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Benji said they had to get an exemption to play him so Skelton must be carrying an injury or they would have had to pick him.

That’s how I see it. It’s easy and probably convenient for fans and even media to blame managers when these things happen. If it were my son being used as a pawn I’d be sacking his manager quick smart. I suspect Moses is more than happy to get his hands dirty if his clients want him to, but the...

Buddy, you are the one suggesting we don’t sign Brimson because he might block a pathway player It’s quite simple, make the team as strong as possible as soon as possible. If Bula leaves find the best possible option. Worst case activate the 27 option and make him stay 1 more year till there...

At some point it would be really nice if we stopped focusing on trying to win in 2 to 3 years time and just focused on winning now. You’re also not going to sign any decent fallback on a two year deal

As a player yes. But I find it hard to cop him as a person, especially given his recent hissy fit. The Bulldogs gave him an opportunity after he was banned for several years for taking steroids, then he carries on like he’s too good to be dropped or play out of position. That doesn’t sound like...

He could also do a couple of ACL’s and end up the next Tautau Moga (not that anyone wants that). There is risk both ways. I wouldn’t be surprised if they end end doing a deal for a 2-3 year extension as a compromise.

I was told by a pretty good source that it’s a done deal.

To be fair they had 3 or 4 fringe NRL players and they were up 28-0 before they took them off. I think they will be the same as the last few years, sometimes brilliant and sometimes rubbish. They could finish anywhere from 6th-16th.

Well so far they have played it pretty much exactly as we did with Galvin. At some point a deal will be done and Lomax will be playing for another NRL club. The tough talk is just part of the process.

The problem with TDS was that you can’t have a 20 minute dummy half on $600k and that’s what it would have cost. We then filled that salary gap with a starting second rower who plays 80. No doubt we would rather have TDS still with us if if other things were equal, but it’s never that simple.

they wouldn’t be on their own.

Just out of curiosity how have people gone getting refunds on memberships? I’ll be cancelling mine today. If HBG want to continue to run the club into the ground they can fund it themselves. They won’t get another cent from me till that clown show is gone.

Yeah because playing musical chairs with your halves always works well…

He meant the out house

You have to spend 95% of the cap to be compliant. Even if we only spent 95% that’s a $650,000 saving, so wouldn’t account for the profit. I’d be surprised if there were any clubs that don’t spend pretty much all of it, even if some is used to front load players.

Sheens obviously didn’t rate him. I was told by a mutual friend that had Richard’s not been able to play the GF Sheens was going to debut McDonnell instead of picking Reik.

As good as he played on the weekend, we now have 1 performance at halfback that you would class as above average. When he played there earlier in the year, it was below average. Let’s just cool the jets a little. Latu is 20. He will continue to have ups and downs as he develops. That’s why we...

Of course he is, but we need players now if we are any hope of making finals. We have 2 or 3 injuries and we are playing Naden in the second row. At some stage you have to stop sacrificing today for tomorrow.

I was all for releasing Klem and Bateman, but not replacing them has really hurt us already. Our forward stocks are embarrassing.

Not by everyone. I’ve been saying for ages he is a significant upgrade on the edge Seyfarth and so have others. Interestingly his stats yesterday were down in terms of meters. It just seemed when they got behind they opened up their game and gave him more quality ball and backed his offload.