citizen_cub
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Very interested to see who will be selected and who will be cut from the 25 contracted players next season.
Especially in the fowards, where you've got Jason Cayless clogging up 250K and not even playing. Then you've got talented youngsters coming through like Moors, Fifita and Dwyer. Cayless is very injury prone, and I am really starting to doubt whether the guy will ever be seen in a Tigers jersey again. I think he might be snapped up by another club before the June 30 deadline.
In the backs, we've got 4 contracted half backs and/or five eights. In the long term we may only be able to keep 2 of them, maybe only 1\. It depends whether we want a back up in case we lose Marshall or the chosen half back. The two favourites to keep their contracts at this stage would have to be Moltzen and Lui. If that is cut to just 1 it'd have to be Moltzen. The bloke was just in superb form up until his injury and it was no coincidence that the tigers had never lost with him wearing the 7 jersey. The bloke is all class, honestly, he always looks like he'll do something when he's got the ball, whether that be a line break, try assist or a long cut out ball.
Lui has been in good form himself lately, but I don't think he's in the same league as Moltzen. However, I still think he'll be in the 25 next year.
As for Lazarus and Taumata, I don't think they'll make it next year. Taumata is only on a one-year contract and will be looking else where at the end of the year, I doubt Lazarus will be seen in a Tigers jersey again. The boy's come off two ACL injuries, putting him in first grade that early after such injuries probably did his confidence no good. I'm sure he'll be snapped up by some other club and he'll have a very successful career.
Then you've got 5 wingers (Fitzhenry, Ryan, Tupou, Tuqiri and Tuiaki). Now that we've secured Mckinnon's services, this means that none of them will cover the fullback role. I think that'll we'll probably have to oust at least 2 of those if not more. If we had to keep three, mine would be Tuqiri, Ryan and Tuiaki. If two, it'd have to be Tuqiri and Ryan. I don't know whether Tuiaki will have the same impact as he did without this wretched injury. So to be safe I'd keep the ever reliable Ryan. I don't know why we bought Tupou, the bloke is again, injury prone and is just clogging up more money in the cap. Fitzhenry, I'm still baffled as to why we got him back.
Especially in the fowards, where you've got Jason Cayless clogging up 250K and not even playing. Then you've got talented youngsters coming through like Moors, Fifita and Dwyer. Cayless is very injury prone, and I am really starting to doubt whether the guy will ever be seen in a Tigers jersey again. I think he might be snapped up by another club before the June 30 deadline.
In the backs, we've got 4 contracted half backs and/or five eights. In the long term we may only be able to keep 2 of them, maybe only 1\. It depends whether we want a back up in case we lose Marshall or the chosen half back. The two favourites to keep their contracts at this stage would have to be Moltzen and Lui. If that is cut to just 1 it'd have to be Moltzen. The bloke was just in superb form up until his injury and it was no coincidence that the tigers had never lost with him wearing the 7 jersey. The bloke is all class, honestly, he always looks like he'll do something when he's got the ball, whether that be a line break, try assist or a long cut out ball.
Lui has been in good form himself lately, but I don't think he's in the same league as Moltzen. However, I still think he'll be in the 25 next year.
As for Lazarus and Taumata, I don't think they'll make it next year. Taumata is only on a one-year contract and will be looking else where at the end of the year, I doubt Lazarus will be seen in a Tigers jersey again. The boy's come off two ACL injuries, putting him in first grade that early after such injuries probably did his confidence no good. I'm sure he'll be snapped up by some other club and he'll have a very successful career.
Then you've got 5 wingers (Fitzhenry, Ryan, Tupou, Tuqiri and Tuiaki). Now that we've secured Mckinnon's services, this means that none of them will cover the fullback role. I think that'll we'll probably have to oust at least 2 of those if not more. If we had to keep three, mine would be Tuqiri, Ryan and Tuiaki. If two, it'd have to be Tuqiri and Ryan. I don't know whether Tuiaki will have the same impact as he did without this wretched injury. So to be safe I'd keep the ever reliable Ryan. I don't know why we bought Tupou, the bloke is again, injury prone and is just clogging up more money in the cap. Fitzhenry, I'm still baffled as to why we got him back.
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