Signings, Suggestions & Rumours Discussion

Telltails said:
Luai has played plenty of good games without starring, the problem is as soon as people know a salary their expectations are not realistic.
So we will scapegoat another player, deathride them when another club takes them on to strengthen their roster, and still look for the miracle man to resolve a history of "team" failures.
A Moses/ Luai halves combination I have no doubt will be positive to Parramatta and will strengthen their squad and their position.
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Can't have it both ways, has he performed as a marquee player or not ?

Will he or won't he block someone else's pathway ?

Its like wanting to stay with you ex girlfriend after she has cheated on you so someone else doesn't get her.

It works for no one, pull the band aid off and get on with life. He hasn't been the same since he signed with PNG.....
 
Tired Tiger said:
Can't have it both ways, has he performed as a marquee player or not ?

Will he or won't he block someone else's pathway ?

Its like wanting to stay with you ex girlfriend after she has cheated on you so someone else doesn't get her.

It works for no one, pull the band aid off and get on with life. He hasn't been the same since he signed with PNG.....
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He will never meet the value of his salary but very few do, and it is the very reason why plenty of quality players won't go near bottom clubs and if they do you have to pay overs or get them past their best.
He is not the only player being paid overs in this squad and the whole we don't need them, for other clubs to pick them off has got us just making up the numbers. He is one of the few players who knows what success looks like and what is required to get it
He wasn't blocking the path of anyone we know where he is headed. His salary however is probably blocking the club from paying players that have not done anything yet but to keep them here they know they can demand more.
 
Has he performed as a marquee player or not ?
Simple question, yes or no ?

He hasn't been the same since he signed with PNG, he has been phoning it in carrying on like a muppet when he finally put in acceptable performance against the titans.

Trying to argue that he didn't need to live up to his value because others in our team don't in a losers mentality and exactly why we are in this position.

He made his choice and it wasn't us we were just convenient for another 1.2 million next year on his way to PNG.

Rip the band-aid off and get on with life, his out isn't increasing next year to anything close to being acceptable for his price tag....
 
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weststigers said:
Honestly who gives a shit where he goes?

as long as his twirling around on the spot doesn't impact our attack, he can play for Magpies for all I care.
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Actually, he could be full time captain coach of the Magpies and maybe we can get a bit of value for the dollars seeing as how we can't currently afford a full time reserve grade coach. 🤣
 
balmain boy said:
But if we have the worst recruitment staff because we can't afford to hire anyone but a local boy to help us then that's on the owners not the recruiter.

If we have on field performances that are poor, maybe it's because we have the lowest paid and lowest Calibre assistants in the NRL.

Deny it as much as you want, all failures lead back to Wests Ashfield.
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I have an interesting corollary about this with my Premier League team Tottenham.

Historically Spurs are a big-money club ("Big Six") who were always tight with the purse strings. They had a former part-owner and chairman who was very savvy with business but arguably misguided with football spending.

So whilst Spurs were very good at diversifying their business, the on-field results were not consistently there. For example Spurs financed the rebuild of their own stadium and it's arguably now one of the best in Europe, in North London, so they also make money via concerts, NFL matches etc. Spurs have world-class training facilities.

But with football spending Spurs have always been tight. They didn't like to overspend on managers or players, and when they got into recruitment tussles over players they were often beaten by other big clubs who were willing to spend more.

So it was a case of a sound businesspeople who were good at maintaining the bottom line but provably aimless (via results) and restrictive in football spending.

That Chairperson Daniel Levy resigned a season ago and Spurs were almost relegated two years running, which is a disaster for the club.

BUT this transfer window someone has opened the purse strings, and lo, Spurs are landing all their target signings. Not just transfer fees to other clubs, but importantly, personal weekly wages to the players. Spurs were historically thrifty with player wages.

It remains to be seen whether this works out in the upcoming season, i.e. whether they are good signings, but the point is once the spending was increased the players came. You can talk all you want about culture and desirability but money talks, and if you hold back on football Ops spending, you lose out in the long run.

The corollary being: clearly Wests Ashfield can afford to spend more on football ops, but they choose not to.
 
Vicious said:
Benji was not happy with us hiring outside recruitment staff, case point Scott Fulton.
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A personality clash.
But we simply must have someone like that. Benji must decide what time he wants, he can't do 6 jobs at once. Currently he's doing many roles but doing all of them poorly.
 
Kade7 probably update us soon , seems to be on the money most times , Luai gone for 2027 ? Confirm
Who are we looking at ?
Who have we secured just waiting on Luai out the door deal so we can confirm incoming , hope these can be answered as we need a strong prop I feel , Andrew’s and Latu and AD enough to cover half’s , Alverillo into centre is also good
 
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