Signings, Suggestions & Rumours Discussion

Just checked - the sky is still in place!

Given the sky has not fallen, and Klemmer is probably as good as gone, even though the club is silent, where does it leave us?

Klem and Twal are similar players. Klem produced more PCM than Twal over the last two season and was behind Twally in all of the other key stats in 2024. For the last two years his output has been complained about by many on here and the big cry was that we can't afford to carry both him and Twal, and Twal was better value for money. So the Forum's wish has been granted, yet still we complain?

We have plenty of off contract players in 2026, but Klemmer was going to tie up a significant chunk of change to plug a hole in the middle. An opportunity has presented itself so Richo has acted to get us in a much better position cap wise for no real loss of output. Sure we are carrying more risk due to less depth in the middle; but it is an unrealised risk. It may occur, it may not, and we have a reserve grade team where we are developing players.

The imbalance in our roster has been well known for months and if you scratched the surface a little you would know that our cap was also out of kilter for 2026. So the 2026 cap now looks OK and we still have some low hanging fruit we could cull if a 2025 recruiting opportunity presents.

Klem's departure is simply smart footy business; opportunity presents, assess the risk, act. Sure it would be great to have a player of Klems reliability for depth - but not at $700-800K. The real (maybe perceived) 2025 issue is not Klemmer; it is our edge depth.

We are in transition from being perpetually shit with plans changing every time the wind does. Now we have stability, and a plan. I think we can stop jumping at shadows looking for every negative and start to focus on opportunities and climbing the ladder!
 
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Vicious said:
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Surely Kit and Matamua have to play at least one or two standout games in NSW Cup before they can be considered NRL ready ?
I’m ok with releasing Klemmer if we replace him with someone else of proven NRL quality, but not for him to be replaced by players within our squad who have shown and proven nothing.
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Agree, we need to make sure we REPLACE him with a proven nrl quality player, and i hope its not an upgrade on one of our so called up and coming so called ( stars )
 
Merlot said:
didn't look that tall. Loved that he said, loves to hit up n in to the ribcage when defending, Bring that on
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I like that as well Merlot. We have players in the squad who can do what Klemmer does at lower cost and are younger. Rahme has had good experience in the lower grades at two other clubs so it will be interesting to watch his progression.
 
Vicious said:
Yes but Laulilli and Matamua have not even shown they can stand out playing NSW Cup.
Johanssen has shown he can stand out at NSW Cup level, but there has to be concerns about his lightweight frame if being called upon to assist our NRL team take on the bigger more aggressive rival forward packs.
Why are we including Sam Fainu or Seyfarth as middle forward options when they will be needed exclusively as our edge forwards.
We will have a good top 17, but as soon as we get injuries to our forwards we will be up the creek without a paddle unless we sign much better depth, preferably a couple of players that are proven at NRL level.
Based on Klemmer’s likely departure I am much more concerned about our middle forward depth, than I am about our edge forward depth.
No team wins NRL games without strong middles, including the bench,
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I actually think Molo will be in Tigers colours before season's kick off. It's all about optics at the moment. Would not have looked good for him to walk out of his Dragons contract and straight into a Tigers deal. Not good for him but especially not good for the Tigers. Just my take on it and a little whisper - but no solid inside info.
 
yeti said:
I actually think Molo will be in Tigers colours before season's kick off. It's all about optics at the moment. Would not have looked good for him to walk out of his Dragons contract and straight into a Tigers deal. Not good for him but especially not good for the Tigers. Just my take on it and a little whisper - but no solid inside info.
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Doubtful.

We've got middles.

I'd guess;
Klem to Drags
Molo to Dogs.... or roosters, south's, Melbourne.

We move patient... sign Taylan after March.
And move forward to strengthen the backrow.
 
Leichhardt_Logger said:
Unless the journo has mistakenly said Sam Fainu instead of Sione Fainu. Think Sam is too slim for the front row, better suited for the back row. Also read that Benji has been coaching Sam to hole/line run in the back row so I doubt his inclusion is correct.
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Yeah I would say that is a mistake from the journo and he meant Sione. Point still stands though, Sam played his juniors in the front row, he has the attitude of a front rower, loves the contact and he has a bit of dog in him. He would need a preseason to sort the body shape out. I'm just sick of seeing teams roll through our middle like its nothing, a front row of May and Sam Fainu is a potential origin front row which would do wonders for Galvin's game too.

It's all pretty irrelevant though, 2nd row is where he will need to be for the midterm at least due to the very obvious weaknesses in our squad. He is also a weapon on the edge.
 
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