Signings, Suggestions & Rumours Discussion

BlackWhiteGold said:
That's my gut feel too @Demps .

My gut also tells me To'a is too inconsistent defensively & injury prone to be in our premiership winning team. I feel we need a strong running and very good defensive right centre to polish off our team.

1 Bula 2 Makasini 3 May 4 ??? 5 Turuva

Someone of the ilk of a Shibasaki or Kris.
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Makasini, fast tracked... ?

Still a bit to play out with Starford but I can't see him liking taking Nadens role next year as the "experienced back up".

As @jrtiger said though, the depth is looking light.

Some how we have to improve this and im thinking Tui'tupou & Mapapalangi [shout out @IronFist ] will be handy for this role, just a matter of how we fit them in.
 
Tom Shines said:
I’m a little concerned about hooker next season the way things stand…I can’t say I’m too wrapped in Hope taking up a bench spot…also with limited Top 30 spots still available, I don’t want them to sign someone else …on the other hand , I don’t want Api playing 80 mins every week …don’t see a lot of other options if not Latu to be honest
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I think those concerned about Hope are right to have their reservations, but I suspect Haywood will creep up on everybody for a bit-part role quicker than people expect. Won't surprise me if they give him a bench game in Cup to finish the year over the next month...
 
Vicious said:
I think it’s looking likely we would need to offload Sullivan and also potentially Bird, Hunt and maybe To’a to allow us to add some more NRL quality to our current playing roster,
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I think you're on the money, V.

I think we'll see a couple of surprising names move early in the next couple of months.

'Surprising' in that they're not the Feledys or Tumeths of the world, but I think those names, particularly Hunt and Bird, may well fall out the back door pretty quickly.
 
Tom Shines said:
I agree …

Any chance you think that Latu could fill in at 9 to give Api a 20 min rest next year ?
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I don't think that makes any sense if we are going to start Latu at 7. If he plays 14 then yeah sure, but otherwise it's just a disruption to his development.
 
BlackWhiteGold said:
That's my gut feel too @Demps .

My gut also tells me To'a is too inconsistent defensively & injury prone to be in our premiership winning team. I feel we need a strong running and very good defensive right centre to polish off our team.

1 Bula 2 Makasini 3 May 4 ??? 5 Turuva

Someone of the ilk of a Shibasaki or Kris.
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I know To'a is not the flavour of the month, but I'm not writing him off as "inconsistent" this year.

He was our most potent attacking threat and was good defensively before his arm injury and in hindsight I don't think he should have been picked as it impacted his fend in attack and he was timid in defence.

I don't think we'll get a better option without paying overs.
 
Tino as the big fish to fill spot 30 would be perfect. Put him at 13 and push Doueihi to 14, adds some more grunt to the pack that we have missed on occasions this year.
I know it's a pipe dream but dreams are still free.
 
weststigerman said:
I know To'a is not the flavour of the month, but I'm not writing him off as "inconsistent" this year.

He was our most potent attacking threat and was good defensively before his arm injury and in hindsight I don't think he should have been picked as it impacted his fend in attack and he was timid in defence.

I don't think we'll get a better option without paying overs.
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To'a was probably our 2nd best player over the first half of the year. The knock on him is inconsistency and injuries, unfortunately the 2nd half of the year has done nothing to disprove the knocks.

My feel is Benji likes him but is running out of patience
 
mtd#2 said:
I don't think that makes any sense if we are going to start Latu at 7. If he plays 14 then yeah sure, but otherwise it's just a disruption to his development.
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he is still getting 60 mins at 7… yeah it’s a disruption but not as much as playing 14 and then coming on where exactly ?
 
BlackWhiteGold said:
That's my gut feel too @Demps .

My gut also tells me To'a is too inconsistent defensively & injury prone to be in our premiership winning team. I feel we need a strong running and very good defensive right centre to polish off our team.

1 Bula 2 Makasini 3 May 4 ??? 5 Turuva

Someone of the ilk of a Shibasaki or Kris.
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Parra centre available and better than toa for sure
 
Demps said:
Makasini, fast tracked... ?

Still a bit to play out with Starford but I can't see him liking taking Nadens role next year as the "experienced back up".

As @jrtiger said though, the depth is looking light.

Some how we have to improve this and im thinking Tui'tupou & Mapapalangi [shout out @IronFist ] will be handy for this role, just a matter of how we fit them in.
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if there's anyone who's expendable in the backline, it's Skelton, not Starford.

Makasini's likely to start on the left wing next year imo.
 
jrtiger said:
if there's anyone who's expendable in the backline, it's Skelton, not Starford.

Makasini's likely to start on the left wing next year imo.
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I agree re Makasini. Can see him become an exceptional left winger to start his NRL career with his fend, decent speed, tackle-breaking ability & pretty good aerial takes from what I have seen.

Skelton will be a great depth option next season in the final year of his contract.
 
BlackWhiteGold said:
I agree re Makasini. Can see him become an exceptional left winger to start his NRL career with his fend, decent speed, tackle-breaking ability & pretty good aerial takes from what I have seen.

Skelton will be a great depth option next season in the final year of his contract.
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I think Skelton's way more likely to go to R360 than Starford, despite Mac's reasonably plausible theory.
 
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