Signings, Suggestions & Rumours Discussion

Might be premature, but based on his performances over his first five games this season, Starford To'a must be making people second guess our need to sign a quality centre... I'll be the first to admit I have been frustrated with Starfords inconsistency over the last few years, but he has been incredible to start the season. 5 tries in 5 games and put Turuva over for a few. Credit where credit is due.

If he keeps this up there should be no discussion about who we should sign to play right centre...
Yeah he is certainly impressing. He’s had a few injuries over the years but u suspect the inclusion of the new recruits has raised the standard of the players that were here already. Twal is another who has risen.

His hands to Turuva this year has impressed me a lot.
 
Might have to become a churchgoer again and offer a few prayers Terrell stays injury free.
Terrell is a machine, but let's be honest our whole pack has come leaps and bounds from last year. Bird, May and Hunt have added aggression, size and experience. It's having a huge effect on the other lads. Twal is Twal he takes the dirty hit up and makes his tackles, hes always been the guy to just roll the sleves up. Seyfarth has become so consistent and got the niggle out of his game, the two Fainus seem to have a 6th sense with each other where if one is a bit flat the other lifts to cover for him and what can I say about Pole, I had huge wraps on him last year even though he was a bit raw, but you could see he had aggression and heart, this year the guys gone to another level. Pole this year imo is the one who has benefited most with the experience next to him in the pack, the few errors he was known for last year have seemed to clear up and he is just taking the dirty hit up when required and doing his job in D. I'm so happy it was him we kept and Steph that left. Iv got a huge man crush on that kid, he has a huge ceiling as a prop. Scarey thing for the opposition is even being so young in the front row you would expect him to need his body to develop in the next 2 or so years, the guys only 22 been in and out of first grade now for what 3 years, I can't remember any injury lay off. He is just built for it, if New Zealand have any brains he is in the team. I'm a wee bit biased though. So proud of him, he showed faith in us when the pillow didn't and now his game is going to a whole new level, Benji, Hodgo and Morris have done an amazing job with our pack.
 
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The big question is … can they can keep this 17 ( maybe 18 with Naden back ) on the field … because outside of Latu .., the rest of the squad doesn’t look up to NRL level ..

I really hope someone ( hopefully 2) can shake loose from elsewhere before June 30 …
A few in NSW Cuo starting to show they might be able to contribute at NRL if required, but you are right in saying we will be in trouble if we get too many injuries.
 
A few in NSW Cuo starting to show they might be able to contribute at NRL if required, but you are right in saying we will be in trouble if we get too many injuries.
That was always the question this year though, our top 20 could compete on paper with anyone but if injuries happened we have no depth, hopefully bring in some good quality tradesman types in the off-season to shore up our depth next year.
 
A few in NSW Cuo starting to show they might be able to contribute at NRL if required, but you are right in saying we will be in trouble if we get too many injur

can I ask like who ?

I’m thinking they need current NRL level players from elsewhere for this year …probably a pipe dream but you never know
 
When Latu is back. Galvin to the bench, Latu in the halves. If he wanted to stay he would. Bugger him don't spend one more second of N.R.L game time developing him for another team. Get Latu right and get him in, we have to do what's best for the team after all. Developing Latu is what's best for the team in the long term.
 
It’s fantastic we have Latu in our back pocket. I’d also be looking to extend Douhie. And further down the track, good that we have Haywood.

I’m of the opinion they need to extend a few of these guys …they have the makings of a very good squad even if Galvin moves on.. Perth likely coming into the comp in 2027 and they will be paying big money for good players …
 
This might sound silly but I think the next 2 games are important, winning both will go a long way to giving the team some belief that they are a better team now, lose them both and like previous seasons dread could set in and losing becomes a habit all over again.
100% mate. The knights win will mean nothing if we don't beat parra next week.
 
This Galvin circus is going to be so disruptive for our year. We finally have turned a corner but the daily articles and rumours will be so draining.

The frustrating thing is if it wasn’t for being at the Tigers he wouldn’t have even been playing grade anywhere else. Benji trusted him.

We can’t afford to pay him over a mill a year with Luai on massive coin.

Reality is he’s one of our best players so he needs to stay the duration of his contract. If we lose out keeping him we can’t lose out even more by letting him go early
 
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