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Both 5/8s are pretty average. Iongi struggling out if position and Talagi making a lot of errors. Anyone know if Soni Luke is contracted for 2026?

Luai playing well at 7 so far today. May hasn’t been on in the first half maybe not fully fit.

Different players though- might have similar run metres and playing minutes but Haas has much more impact on a game. I’d trade 10-15 playing minutes of May’s for more aggression and tackle busting runs from him.

I’m a fan of Luai .. now more than previously. I was worried about him coming over. But now I see a different guy than I thought he was. You cannot discount the presence he brings to this group, off and on the field. His contribution to building a winning culture is immense. As for his footy, I...

Elliot would be another good addition if we can get him. Dropping off guys who aren’t likely to contribute to our top 20 for guys who will is exactly the reshaping we need. It will make us infinitely better. Now we need a preseason from hell that toughens every player and has them fitter than ever.

I believe in Bula. I watched that footage of him at the army camp, he stepped up big time. I think he holds a place of great respect in the group. As for his talents- he is a fabulous athlete with plenty of skills and still working on his game as a fullback. He’s only going to improve. I said...

So he’s currently 28 with no apparent injuries or reason to justify him being paid less - at $350k they’re resigning an experienced and quality NRL fullback- wouldn’t the salary cap auditor being asking questions.

Has Kennedy taken a pay cut?? What was his last contract value - anyone know?

Great to welcome Bunty. Definitely adds to our squad. Now we need to do the Brown for Bird trade and that will help our go forward even more.

I hadn’t seen him before this although I’ve heard his big hit “Lose Control” plenty. I thought he was pretty good. Tough to perform in that environment, to get the sound right and your vocal to hold up. He’s got a strong voice and seems an interesting character. Won the crowd with AC/DC number.

Agreed My point is that the success of a coach depends heavily on the cattle he’s coaching.

I don’t expect Madge has changed his coaching style too much in these past years, so the results he has achieved since leaving us say more about our group of players and our club than they do about his coaching. So you can be an International team winning coach, a SOO winning coach, and an NRL...

Thought raiders attack looked very pedestrian all one out and crash plays. Thought they could muscle their way to victory but Sharks defense was solid. Hardly ever tested sharks at all with any ball movement.

Lots of posters suggesting we have a good enough team to have made finals and that Benji was the main problem. If you want to rate our squad against the other 16 teams, an interesting exercise is to rate each player of our top 17 by position against every other player in the NRL. That is how...

One pleasing thing from today’s game was seeing Royce fired up and having a go. Shame he can’t seem to build on that effort. We look bog average against any team with grunt or speed - seems to be two key winning ingredients that we sorely lack.

Melbourne game was an outlier and hurt our For and Against. We were unable to win a few games that we could or should have, which was disappointing. We were definitely a better side this season than the past 4-5 years but we lacked consistency snd sustained effort. Our D is still weak and...

I think you’re right with this - certainly against the Cows and again tonight. What I saw was one team wanting to win more than the other. They ran harder and tackled harder than we did. Their forwards were much tougher and stronger and when they got a sniff they were too fast for us. AJ...

So we’d be paying maybe 550k for 2026 and he has an option to move on for 2027 if he gets an offer he likes. One good thing about that deal is he’s probably highly motivated to get that offer so he’s playing hard for us. Is one season enough though.

Moale goes ok from what Ive seen of him. Has reasonable speed and mobility and an offload. Wonder what his price tag would be - anyone know? I’d love to see us find 2 middles. He could be one of them if Benji thinks he’ll bring the right attitude to the group. I only want “competitors” - for me...

We played with effort and in the most part defended aggressively and well. Dropped off in the last 10 mins where we stopped slowing them down and didn’t get up off the ground etc allowing them way too much momentum. Again a few too many errors that we struggled to defend cost us. All season i...