Signings, Suggestions & Rumours Discussion

[hobbo1]

Hynes 3 years 1.8m / Sharks
Just confirmed on 360

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$600k is biiiig money. No chance he plays as good there as he is now - good player though.

Gotta start somewhere I suppose.

 

[851]

Bellamy just said on live radio now, Hynes is leaving Melbourne, said Nicho will tell you the details

It is surely not the warriors. Gotta be down to Cronulla or Brisbane

I don't think Bellamy's comments necessarily meant that he'd decided on somewhere else, just that he was receiving offers that Melbourne had no hope of competing with and so he'd be ending up elsewhere. His stock is only rising, he doesn't need to be in a mad rush to sign somewhere.

No Bellamy said he is leaving, he won't be there next year

 

[JC99]

Hynes 3 years 1.8m / Sharks
Just confirmed on 360

?

$600k is biiiig money. No chance he plays as good there as he is now - good player though.

Gotta start somewhere I suppose.

If you're gonna overpay for someone at least it's someone good - we overpay duds most of the time ?

 

[bigsiro]

Hynes 3 years 1.8m / Sharks
Just confirmed on 360

?

$600k is biiiig money. No chance he plays as good there as he is now - good player though.

Gotta start somewhere I suppose.

If you're gonna overpay for someone at least it's someone good - we overpay duds most of the time ?

600k is not overpaying for a team that needs a fb / 5/8

 

[tony soprano]

Hynes 3 years 1.8m
Just confirmed on 360

?

Good get for the Sharks.

We need a beach at concord

Definitely got the surfy vibe. Maybe a wave pool in the COE.

Bro man made wave at Homebush soon no shark ?

 

[tony soprano]

Bellamy just said on live radio now, Hynes is leaving Melbourne, said Nicho will tell you the details

Cronulla

Bellamy said "I probably shouldn't say this, but Nicho just told the boys 10 minutes ago, he is leaving, I will leave it up to him to fill in the details"

That accelerated quickly good buy wonder where they’ll play him. Reynolds did them a favour

 

[851]

Hynes 3 years 1.8m / Sharks
Just confirmed on 360

?

$600k is biiiig money. No chance he plays as good there as he is now - good player though.

Gotta start somewhere I suppose.

If you're gonna overpay for someone at least it's someone good - we overpay duds most of the time ?

600k is not overpaying for a team that needs a fb / 5/8

I agree, but they just re-signed Kennedy, so Hynes must be going to play in the halves

 

[JC99]

Hynes 3 years 1.8m / Sharks
Just confirmed on 360

?

$600k is biiiig money. No chance he plays as good there as he is now - good player though.

Gotta start somewhere I suppose.

If you're gonna overpay for someone at least it's someone good - we overpay duds most of the time ?

600k is not overpaying for a team that needs a fb / 5/8

I agree, but they just re-signed Kennedy, so Hynes must be going to play in the halves

Bye bye Moylan

 

[851]

Hynes 3 years 1.8m / Sharks
Just confirmed on 360

?

$600k is biiiig money. No chance he plays as good there as he is now - good player though.

Gotta start somewhere I suppose.

If you're gonna overpay for someone at least it's someone good - we overpay duds most of the time ?

600k is not overpaying for a team that needs a fb / 5/8

I agree, but they just re-signed Kennedy, so Hynes must be going to play in the halves

Bye bye Moylan

You would think so

 

[izotope]

Good get for them, don't think 600k is too much at all for a member of your spine

 

[hobbo1]

Hynes 3 years 1.8m / Sharks
Just confirmed on 360

?

That’s a lot of money for a player that has only stepped up this year. If it was BJ people would say it’s because it’s contract year.

That’s around the same money as Doueihi and he’s 2 years younger than Hynes.

Got to pay overs if your a struggling club .
Least he’s not a dud like BJ

 

[bigsiro]

Hynes 3 years 1.8m / Sharks
Just confirmed on 360

?

That’s a lot of money for a player that has only stepped up this year. If it was BJ people would say it’s because it’s contract year.

That’s around the same money as Doueihi and he’s 2 years younger than Hynes.

We paid Douehi that much? Really?!
He was nowhere near Hynes level when we signed him.

 

[weststigerman]

Hynes 3 years 1.8m / Sharks
Just confirmed on 360

?

That’s a lot of money for a player that has only stepped up this year. If it was BJ people would say it’s because it’s contract year.

That’s around the same money as Doueihi and he’s 2 years younger than Hynes.

Got to pay overs if your a struggling club .
Least he’s not a dud like BJ

He hasn’t got there yet. He still could be a dud.

 

[rihannafan1]

Hynes 3 years 1.8m / Sharks
Just confirmed on 360

?

That’s a lot of money for a player that has only stepped up this year. If it was BJ people would say it’s because it’s contract year.

That’s around the same money as Doueihi and he’s 2 years younger than Hynes.

We paid Douehi that much? Really?!
He was nowhere near Hynes level when we signed him.

Douehi isn't on that much, no.

 

[hank37w]

We need to get Mikaeles contract in order.

Seyfarth also

⭐

I think it was the Pom that said Maguire is a big fan some time ago so hope he is on to it.

Hopefully we don’t make a mess of it like we did with McIntyre.

What mess?
He's faded off into obscurity while we re-signed Seyfarth instead.
I'll take that mess every day.

I would call it a successful screw up, because according to those in the know, we wanted to sign McIntyre ahead of Seyfarth, but Titans got the deal done.

Regardless of what McIntyre is doing now, a screw up is a screw up.

Some thought that Sam wouldn't get a start in 1st grade at the Titans, but I thought I saw him getting a run with them in more recent times.

I did some checking and found that since round 7 he has been in their 17 every round except for when they played us in round 9 when he was named as the 18th man reserve.

Probably done a bit better than some had expected.

I think at one stage we were only going to offer him a year and if I recall correctly I think he got 2 years at the Titans.

 

[hobbo1]

Hynes 3 years 1.8m / Sharks
Just confirmed on 360

?

That’s a lot of money for a player that has only stepped up this year. If it was BJ people would say it’s because it’s contract year.

That’s around the same money as Doueihi and he’s 2 years younger than Hynes.

Got to pay overs if your a struggling club .
Least he’s not a dud like BJ

He hasn’t got there yet. He still could be a dud.

Playing first grade on 600k in monetary terms he’s got there .
If he struggles within the Sharks system that’s there issue i guess ..
I thought he was going to sign somewhere for $400/$450
Shame it wasn’t with us , that’s if we even enquired?
Good luck to him !

 

[Elderslie_Tiger]

It was also mentioned on 2SM that the sharks were favoured to get Hynes (they have) and were also looking at Finucane as a package deal there will have to be a clean out at sharkies if they get Finucane because their salary cap is shot at present

 

[bigsiro]

Bloody sharks. I hate when a team has ambition!

 

[tigerap]

I'm hearing Fergo is going cheapo today...sign him up for $200k!

 

[hank37w]

Talks between Bulldogs & Tigers with DWZ advanced quickly over the weekend, strong chance he's playing for us against Eels in round 14.
Money being the biggest issue for 2022, dogs expected to chip in around the $300-$350k mark, Tigers offering this season & 22/23

Thanks @THE_POM , are we looking at anyone else??

Brisbane have closed the door on Issako (For now), don't think they expected the backlash from the well documented trip, Every chance Walters will still be released to free up another roster spot.
James Roberts has all but sealed his option being activated for 2022. Leilua not looking likely he'll be here, was briefly discussed that they'll let the option expire & then re-negotiate terms with BJ on a lesser deal but have to see if he's keen on that.
Discussion with re-signing Luciano have begun & everyone involved is confident something will be confirmed prior to November 1st

Thanks Pom, hope we’re not paying JTJ any more money, apart from finishing a couple of tries on the weekend, what has he done?! Needs to prove he actually wants to be a footy player. I hope we hold off for another month.

His option for 2022 is only 50k more than this year.

But he's still done nothing to warrant an extension at this stage. Friday was his first decent game, and even then he wasn't targeted in defence once all game. Did he even make a tackle?

Even if he's cheap he takes up a squad position that isn't going to the likes of Ogden. We already have Hoffman and Kei next season taking up space next season, we can't fill out the squad with a whole heap of sub par players.

100% BB - surely we should be giving the likes of these priority and spending the dollars in other key positions?!

It’s like we just want to make the same mistakes over and over. Average, mid to late 20s players and forget everyone else.

Why do we even bother with a youth push?

Talks between Bulldogs & Tigers with DWZ advanced quickly over the weekend, strong chance he's playing for us against Eels in round 14.
Money being the biggest issue for 2022, dogs expected to chip in around the $300-$350k mark, Tigers offering this season & 22/23

Thanks @THE_POM , are we looking at anyone else??

Brisbane have closed the door on Issako (For now), don't think they expected the backlash from the well documented trip, Every chance Walters will still be released to free up another roster spot.
James Roberts has all but sealed his option being activated for 2022. Leilua not looking likely he'll be here, was briefly discussed that they'll let the option expire & then re-negotiate terms with BJ on a lesser deal but have to see if he's keen on that.
Discussion with re-signing Luciano have begun & everyone involved is confident something will be confirmed prior to November 1st

Thanks Pom, hope we’re not paying JTJ any more money, apart from finishing a couple of tries on the weekend, what has he done?! Needs to prove he actually wants to be a footy player. I hope we hold off for another month.

His option for 2022 is only 50k more than this year.

But he's still done nothing to warrant an extension at this stage. Friday was his first decent game, and even then he wasn't targeted in defence once all game. Did he even make a tackle?

Even if he's cheap he takes up a squad position that isn't going to the likes of Ogden. We already have Hoffman and Kei next season taking up space next season, we can't fill out the squad with a whole heap of sub par players.

100% BB - why do we even bother with a youth strategy that seems to be working? Targets of average mid to late 20s that nobody else want.

There's been a massive focus on youth and junior development but you can't fill your whole squad with them, you need some experienced first graders.

Same mistakes over and over. We embarked on a proper youth strategy a couple of years ago which seems to be working and now we are bringing in average players who really aren’t worth the prices they are asking and being discarded by others for a reason, mind you. That’s not how youth get experience in first grade.

What duds have we signed and who's spot are they taking.... we desperately need a winger, what young winger is standing out?

Talau can barely catch a footy and we can't afford to have him in first grade. DWZ fixes that problem. Madge has clearly shown he's willing to give rookies a go regardless of who's in the top 30, stop worrying about things that haven't happened.

Your whole team can't just be rookies who are finding their feet, you won't win games then the best ones leave for the big clubs - it's all about balancing youth and experience.

Madge and hartigan have been massive in the youth department, they know what they're doing in that regard. No need to worry about it just because we are wanting to sign a 25 year old New Zealand international in a position we desperately need. We've still got plenty of spots in our 30 next year

He must be good if clubs keep offloading - employers don’t ever let the god ones go.

Talks between Bulldogs & Tigers with DWZ advanced quickly over the weekend, strong chance he's playing for us against Eels in round 14.
Money being the biggest issue for 2022, dogs expected to chip in around the $300-$350k mark, Tigers offering this season & 22/23

Thanks @THE_POM , are we looking at anyone else??

Brisbane have closed the door on Issako (For now), don't think they expected the backlash from the well documented trip, Every chance Walters will still be released to free up another roster spot.
James Roberts has all but sealed his option being activated for 2022. Leilua not looking likely he'll be here, was briefly discussed that they'll let the option expire & then re-negotiate terms with BJ on a lesser deal but have to see if he's keen on that.
Discussion with re-signing Luciano have begun & everyone involved is confident something will be confirmed prior to November 1st

Thanks Pom, hope we’re not paying JTJ any more money, apart from finishing a couple of tries on the weekend, what has he done?! Needs to prove he actually wants to be a footy player. I hope we hold off for another month.

His option for 2022 is only 50k more than this year.

But he's still done nothing to warrant an extension at this stage. Friday was his first decent game, and even then he wasn't targeted in defence once all game. Did he even make a tackle?

Even if he's cheap he takes up a squad position that isn't going to the likes of Ogden. We already have Hoffman and Kei next season taking up space next season, we can't fill out the squad with a whole heap of sub par players.

100% BB - surely we should be giving the likes of these priority and spending the dollars in other key positions?!

It’s like we just want to make the same mistakes over and over. Average, mid to late 20s players and forget everyone else.

Why do we even bother with a youth push?

Talks between Bulldogs & Tigers with DWZ advanced quickly over the weekend, strong chance he's playing for us against Eels in round 14.
Money being the biggest issue for 2022, dogs expected to chip in around the $300-$350k mark, Tigers offering this season & 22/23

Thanks @THE_POM , are we looking at anyone else??

Brisbane have closed the door on Issako (For now), don't think they expected the backlash from the well documented trip, Every chance Walters will still be released to free up another roster spot.
James Roberts has all but sealed his option being activated for 2022. Leilua not looking likely he'll be here, was briefly discussed that they'll let the option expire & then re-negotiate terms with BJ on a lesser deal but have to see if he's keen on that.
Discussion with re-signing Luciano have begun & everyone involved is confident something will be confirmed prior to November 1st

Thanks Pom, hope we’re not paying JTJ any more money, apart from finishing a couple of tries on the weekend, what has he done?! Needs to prove he actually wants to be a footy player. I hope we hold off for another month.

His option for 2022 is only 50k more than this year.

But he's still done nothing to warrant an extension at this stage. Friday was his first decent game, and even then he wasn't targeted in defence once all game. Did he even make a tackle?

Even if he's cheap he takes up a squad position that isn't going to the likes of Ogden. We already have Hoffman and Kei next season taking up space next season, we can't fill out the squad with a whole heap of sub par players.

100% BB - why do we even bother with a youth strategy that seems to be working? Targets of average mid to late 20s that nobody else want.

There's been a massive focus on youth and junior development but you can't fill your whole squad with them, you need some experienced first graders.

Same mistakes over and over. We embarked on a proper youth strategy a couple of years ago which seems to be working and now we are bringing in average players who really aren’t worth the prices they are asking and being discarded by others for a reason, mind you. That’s not how youth get experience in first grade.

What duds have we signed and who's spot are they taking.... we desperately need a winger, what young winger is standing out?

Talau can barely catch a footy and we can't afford to have him in first grade. DWZ fixes that problem. Madge has clearly shown he's willing to give rookies a go regardless of who's in the top 30, stop worrying about things that haven't happened.

Your whole team can't just be rookies who are finding their feet, you won't win games then the best ones leave for the big clubs - it's all about balancing youth and experience.

Madge and hartigan have been massive in the youth department, they know what they're doing in that regard. No need to worry about it just because we are wanting to sign a 25 year old New Zealand international in a position we desperately need. We've still got plenty of spots in our 30 next year

He must be good if clubs keep offloading him. Employers never let the good ones go.

No thanks. I’d rather spend it on real quality.

He's been at two clubs, was excellent at Penrith and got massively overpaid by Bulldogs.

Good players get let go all the time by clubs too.

Not on my watch.

You didn't get that watch off Malakai by any chance?