OFFICIAL Liam Fulton [Discussion]

fair enough, probably won't see him this week. But i'd love to see him this season, 85kg isn't too small. And he's been taking NSW Cup very well. Did solidly against the Bears a couple weeks ago although he wasn't targetted too much. Guess we'll see how braith does then potsy will make a call on whether to give him a shot or not.

Also, anyone know how our 2nd tier salary cap is doing now that miller has left? or does that not come into effect till next year?
 
@happy tiger said:
I don't know why everyone is panicing about the second tier cap

Worse case the club gets a fine ,it hasn't bothered us in the past
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Bit hard to go he complain about your injury toll to Shubert when asking for a cap concession telling him you cant promote anyone from your lower grades and than you go and release one of your fit 1st tier contracted players in Miller
 
Doubt the club is out looking to get fined happy, with the financial troubles present they will want to keep costs like those down and that will prevent us from putting up people from NSW cup/NYC.
 
@supercoach said:
@happy tiger said:
I don't know why everyone is panicing about the second tier cap

Worse case the club gets a fine ,it hasn't bothered us in the past

Bit hard to go he complain about your injury toll to Shubert when asking for a cap concession telling him you cant promote anyone from your lower grades and than you go and release one of your fit 1st tier contracted players in Miller
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Supercoach Miller was only released because he wanted out

He told another player that during the pre season
 
not a chance, I think he has opted for a bigger pack and better defense given what they are up against. I reckon he may bring ob benji some where other than the halves
 
Agree with you all here. As much as Potter might be tempted to throw Brooks in, it would in all reality be like throwing him to the wolves. Throwing him in the deep end is one thing, but to the wolves is another. Certainly the timing is not right. With Anasta due back in rd 12, Ayshford, Lawrence in 14, i'd say look for Brooks somewhere from 15 onwards. We need to remember he's played about 6 NYC games and 2 state cup games. Not a lot of professional football at all.
 
not too sure if he blood a new half back against the top team. benji will probably come on around 20 min mark. will be expecting it to be pretty rough for for first 20 mins.

farah and siro to do all the kicking until benji comes on. its a good kick up the backside for benji but also allows him limited playing time to properly heal. i still dont understand why adam blair isnt dropped!!!! everyone bar our coach can see it. even blair admits his playing shit…. geez!!!!

i know we have injuries but use spence or something and leave blair on the bench at least. surely after this game if he commits to being consistantly rubbish that he HAS to be dropped or is our beloved coach going to drop reddy or something. i know marshall is out of form but i rather blair. we all would.
 
Blair will be next. if he doesn't perform better this week then this time next week we'll be reading about him. Fact is I don't think Potter would want to ship both of them out, even if keeping them for their experience. So to me it looks like a case of sending out a statement of warning to his underperforming stars. They must improve otherwise they suffer the embarrassment of being dropped.
 
I think that this side indicates to me that Brooks will be playing next week and Potter has named a side that isn't going to get demolished physically in the hopes of survival. I think it'll work better than anticipated.
 
I don't think we will see Brooks this week.

Will be interesting to see how Benji takes his benching. If he doesn't fire up he will leave Potter very little choice but to send him back to the State Cup side the following week.
 
We've tried Fulton in the halves before and it doesn't work. Defensively he is fine, but as a halves combination - meh, Fulton is not a five eighth and nor is Siro a half back.
The only reason Fulton is at five eighth is because he dropped Marshall and he really does not have any other option. It is a stop gap measure at best.
The only thing we can hope for out of this is that Marshall pulls his finger out and has a crack when he does get on.
I applaud Potter, however, for making the decision.
 
You can guarantee that in the first thets Friday night Fulton will engage the defensive line more then Bunji has this entire season.

Who knows so stable, incremental halves play may see our forwards know where they are supposed to be and using recognised patterns allow us to put bodies in motion to get players in a position to do something
 
@smoking gun said:
Dumbest coaching move ever. EVER! you don't drop your best players in the situation we are in. Potter has had an absolute brain fart
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I agree you dont drop your best players…. but he only dropped Benji, whats the issue?

It is an exercise to read the team without him at the very least, send a message second as I see it. Potter is looking for weaknesses, as he was with Farrah. We had our best game against Storm with Benji absent, it will be a good gauge to see where we sit without even Braith and see how much Benji really hamstrings us.
 
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