Signings, Suggestions & Rumours Discussion

[Demps]

Can we bring Kautoga back?

 

[user118245]

listening to lee’s chat with sen when we sacked noffa 😂 i also work in hr i would say we have to follow the same protocols due to australian workplace law

HR for wests? 👀

 

[Vicious]

So we currently have 8-10 players contracted to us for 2025 who we don’t want, but can’t get rid of as we have drastically over paid them and no other club will pay them anywhere near what we are.
Of those 10 it’s lucky if even half of them have the right attitude in wanting to dig deep and try and prove they can be an asset for the club moving forward, the others are just happy to take the mickey and collect their over inflated pay cheques.
It’s verging on a disaster as we head into season 2025 with this scenario hanging over our heads.
Add to this dilemma that it’s highly unlikely Benji has the right personality to forgive and forget and give players a second chance if they earn it.
It makes you wonder if Richo is wanting Benji tlo fall on his sword anticipating poor results in the first 10 rounds of 2025 which would likely lead to him being replaced with a new coach who would have the luxury of much more roster space heading into 2026.
This would highly likely mean we also lose Galvin and Pole along the way, but it very much looks how it’s heading in my opinion.

 

[Kaito]

Can we bring Kautoga back?

Shouldn't have allowed him 2 go. We debuted him
for 2 minutes after making a big deal about it with
jersey presentation with family it was disgraceful,
touched the ball once with knock on if I recall correctly

 

[Kaito]

So we currently have 8-10 players contracted to us for 2025 who we don’t want, but can’t get rid of as we have drastically over paid them and no other club will pay them anywhere near what we are.
Of those 10 it’s lucky to be half of them that even have the right one toon in wanting to dig deep and try and prove they can be an asset for the club moving forward, the others are just happy to take the mickey and collect their over inflated pay cheques.
It’s verging on a disaster as we head into season 2025 with this scenario hanging over our heads.
Add to this dilemma that it’s highly unlikely Benji has the right personality to forgive and forget and give players a second chance if they earn it.
It makes you wonder if Richo is wanting Benji tlo fall on his sword anticipating poor results in the first 10 rounds of 2025 which would likely lead to him being replaced with a new coach who would have the luxury of much more roster space heading into 2026.
This would highly likely mean we also lose Galvin and Pe along the way, but if very much looks how it’s heading in my opinion.

Pay off whoever we don't want, tell them they're better
off looking at another club 4 their careers sake, richo
is moving & shaking 4 sure. Nov 1st is coming up too.

 

[Tito Santana]

Buchanan and Lovett. Why bring back the past. lol. Damm weve had some floggs go though our club. Who would you have in our worst 5 ever. Lovett was seriously the talking point with us, how he kept getting picked . Smh. Im not a fan of Twal but wouldnt be in my worst 5. and btw Mbye has to be in everyones list considering the money he was stealing every year.

Based on your points - Brooks by 10 lengths.

 

[swag_tiger]

Turuva knows how to make meters after contact. The try he scored against Cook Islands shows that.

 

[SeanT]

We might regret that one. Think he'll make a very good 13.

No. He's too big . Front rower or nothing

 

[bptiger 0]

One thing to also consider with all of this speculation is our $$$. With Stef not signing, Richo was stated saying he had roughly 2 mil to spend. Since then we signed Hunt, Bird & Skelton.

Let's say there a 1 mil there.

We pay out Tumeth. Another $200K or so.

Everyone else were already budgeted for. So that's $800K up our sleeve.

Sione, I would think be around $300K.

So pending if we payout/release anyone & don't get a cent back we have $500K up to spend.

If we only have $500k to sign 2-3 more forwards which we really need , we are in huge trouble

 

[magpies forever]

Pay off whoever we don't want, tell them they're better
off looking at another club 4 their careers sake, richo
is moving & shaking 4 sure. Nov 1st is coming up too.

We need to get rid of some of the deadwood. We cant possibly carry 30% of the squad as 'non starters'. Pay out some of them to create a couple of spaces for new blood.

 

[Demps]

 

[GNR4LIFE]

We need to get rid of some of the deadwood.

This is the most redundant phrase in the history of the forum. Do you know how many times we have cleared the deadwood? We just replace it with more deadwood. It will be that will fill the end of time.

 

[GNR4LIFE]

Umm where's Luai?

He’s not an outside back

 

[Demps]

Umm where's Luai?

# 1 for the spine list

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[tigertragic]

Umm where's Luai?

Maybe ‘halves’ category 🤷

 

[GNR4LIFE]

The Hunt signing is really underwhelming. Dude was set to retire. He’s not the guy to replace Stef given his terrible mins

 

[Chipofftheoldblock]

He is a light weight forward

So is Ray Stone but look at him now. Apart from the injuries, Stone works his tail off and his toughness outweighs his size.
Tumeth could be that type of player but just depends on the development and time given to him by the coaching staff.
There is plenty of players that look like Tarzan but play like Jane in the game - you cannot just go on size alone in this game.

 

[hsvjones]

The Hunt signing is really underwhelming. Dude was set to retire. He’s not the guy to replace Stef given his terrible mins

We are not paying Hunt anywhere the money Stefo would have been on. IMO hunt was purchased for his aggression off the bench and not big mins and we would be looking at others to replace Stefo.

 

[GNR4LIFE]

We are not paying Hunt anywhere the money Stefo would have been on. IMO hunt was purchased for his aggression off the bench and not big mins and we would be looking at others to replace Stefo.

So who’s going to start then? Don’t say Sione. No one knows if he’ll even be at the club.

 

[Demps]

So who’s going to start then? Don’t say Sione. No one knows if he’ll even be at the club.

Klem / Twal / Pole