Signings, Suggestions & Rumours Discussion

lathami said:
Wish everyone would stop banging on about recruiting Blaze, he’s not going anywhere. He will take the fullback spot as soon as Gutho is sent out to pasture! It’s just that shithead mAna get squeezing the rock for more blood.
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Like I said would be a great pick up BUT we go shopping for palyers in position we need
 
clontarfkid said:
We meed a quality centre and winer,and at least one hard runnung prop
Forget Crighton # 800k
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I know we need these type of layers, but there is none available.
You can only recruit what is available, hence the reason a lot of the recruitment in every club is young up and comers or players currently not getting much NRL opportunity.
Generally teams need to harness and create their own home grown superstars and supplement them with bargain basement buys to fill in the blanks.
Melbourne and Penrith have been doing this very well hence their recent success.
 
FrodoTBaggin said:
Kayal Iro is one we need to be targeting for next year.
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He’s always only played left centre, same as Olam.
No point having 2 left centres, we need a right centre, ideally someone who who big, talk, strong, fast and a good reliable defender.
I think I know someone who fits the above criteria, is also a very good goal kicker and was available to sign not so long ago, but of course he signed elsewhere.
Some will say Turuva is our answer at right centre. Very good ball runner and a classy attacking player, but one on one defence is not his strong point and it woukd be an obvious target for opposing teams by having he and Olam who would be far and away the shortest centre combination in the NRL.
If we are looking at team balance with height and size etc taken into consideration, Turuva should only play either right wing with a tall right centre next to him or at fullback while we also have Olam in the team.
The Storm never played other short players in their 2-5 while Olam was playing for them.
The aerial side of the game is crucial in the current game.
 
Spacecub said:
Richo has come out and stated that our recruiting for 25 is complete I'm hoping he's woken up this morning and rethinking that, a few players need to be told to look around, I wouldn't be resigning Stefano, with fanua Blake Shire bound, I'd be looking there to see who has to stand aside, same at the chooks, there's talk about pressure on Angus Crighton with fafita coming, but as they do they'll manage to fit him under there expansive cap, with vilandys blessing of course, Xavier willison was impressive Friday night, I'd be asking him if he'd be interested in a starting spot with us, but firstly, Naden, Seyfarth, stains klemmer and Bateman need to be sold off
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I know he said that, but I was kind of hoping he was throwing out a red herring. He can’t exactly say we’re looking at shifting on contract players, maybe if 1 or 2 slots become available we sign someone of need if they are available.
Sometimes I wish we would take the Gus approach sign players and move others on afterwards, but that’s not exactly responsible and we’d probably get hammered by the NRL for it.
 
Vicious said:
I know we need these type of layers, but there is none available.
You can only recruit what is available, hence the reason a lot of the recruitment in every club is young up and comers or players currently not getting much NRL opportunity.
Generally teams need to harness and create their own home grown superstars and supplement them with bargain basement buys to fill in the blanks.
Melbourne and Penrith have been doing this very well hence their recent success.
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No argument with any of this...but theres a bunch of guys at other clubs on the fringes,arent gettung a go,or are blocked by a star....or who are just simply underpaid,
and as has been done to us many,many times,they have managers who can agitate for a release
Richos smart..in him I trust
But hes got an awful lot on his plate,not the least of which is punting the duds from our roster to make space
 
Spacecub said:
Richo has come out and stated that our recruiting for 25 is complete I'm hoping he's woken up this morning and rethinking that, a few players need to be told to look around, I wouldn't be resigning Stefano, with fanua Blake Shire bound, I'd be looking there to see who has to stand aside, same at the chooks, there's talk about pressure on Angus Crighton with fafita coming, but as they do they'll manage to fit him under there expansive cap, with vilandys blessing of course, Xavier willison was impressive Friday night, I'd be asking him if he'd be interested in a starting spot with us, but firstly, Naden, Seyfarth, stains klemmer and Bateman need to be sold off
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Stefano got on a plane yesterday morning and joined the boys and had a pretty good game all things considered and if we don’t resign him we will not find anyone better
 
Who would be disappointed with this team next year?
1. Bula
2. Staines
3. Doueihi
4. Olam
5. Turuva
6. Galvin
7. Luai
8. Utoikamanu
9. Koroisau
10. Klemmer
11. S Fainu
12. Bateman
13. Papali’i
14. L Fainu
15. Mooney
16. Twal
17. Pole
 
KCTiger2 said:
Who would be disappointed with this team next year?
1. Bula
2. Staines
3. Doueihi
4. Olam
5. Turuva
6. Galvin
7. Luai
8. Utoikamanu
9. Koroisau
10. Klemmer
11. S Fainu
12. Bateman
13. Papali’i
14. L Fainu
15. Mooney
16. Twal
17. Pole
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Douehi is not a Center …. Too slow … see Bateman yesterday how that will work out
 
KCTiger2 said:
Who would be disappointed with this team next year?
1. Bula
2. Staines
3. Doueihi
4. Olam
5. Turuva
6. Galvin
7. Luai
8. Utoikamanu
9. Koroisau
10. Klemmer
11. S Fainu
12. Bateman
13. Papali’i
14. L Fainu
15. Mooney
16. Twal
17. Pole
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Decent, but doesn’t grab me as a team that would get us out of the bottom 4.
Api, Olam and Klemner are all ageing, none of them showing signs of getting any better.
Still a noticeable lack of speed in our 1-7 and back row.
Mooney is certainly a promising young prop and would be a very good signing, unfortunately I think he would be on the radar of a lot of clubs much more successful than what we are, so would be yet another player to add to the growing list where we would have to pay massive overs to vacant chance of signing him.
Luai and Galvin are too similar in my opinion. Both are very busy players, but neither have the individual brilliance to slice open the opposing defence on a regular basis. It could work if we had a lot of brilliant tackle busting, line breaking players around them, but we don’t.
 
Vicious said:
Decent, but doesn’t grab me as a team that would get us out of the bottom 4.
Api, Olam and Klemner are all ageing, none of them showing signs of getting any better.
Still a noticeable lack of speed in our 1-7 and back row.
Mooney is certainly a promising young prop and would be a very good signing, unfortunately I think he would be on the radar of a lot of clubs much more successful than what we are, so would be yet another player to add to the growing list where we would have to pay massive overs to vacant chance of signing him.
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Currently teams interested in Mooney are Raiders (they have Smithies so he wants to leave) Dogs and us
 
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