Signings, Suggestions & Rumours Discussion

Lowe
Gela-Mosby
Kelly
Hetherington
Latu
Peachey (more valuable in a team that is physically dominant)

To improve the side drastically we would need to go all out for:

Marty
TPJ
Matterson
Tapine
Rapana
Munster
NAS

Most of this second list are free to negotiate in Nov (source zero tackle) and if we are serious we need at least 2 and probably 3 of this calibre.

I know it's a pipe dream at this stage, but the club has to find a way to get it done.

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Marty - Roosters
TPJ. - Stay with Broncos
Matterson - Possible
Tapine - Possible, but unlikely
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Rapana - Stay with Canberra
Munster - Stay with Storm
NAS - Sorry a bit dense, don't know who this is?

Nelson Asofa Solomona which I may have spelt wrong (but I can spell NAS correctly most of the time).

Ah yes of course! Sorry I hadn't even considered him, thought he had already signed a long term deal with the Storm at the beginning of the year?

TPJ is not a lock in at the Donkeys due to the Wayne Bennett situation, Rapana is being shopped around as well.
 
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That team is literally better than us in every position on the field.

That team is quite obviously rorting the cap. There is no 'management' of the salary cap that fits 8 current/very recent SOO players inside of it.

There is not rorting the cap if you pay a SOO player $150K a year, and then top it up with a $600K TPA.
It's bloody immoral and Greenberg doesn't have the intestinal fortitude to change the current system, for the fear of upsetting the Roosters, Broncos, Storm, and Cowboys or any other club with rich influential friends.
Petty HT couldn't drag a few of his subbies along to cough up a few TPA's for us.

I agree. The roosters are playing by the rules. It's just the rules that are wrong. The NRL won't care If a Sydney teams folds.
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Thats not the rules at all - you can't sign a SOO player for $150k - the contract wouldn't be accepted by the NRL - I'm not saying the rorters are paying market value - but they are certainly paying more from the cap than peanuts.
 
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I don't get some people's mentality

Many people are talking halves when it wouldn't matter if Lockyer and Thurston were in their primes behind our pack

Think good ,quality forwards , simple
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The trouble with your thinking is it’s common sense, the problem here on the forum it’s not common enough.
 
What the Roosters do is sign the best 16-18 year olds on money other clubs can’t afford outside the salary cap. Bring these players through each year ie: Mitchell, Manu, Radley.
They then top up marquee signings Keary, Tedesco, Cronk with third parties 200k + each. Their last trick is to have no morals and sign people with atrocities. Ferguson, Tetevano on the cheap.

It’s the Golden State Warriors Warriors of the NRL the rest of the players take a small haircut to play on a winning squad.

They and their families are also looked after off the field which no team can match in the corporate world.

They are a blight on the game and have no juniors alll their best players are from other clubs.
 
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That team is quite obviously rorting the cap. There is no 'management' of the salary cap that fits 8 current/very recent SOO players inside of it.

There is not rorting the cap if you pay a SOO player $150K a year, and then top it up with a $600K TPA.
It's bloody immoral and Greenberg doesn't have the intestinal fortitude to change the current system, for the fear of upsetting the Roosters, Broncos, Storm, and Cowboys or any other club with rich influential friends.
Petty HT couldn't drag a few of his subbies along to cough up a few TPA's for us.

I agree. The roosters are playing by the rules. It's just the rules that are wrong. The NRL won't care If a Sydney teams folds.

Thats not the rules at all - you can't sign a SOO player for $150k - the contract wouldn't be accepted by the NRL - I'm not saying the rorters are paying market value - but they are certainly paying more from the cap than peanuts.
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That was just an example of what I was trying to explain, they pay way under market value and then top it up with TPA’s from Nick’s rich mates.
 
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What the Roosters do is sign the best 16-18 year olds on money other clubs can’t afford outside the salary cap. Bring these players through each year ie: Mitchell, Manu, Radley.
They then top up marquee signings Keary, Tedesco, Cronk with third parties 200k + each. Their last trick is to have no morals and sign people with atrocities. Ferguson, Tetevano on the cheap.

It’s the Golden State Warriors Warriors of the NRL the rest of the players take a small haircut to play on a winning squad.

They and their families are also looked after off the field which no team can match in the corporate world.

They are a blight on the game and have no juniors alll their best players are from other clubs.
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Well said.
 
I’m off here for 3 weeks, when I come back I want to see 3 or 4 top line signings.
No hacks/plodders.
 
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I’m off here for 3 weeks, when I come back I want to see 3 or 4 top line signings.
No hacks/plodders.
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This will be an interesting little experiment. My money is on nothing changing in 3 to 4 weeks.

Hope we are wrong.
 
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What the Roosters do is sign the best 16-18 year olds on money other clubs can’t afford outside the salary cap. Bring these players through each year ie: Mitchell, Manu, Radley.
They then top up marquee signings Keary, Tedesco, Cronk with third parties 200k + each. Their last trick is to have no morals and sign people with atrocities. Ferguson, Tetevano on the cheap.

It’s the Golden State Warriors Warriors of the NRL the rest of the players take a small haircut to play on a winning squad.

They and their families are also looked after off the field which no team can match in the corporate world.

They are a blight on the game and have no juniors alll their best players are from other clubs.

Well said.
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That's the best and most accurate description of the rorters i have seen

I come from newcastle and won't mention the name but one of my friends son's had offers from rorters n parra that the knights couldn't even get near

He was told by his manager that if he accepts the rorters offer he would be signing the biggest contract that had ever been signed by a 16yo in NRL history

He chose to stay at the knights

It is a joke how they have no juniors but loads of money and therefore never spoken about as a target for relocation

Relocate another club and you lose supporters to other codes

Relocate rorters and lose nothing

Shame the NRL don't see it that way or don't care
 
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What the Roosters do is sign the best 16-18 year olds on money other clubs can’t afford outside the salary cap. Bring these players through each year ie: Mitchell, Manu, Radley.
They then top up marquee signings Keary, Tedesco, Cronk with third parties 200k + each. Their last trick is to have no morals and sign people with atrocities. Ferguson, Tetevano on the cheap.

It’s the Golden State Warriors Warriors of the NRL the rest of the players take a small haircut to play on a winning squad.

They and their families are also looked after off the field which no team can match in the corporate world.

They are a blight on the game and have no juniors alll their best players are from other clubs.

Well said.

That's the best and most accurate description of the rorters i have seen

I come from newcastle and won't mention the name but one of my friends son's had offers from rorters n parra that the knights couldn't even get near

He was told by his manager that if he accepts the rorters offer he would be signing the biggest contract that had ever been signed by a 16yo in NRL history

He chose to stay at the knights

It is a joke how they have no juniors but loads of money and therefore never spoken about as a target for relocation

Relocate another club and you lose supporters to other codes

Relocate rorters and lose nothing

Shame the NRL don't see it that way or don't care
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It wouldnt surprise me if the roosters are "looking after" people in the NRL.Power and money go hand in hand in the corporate world
 
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What the Roosters do is sign the best 16-18 year olds on money other clubs can’t afford outside the salary cap. Bring these players through each year ie: Mitchell, Manu, Radley.
They then top up marquee signings Keary, Tedesco, Cronk with third parties 200k + each. Their last trick is to have no morals and sign people with atrocities. Ferguson, Tetevano on the cheap.

It’s the Golden State Warriors Warriors of the NRL the rest of the players take a small haircut to play on a winning squad.

They and their families are also looked after off the field which no team can match in the corporate world.

They are a blight on the game and have no juniors alll their best players are from other clubs.

Well said.

That's the best and most accurate description of the rorters i have seen

I come from newcastle and won't mention the name but one of my friends son's had offers from rorters n parra that the knights couldn't even get near

He was told by his manager that if he accepts the rorters offer he would be signing the biggest contract that had ever been signed by a 16yo in NRL history

He chose to stay at the knights

It is a joke how they have no juniors but loads of money and therefore never spoken about as a target for relocation

Relocate another club and you lose supporters to other codes

Relocate rorters and lose nothing

Shame the NRL don't see it that way or don't care

It wouldnt surprise me if the roosters are "looking after" people in the NRL.Power and money go hand in hand in the corporate world
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Todd is too scared of Nick, he would have all the dirt on Todd from his days at the Dogs.
The same reason the NRL won’t go after the player managers that were complicit with the Parra salary cap rort.
 
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What the Roosters do is sign the best 16-18 year olds on money other clubs can’t afford outside the salary cap. Bring these players through each year ie: Mitchell, Manu, Radley.
They then top up marquee signings Keary, Tedesco, Cronk with third parties 200k + each. Their last trick is to have no morals and sign people with atrocities. Ferguson, Tetevano on the cheap.

It’s the Golden State Warriors Warriors of the NRL the rest of the players take a small haircut to play on a winning squad.

They and their families are also looked after off the field which no team can match in the corporate world.

They are a blight on the game and have no juniors alll their best players are from other clubs.

Well said.
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I don't know how true it is, but I've been told a similar type of story. Roosters sign you to a decent cash contract, but then everything else you need is taken care of by "friends" of the club.

So if you need a ride, some food, apartment, a tailor, travel - you just go see the "friends" and they sort it out. Stay with the Roosters long-term and these arrangements last long-term.

So for example Tedesco, he is earning a less at Roosters than Tigers and Bulldogs offered him, but he has nil off-field expenses because everywhere he goes, "friends" look after him.

"How much for the dinner?" "Meal's on the house, go Roosters". Tedesco probably couldn't pay for a beer in the Eastern Suburbs if he tried.
 
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Watching some of the names we have spoken about these guys would be realistic targets who could improve the side marginally:

Lowe
Gela-Mosby
Kelly
Hetherington
Latu
Peachey (more valuable in a team that is physically dominant)

To improve the side drastically we would need to go all out for:

Marty
TPJ
Matterson
Tapine
Rapana
Munster
NAS

Most of this second list are free to negotiate in Nov (source zero tackle) and if we are serious we need at least 2 and probably 3 of this calibre.

I know it's a pipe dream at this stage, but the club has to find a way to get it done.

Interesting reasoning on Peachey there OMT. Personally, just love the guy as a footballer and would happily take him, just see him trapped in a body that doesn't allow him to show his absolute abilities.

Munster and Tapine would be my first picks off your second list if only allowed two.

With Tapine and Marty peachy would be priceless. Hitting it up after the huth and ET I don't think he'd be as effective.

Balance of our pack is too heavily skewed towards clever workers. Rowdy is a threat near the line, but no one else comes to mind as an impact player.

Imagine Peachey at penriffff with 5 Merrins instead of Kikau and RCG and I think he could have less opportunities against a retreating or indecisive defense.
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Can I say I agree with you totally, that Tapine, Taupau and Peachey signing with us for 2019 would be priceless. Literally - I cannot offer you a price to describe how long the odds would be on such a thing ever happening.
 
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What the Roosters do is sign the best 16-18 year olds on money other clubs can’t afford outside the salary cap. Bring these players through each year ie: Mitchell, Manu, Radley.
They then top up marquee signings Keary, Tedesco, Cronk with third parties 200k + each. Their last trick is to have no morals and sign people with atrocities. Ferguson, Tetevano on the cheap.

It’s the Golden State Warriors Warriors of the NRL the rest of the players take a small haircut to play on a winning squad.

They and their families are also looked after off the field which no team can match in the corporate world.

They are a blight on the game and have no juniors alll their best players are from other clubs.

Well said.

That's the best and most accurate description of the rorters i have seen

I come from newcastle and won't mention the name but one of my friends son's had offers from rorters n parra that the knights couldn't even get near

He was told by his manager that if he accepts the rorters offer he would be signing the biggest contract that had ever been signed by a 16yo in NRL history

He chose to stay at the knights

It is a joke how they have no juniors but loads of money and therefore never spoken about as a target for relocation

Relocate another club and you lose supporters to other codes

Relocate rorters and lose nothing

Shame the NRL don't see it that way or don't care

It wouldnt surprise me if the roosters are "looking after" people in the NRL.Power and money go hand in hand in the corporate world
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That's exactly what would be happening
 
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