Signings, Suggestions & Rumours Discussion

[Demps]

Mate …. It’s 2025 . How is this reasonable ? Serious question? Why is this decision being made now ?
And also why wouldn’t he want api around to understudy him … also provide competition?
Also what player is guaranteed a spot in any team when they’re not a marquee player ? The best any club can and should offer a player like TDS is first crack .
So I don’t get why if he truely wants to stay , that he’s not willing to compete for the spot.
I think that’s bullshit because he doesn’t want to get tarred with the Galvin betrayer label …
He’s got IMO the best number 9 in the comp not playing for the storm to learn off , and he wants it all tomorrow .
I also think his defence is shithouse 1 on 1 , way worse than APIs , and he doesn’t have anywhere near the same line speed , ruck control , ruck manipulation. He shoots out quick , and he’s good at attacking markers close to the line . His service is crisp as well . I do not think he’s at a level where we would and should consider picking him over api at 32 . If you’re talking in 2 years time , you’d want to hope he’s surpassed him . But I don’t believe that’s The issue .
IMO this is more to do with Hayward than api , because that kid is coming fast . If Tallyn wasn’t here , he’d already have been tried in KOE .
I think Tallyn is looking over his shoulder at Hayward .. and striking whilst the iron is hot making the tigers really , make the choice between him and Hayward and framing it as Api.
Because I think IMO Hayward is a better footy player potentially than Tallyn , and more importantly is far more similar to Api than TDS. TDS is Damien Cook …. Hayward is Api , Farah etc .
It smells like bullshit to me ..

Interesting post tbh.

There's probably some underlying issues.
I think what you say + some promises that haven't been kept.

 

[Lestronge]

I love the ‘improvement’ line…
Like it’s not a bare minimum after
We bought the most successful half in the last 4 years!! Plus a bunch of other decent players, our best juniors have another year behind them and we got rid of some dead wood.
Coming off 3 spoons no less

Slight improvement is the very minimum we should be seeing on the personnel alone.
It’s not an achievement or something we should be bragging about

What do you do though man ? They should have won every one of the last 4 matches . In fact probably 7 or 8 of all our losses . The team is a good footy team . They just don’t know how to win … it’s beyond frustrating to watch …

 

[Merlot]

som

They keep saying he wants to stay.

I hope we're letting him see what's out there and we can at least try and keep him.
Hopefully we haven't let him down.

Either way I'll be sad to see him leave.
He looks a really good player.

no reason why he can't come back when Api retires

 

[innsaneink]

He was ! . He never used to wrap players with his arms and dogged contact . Which made zero sense when you saw how big the guy was . Now he’s starting to understand how big he is , he’s making tackles . And sometimes whacking blokes .
I was his biggest critic , and I’m rapped that he’s figured out how to use his shoulders and trust them .
But he was beyond shit . Lost us many games because of it.
Masons not afraid to get his body in the way . He’s just a kid getting run over by men . His intent is for all to see . AD was not Mason .

Hopefully adam can give kpp some tips on using the shoulder tho it looks like he wont be here

 

[Tucker]

Interesting post tbh.

There's probably some underlying issues.
I think what you say + some promises that haven't been kept.

I think he’s miles of base.
Miles.
This has nothing to do with football, mentorship, wanting it all now etc.
Tallyn has proven and stated time and again that he doesn’t think this way…at least not until very recently.
Something else has happened.

 

[Kelce68]

Long bow to draw for a similarity…
Bit different being able to do everything but play the game
- to being in Jail I would have thought?

Edit - I like how it’s overlooked that he stabbed someone…
All the highround heros here, I’d have thought that might come up.

Sure. If you say so. Still plausible, therefore, still worthy of discussion.

Re; edit - I haven't seen anyone overlook anything. The assumption once someone has served their sentence is that they have paid their penance to society.

Though I'm sure there's plenty of pearl clutchers floating around that would take issue. They're irrelevant.

 

[Lestronge]

Hopefully adam can give kpp some tips on using the shoulder tho it looks like he wont be here

Better late than never I guess !

 

[Demps]

I think he’s miles of base.
Miles.
This has nothing to do with football, mentorship, wanting it all now etc.
Tallyn has proven and stated time and again that he doesn’t think this way…at least not until very recently.
Something else has happened.

Yeah, something going on for sure.

To me, it feels like, he was promised something and it hasn't been delivered.

He and Api are both contracted until the end of 2026. Maybe he thought he'd put the work in to take over after that and now all this Api extension talks has come to light.

In an ideal world we can keep both.
I really want that to happen.

I'd be happy to give Api + 1 year then a job after footy with him being aware that we're building TDS to be the #1 hooker

It's disheartening for sure that we'll be losing another serious talent, one that I thought had a serious future at our club.

 

[Merlot]

what ever it was started surfacing before Galvin blew up,and has since resurfaced

 

[tigahhh]

Yeah, something going on for sure.

To me, it feels like, he was promised something and it hasn't been delivered.

He and Api are both contracted until the end of 2026. Maybe he thought he'd put the work in to take over after that and now all this Api extension talks has come to light.

In an ideal world we can keep both.
I really want that to happen.

I'd be happy to give Api + 1 year then a job after footy with him being aware that we're building TDS to be the #1 hooker

It's disheartening for sure that we'll be losing another serious talent, one that I thought had a serious future at our club.

sheensy made a lot of empty promises to the HM kids . didn’t stay long enough to fulfill them , tds is probably one of them

 

[Merlot]

TDS and Gus having a coffee was pre season , during our trail games ???

 

[Kelce68]

I think there's a way we can make this work.

Penrith did this, with Mitch Kenny coming through.

Api would play in the 9 jersey but from the bench.
Love to see a way where we can bring this in down the track with TDS.

I'm still hopeful a deal can be done where we keep both.

Exactly.

I maintain that we've completely cocked up the sell to Tallyn.

 

[Demps]

Anyway, moving on from TDS.

We need to be active in the player market.
I know they like the waiting game.
So did Pascoe.

We need;
- figure out who of our off contract lads we may be wanting to keep
- who we're extending [Starford, Api, etx]
- improve our depth +
- bring in further players to benefit our squad

I'm hoping Taylan May comes out strong this weekend as I've got high hopes for him, filling our starting centre role.

KPP in is also an upgrade.

But it can't stop there.

 

[Tucker]

Yeah, something going on for sure.

To me, it feels like, he was promised something and it hasn't been delivered.

He and Api are both contracted until the end of 2026. Maybe he thought he'd put the work in to take over after that and now all this Api extension talks has come to light.

In an ideal world we can keep both.
I really want that to happen.

I'd be happy to give Api + 1 year then a job after footy with him being aware that we're building TDS to be the #1 hooker

It's disheartening for sure that we'll be losing another serious talent, one that I thought had a serious future at our club.

100% agree and have been saying so for a while now.
This could have been managed to work.
For Tallyn to take such a hardline stance, I.e. it’s him or me, gives me a bad feeling that there’s a freight train coming straight at this club and it might cost us more names yet.

 

[Demps]

Exactly.

I maintain that we've completely cocked up the sell to Tallyn.

We've backed Api and I get it....

But, TDS should've been made to feel important too. You know how fragile some egos are. It probably could've been handled better.

It'll be a shame.

 

[Demps]

100% agree and have been saying so for a while now.
This could have been managed to work.
For Tallyn to take such a hardline stance, I.e. it’s him or me, gives me a bad feeling that there’s a freight train coming straight at this club and it might cost us more names yet.

I've seen a few group photos 📸

It's Jordan Miller + Galvin + TDS & the Lualilii bros.

Two gone already and one appears likely the same way.

More names, u say.....

 

[Lestronge]

Yeah, something going on for sure.

To me, it feels like, he was promised something and it hasn't been delivered.

He and Api are both contracted until the end of 2026. Maybe he thought he'd put the work in to take over after that and now all this Api extension talks has come to light.

In an ideal world we can keep both.
I really want that to happen.

I'd be happy to give Api + 1 year then a job after footy with him being aware that we're building TDS to be the #1 hooker

It's disheartening for sure that we'll be losing another serious talent, one that I thought had a serious future at our club.

I dunno maybe . Maybe api said he was going to move on at the end of this contract , and now he doesn’t want to .
I still think the rapid rise of Hayward is a variable . Even if it’s to offer an alternate path should TDS want to go .
His management arnt stupid though . Another year , and now TDS is starting 9 in KOE , and in and out of first grade either starting or off the bench . By that point Hayward would be well and rely entrenched in the KOE team , and heaping pressure on TDS / turning heads .
The kid is rising and rising fast. .His arrivsl
In Jersey flegg along with the sacking of thier coaching staff , has led to a rapid form reversal in that team , and he’s front and centre in everything that’s good about them at the moment .

 

[Tucker]

sheensy made a lot of empty promises to the HM kids . didn’t stay long enough to fulfill them , tds is probably one of them

It’s more than that.
Do you really think these kids are that unreasonable?

 

[Merlot]

We've backed Api and I get it....

But, TDS should've been made to feel important too. You know how fragile some egos are. It probably could've been handled better.

It'll be a shame.

get over it Demps - your boy Mappalangi? is on his way LOL

 

[Demps]

I dunno maybe . Maybe api said he was going to move on at the end of this contract , and now he doesn’t want to .
I still think the rapid rise of Hayward is a variable . Even if it’s to offer an alternate path should TDS want to go .
His management arnt stupid though . Another year , and now TDS is starting 9 in KOE , and in and out of first grade either starting or off the bench . By that point Hayward would be well and rely entrenched in the KOE team , and heaping pressure on TDS / turning heads .
The kid is rising and rising fast. .His arrivsl
In Jersey flegg along with the sacking of thier coaching staff , has led to a rapid form reversal in that team , and he’s front and centre in everything that’s good about them at the moment .

It's all possible.

TDS is a must keep imo
But it's not looking good