Asu Kepaoa #236

[Magpie1969]

Can we lend Mbye and Jennings to the Warriors?

 

[Cairnstigers]

Only thing that concerns me me is his highlights reel was very Jennings esque. Diving over from 5m out.
Does he actually have any pace. Ability to step, bat on the ball etc? From reports he does, but I can't say I recall seeing him in CC nor has he had any big wraps on him as a future star for the chooks.
Let's hope he's not Chance Peni...

He took an intercept and ran 80m at good pace. Reportedly he is strong with good ball skills. Plays right side centre.

Yeah but Bradley took an intercept and ran 90m last year but I wouldn't exactly call him fast.. Above average perhaps. This kid looked as fast Doueihi from those highlights. How fast were the guys chasing him? Is he quick over 20, 50 or 100? Etc we need pace greater than what we currently have. He may be, we just don't know yet.

Unfortunately we're unlikely to get a look at him ourselves this season with no lower grades.

If we wanted an immediate release, you would think Madge has a plan to use him this year

 

[Geo]

Only thing that concerns me me is his highlights reel was very Jennings esque. Diving over from 5m out.
Does he actually have any pace. Ability to step, bat on the ball etc? From reports he does, but I can't say I recall seeing him in CC nor has he had any big wraps on him as a future star for the chooks.
Let's hope he's not Chance Peni...

He took an intercept and ran 80m at good pace. Reportedly he is strong with good ball skills. Plays right side centre.

Yeah but Bradley took an intercept and ran 90m last year but I wouldn't exactly call him fast.. Above average perhaps. This kid looked as fast Doueihi from those highlights. How fast were the guys chasing him? Is he quick over 20, 50 or 100? Etc we need pace greater than what we currently have. He may be, we just don't know yet.

Unfortunately we're unlikely to get a look at him ourselves this season with no lower grades.

If we wanted an immediate release, you would think Madge has a plan to use him this year

He didn't until SBW became available

 

[Needaname]

Mbye would make an ideal bench player he could play all back line and hooker. It would allow Talua to move to centre and Asu to wing,

Alex Johnston would make a great full back and Doihue to five eight. Brooks needs a new environment to improve like Storm. Hope Marshall and Lawrence retire this season as I hate watching great players go one season too many.

Doueihi is not an NRL 5/8....Thursday's match shows that he has serious deficiencies at FB also.

Adam has plenty of work to do on his positional play and quickly. Further some of his tackling attempts were quite simply soft.

Other teams will attack us in the same fashion after seeing what the Eels did on Thursday.

Unfortunately, no other fullbacks around unless you want AJ from Souths. To me, he does well to fill in at FB, but he's a better Winger.

I can’t work out what has gone wrong with Corey Allan.
He was a standout in the Schoolboys game vs NZ and that game had Tino, Clifford and OSullivan who have all despite O’Sullivan improved.

 

[the_third]

And we will have a lot of money to fill out the roster in the next few years.

Slowly clearing out the dead wood. Fingers crossed we can find another club for Mbye or Reynolds

I can't see it ay. Reynolds would be good in NZ imo but otherwise he's going to be expensive depth for one more year.

Mbye needs to be dropped though or at least Maguire needs to get a way for the bloke to fire up permanently when he's on the field, because we don't get his best nearly enough.

I don’t think he plays that bad at centre, while he doesn’t stand out he normally does a solid job and has the most try assists in the league for an outside backs.

Problem is he’s on ridiculous money. He’s only worth probably half of what he’s on now maybe less.

With only one year left on Reynolds and packers contract they’ll probably just be held on to. Hopefully we sign a young half as a development player for next year

I think the issue with Mbye is the salary vs return. He's not an inherently bad player and frankly he's playing out of position.

$950k buys you a top line centre with change for another player, so it's hard to justify so much cap money to him.

Salary aside, Mbye is actually a pretty good ball player, and we've seen him sum up attacking situations and give a clean pass for his outside man to score. I think he's more suited to the halves and I think he has a place in our team, but on a significantly reduced contract. At half his current salary, he's probably a keeper given his versatility and the halves shortage in the NRL. Anything more and we get better value elsewhere.

I would have Mbye in the halves before Walters and Reynolds.

Mbyes ball playing abilities are wasted in the centres, some of his touches at fullback on Thursday were class

Let him run as fullback in our attacking plays down the left edge. His passing is very good there’s a reason he has the most try assists in the team

With the right structure I think Mbye could be a very good half.

Smith ,Thurston and Slater .......

You and I could be good halfbacks with them

 

[tigerballs]

Can’t be to good otherwise the chooks would have kept him

Once again we sign someones crap, so they can sign a marquee

How do you know he's crap? Talk about being prejudicial.

As I said willow, give him a go, but chooks know talent better than anyone, if he was as good as some on here are saying, they wouldnt let him go

Roosters have a squad of 30 like everyone else.

 

[ElleryHanley]

Only thing that concerns me me is his highlights reel was very Jennings esque. Diving over from 5m out.
Does he actually have any pace. Ability to step, bat on the ball etc? From reports he does, but I can't say I recall seeing him in CC nor has he had any big wraps on him as a future star for the chooks.
Let's hope he's not Chance Peni...

He took an intercept and ran 80m at good pace. Reportedly he is strong with good ball skills. Plays right side centre.

Yeah but Bradley took an intercept and ran 90m last year but I wouldn't exactly call him fast.. Above average perhaps. This kid looked as fast Doueihi from those highlights. How fast were the guys chasing him? Is he quick over 20, 50 or 100? Etc we need pace greater than what we currently have. He may be, we just don't know yet.

Unfortunately we're unlikely to get a look at him ourselves this season with no lower grades.

If we wanted an immediate release, you would think Madge has a plan to use him this year

He didn't until SBW became available

Actually, the Pom said we asked for him a month ago to be released. Roosters said no.

Given we have zero depth on the wings, you would have to think he gets a game or two.

 

[Spud_Murphy]

So is this guy’s signing actually official yet? I haven’t seen or heard anything from the club about it.

 

[TheDaBoss]

So is this guy’s signing actually official yet? I haven’t seen or heard anything from the club about it.

expect next week

 

[Muffstar]

So is this guy’s signing actually official yet? I haven’t seen or heard anything from the club about it.

expect next week

No nothing about him and never seen him play, is he any good or is he any better than our current crop of wingers ?

 

[finnzo]

Obviously better or they’re wouldn’t have signed him

 

[Elderslie_Tiger]

So is this guy’s signing actually official yet? I haven’t seen or heard anything from the club about it.

expect next week

No nothing about him and never seen him play, is he any good or is he any better than our current crop of wingers ?

Google him and watch his highlight package goes OK

 

[Red88_Tiger]

Wonder if we were signing him about the time Thompson was released

 

[jadtiger]

Wonder if we were signing him about the time Thompson was released

Somebody said we tried to get a release for him a month ago so i would imagine he would have been Thomos replacement

 

[innsaneink]

Obviously better or they’re wouldn’t have signed him

Really?

 

[pawsandclaws1]

Obviously better or they’re wouldn’t have signed him

Really?

Hartigan was the Roosters' recruitment officer when he was signed from Auckland. I'd say he would have an in-depth knowledge of his skills and ceiling.

 

[JC99]

Obviously better or they’re wouldn’t have signed him

Really?

Hartigan was the Roosters' recruitment officer when he was signed from Auckland. I'd say he would have an in-depth knowledge of his skills and ceiling.

Hartigan has been great for us. I have no doubt that he’s been heavily involved in signing a lot of these young guys, roosters do it all the time so good to see us signing some prospects. All these young guys talk about how Madge convinced them to come and how at home they feel here, real good signs

 

[Rowdy12]

So is this guy’s signing actually official yet? I haven’t seen or heard anything from the club about it.

Well On Friday in his Instagram story he had himself in a Wests tigers polo

So I’d say we have

 

[TheDaBoss]

So is this guy’s signing actually official yet? I haven’t seen or heard anything from the club about it.

Well On Friday in his Instagram story he had himself in a Wests tigers polo

So I’d say we have

Definetly photoshopped ?

 

[Sully]

It is offical signed until 2023