Signings, Suggestions & Rumours Discussion

[Tom Shines]

I’m convinced you are the only person on the planet who thinks To’a is a better right centre than Averillo.
And if we thought like the Bulldogs and didn’t overpay players we would be in a position to pay the money and recruit a high quality centre such as Herbie Farnworth.

Farnsworth is like the second best Center in the game this season …. It’s like me saying I want them to sign Tino ..and probably as likely to happen

 

[Vicious]

Easy solution. Just buy Farnworth.

Or persist with the likes of To’a and continue being happy finishing where we are.

 

[Vicious]

Farnsworth is like the second best Center in the game this season …. It’s like me saying I want them to sign Tino ..and probably as likely to happen

So if we identified we lack stroke, spent our cap money wisely and offered Herbie 1.1 million per season from 2027 onwards, you think we’d be no chance of landing him ?
Herbie is currently the best centre in the game by the way.

 

[Tom Shines]

Or persist with the likes of To’a and continue being happy finishing where we are.

Toa is still under contract next year ? So he won’t be going anywhere

So if we identified we lack stroke, spent our cap money wisely and offered Herbie 1.1 million per season from 2027 onwards, you think we’d be no chance of landing him ?

No hope

 

[weststigers]

So if we identified we lack stroke, spent our cap money wisely and offered Herbie 1.1 million per season from 2027 onwards, you think we’d be no chance of landing him ?
Herbie is currently the best centre in the game by the way.

You talk about spending money properly, yet you want to pay a centre 1.1 million a season. You'd send the club right back down to last, but we'd have the best centre in the game.

 

[Vicious]

Toa is still under contract next year ?


No hope

Ok so we just re-sign everyone we currently have and hope they all miraculously improve enough to make us Premiership contenders,
I’m convinced you and a few others like us finishing last or near last every season 🤷‍♂️

 

[Vicious]

You talk about spending money properly, yet you want to pay a centre 1.1 million a season. You'd send the club right back down to last, but we'd have the best centre in the game.

Same theory as when the Bulldogs identified they needed to spend big to land Crichton and Kikau.
Are the Bulldogs middles any better than ours ?

 

[Tom Shines]

Ok so we just re-sign everyone we currently have and hope they all miraculously improve enough to make us Premiership contenders,
I’m convinced you and a few others like us finishing last or near last every season 🤷‍♂️

Toa is under contract next year…he isn’t going anywhere…

The problem is you want to replace like 7 people in the team with external players … they will be lucky to sign 2-3 more and they should be forwards,,.forwards win games .

 

[Tom Shines]

Same theory as when the Bulldogs identified they needed to spend big to land Crichton and Kikau.
Are the Bulldogs middles any better than ours ?

They cheat the cap ..

 

[tigahhh]

Or persist with the likes of To’a and continue being happy finishing where we are.

IMO it’s on us as a “development” club to identify players from within to fill these gaps & build them into the schiller’s, herbie’s etc

we have ridiculously fast, freakish outside backs in flegg that the club could put time & effort into if it’s something missing in our first grade side, and not have to pay a million dollars in the cap for them

 

[Demps]

I think with the mess south's are in with the Englishman they desperately need another half-back and some forwards i don't think Bud would not be a priority. I also think we shouldn't let him go at the price they want to play. Without sounding bias i really think with proper coaching he can be a good back up 6 or 7.

Didn't they just sign Dragons lower grader, Jonah Glover?

 

[weststigers]

Ok so we just re-sign everyone we currently have and hope they all miraculously improve enough to make us Premiership contenders,
I’m convinced you and a few others like us finishing last or near last every season 🤷‍♂️

To isolate all problems with the team to To'a is incredibly short sighted.

It's clear for most.

Repace Seyfarth...check (KPP)
Add 2 more quality forwards. One to replace Twal and one to replace Bird...Let's wait and see.

Bird, Twal and Seyfarth give us our depth.

 

[Vicious]

Toa is under contract next year…he isn’t going anywhere…

The problem is you want to replace like 7 people in the team with external players … they will be lucky to sign 2-3 more and they should be forwards,,.forwards win games .

I actually don’t want or see the need to replace anywhere near 7 players in our top 17.
What we do need is a couple of players who are genukne quality and add strike to our lacklustre attack.
We may not be able to do this for 2026, but recruitment for 2027 starts as of November 1 this year.

 

[tigahhh]

To isolate all problems with the team to To'a is incredibly short sighted.

It's clear for most.

Repace Seyfarth...check (KPP)
Add 2 more quality forwards. One to replace Twal and one to replace Bird...Let's wait and see.

Bird, Twal and Seyfarth give us our depth.

unpopular opinion: twally has been actually so good this year. such a great role player

 

[Vicious]

To isolate all problems with the team to To'a is incredibly short sighted.

It's clear for most.

Repace Seyfarth...check (KPP)
Add 2 more quality forwards. One to replace Twal and one to replace Bird...Let's wait and see.

Bird, Twal and Seyfarth give us our depth.

Twal and Seyfarth playing approximately 70-80mins between them each week are the problem why our attack is atrocious and we can’t score points, are you off your head ?

 

[weststigers]

Same theory as when the Bulldogs identified they needed to spend big to land Crichton and Kikau.
Are the Bulldogs middles any better than ours ?

Crichton is not on a million dollars. Neither is Kikau.

We have 2 million to spend and spots to fill. Wait until November 1st. We will sign someone.

By the looks of it, Benji is putting together a combined Samoa/Tonga dream team.

 

[weststigers]

Twal and Seyfarth are the problem why out attack is atrocious and we can’t score points, are you off your head ?

Twal and Seyfarth could be replaced with those rampaging, tackle breaking players you so desperately want. Replacing To'a with Averillo wouldn't change anythingbthis year. In fact, To'a has scored some tries this year that I doubt many other players score.

 

[Vicious]

Crichton is not on a million dollars. Neither is Kikau.

We have 2 million to spend and spots to fill. Wait until November 1st. We will sign someone.

By the looks of it, Benji is putting together a combined Samoa/Tonga dream team.

Fantastic we will be the first ever NRL team to have 1-17 of only Polynesian players.
Will that help us win an NRL premiership ?

 

[weststigers]

Fantastic we will be the first ever NRL team to have 1-17 of only Polynesian players.
Will that help us win an NRL premiership ?

El-Zakhem definitely won't.

 

[shankspony]

i see no difference to Penrith’s backline to ours , McLean & Jenkins aren’t game breakers

Disagree, Casey McLean is a gun.