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We've lost Zak Clarke to the Panthers next season. That's both Clarke brothers from Magpies pathways move to other clubs this past year. Can't keep them all, maybe was seen behind Broederlow & Sukkar in our 19/20yo backrow talents & with Duncombe and Godinet highly rated also coming through.
It's just incredibly disappointing. Roster management totally screwed up. We have practically no talent in the back row in every single grade. And one of our top 3 prospects that isn't playing NRL leaves.
Disgraceful when the likes of Sukkar and Tumeth are under contract. I have no doubt Zak will make it as a first grader. Not many players play all positions from 6-13, but he can, there's just something about him. He's not huge but he's a real competitor with a lot of skill. He even kicks goals.
For players yet to debut he's only behind Broederlow to me. We had better secured someone better if we're letting him go.
 
It had better not be. It's already on sale, nothing to report.
They've never done this before, it must be something big. For the NRL squad. Anything less is extreme incompetence and unprofessionalism and cannot be tolerated.
Hope so...

I'm leaning towards its NRLW related but we will find out soon.
 
It had better not be. It's already on sale, nothing to report.
They've never done this before, it must be something big. For the NRL squad. Anything less is extreme incompetence and unprofessionalism and cannot be tolerated.
Pascoelike effort if it is just a jersey announcement! My 2 cents is that they will announce that we will be selling wooden spoons in a special 3-pack set with all funds going towards Stefano's new contract. The wood is organically grown and uses a diverse range of timbers including the ever popular buddha stick. Each Spoon is embossed with the For and Against Record as well as the phone number for LifeLine.
 
It's just incredibly disappointing. Roster management totally screwed up. We have practically no talent in the back row in every single grade. And one of our top 3 prospects that isn't playing NRL leaves.
Disgraceful when the likes of Sukkar and Tumeth are under contract. I have no doubt Zak will make it as a first grader. Not many players play all positions from 6-13, but he can, there's just something about him. He's not huge but he's a real competitor with a lot of skill. He even kicks goals.
For players yet to debut he's only behind Broederlow to me. We had better secured someone better if we're letting him go.
Don’t rate Sukkar? (I have only seen him in the pre season and thought he showed some promise)
 
It's just incredibly disappointing. Roster management totally screwed up. We have practically no talent in the back row in every single grade. And one of our top 3 prospects that isn't playing NRL leaves.
Disgraceful when the likes of Sukkar and Tumeth are under contract. I have no doubt Zak will make it as a first grader. Not many players play all positions from 6-13, but he can, there's just something about him. He's not huge but he's a real competitor with a lot of skill. He even kicks goals.
For players yet to debut he's only behind Broederlow to me. We had better secured someone better if we're letting him go.
We don’t seem to like players who can create or score points.
 
Pascoelike effort if it is just a jersey announcement! My 2 cents is that they will announce that we will be selling wooden spoons in a special 3-pack set with all funds going towards Stefano's new contract. The wood is organically grown and uses a diverse range of timbers including the ever popular buddha stick. Each Spoon is embossed with the For and Against Record as well as the phone number for LifeLine.
Maybe Zurich is increasing its support to front of jersey …

 
Well the 2021 announcement was around this time:

Yeah it's poor marketing and would be a massive let down if it is for the jersey. But I think it's heading that way. They should have just said "Jersey reveal tomorrow" if it is the case.

Hopefully it is something more!

I would love a day of social media like the Storm did last year or the year before. They spaced 5 re-signings of players out over the day. Even give us some of the higher recognised juniors and their contract status moving forward.
 
Yeah it's poor marketing and would be a massive let down if it is for the jersey. But I think it's heading that way. They should have just said "Jersey reveal tomorrow" if it is the case.

Hopefully it is something more!

I would love a day of social media like the Storm did last year or the year before. They spaced 5 re-signings of players out over the day. Even give us some of the higher recognised juniors and their contract status moving forward.
I second that
 
It’s the woman in league jersey. You can see purple in the photo. Ahh. Good news I guess
Something like that does not warrant a 24 hour teaser. It's something lame, that not many people care about, just another piece of merch to flog.

We've won 2 spoons in a row, about to win our third, and our major announcements are a one off jersey? That's embarrassing, an highly unprofessional social media strategy
 
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Don’t rate Sukkar? (I have only seen him in the pre season and thought he showed some promise)
He's like a smaller and less skilful version of Twal to me. And given his inability to standout in flegg or cup it appears that's about right.

People on here forget how Twal was a real force in the junior grades, u20s origin star etc. And he's still a solid plodder.
 
Something like that does no warrant a 24 hour teaser. It's something lame, that not many people care about, just another piece of merch to flog.

We've won 2 spoons in a row, about to win our third, and our major announcements are a one off jersey? That's embarrassing, an highly unprofessional social media strategy
I’m not sure we completed a clean out of our media team when we swept the board through the organisation last November.
Long overdue.
 
Something like that does no warrant a 24 hour teaser. It's something lame, that not many people care about, just another piece of merch to flog.

We've won 2 spoons in a row, about to win our third, and our major announcements are a one off jersey? That's embarrassing, an highly unprofessional social media strategy
Admin clearly unable to take the temperature in the fan base. Such a weird marketing approach
 
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