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It would be just as easy to say that reflexively firing another coach after one year in charge of a rebuild that is obviously a multi-year task would show that nothing has changed around here. The club needs to have a plan and f-ing stick to it for once. I 100% agree that Marshall may not be the...

The Knights say no, because it's a dreadful offer. If they are open to getting rid of Pearce-Paul it's because they are under cap pressure or want to free up cap for something else. Why on earth would they swap 600k of salary cap liability attached to a decent player for 1.3m of salary cap...

Penrith have 30.

I've got no objection to moaning - I've done plenty of it myself and lord knows the Tigers have given us plenty of reason to do it. My issue is when it's just all-consuming: everything the club does is always wrong unless it does things that are literally impossible, that sort of thing. It just...

With two years to run at it, Wayne Bennett and a completely empty salary cap. Also: I would have loved to have seen what the moaners on here would have made of the signings the Dolphins made before the 2023 season. They'd have been falling over themselves to congratulate the club on landing such...

Christ alive you're boring: give it a rest, will you? You're demanding things that are impossible. The club came out of 2022 with a dreadful roster, the worst in the comp by far. This cannot be fixed overnight. There aren't 15-20 good first grade players available who will sign for the Tigers in...

If we're not going to offer him more than $500k a year we don't deserve to keep him.

Except when you do. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Sua'ali'i

I don't fundamentally disagree that Brisbane has a good roster, but in what world does Jock Madden get picked over Luai, Galvin or Fainu? He's Brisbane's third best half and would be our fourth.

And also coaching exclusively against Billy Slater, don't forget that. The only way to get an easier run is to only ever have to coach against Brad Fittler.

Yres, very smart - use some of the excess cap space we had in 2024 to reduce Bateman's cap hit in 2025 and 2026, freeing up money we can spend elsewhere and reducing the amount of freight we'd have to pay to get rid of him. Which will still be massive, to be clear - but at least it puts a chunk...

Absolutely no-one in the NRL is going to sign Bateman on anything other than a train and trial deal or maybe first grade minimum. If we're very, very, very lucky we might be able to clear a roster spot and minimum salary if we carry all the rest of the freight but let's not delude ourselves: the...

He's going to find a second reverse?

Substitute any incorrect point with a correct one and you have the makings of a strong argument.

Unless we're giving him four years at 900k per he's not going to be anything like that bad. In fact it sounds like the total commitment to Bird is less than one year of Reynolds. I don't love the signing but it's not going to hurt that much even if we get nothing out of him at all.

I never really understand this. I mean, if it was just a question of doing a really hard pre-season surely everyone would just do that? It's not like it's a trade secret or something. I suspect Melbourne are actually doing lots and lots of things right, it's just that the ones that involve...

Presumably they're thinking about what Utoikamanu might be if they can get him to put a bit of effort in.

So he's not a benefactor, then - he's a (potential) investor. That's a different thing.

Fair enough, I'll leave it up as a testament to not thinking that one through. I stand by my argument though: if Harry Triguboff was a "great supporter" of Balmain or Wests Tigers neither would be in the mess they are now.

You'll notice that none of the actual club benefactors in the NRL - Politis, Laundy etc - are actually club sponsors. Why? Because being so expressly rules them out from providing the kind of assistance that actually gives the club an advantage ie topping up player salaries. "Players can earn...