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The club saw Latu as better than Galvin, which is why we offered Galvin $6 million over 5 years? Come on. Tucker is 100% spot on here sadly. The narrative only changed after the fact. It's also plainly obvious that the dominant culture in the team is now a poly heavy culture lead by Luai, May...

Well yeah he's 20 and hooker is the most physically demanding position in the game. He clearly has good instincts for a young guy and can read the game well. That doesn't necessarily improve with age. He'll fill out and get stronger as he ages so I'm not worried about his defence. Api wasn't a...

TDS didn't look out of place in first grade as a 19/20 year old. Given most of the game's great hookers don't even make it as first grade regulars until like 22, he's way ahead of the curve. Api himself wasn't a regular first grader until 23/24 years old. Da Silva will end up at least a solid...

Yep. Big issue.

That's not my point though. The problem is we're the worst performing team in the league choosing to prioritise older players over juniors we've developed, while the best teams in the league are choosing to prioritise our juniors over established players.

Keeping good juniors would help us yes. We've seen countless juniors leave and go on to win premierships and plays reps elsewhere while our club has languished at the bottom of the table. Letting Paps, Bateman and Klem go were good decisions and I'm not counting them as losses because they...

The thing is Penrith is losing players and has won 4 premierships. We're losing our best juniors off the back of winning 3 spoons lol.

And if you break things down a bit, it's not like our recruitment has been great. Luai - Made him one of the highest paid players in the game and offered more than 1.5x the money on a longer deal than the club he was at. He's a good 5/8th and not a halfback either. Hunt - 3 year deal on big...

Also says a lot that clubs doing significantly better than us are trying to sign our juniors while we prioritise older guys...

Also it's pretty clear Da Silva's been made to feel uncomfortable about the whole Galvin situation. I don't blame him for wanting to leave when the club's leadership is essentially endorsing a culture that could be taken as seeking to exclude you.

Yep agree. Reality is we haven't made the finals since 2011. We won't this year either. 15 years now. Obviously there's pressure to try and make the finals but I think most fans at this point would rather take another year or two knowing that once we do make it, we'll be a contender, rather...

As good as Api is, we really can't be counting on him as a full-time player in 2027. He'll be 34 turning 35. It's a real possibility that Da Silva will be as good as Api some time in 2026, let alone 2027. If the club is lower of Da Silva then everyone others in footy, so be it. But if we do...

Latu is a gun. He could very well become every bit the player Katoa is.

Same story every week. We're just not quite good enough to overcome the refs. Sick of it.

Great kick.

Latu is a gun. Not much else to talk about.

Would Brooks be a 4x premiership winner if he happened to be a Penrith junior?

The 2 players getting moved on rumour sounds like it would be Manly. Makes sense with all that's been going on lately and the Seibold news.

Almost all of our tries came from Luai playing 2nd or 3rd receiver.