It’s just I dunno fate ? Serendipity? Conspiracy?lol that the one club who would have thier best player , be the face of the franchise of the nrl and IRL and Aus government , US government , power in the Oceania arena , that club be us . Why? Because we have the guy a get out clause , and because we did , we thought we were being clever to put the declaration date in April . Never thinking it would be such a season defining thing .
You’d say they should have planned for it , but it probably will never happen again , so how do you plan for it ? The series of events that needed to happen re. Chammas whilst still a journo , has an inkling something is off with Luai’s contract . Researches it , on a portal that’s now taken down from the nrl website , figures out which contract is Luai’s , uses that info he gathered to then pivot into his new role of png head of football to sign luai . The reason he had the jump was he knew the terms better than any other club . Probably better than Shaun and Pat tbh.
For me luai screams Reynolds 2.0 . Only we’ve managed to get out of the shit contract . His form has been atrocious for 2 years, to the point you’d have to honestly say … is this his new mean? Jack in the box halves who don’t progress to game managers like Benji , Soward etc. tend to fall off a cliff like Reynolds . And in the commentary box by 35.
It’s the next choice we have to get right . I genuinely hope we do get L Brooks for a year or 2 . Get him playing off whatever Latu is doing , until Andruws is ready , then it’s an easy progression . Also it gives brooksy the type of send off we gave Benji and Robbie .
It puts madden in KOE with Andruws , AD either on the bench or at lock or edge backrow , schuster hopefully having a big offseason in the gym and committed on the wrestling Mat, and now we have spark either side of the ruck to attract and suck in defenders to give averillo and may the time and space to do their thing .
