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I don't know what point you're trying to make, though. You said Galvin had to play because there were no options. This isn't true: the expected starting halves were Sezer and Sullivan going into pre-season, and Galvin won his place on merit. If what you're trying to say is that players become...

Nothing to do with Galvin.

He played 17 games. The club clearly didn't think they didn't have any options.

Do you just make it up as you go along in the hope that no-one will notice? We had Sezer on the bench in the first game of the season. It's not hard to check: https://www.nrl.com/news/2024/03/12/nrl-team-lists-round-2/

The sunk cost fallacy also applies to household budgets.

But he's not going to play. He doesn't want to, the coach doesn't want him to, it's not happening. There's as much chance of Batman playing back row for the Tigers in 2025 as Bateman. The only question is whether we have to pay out his whole contract or just some of it.

Not sure how sulky John Bateman not playing first grade in 2025 is any different from sulky John Bateman not playing first grade in 2026 to be honest.

The only defence, really, is that we didn't know we were going to get Luai or that Galvin would come through so quickly when Sullivan signed. Doueihi was out for most of the season so we had to sign someone to play in the halves - two of them, in fact, assuming they didn't think Fainu was going...

In theory, I'm not sure $500k is wildly out of line for your first backup half. Average salary on the cap in 2025 is $380k, and I'd argue third-choice half is a more important position than positions 12-18 on the roster. You've got to assume you'll be missing one of your halves for, what, 5-10...

Just guesswork on my part but I don't think Doueihi will play in the halves in reggies, all else being equal. If he's going to be any use to the first grade team at any stage this season it's probably at centre, in which case the club will want him to get as many reps in there as possible. If...

Whyte is more than twice the player Wong is. At least I assume that's what they mean when they say two Wongs don't make a Whyte. Anyway, back on topic - the problem with shifting Sullivan is his contract. The Roosters might need a half this year but there's no way they'd be thinking Sullivan...

Yes, I'm aware of all that. What didn't happen was anyone being called sexist "for not liking NRLW" or whatever alternative version of reality is being applied to allow the deployment of the standard, tedious victim complex. This is now the third time I've said this: I personally don't follow...

This is misrepresenting what was said. No-one got called misogynistic for not following NRLW - the comment (which I don't actually agree with, as it happens) was about someone who claimed literally not to have ever heard the name of the Tigers' most famous women's player. Those are two different...

I really don't want to get dragged into this but you're being a bit disingenuous here. I'm not terribly interested in NRLW, I'm not ashamed to admit it and I would be stunned if anyone called me sexist for it. I do, however, vaguely know who my club's most famous women's player is. I'm a member...

In theory, a good team can accommodate some less than phenomenal players so I'm less worried than others about who the 12th or 13th best starter in the team might be. To take a pertinent example, I really don't think there's a gulf in class between Luke Garner and Alex Seyfarth - if the two had...

https://www.foxsports.com.au/nrl/nrl-premiership/wayne-bennetts-legeacy-as-the-games-most-successful-coach-sees-him-dubbed-super-coach/news-story/86db38abab40b168596846e8159d8a0e

I couldn’t put on weight if I tried when I was 19. It wasn’t something I had to worry about for long.

He's past it, and in fact he's been past it since at least a couple of seasons before we got him. Believing there is still anything to be extracted from the corpse of John Bateman, whatever attitiude he's bringing to work, is up there with the people who continued to believe that all we had to...

By round 8 he's thinking about apartments in Bondi mate - we'll be hearing "want to concentrate on my footy/manager is taking care of all that stuff/will look at it in the off season". We have to make a decision and back it or this is Tedesco mark 2.

Honestly, of all the ridiculous things I've ever read on this forum this one is right up there with the guy who thought Wade Graham was the answer to our problems. There is, precisely, one way for a club like the Tigers to be competitive in the NRL: it has to produce a lot of talent, and be...