to deals

I know what you are getting at, our young players would be a lot less value in the Salary Cap than the ones you have mentioned, but these other clubs are not silly, they don’t recruit under sized players unless they have sone exceptional qualities such as speed, stamina, power & aggression etc
Our two you have mentioned don’t have exceptional speed to overcome their lack of size and in Faagatu’s case he doesn’t appear to have much stamina either.
We’d be looking at paying 700-800k per season to be any chance of recruiting someone like Willison. Maybe he’s worth that money purely on potential with his elite size, speed and athleticism, but we won’t have that type of money to spend unless we offload a hell of a lot of deadwood first,
I personally think it’s a lost cause, but retaining Stef should be our first priority and then adding a big powerful impact forward such as Willison or someone similar would be ideal.
As for wingers Stonestreet would be a fantastic addition if we could somehow get him as would Jeral Skelton and possibly a sneaky play at Khan-Pereira while he’s not getting in the Titans NRL side.
We just have to hope Luai works for us in the halves and we need something to assist our back row, but again we won’t be in a position tn attract anyone unless we offload some deadwood.

 

[twentyforty]

I know what you are getting at, our young players would be a lot less value in the Salary Cap than the ones you have mentioned, but these other clubs are not silly, they don’t recruit under sized players unless they have sone exceptional qualities such as speed, stamina, power & aggression etc
Our two you have mentioned don’t have exceptional speed to overcome their lack of size and in Faagatu’s case he doesn’t appear to have much stamina either.
We’d be looking at paying 700-800k per season to be any chance of recruiting someone like Willison. Maybe he’s worth that money purely on potential with his elite size, speed and athleticism, but we won’t have that type of money to spend unless we offload a hell of a lot of deadwood first,
I personally think it’s a lost cause, but retaining Stef should be our first priority and then adding a big powerful impact forward such as Willison or someone similar would be ideal.
As for wingers Stonestreet would be a fantastic addition if we could somehow get him as would Jeral Skelton and possibly a sneaky play at Khan-Pereira while he’s not getting in the Titans NRL side.
We just have to hope Luai works for us in the halves and we need something to assist our back row, but again we won’t be in a position tn attract anyone unless we offload some deadwood.

Do you think Penrith could be interested in Twal and Seyfarth if we package them? We have form, Garner is doing a great job off the bench for Panthers.
We seem to be signing every player who scores 2 tries against us and it’s not working?

 

[Demps]

The shopping list:
Xavier Willison
Alofia Khan-Perera
Nic Cotric
Jayden Sua
Alec Tuitavake
Trey Mooney
Sitili Touponua
Jeral Skelton
Sam Stone
one of the warriors outside backs, ideally - Ali Leiataua or Rocco Berry

Time to re open the cheque book Richo.

 

[Demps]

1 Sunia Turuva
2 Alofia Khan Perera
3 Jahream Bula
4 Justin Olam
5 Charlie Staines
6 Lachlan Galvin
7 Jarome Luai
8 Alex Twal
9 Api Korosau (C)
10 Stefano Utoikamanu
11 Jayden Sua
12 Sitili Touponua
13 Trey Mooney

14 Samuela Fainu
15 Fonua Pole
16 Alec Tuitavake
17 Xavier Willison

That's it for me.
Obviously we take a few hits and lose a few players to get the job done.
It's just business.

 

[batboy]

The shopping list:
Xavier Willison
Alofia Khan-Perera
Nic Cotric
Jayden Sua
Alec Tuitavake
Trey Mooney
Sitili Touponua
Jeral Skelton
Sam Stone
one of the warriors outside backs, ideally - Ali Leiataua or Rocco Berry

Time to re open the cheque book Richo.

Sam Stone.... 😂😂😂

Your reasoning to have a Lakes bloke at the club knows no bounds....

 

[AceofSpades]

I know what you are getting at, our young players would be a lot less value in the Salary Cap than the ones you have mentioned, but these other clubs are not silly, they don’t recruit under sized players unless they have sone exceptional qualities such as speed, stamina, power & aggression etc
Our two you have mentioned don’t have exceptional speed to overcome their lack of size and in Faagatu’s case he doesn’t appear to have much stamina either.
We’d be looking at paying 700-800k per season to be any chance of recruiting someone like Willison. Maybe he’s worth that money purely on potential with his elite size, speed and athleticism, but we won’t have that type of money to spend unless we offload a hell of a lot of deadwood first,
I personally think it’s a lost cause, but retaining Stef should be our first priority and then adding a big powerful impact forward such as Willison or someone similar would be ideal.
As for wingers Stonestreet would be a fantastic addition if we could somehow get him as would Jeral Skelton and possibly a sneaky play at Khan-Pereira while he’s not getting in the Titans NRL side.
We just have to hope Luai works for us in the halves and we need something to assist our back row, but again we won’t be in a position tn attract anyone unless we offload some deadwood.

I agree with you on getting Jeral Skelton. He was a absolute beast yesterday but to also find out he's averaging 200m per game is pretty impressive and Khan-Pereira would be an amazing buy as he's shown he can play FG. In regards to Faagutu I think the stamina issue is due to lack of game time in Cup considering he only played his 2nd cup game this year which I think will only get better if he stays in cup which he should considering he's one of our juniors being promoted next year. I also think he had a good game getting through a decent amount of work yesterday in his stint where he made more run metres than any forward in our team that didnt touch the ball at least 10 times and he got through more defensive work than any forward on both benches apart from Hopoi from the dogs. Faagutu will only get better the more he spends time in Cup. I think the only way we get someone like Willison is to offer someone like Twal or Seyfarth to the Bronx instead of one of our juniors

 

[Glenji95]

Why is Khan Perera being mentioned? He’s not even off contract. Same as Sam Stone. Cotric won’t be a good buy and some of the others don’t even make first grade for their current side. Some might be stuck behind others but no guarantees they will come here to improve our side except for maybe Skeleton. Looking at actually who’s available still for next year, not a whole lot that you know will improve the side and plenty available you know that won’t. Only a few that you can take a gamble on and hope they improve the team, but if they aren’t going to, I don’t see Benji and Richo getting in touch with majority of the players who are available to sign for next year.

 

[GNR4LIFE]

Why is Khan Perera being mentioned? He’s not even off contract. Same as Sam Stone. Cotric won’t be a good buy and some of the others don’t even make first grade for their current side. Some might be stuck behind others but no guarantees they will come here to improve our side except for maybe Skeleton. Looking at actually who’s available still for next year, not a whole lot that you know will improve the side and plenty available you know that won’t. Only a few that you can take a gamble on and hope they improve the team, but if they aren’t going to, I don’t see Benji and Richo getting in touch with majority of the players who are available to sign for next year.

Khan-Perera is no more fanciful than most other names thrown up

 

[Glenji95]

Khan-Perera is no more fanciful than most other names thrown up

Probably so but even so he’s not available so not sure why people are calling for him to be signed to us.

 

[Tom Shines]

Probably so but even so he’s not available so not sure why people are calling for him to be signed to us.

Couple people here fantasize about acquiring players who aren’t available ..it’s against the rules for for the club to even approach them …

Personally I dont get it … but what do know? I fantasize about the team winning football games and making the Top 8 which is seemingly even more unrealistic..

 

[Demps]

Sam Stone.... 😂😂😂

Your reasoning to have a Lakes bloke at the club knows no bounds....

Typo lol

Stonestreet

 

[Vicious]

Probably so but even so he’s not available so not sure why people are calling for him to be signed to us.

Maybe because he’s proven to be a regular NRL try scorer, quite often scoring tries that not many other can due to his elite speed, yet for some reason Des keeps leaving him out of their NRL line up.
Quality players will not be happy to be left out of their teams NRL squad for too long.

 

[Vicious]

Do you think Penrith could be interested in Twal and Seyfarth if we package them? We have form, Garner is doing a great job off the bench for Panthers.
We seem to be signing every player who scores 2 tries against us and it’s not working?

I would say the Panthers would be interested in that type of trade, personally I do not see Twal or Seyfarth as our problem. I do admit having both of them in our team means we lack a bit of impact, but that’s not their fault that we have an imbalance within our squad.
Neither are taking up much cap space, it should be others who are moved on well before these two.

 

[Telltails]

Teams that make good metres out of their own end do so on the back of their back 4 taking runs from DH not so much the forwards. The best forwards in the game are effort players and we have got that from all our guys this year. We could do with an impact forward to come off the bench.

 

[Vicious]

Teams that make good metres out of their own end do so on the back of their back 4 taking runs from DH not so much the forwards. The best forwards in the game are effort players and we have got that from all our guys this year. We could do with an impact forward to come off the bench.

Staines is trying hard and obviously Olam provides good value in his hard yardage carries, but we do need our 1-5 to at least match the hard yardage effectiveness of all teams we come up against.

 

[Glenji95]

Maybe because he’s proven to be a regular NRL try scorer, quite often scoring tries that not many other can due to his elite speed, yet for some reason Des keeps leaving him out of their NRL line up.
Quality players will not be happy to be left out of their teams NRL squad for too long.

He’s not bad but I wouldn’t say he’s the greatest either. He’s young so I’m not writing him off to be clear, but even if he was available I would be careful of signing him. If Des is leaving him out unless he’s injured there’s a reason why.

 

[getagrip]

I would say the Panthers would be interested in that type of trade, personally I do not see Twal or Seyfarth as our problem. I do admit having both of them in our team means we lack a bit of impact, but that’s not their fault that we have an imbalance within our squad.
Neither are taking up much cap space, it should be others who are moved on well before these two.

I would not have ANY objection to a trade that involves "losing" Seyfarth and Twal. Really can't see a downside.

 

[Vicious]

He’s not bad but I wouldn’t say he’s the greatest either. He’s young so I’m not writing him off to be clear, but even if he was available I would be careful of signing him. If Des is leaving him out unless he’s injured there’s a reason why.

I think it’s a young Addo-Carr vibes with his blinding speed and a coach who is concerned about a wingers defence when the attacking positives far outweigh any defensive negatives.

 

[Vicious]

I would not have ANY objection to a trade that involves "losing" Seyfarth and Twal. Really can't see a downside.

Seyfarth has only played very minimal minutes in our past 2 games, what has he got to do with these losses ?
Compare apples with apples, you won’t find too many better forwards on the same wage he’d be getting.