Recent content by Lukic

At least there's one Panthers no.6 helping us avoid the spoon

Talakai is a near perfect bench 2nd rower. Definitely yes if it's a 2 year deal at most.

Penrith's pack is better than ours but they also manage to turn our rejects into viable players. Look at Eisenhuth and Garner. Scott Sorenson was a journeyman nobody. It's Cleary, Yeo and Edwards organising that team around the pitch. Luai winning a few games a year without Cleary doesn't...

Love the Andrews signing. You can never have too much young talent.

While May has been great, you'd find more braincells in a rock than Clarkey, so it's not really an endorsement.

He ends half our games limping. He was run down easily on the intercept he got this weekend whereas he was burning quicker players at the start of the year. He's just very injury prone. This is the longest run he's had in fg I feel and even then he's approach Ken Maumalo levels of being...

To'a is immensely talented but at this point you have to genuinely question whether his body can hold up at this level. I've been one of his staunchest defenders and he's easily our most dangerous attacking player, but what good is a guy who's healthy for a handful of games and then busted for...

We need a genuine organising halfback or hooker. For a brief period we had Hastings until our staff thought it was a good idea to move him to lock and then boot him from the club altogether for Bateman. Sezer kind of got us around the park ok early on and then mailed it in when he knew he...

Galvin's work rate and involvement can't be underestimated. He was breaking fitness records at the club at 19. He's constantly around the ball and involved in everything. While he sometimes overplays his hand, he has pretty good instincts and a strong footy iq for a kid. All his flaws are/were...

Nothing has happened to Luai. He's the exact player he was now as he was at Penrith. He's an average to above-average 5/8th who looked far better than he actually was playing an easy role on the best team of the modern era. Every great team during the salary cap era has had to let players go...

If Luai had a game like Galvin today half the forum would be calling for "Romey" to be made the next immortal.

Galvin is good. I question whether Luai is a better player than him now let alone going forward.

No we'd have Koroisau until the end of 2026. We would still have Doueihi around filling in the halves where necessary and probably would've signed a veteran half. Then in 2027 the three of them would be 22 and Bula 25.

He was 100% right. A serious coach and organisation doesn't sign Luai or re-sign Koroisau until he's gonna be almost 36. A real organisation prioritises Galvin, Latu and Da Silva developing together and with Bula, forming a spine we can keep in tact for the next decade.

What else are they gonna say? We're going nowhere and we're going to be glued to the bottom of the table for the foreseeable future?