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Luai's not walking anywhere unless the PNG team have a huge deal ready for him. He's not getting a better contract anywhere else.

Madge is a good coach but I think it takes a particular roster to buy in. I remember speaking to Chee Kam about Madge a few years back when Chee Kam moved on to Souths. He didn't really like Madge and felt he was too rigid and didn't really connect with the players. In terms of game planning...

Kristian Wolf is doing a good job with the Phins so I wouldn't knock the super league background. Peters obviously knows what he's doing. Certainly within the realm of possibility he's a marked upgrade on Benji. Especially if Benji is more concerned with what the team looks like than what it...

I think Latu is a great prospect but come on. There's a reason why we offered Galvin 6 million over 5 years and he was the one starting in the halves.

Nrlw signings

Sounds like a geeat player to give a 4 year multi million dollar deal to...

Api is older than Klemmer and Bateman btw who people were happy to move on because of their age.

At least in years gone by we were clearing out genuine deadwood. Now we're releasing 20 year olds and some are giving the club a pat on the back.

This is our 15th consecutive transition year. I'm pretty sure they don't have plan.

Yep. No defined long-term strategy. Klemmer being moved on makes sense if you turn around and put that money into extensions for Galvin and Da Silva. Now they're gone, what are we going to use this money for? Even what we've saved on Bud's salary for the year... literally nothing in return...

The Bateman and Klemmer releases were fine. Two overpaid players who weren't contributing to winning now or later. Galvin and Da Silva aren't. Especially not without getting anything back in return. We're kinda stuffed for at least 4 more years at this stage. Just gonna need to wait out this...

It's an overpay but given where the cap is going and the fact we've got 2 more teams coming in, the reality is a lot of signings will look like overpays. Anyway you're better off overpaying guys who can become stars than overpaying average guys or guys who have peaked.

Two overpaid players who they had absolutely no need for, versus a junior contracted for another year and our back up hooker...

Surely Penrith will give us Cleary for Luai back? Penrith is nothing without Luai or so I've been told here. They couldn't win the premiership without Luai at 7!

God that list of off contract players is grim. We're in a dark spot. At least last year we could've looked forward to a potential spine of Galvin, Latu and Da Silva. 3 20 year olds with endless potential working together. Now 2 are gone, we're stuck with one of the worst contracts in the...

He tried but like everyone apart from Doueihi was ineffective. My point is more to the people saying he's gone better at 13 or coming off the bench that you can't compare this to those games.

Can't hold that performance against Latu at all.

Da Silva was poor tonight but what did anyone apart from Doueihi do? We looked no worse with Da Silva at 9 than we did with Api truth be told. The reality is Da Silva is only going to improve as a player and Koroisau is only going to get worse. Will Api be a better player than Da Silva in...

Definitely. But our entire spine and leadership group are, as well as our coach. Without counting, I reckon we'd be close to having the most Islanders in our first 17 of any team in the league. Not inherently a bad thing, but it can go some way to explaining why a couple of young white guys...

It's a culture heavily influenced by the Polyneasians in our team.