Signings, Suggestions & Rumours Discussion

[crazycat]

Not disagreeing on need for depth but didn't Kepoa just come back to Magpies in State Cup from Penrith? He too can play back rower and centre- wing.

Frigging spelling. Do you mean Asu Kepaoa?

Man that was a hot/cold player.

 

[GNR4LIFE]

Story on our promising 18yo backrower Pheonix Godinet, reveals he moves into top 30 in 2027 after development contract next year.

"They sacrificed everything": Pheonix Godinet determined to repay his family

He will join the club's development list in 2026.

www.zerotackle.com

Hope he’s better than the last Godinet who played for us.

 

[crazycat]

Hope he’s better than the last Godinet who played for us.

Yea, Peta Godinet though was an 80k signing.

From memory he played a few games at Hooker, had early success but fizzed and Robbie Farah came back at some point. Not going to rubbish him.

 

[crazycat]

Recruitment should be aimed at improving the top 17 unless the positions that need attention are near impossible to find approaching a top 30 deadline our you are desperately thin for depth.

Targeting top 17 players creates depth anyway causing more quality duking it out in reserve grade desperate to get back to 1st grade.

100%

 

[GNR4LIFE]

Yea, Peta Godinet though was an 80k signing.

From memory he played a few games at Hooker, had early success but fizzed and Robbie Farah came back at some point. Not going to rubbish him.

I’d say he was a product of a very ordinary time, but not much has changed.

 

[Big Red]

It just seemed like a very odd decision when we have so much invested already in our halves, monetarily with Luai and with young guys like Fainu and Mason. The halves for us aren’t exactly a priority when we are short on middles and a strike centre. The fact they won’t pursue DCE or any other established halfback makes it even more odd. Especially given how vocal Richo and Benji have been about being very selective with who they want to bring the club, If you are being selective, you don’t make reactionary decisions like that. It’s almost like they just wanted a win in the player market after being rejected by a teenager.

Sounds like you just made that up to support a predetermined conclusion. We had $$ to pay LG a million a season to play as a half so clearly money wasn’t an issue for Reynolds at $750K. As for other halfbacks, where has the club or anyone said we’re not pursuing anyone? It seems like your word of the month is reactionary and you’re trying to find ways to use it to insult the club 🤷‍♂️

 

[tigahhh]

I say 20/22 tops and fill the rest with minimum juniors

Why?
Because for ages our base 17 hasn't been strong enough.
Give us a first grade 1-17 and were not at the bottom of the table. (a lot closer to this, this year).

Someone like Starford Toa is one of our best backs. He is just making first grade in many teams.
Depth means we can replace Toa with someone like Brent Naden. Don't get me wrong I like both players, but Naden should really be off to England.

We could be spending Toa + Naden money better on a first grader like Bradman Best or Herbie F or Staggs. Someone who really takes the field. If they get injured, ok a Junior replaces them...

But were not winning as much as we should be with our best first grade side. We need a competitive side that wins games. When our best backline is Turuva, AD, Toa, Skelton, what's the point of Depth?

I’d argue starford would be in most teams ? he was playing for newy when we signed him ? not suprised if he goes to market this year and gets a few offers from other clubs he’s having a great year

 

[Big Red]

Sounds like you just made that up to support a predetermined conclusion. We had $$ to pay LG a million a season to play as a half so clearly money wasn’t an issue for Reynolds at $750K. As for other halfbacks, where has the club or anyone said we’re not pursuing anyone? It seems like your word of the month is reactionary and you’re trying to find ways to use it to insult the club 🤷‍♂️

Sorry GNR, I take that back. I get what you’re saying, there might be some kind of save face aspect to the pursuit of Reynolds. I just find it frustrating some times when people bag the club and think there’s no reasonable, rational explanation behind their actions. We all know so little about what’s really happening.

 

[clontarfkid]

Story on our promising 18yo backrower Pheonix Godinet, reveals he moves into top 30 in 2027 after development contract next year.

"They sacrificed everything": Pheonix Godinet determined to repay his family

He will join the club's development list in 2026.

www.zerotackle.com

Managed by I Moses ...?
Oh oh

 

[Bigtom]

We can thank Jason Taylor for doing more harm to this club than any other single coach which is a massive but very unwelcome achievement when you think about it.
The worst coach i have ever seen in my over 70 years of life.

Agree even worse than baa baa Lamb and alleged pervert A Jones

 

[Tiger_Yoshi]

Managed by I Moses ...?
Oh oh

Yep, can assure you Moses his manager is already in his ear to get him to the Dogs

 

[BBTF]

Yea, Peta Godinet though was an 80k signing.

From memory he played a few games at Hooker, had early success but fizzed and Robbie Farah came back at some point. Not going to rubbish him.

If anything, guys like him punched above their weight. How that roster in 2018 (i think) got us to 9th I will never know. It was horrendous. They just turned up every week and got in a grind and held on.

 

[liltiger]

If anything, guys like him punched above their weight. How that roster in 2018 (i think) got us to 9th I will never know. It was horrendous. They just turned up every week and got in a grind and held on.

Good coach. Ivan Cleary left us in bad circumstances and I hate what he did and the way he left our salary cap. But the guy is a gun coach.

 

[GNR4LIFE]

Good coach. Ivan Cleary left us in bad circumstances and I hate what he did and the way he left our salary cap. But the guy is a gun coach.

Our defence for the first half of 2018 was the best in 25 years. Hard to think about where we would be now if he didn’t do a runner.

 

[Camel2281]

Yeah it was amateur media stuff from him it was always going to come back and make him look like a moron, but all of us already knew he was long ago.

It was one of the first times I have 💯 agreed with him though. Slater was a massive grub. They had to make rule changes because he endangered opponents multiple times by going in feet first or legs out taking a bomb. He was a protected species by the media though who barely called him out on it. If it were someone else he'd have been rubbed out of the game

 

[Tiger-ferret]

Frigging spelling. Do you mean Asu Kepaoa?

Man that was a hot/cold player.

More cold than hot

 

[ancient_magpie]

Agree even worse than baa baa Lamb and alleged pervert A Jones

Taylor was the reason the fox left.

 

[tigahhh]

i hope Richo intends on re-signing the Laulilii brothers soon, they’ve been developing very nicely . don’t want them going to market this year

 

[Rock Hopper Steve]

It was one of the first times I have 💯 agreed with him though. Slater was a massive grub. They had to make rule changes because he endangered opponents multiple times by going in feet first or legs out taking a bomb. He was a protected species by the media though who barely called him out on it. If it were someone else he'd have been rubbed out of the game

No doubt what you say about Slater is all true but I will never forget the angst that Woods put us supporters through.
He crapped on his junior club in a big way all of us on the forum will never forgive it.

 

[weststigerman]

Our defence for the first half of 2018 was the best in 25 years. Hard to think about where we would be now if he didn’t do a runner.

He was a good coach but not a good recruiter.

At Penrith he doesn’t need to do much of that but signings like Lolohea, Mbye, Packer gave me no confidence he could build a roster from the ground up.