Name a team that’s signed a better trio than Luai, Turuva and Olam since December 12.
Olam hasn’t provided value for money & his knees are busted, be lucky to get a season of games out of him during his 3 seasons here.
Because of that we must have a NRL quality backup which we don’t.
Luai is awesome pickup, but will offer little unless we have other roster quality inbounds coming. If you think he will be the difference between 4 wins and 12 your kidding. Turuva pro/cons you could argue is a like for like for Tupou (Tupou has more development upside).
We like usual get 3 pickups but then let go 5+ others rather than make a squad stronger. Then every year complain about our roster.
We strengthen the halves & backs and weaken the forwards. We focus on starters and neglect depth.
We let go of our better players rather than our weaker ones. Our retention profile sucks & our squad has major flaws in it.
No team outside of us in the last 5 years has lets go of 5+ NRL level players in 12mths (Tupou, Papa, Blore, Stefano, Laurie) to teams above them that start/figure frequently for top 8 sides.