Signings, Suggestions & Rumours Discussion

[GNR4LIFE]

LOL culture.
Calling everyone bro?
We have no leadership.

I think the biggest issue is how close they are to Benji. Of course you want the coach and players to have a good relationship, but there is such a thing as being too close, and I think proof of that is when supporters start getting anxiety about potential repercussions to the playing group if the coach gets sacked.

 

[Aceshigh]

Why can’t the salary cap allow us to be strong ? Our mate Stefano took less money than we offered to go there …do we need to have the salary cap abolished so we can offer him more to get him to stay ?

I gotta feeling their pockets will ultimately be deeper than ours

Probs not the money but a near guarantee of a state of origin start for him undet Bellamy

 

[Squater]

You must own a golf course, pick up your reward when you leave with discretion.

Better empty it first you fit more in. Ask the cheese

 

[2041]

Didnt say they were cheating. The salary cap allows them to remain strong.
Hughes Munster Pap Grant are all worth 1mil + at any other club. Add Coates, Eli Katao, NAS Stef, Blore Meaney they are not playing for nothing - and all starters in any other club - not cheap first graders anywhere else.
And then you have players like Pezet, Wiseheart, Faalago ,spine players that clubs looking would have loved in their systems long before now but somehow are prepared to hang around - and also play for who knows. If you say something enough you start to believe it.

That's not a failure of the salary cap, in that case: it's a club building something that players want to be part of. The purpose of a cap isn't to make winning random, it's to ensure that rich clubs don't have an unfair advantage over poor ones just by virtue of being able to pay them more.

It's clearly possible to build this type of setup, as Penrith have done so in the past decade or so. The point is to bring through your own players, who are part of a culture and a setup from day one: playing with their mates, in a system they know, with good prospects of success on the field and the right support around them off it. That's nothing to do with the salary cap, it's about good management.

 

[Rock Hopper Steve]

Yep let's build the greatest boys club inspired 12th ranked squad in the comp! Chocky necklaces for all ..
Forget about these young blokes we have stuck thousands of hours into and told the world would be the nucleus of our "development club squad" far into the future. Give API another 5 years....

Come on Tuck you have been miserable for weeks, cheer up and put your happy pants on and do a little dance, it might make you feel better.

The seasons over it is what it was, you can't make them stay if they don't want to, it's no good for them or the club.

 

[Spartan117]

LOL culture.
Calling everyone bro?
We have no leadership.

Friendship/ a sense of brotherhood is so important for high performing teams.

A sense of common purpose and shared success.

I like it for our club

 

[rugbygoated]

LOL culture.
Calling everyone bro?
We have no leadership.

It was concerning seeing the way Benji speaks to TMay. Very concerning. I think the players love him and respect him, but they don't view him how you should view a coach

 

[rugbygoated]

Yep let's build the greatest boys club inspired 12th ranked squad in the comp! Chocky necklaces for all ..
Forget about these young blokes we have stuck thousands of hours into and told the world would be the nucleus of our "development club squad" far into the future. Give API another 5 years....

There is no need to be a racist bogan

 

[GNR4LIFE]

It was concerning seeing the way Benji speaks to TMay. Very concerning. I think the players love him and respect him, but they don't view him how you should view a coach

They see him as their mate. And I think Benji considers himself one of the boys

 

[rugbygoated]

Predicted Round 1 lineup as of now:

1. Bula
2. Skelton
3. To'a
4. May
5. Turuva
6. Luai
7. Doueihi
8. Twal
9. Hope
10. May
11. Sam Fainu
12. Pearce-Paul
13. Pole
14. Koroisau
15. Mav Geyer
16. Seyfarth
17. Sione Fainu

 

[rugbygoated]

They see him as their mate. And I think Benji considers himself one of the boys

Not a fan of that at all. Even if it successful for a year where we make finals, it is not sustainable

 

[Tucker]

Friendship/ a sense of brotherhood is so important for high performing teams.

A sense of common purpose and shared success.

I like it for our club

I like blokes who train hard and play harder. We don't have that because they seem too busy playing grab arse and being best bros

 

[Telltails]

That's not a failure of the salary cap, in that case: it's a club building something that players want to be part of. The purpose of a cap isn't to make winning random, it's to ensure that rich clubs don't have an unfair advantage over poor ones just by virtue of being able to pay them more.

It's clearly possible to build this type of setup, as Penrith have done so in the past decade or so. The point is to bring through your own players, who are part of a culture and a setup from day one: playing with their mates, in a system they know, with good prospects of success on the field and the right support around them off it. That's nothing to do with the salary cap, it's about good management.

Melbourne club is owned by a consortium of ridiculously wealthy business men who expect a return for their investment - that requires consistent success on the field. Success generates sponsorship, and third party deals all exempt from the salary cap as long as they satisfy the guidelines.
The more people keep saying players want to be a part of their system and hence their players go there for unders, the more people believe it and not only does it give them an advantage it means that people expect them to get and keep the best players for less money. TPA 's are the difference between the haves and the have nots - and it sort of counteracts everything the salary cap is supposed to do.

Penrith's success is on the back of a great Rugby League nursery and they should be admired for that. And at least they have lost numerous quality players still at their best because they couldn't compete with offers from other clubs.

 

[Rock Hopper Steve]

It was concerning seeing the way Benji speaks to TMay. Very concerning. I think the players love him and respect him, but they don't view him how you should view a coach

It's the new wave of coaching approach and too early to criticise, I can guarantee that it's not all smiles and slaps on the back there's too much at stake.

When the pressure is on and it becomes serious, the stick would make an appearance, I'm sure of that.

 

[The Chad]

I think the biggest issue is how close they are to Benji. Of course you want the coach and players to have a good relationship, but there is such a thing as being too close, and I think proof of that is when supporters start getting anxiety about potential repercussions to the playing group if the coach gets sacked.

Ivan Cleary is pretty close to a few of his guys...

 

[GNR4LIFE]

Ivan Cleary is pretty close to a few of his guys...

When you have won 4 comps in a row, shooting for a 5th, you can do what you want.

 

[Wezt]

Predicted Round 1 lineup as of now:

1. Bula
2. Skelton
3. To'a
4. May
5. Turuva
6. Luai
7. Doueihi
8. Twal
9. Hope
10. May
11. Sam Fainu
12. Pearce-Paul
13. Pole
14. Koroisau
15. Mav Geyer
16. Seyfarth
17. Sione Fainu

We will get the spoon if Geyer is near our best 17

 

[GNR4LIFE]

We will get the spoon if Geyer is near our best 17

He’s in the extended squad at best at full strength. Not much chop.

 

[innsaneink]

It was concerning seeing the way Benji speaks to TMay. Very concerning. I think the players love him and respect him, but they don't view him how you should view a coach

How should they view him?
How should May address him on his podcast?

 

[The Chad]

LOL culture.
Calling everyone bro?
We have no leadership.

It has to start somewhere.

Easy to be critical of things in their infancy, but a couple of years ago we were talking about 'toxic culture'. Not so much the case now.

Every coach will build their group, and the club culture differently. Benji & Richo are clearly looking to build around that 'family first' type slogan.

It's more about the buy-in, than the message. The club needs everyone believing they are in it together. I know you get criticised for being negative, but I also know you commented that this season there were signs that the team was playing with belief.

Do we have leadership? I think we do. Starts at the top in Benji & Richo, but guys like Api, Luai, Turuva, Twal....they have a bigger influence on the guys around them than anyone over the last 5-10 years at the club.

Do they all call each other bro & giggle? Probably. At Bondi they all call each other darling & grab each others crotch while sipping coffee.