Signings, Suggestions & Rumours Discussion

Tito Santana said:
I reckon we are still one outside back short and two back rowers short.

We can’t have Douhei or Staines in the 17 nor Twal. Plus we need someone to replace Bateman (assuming he’s gone).

Anyone have any suggestions?

My best 17 excluding those three looks as follows

  1. Bula
  2. Turuva
  3. Olam
  4. ?
  5. Skelton
  6. Galvin
  7. Luai
  8. Klemmer
  9. Api
  10. May
  11. Sam Fainu
  12. ?
  13. Bird

14. L.Fainu
15. Pole
16. Hunt
17. ?
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💯 - it’s about time someone started calling BS in twal, AD, Seyfarth… they have like one good game every 5 and people have short term memory loss.

Twal - plodder
AD - horrendous defense
Seyfarth - penalties, crushed in hitups,

Yeah they all have some strengths but they’re not going to be in a top 17 that wins a premiership

I’d even suggest Olam is cooked in that 17 of urs but we’re stuck with him for 2 more years. He has no lateral movement and gets caught out in D when the attack uses speed on the outside. If his knee is not 💯 I reckon we put him out to pasture
 
innsaneink said:
Charlie Staines is a good back up if needed.. Yeah yeah defense I Know.but they ALL need improvements there
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100%. Was it Graham Murray at the Cowboys when he took over he had a massive sandpit installed and the players spent majority of time in the sandpit tackling? I am happy to donate my time and sand to build us a sandpit. Our focus should be Strength, Conditioning and defence.
 
weststigers said:
4.Turuva
2. Laulilii
12. Seyfarth
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You think Luke is ready to play a full season from
round 1? more chance of Staines holding down the
#2 being the incumbent. I know he wants to play
center but I can't see Benji breaking up the left side
combo with Luai that brought a lot of success at
the premiers. I said it before but To'a is my roughie
to start round 1 at right centre although he's unpopular
 
Kaito said:
You think Luke is ready to play a full season from
round 1? more chance of Staines holding down the
#2 being the incumbent. I know he wants to play
center but I can't see Benji breaking up the left side
combo with Luai that brought a lot of success at
the premiers. I said it before but To'a is my roughie
to start round 1 at right centre although he's unpopular
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Agree. To me it looks like a shoot out between Douiehi and To’a for right centre. Turuva left wing and Skelton and Staines going for right wing (guessing Skelton grabs that spot).
 
Tiger_claws said:
100%. Was it Graham Murray at the Cowboys when he took over he had a massive sandpit installed and the players spent majority of time in the sandpit tackling? I am happy to donate my time and sand to build us a sandpit. Our focus should be Strength, Conditioning and defence.
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Murray went to Townsville and had to build a sandpit?
Could he not see the beaches to the east?
We need to spend the entire of season on defence and building cohesion amongst the team.
 
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pawsandclaws1 said:
Interesting, the Knights without their fullback who has signed with the Broncos will be pretty ordinary. I thought the WTs' team with the young representative 5/8 and also the hooker signed from the Illawarra, looked good. In any case her departure opens the door for another young player.
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No offence, but is there a women’s signing suggestion and rumours thread?
Bcoz I read the first line and went to a news website looking for where Ponga has signed with the donkey's until I remembered the young gun they already got and came back to realise you were talking about the ladies. Yes, I jumped the gun a little, but it’s still early in the day. 😎
 
BirchgroveTigers said:
Agree. To me it looks like a shoot out between Douiehi and To’a for right centre. Turuva left wing and Skelton and Staines going for right wing (guessing Skelton grabs that spot).
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If Doobie is in first grade we are in trouble.
I’m preying Turuva suddenly becomes a quality right centre or Richo signs Staggs, and I win the lottery. Not necessarily in that order. I think it’s a real concern bcoz if we still have poor defenders at centre like AD, (and then we still lack a quality srf), so we’ll probably go with seyfart next to AD, and teams will cut us to ribbons down that side.
We still have some big holes to fill.
 
Buttface said:
If Doobie is in first grade we are in trouble.
I’m preying Turuva suddenly becomes a quality right centre or Richo signs Staggs, and I win the lottery. Not necessarily in that order. I think it’s a real concern bcoz if we still have poor defenders at centre like AD, (and then we still lack a quality srf), so we’ll probably go with seyfart next to AD, and teams will cut us to ribbons down that side.
We still have some big holes to fill.
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Defence is still a major red flag.
 
Tiger_claws said:
100%. Was it Graham Murray at the Cowboys when he took over he had a massive sandpit installed and the players spent majority of time in the sandpit tackling? I am happy to donate my time and sand to build us a sandpit. Our focus should be Strength, Conditioning and defence.
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100%

Remember when we practised 100 passes each training session lmao

The obvious weakness in this club is fitness and strength. 9/10 times we lose the wrestle and roll over like a bag of crap. I think it was Wayne Bennett or some other high profile coach said he doesn’t even start ball work / set play repetitions until January at his pre season training.

Flog the crap out of them until their fitness is up to scratch, then manage their workloads and work on the finesse stuff from there
 
Buttface said:
If Doobie is in first grade we are in trouble.
I’m preying Turuva suddenly becomes a quality right centre or Richo signs Staggs, and I win the lottery. Not necessarily in that order. I think it’s a real concern bcoz if we still have poor defenders at centre like AD, (and then we still lack a quality srf), so we’ll probably go with seyfart next to AD, and teams will cut us to ribbons down that side.
We still have some big holes to fill.
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When does Turuva start training?

I know May comes back on the 6th January, I’m guessing the same applies for Luai aswell
 
Speed2burn said:
100%

Remember when we practised 100 passes each training session lmao

The obvious weakness in this club is fitness and strength. 9/10 times we lose the wrestle and roll over like a bag of crap. I think it was Wayne Bennett or some other high profile coach said he doesn’t even start ball work / set play repetitions until January at his pre season training.

Flog the crap out of them until their fitness is up to scratch, then manage their workloads and work on the finesse stuff from there
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The good thing is now we have a good number of players in the NRL squad from well performing clubs- Penrith, Cronulla and to a lesser extent St George and Canterbury- where fitness was drilled into them and expected. Now for that to brush off on our lot.

Edit- should also add Roosters to that base with May joining us too.
 
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jrtiger said:
Luai and Turuva are coming back before Christmas. fairly sure it'll be next week.
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That’s good news. Hopefully May comes in earlier than expected and hits the ground running, he’s gonna need to have a big pre season if we expect him to be our forward leader
 
magpies forever said:
The good thing is now we have a good number of players in the NRL squad from well performing clubs- Penrith, Cronulla and to a lesser extent St George and Canterbury- where fitness was drilled into them and expected. Now for that to brush off on our lot.
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Yep the Penrith boys will bring a lot of knowledge.

Watching the pacific games it surprised me how vocal Turuva was. Every Fijian huddle he was doing a lot of the talking. Need that high energy around this place
 
Kaito said:
You think Luke is ready to play a full season from
round 1? more chance of Staines holding down the
#2 being the incumbent. I know he wants to play
center but I can't see Benji breaking up the left side
combo with Luai that brought a lot of success at
the premiers. I said it before but To'a is my roughie
to start round 1 at right centre although he's unpopular
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We have choice at wing and centre.
 
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