Lolohea off the bus - Official
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gallagher
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That doesn't worry you in regards to our recruitment?
We're turning into a transit lounge.
jirskyr
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He was a mid-season signing from the reserve-grade side of a bottom 8 team to cover the unexpected quitting of our current 5/8th.
Hardly a development signing IMO, he was a stop gap option and 2018 risk with a decent upside. We've done way worse, and being able to clear him from the roster as soon as he is no longer required - that's not a transit lounge, that's totally in the club's favour.
gallagher
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So why sign him for 2 and a half years? A reserve grader from a bottom 8 team?
Why buy a bloke as a stop gap solution for half a year? Then do the same again this year?
Its poor recruiting IMO.
jirskyr
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Who was available to replace Mitchell Moses at short notice in 2017? You don't get mid-year transfer for guys like Gareth Widdop unless their team is under cap pressure. 2.5 years because that's probably what Tui negotiated to agree to move. Would he have moved to us for a 6 month deal?
Moses Mbye is nothing alike, he was an opportune signing from a club in salary-cap pressure, and one of their higher-profile and higher-paid footballers, of which existing club are carrying a significant amount of the freight. Everyone knew the Dogs were in salary cap trouble this year, everyone said to wait and pick the eyes out of that side, and Moses Mbye is the result, the same result that netted Graham to Dragons, Reynolds last year and Woods to Sharks.
Mbye I don't see as a stop-gap, he's a proven first-grader. He is fringe QLD origin selection.
If you preferred we played 2017 out for 14-odd rounds with a halves pairing of Brooks and Littlejohn, so be it, can't convince you.
gallagher
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I was referring to Farah, not Mbye.
I think Lolohea was signed as our long term fullback, but then played at 5/8 in '17.
I didn't see the point in that.
Our season was over when slimey fart left so I didn't see the point in a stop gap. Get someone you see as Long term prospect or go with who you got.
It's terrible recruiting.
gallagher
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Anf if no one else wants him? Your stuck with him like we'll be stuck with Rochow and MacQueen.
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In your opinion.
I thought that Tui would be a good signing. No one really knows what happened to him:- injuries for sure, trouble at home, home sickness, who knows.
He has heaps of talent for sure, however, it didn't work out for him or the team. Everyone will move on and the sun will rise in the morning.
gallagher
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So in other words 'there's always next year'.
Marvelous.
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So the other options may have been to sign experienced fullbacks in Josh Dugan or Jarryd Hayne. We approached Dylan Edwards and were told not an option, and then there were no other fullbacks or players capable of player fullback on the market.
I ask you since it was terrible recruiting, if you could have done a better job who would you have approached and managed to convince to come play fullback as the replacement for James Tedesco?
As harsh as it is, I like Ivan recruitment philosophy, Players you develop, Players you keep, players you recruit to fill a temporary hole.
Now you couldn’t tell me that Tim Grant and Elijah Taylor wernt recruited by JT for exactly the same purpose.
With TG, we just lost Big Keith and needed some experience to help out woods.
With ET we just lost Taupau and started the season trailing the walking HIA at lock who couldn’t handle the work rate required for lock.
And don’t stop there. Don’t just run your eye over your own backyard.
I’m sure if you look deep enough you’ll find these situations occur in most teams.
Do you remember one of the form Centres in Beau Champion going to the Storm?
What about Ben Barba’s stint at Brisbane? How did that work out?
gallagher
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So if he was bought as a full back to replace Tedesco why play him at 5/8? Why not put him straight in there? Our finals hopes were already gone. Move Teddy to the centers. How many games did he even play at fullback?
Did we buy Grant to replace Keefy and then play him on the wing?
I see no sense in our strategy except that finishing 14th is better than finishing last.
A 9 game contract for Farah. Ridiculous.
On that I agree with you.
Teddy was not firing at the time and could have been moved to wing or even 5/8 himself.
Especially there were circumstances last year where when we had both Lolohea and Teddy but with Teddy injured Kev was moved to fullback.
I think our development for Lolohea should have starting from the moment he was signed.
It did appear Ivan was never confident in Tui owning the 1 jersey.
Who knows what happens behind the scenes.
For me, the fault lies with Tui. Why agree to a contract to play fullback when you clearly want to play five eight?
He had the offer from the cowboys to do just that, but chose us instead.
Did he honestly think he would convince Ivan that he is the number one choice at five eight for 2018?
What’s clear is that our stop gap for fullback didn’t work this year.
And although we’ve purchased another utility to play there I genuinely believe he will not only relish in the role but that he wants to succeed there also.
In the end we managed a decent upgrade without to much fuss.
Farah should never have left.
But the way he was, he was never going to want to take a back seat until his body couldn’t do it anymore.
Souths humbled him and we would never have seen the Farah in the second coming if he never left.
Things happen for a reason, I’m a firm believer of that.
Teddy was not firing at the time and could have been moved to wing or even 5/8 himself.
Especially there were circumstances last year where when we had both Lolohea and Teddy but with Teddy injured Kev was moved to fullback.
I think our development for Lolohea should have starting from the moment he was signed.
It did appear Ivan was never confident in Tui owning the 1 jersey.
Who knows what happens behind the scenes.
For me, the fault lies with Tui. Why agree to a contract to play fullback when you clearly want to play five eight?
He had the offer from the cowboys to do just that, but chose us instead.
Did he honestly think he would convince Ivan that he is the number one choice at five eight for 2018?
What’s clear is that our stop gap for fullback didn’t work this year.
And although we’ve purchased another utility to play there I genuinely believe he will not only relish in the role but that he wants to succeed there also.
In the end we managed a decent upgrade without to much fuss.
Farah should never have left.
But the way he was, he was never going to want to take a back seat until his body couldn’t do it anymore.
Souths humbled him and we would never have seen the Farah in the second coming if he never left.
Things happen for a reason, I’m a firm believer of that.
happy_tiger
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Depending who we sign in the next 5-6 months I'd keep Rochow
I think if we needed him for say 5-8 games from ISP Cup he would be very useful
He is highly rated by Matt Elliott , he said he could see him as an NRL coach in the future after interviewing him on ABC Grandstand
I think if we needed him for say 5-8 games from ISP Cup he would be very useful
He is highly rated by Matt Elliott , he said he could see him as an NRL coach in the future after interviewing him on ABC Grandstand
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We discussing Rochow in the other thread genius. This is the Tui Flopolea thread.
happy_tiger
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Discussion has turned to our retention and recruitment Demps which involves all players , about 30 different players have been discussed , ours players and others
Put your glasses on bro
jirskyr
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Because he was brought to replace Slimey Fart short-term, and Tedesco long-term. Moving Tedesco to the centres doesn't help 5/8th, unless you wanted Kevin Naiqama or Esan Masters as 5/8th for the back half of the season. Also makes no sense whatsoever to move Tedesco who is one of the top FBs in the game.
As to Farah, I also can't fault it as a hooker strategy, ignoring the off-field nonsense and drama surrounding his departure. Liddle isn't physically fit, ET / Godinet / Killer aren't acceptable options - they have been tested.
If you are a bloke who would play nobody at 5/8th to replace Slimey Fart, and nobody at hooker to replace Liddle, then so be it, you torpedo any chance of salvaging a decent end to the season. Farah is a pretty good chance IMO of playing on for a year, so it may be anything but a 9-game signing. But I doubt there's anything I can say, just that your comments make no sense to me.
I'm actually curious if you think Benji was a good signing or not. Signing a bloke for just 1 year to maybe play on the bench… didn't turn out that way, but the plan was certainly not to start Benji Rd 1 and play him there most of the season.
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Demps is about to go to the sin bin…been sent to the bunker for review...
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LOL nooooo
*Argues with ref*
