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Re-sign Doueihi now

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?

It's always funny reading these threads and seeing the frequent take away being that it's actually the Tigers fault Luai is underperforming because we haven't given him a team full of SOO and international players capable of winning 4 premierships, rather than him maybe not being that good...

I get the sentiment of not wanting to lose leaders, but he was under contract until the end of 26. By that time, several players in our team would have the opportunity to step up and be leaders. If we're still relying on Koroisau, both as a footy player and leader in 2028, something's gone wrong.

Cam Smith is arguably the greatest player ever. Api while a champion player and one of the better hookers of the past decade, isn't remotely in that type of conversation. It's like pointing at Djokovic or LeBron as evidence that old guys can be great. They're exceptions, not the rule.

Doueihi on 450k for 1 year is a total no-brainer. It's a low-risk signing. If he flops at lock, then off he goes at the end of the year. If he suceeds, then we up the offer for the next. Digging our heels in over 50k for a guy who's been in our system for years, is versatile and has shown a...