Jahream Bula #269

TIGERS said:
No Wests Tigers player in history has ever changed my mind as often as much as Bula. mayyyyybe early Luke Brooks. But yeah, Bula can look world class and terrible quick as a flash. And he's no schoolkid. He's custard and mustard. He's actually started chiming in to backline play a lot lately, really well, and that's what everyone here was whinging about last season.

He'll keep getting better but he's not a class apart from Kaeo Weeks or Jye Gray. Although yeah, Richo said it best the other day when he said he was the new David Peachey. Like he's legit but not someone you base your whole roster around like Ponga. It would really unbalance our side and prospects to pay overs for him, but would be brilliant at the correct price.
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Oscar Martinez said:
Another poor performance.
He would be the only player in the team that's been bested by his opposite number regularly this year.
If we had Kaeo Weekes last night we win by another 2 tries.
Bula just never creates his own opportunities.
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TIGERS said:
No Wests Tigers player in history has ever changed my mind as often as much as Bula. mayyyyybe early Luke Brooks. But yeah, Bula can look world class and terrible quick as a flash. And he's no schoolkid. He's custard and mustard. He's actually started chiming in to backline play a lot lately, really well, and that's what everyone here was whinging about last season.

He'll keep getting better but he's not a class apart from Kaeo Weeks or Jye Gray. Although yeah, Richo said it best the other day when he said he was the new David Peachey. Like he's legit but not someone you base your whole roster around like Ponga. It would really unbalance our side and prospects to pay overs for him, but would be brilliant at the correct price.
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I kinda get what you are both saying and yeah, I would like Bula to stay but not on some creamy over priced contract.

Yes he is getting better in some areas, probably fallen off in some others, but when you look at most first string full backs in the NRL you see kick returns and line breaks almost guaranteed a couple of times a game, not sure if I ever see that with Bula.

I have no doubt that he has some injury issues at the moment but he has been pretty timid and appears to be afraid of contact and it seems to have been that way for a fairly long while now.

I understand that Bula would be thinking about starting a family and thinking about long term financial security but he needs to be very careful about making some sort of a contract decision soon because he may have that injury or require that surgery that puts him out of the game for a long time or even indefinitely and it could quite easily bring to an end his long term financial security
 
Bula is a very good fullback. Not elite, but in that second category and getting better. His initial problem was how weak he was in contact and his passivity in attack. We see him push through tackles a lot more these days and I think he's still going to get quite a bit stronger in the next year or two.

Despite getting stronger he's still very fast and he is highly involved and confident in his play around the ball. In the last year I think we've seen him become much more assertive and decisive in his play. Whenever he sweeps out wide we look very dangerous, so just imagine him as he continues to get stronger with those movements.

And then you just look at his skills already: speed, hands, awareness, size, fitness.

There are a lot of good fullbacks so it maybe makes us complacent when we have a good one. But considering the available options and how they compare to Bula and I don't see anything better and I'm really keen to see how he progresses given his great strides in the past 12 months.

I think he's underappreciated on here. As for contract size, you don't want to pay too much, but none of us really knows what that price actually is. The key thing to consider is how valuable he is to our team and, alternatively, who you think could potentially upgrade that position. I don't see many out there doing that.
 
tig_prmz said:
Brain fart from Doueihi but he's the one who took the risk in the first place to run it on last tackle so can't be too mad at him.
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Sides will be all doing there homework on AD. His one out running is getting predictable and over done. Dont get me wrong there is plenty to like about his game, I just think the backline lacks shape and a strategy, it’s one out or sideways runs
 
supercoach said:
Sides will be all doing there homework on AD. His one out running is getting predictable and over done. Dont get me wrong there is plenty to like about his game, I just think the backline lacks shape and a strategy, it’s one out or sideways runs
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You could also say if our attack was the finished product we will get found out by the opposition and fade at the back end of the year, i don't mind if it evolves and changes throughout the season, as long as it continues to improve and there is significant room for improvement..
 
Id pay the 1 year option...which buys us some time to identify his replacement plus work out where Luai is going if anywhere..no-one will match his $1.2 mill
Just cant have two million $ plus players who underperform to that salary
 
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