Does no one else dread the words kepoa and winger together. I think tupou should be winger since he can replace ken as an aerial target plus is signed up longer so the faster he gets used to first grade the better it is for us
I think the fact that while not cheap none of them are on monster deals really helps the risk factor plus I don't think the club signed them hoping they would be as good as their prime but more to strengthen the forwards a bit while our younger players get used to first grade, they have also...
I think Johnson will lose it he was terrible last year and doesn't look any better so far, it's a bit shit for charnze but it wouldn't surprise me if he ends up at centre sometime this year
Your not taking into account the cap increase plus while I don't like him and would perfer not signing him acting like he isn't a top 5 halfback and pretending that 28 is still old for a nrl halback when half the other you named are either the same age or older(dce and hunt are 34 and 32...
That's not too bad then while I would perfer him not to be a flop the real worry would be crippling our cap but 600k is an amount that we can cop especially with the increase of the cap, unless you mean in pounds cause if so we're screwed
Do we know how much he is on because that can change things dramatically, if he's on 500-600 grand and flops that bad but if he's on 800-900 grand and flops that's a Cleary signing
It really depends on how much their contracts are worth and if it's backended, frontended or consistent throughout.
Klemmer should be fine for atleast first 3an probably all 4 Batemans more of a mystery but we do have other options at 2nd row so depending on contract not fatal
2 years for brooks if it's only lik 600k isn't to bad, worse case scenario we have a slightly expensive deph player but you would hope they would wait to see him play
I think the encouraging thing with him is even if he flops our season isn't over with and we've got guys to replace him unlike alot of our other flop signing we're we needed them to perform.
That being said I don't think he'll flop while he probably won't reach his raiders form as long as he...
I think the fact tupou can get high edges him over Staines in our squad, brooks has basically mastered attacking kicks to the wing (alot of ken's tries were from them) and it would be a shame to not have a winger capable of taking advantage of it
He did look alot better than Laurie today especially under the high ball but by the time he played alot of the raiders first grade team were already off
We looked good but only really used douheis side and better sides will shut us down, so hopefully that was because api and brooks were out(anyone thinking wakehams better than brooks needs thier eyes checked)
I think tupou is at the stage where to develop any further he'll need to play first...
The weird thing with his short kicks is that at one point 2018-19 I remember it being on of his strengths than it and alot of the upside of his game disappeared in 2020
Defence is mostly attitude so hopefully playing a more free flowing game will help the players stay engaged and focused during defense that being said I think alot more errors with the ball will happen this year but hopefully by 24,25 season the players get used to throwing the ball around
I think he kind of suffers from the fact his flaws are obvious when watching from TV and always there witch makes it that much more frustrating to watch, whereas brooks main flaws of not being a organiser and some panicked decision making are either not apparent from the tv or less constant and...
At this point that would be the wrong move, one of reasons the club has such a stink around it is due to a reputation of being unstable, changing a coaching plan not even a year after announcing it just feeds into that.
If it was before we announced that plan than its a no brainer, can't even...