OFFICIAL Jahream Bula #269

Leck said:
Too funny, but also a terrible AI render.

The other issue is that Teddy won the Dally M, so he won't be on sale. Paps has retired, and Drinky is only 28 and in his prime.

Manly have kept Turbo under wraps this preseason. A mate of mine, who's a mad Manly fan, says he's added core muscle and they've been working on his tackling style to get over the shoulder issues. His trip to the US in '23 fixed his running style, so there's a very good chance he'll carve it up this year... but hopefully not against us.
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Yep the faces are horribly bad.

I don't want to hear that about turbo man...😭
 
Vicious said:
Jack Attard looks decent enough young fullback prospect as does Logan Brookes.
I don’t think Attard is a realistic NRL option just yet, but when discussing Bula and contingency plans we could realistically spend around 1 million dollars per season on a replacement if required, so for that money it would be a proven high class player, not a rookie.
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If Bula signed elsewhere I would trial Maka at FB first - he will end up on a mil a season at some point so it might as well be at FB

I would shift Bula to the wing and have Maka go to FB
 
Milky said:
If Bula signed elsewhere I would trial Maka at FB first - he will end up on a mil a season at some point so it might as well be at FB

I would shift Bula to the wing and have Maka go to FB
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A few people have now suggested Maka at fullback and it’s an interesting thought as it might not work, but it could be highly successful.
 
It looks like several experts on this forum did not learn the Tedesco and Papenhuyzen lessons:
- his running is awful, let's play him at the centre, he is a has-been, a red book, swap him for Moylan or ...
- hi is too skinny, he is not ready...
 
mtd#2 said:
Maka is a centre/wing, id prefer move turuva to fullback who has atleast shown us he is capable of playing there, infact, i thought he looked more dangerous than bula
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Maybe I'm remembering it different, when Turuva played fullback we lost so much attacking threat, especially down our right edge

Turuva might been a bit more damaging running the footy but the team overall looked way more clunky with him at fullback. When Bula came back our attack noticeably improved
 
InBenjiWeTrust said:
It looks like several experts on this forum did not learn the Tedesco and Papenhuyzen lessons:
- his running is awful, let's play him at the centre, he is a has-been, a red book, swap him for Moylan or ...
- hi is too skinny, he is not ready...
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Did anyone say that about Tedesco? I remember some talk about how injury prone he was but that's it.
 
Vicious said:
A few people have now suggested Maka at fullback and it’s an interesting thought as it might not work, but it could be highly successful.
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Honestly I agreed with your suggestion earlier.

KEEP HIM AT CENTER.

We need 2x quality centers and we should pay whatever they cost. 700k like the best deal, no problem.
 
JC99 said:
Maybe I'm remembering it different, when Turuva played fullback we lost so much attacking threat, especially down our right edge

Turuva might been a bit more damaging running the footy but the team overall looked way more clunky with him at fullback. When Bula came back our attack noticeably improved
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Nah you’re on point. He is fit, a good runner and great talker. He can play structured but he isn’t an unstructured instinctive player.

The other thing that happened when he moved to fullback was lost all confidence in catching bombs which is a big concern.

I’ve always been a big fan of his and he right now is our best backup fullback, however I actually think his best longer term position would be center based on watching him at the panthers & his style

The biggest downside to moving Turuva is his work effort in our half of the park. He just doesn’t get meters but he has a knack of getting us penalties/set restarts most games.

Re Maka don’t move him this year. Let him flourish and grow into his NRL body, get a ton of confidence and then move him either next season or the one after. The less defensive work he can do this and next year longer term will be better for his body.
 
I guess we can now put a line through the widely discussed theory that it was only the Bird money holding up Bula signing the extension

My latest theory…

It’s between Tigers and Perth Bears ..they are the only teams that will pay $900k plus

Uncle Isaac gunna take all the time he has to keep getting them to bid each other up. Don’t expect a signing for another two months …
 
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