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Agree. He is better than reserve grade but barely a first grader.

This can not be the case. You have to spend the cap. NRL grants the clubs the funds to do so.

There's like 7 hookers named on benches this weekend. Plus there is another 5 specialist (but not particularly good) halves named on benches that will probably be interchanged through dummy half assuming no injuries.

Tell him that the predicted future of the game includes a 14 that fills in at 9. He could go and play 80minutes at another club but he will likely be shortening his career by doing so. We value him as being part of the club now and in another 10 years. Re-promise him the 9 jersey after Apis...

Largely agree with all the above. We are seeing some (not much but some) improvement. Mostly it is in attitude more so than any game plan or structures. A lot of talk about the players still buying in and I agree they are. But the new recruits still buying in have been losing for half a season...

If it is simply about cash We've wasted plenty of salary cap in the past and continue to do so. If the club paid him overs, respective to his current role, in order to secure him long term I would not push back on that. Plenty of others areas to trim the fat to make up for it. I suspect it is...

If it is not Staines why is he on our books?

Future earnings I'd somewhat agree with but even then I'd guess it is less than 1 or 2 per club getting anywhere near the 500k as a direct result of being that clubs marquee player.

I think you are grossly overestimating the amount of 3rd party money that is available.

Suggested him 2 years ago. I don't (just) say this to toot my own horn but I think it shows one place where the club is lacking. There were decent players up for grabs when they wouldn't have cost much at all. Tuapuiki now still wouldn't cost much but it would be significantly more than 2...

Not arguing that the video was the reason he was sacked but your timeline doesn't match up. He was extended before the video.

Agree on bow and arrow or bin die. The only thing I will add. When mixing yourself be accurate with your measurements. Too strong you will kill your grass, too weak and you won't kill anything. The way most selective weeders work is a general herbicide that will kill all plant matter. Broadleaf...

To'a has on several occasions but as you say wouldn't be feared as a match up. Agree Latu looks likely to be that guy also.

I think the Unless part of your statement is key. I think and both Skelton and Turuva are both decent enough wingers and no need to upgrade either. Neither will really cost us wins (though you could make an argument regarding Skelton on the weekend) but neither will gain us wins. They will...

Fatialofa plays left

I used those examples as they are two of the obvious ones. But: some wingers offer speed: JAC, AKP, Coates, Savage, Saab. Some offer a kick target: Lomax, Coates, Tupou, Warbrick, Bostock. Some offer tackle breaks and running metres: Lomax, To'o, Marzhew, Kiraz, Tamale. I don't see anything...

Correct. And Raiders didn't let the non-call of double movement stop them from defending their line.

It was obviously wrong. The touchie was 25m away and there was an inch in it. It's hardly surprising that they got it wrong. It doesn't mean there is some conspiracy or some unconscious bias or anything other than a touchie caught out of position got a call wrong. Not the first time this has...

I agree his defence isn't up to 1st grade yet and that everyone knew this prior to Friday night. Even still I don't see him being picked as a huge problem (even if I wouldn't pick him at the moment). What I believe is a big problem is not that he was picked but that he was picked with no...

Don't know where the money has gone but it would be only about half a million there if reported salaries are accurate. At the time of their releases Tigers would of already paid a little over a 3rd of Klemmer's $650k and a little over half of Galvin's $350k. Edit* that also assumes that Dragons...