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That would be funny: I mean, we all assume Newcastle are going to regret the 10-year deal before it ends but this way they have a chance to regret it before it starts.

I'd be very wary of assuming the 2022 Nanai is just waiting for a change of scenery to appear again, and I certainly wouldn't be contemplating taking his whole contract. This is from a pretty decent Cowboys season preview: I almost dedicated a bonus newsletter last week to the dropping of...

Turuva got a grade one charge, it's a fine with an early guilty plea.

Putting aside any views on Bateman's personality, small back rowers are legendarily bad uses of long-term contracts - they take so much punishment that by the time they hit 30 they're almost invariably physically broken. I remember that being said about Parra signing Anthony Watmough to a...

Yes but that requires you to be buying actual lottery tickets. Sheens seemed to be trying to win the lottery with an old bus ticket, a local real estate agent's business card and an unstamped loyalty card from a cafe that went out of business in 2017.

Then tie up Braith Anasta with the strapping, and drown him in the Gatorade.

There's a case for Scott Prince, but it's Gareth Ellis.

I think he's made more good moves than bad but I'll criticse where I think it's appropriate - and this one looks like a cock up. Nobody's perfect and I'm not about to suggest running the guy out of town, but the reality is we're in a position where we can't afford too many mistakes.

I've been saying for months that if the Tigers didn't get Galvin locked up before the start of the season he was as good as gone. Now it sounds like he never really engaged with even discussing an extension. Whatever, it is what it is. It pisses me off that we don't seem to be able to retain...

You know what? I've jumped the fence on this issue. I used to be quite proud of the Tigers' apparent no dickheads policy - I liked how they handled the Robert Lui situation, for instance. And while Taylan is, legally, innocent till proved guilty I am allowed to draw my own conclusions... and...

Oh sure, it's attack and defence together. I'm just saying it's absolutely beyond question that we got battered in the ruck with the sole exception of May.

What provided quality field position (in the first half) was penalties and Knights errors. Have a look at my post above re play the ball speed to see why our pack, May apart, was completely dominated throughout and why we had so few actual attacking sets. When we did get to play on their line...

May's average PTB speed was 3.81 seconds, the quickest of all our forwards but almost the slowest of theirs. He is literally the opposite of the worst offender. Here all all non-hooker forwards in the game in order of PTB speed: Hetherington: 3.42 seconds Frizell: 3.44 seconds Jones: 3.58...

What like all the pieces talking up the Broncos? They seemed to cope.

Other than May, all the middles got dominated in the ruck. Fair play to Twal for getting through a lot of work but the slow PTBs absolutely killed any chance of building momentum. It wasn't just Twal, either: Pole was poor, he and Hunt much less impact than hoped, Bird lively but no impact...

This is why you don't put fans in charge. When Olam left Melbourne one of the two reasons I saw why they weren't that bothered to lose him (the other being that he was a massive injury risk, funnily enough) was that he's a bad defender. He's a good tackler - no-one disagrees with that. But his...

You think Penrith and Melbourne have their players on match payments?

There's a bit of selective memory here. When we signed Luai there were plenty of people queuing up to tell us it was massive overs and Luai would flop without Cleary. It's only a whole season of running the team that's convinced a lot of observers that he's a top five or six half in his own...

Oh, and BTW: there's absolutely no way Isaac Moses's advice is "let's see how the season starts and work it out from there". He will have a very, very clear idea of what various teams might be willing to offer on 1 November under various circumstances and a concrete plan for getting to the...

I understand the circumstances. I've said this before, but the reality is the bit of leverage the Tigers have is that they can upgrade Galvin now. The problem is, the longer they go without doing so the smaller that advantage becomes. If he's prepared to play 2025 on relative peanuts I think...