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You were criticising the club for letting go of Pap and Bateman. We were paying them at the rate they deserved when they were playing at their best (Pap at Parra, Bateman at Canberra) and we certainly weren't getting that sort of output from them, so they were overpaid and underperforming, not...

Quite possibly, outside of Galvin, but I was referring to the forwards you mentioned, notably Pap and Bateman.

For the output we were getting, all of them.

How silly of the club to let go players who were way over paid for what they delivered and didn't want to be at there...

Saukuru on the wing, according to the stats the heaviest player in the club, would love to hear how he goes if anyone's watching, already has a try by the looks of it.

I thought our first contact (in attack and defence) wasn't as strong as either of our opponents in the trials which was worrying. Also our edge defence still seems like it's a guessing game by the players out wide, do we actually have a defensive structure?

I see football through a tv or the sideline, not in the inner sanctum, so of course anything I believe is through my own lens without the knowledge of what is really occurring in the club. As for the hysteria about not replacing the trio of forwards my thoughts are: May for Steph (a clear win...

Fair enough, I'm glad that those players are off our books and I feel May, Hunt and Bird will offer more than the trio that left provided last season. I think the cleanout of the squad is exactly what we needed and I believe that there is still some more to come.

So what would you have done?

Bird, Hunt, Turuva, Skelton? As for Steph, Paps, Bateman they clearly didn't want to be at the club so in my opinion it's been great roster management to find them a home.

Are you seriously criticising/questioning the recruitment that has occurred under Richo?

A 1 on 1 legs tackle should be called dominant, giving the tackling player time to regain his feet and get into marker.

I thought Broederlow showed that he might have something. Kit looked good in second half and may be a chance of getting a spot as an impact forward in the future. Overall thought we went ok, seems the rushing in winger defence is still a thing however.

Didn't see much of the game so unsure how he went. I see Narven Willett is lining up on the wing for Manly this week, will again be interested to see what we lost with him.

I see Zakauri Clarke has been named in the 17 for Penrith's trial tonight, will be interesting to see how he goes and what we lost...

No sorry I don't, not enough or consistently to label it second year syndrome, I suppose we will know soon enough.

The frustration will be when they miss blatant ones (like forward passes) then pull up one at an important time or field position, and sadly it'll more than likely be us on the end of it.

And what data/tape would they have on the Luai/Galvin combination to make these plans? Do you not believe Galvin will play a different role this year?

I disagree. Last season as a 19 year old he was expected to be the main man, and to be fair he tried really hard to be that player and went well. This year with Luai will be completely different, he will be able to follow Luai's lead and chime in when he sees something. The combination will take...

Sadly this the outcome I can see too, Teddy 2.0.