Signings, Suggestions & Rumours Discussion

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Thought the Knights had signed many more than that
Jnr tatola was already at Souths
Im sure baileys thrilled at Bennett coming

Knights have signed Jesse Ramien, Tim Glasby, Edrick Lee and Mason Lino for 2019.
Eels have signed Blake Ferguson, Junior Paulo and Shaun Lane.
Cowboys have signed Ben Barba, Nene Macdonald, Kurt Baptiste and Tom Opacic (plus a few other depth signings).
Titans have signed Tyrone Peachey, Shannon Boyd, Ryley Jacks and Tyrone Roberts.
Roosters have signed Angus Crichton, Ryan Hall and Brett Morris.

They're probably the clubs with the best incoming talent, along with the Tigers with Mbye, Matterson, Farah and Momirovski. We've done alright but so have the Titans, Eels and Cowboys in particular.
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Thanks Nelson A much better accurate recruiting list. The four teams you mentioned that finished behind us have recruited better IMO.

I'm hoping Madge can move some players around.
 
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Thought the Knights had signed many more than that
Jnr tatola was already at Souths
Im sure baileys thrilled at Bennett coming

That's the official NRL transfer tracker. I left out the re-signings, must have missed the Souths one.

This is the issue (not saying you're doing it, incidentally - but the people who think the Tigers are somehow off the back of the pack recruitment-wise definitely are). We all know what the Tigers have done but generally only have a vague idea of what's going on elsewhere other than that we know there are players signing for other clubs. If you look at the actual transfers on a club-by-club basis it becomes clear that the Tigers are at least holding their own and in fact probably doing more than most.

But who likes facts nowadays?
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Sorry 2041 but the only valid analysis of recruitment and retention is to compare our top 30 to every other teams top 30\. And that is not pretty reading. If (and it’s a huge if) numbers 29 and 30 are top shelf experienced first graders, maybe, just maybe, we can agree we are improving in this area where we have failed for a long, long time.
 
Will be interesting to see how many ex Souths players coming a-knocking

Tyrell Fuimaono was brought to Souths by Maguire , and is off contract

Lack of size is slightly concerning though , but he played a lot of footy in the centres at Souths
 
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Will be interesting to see how many ex Souths players coming a-knocking

Tyrell Fuimaono was brought to Souths by Maguire , and is off contract

Lack of size is slightly concerning though , but he played a lot of footy in the centres at Souths
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He's not off contract he has signed with Penrith.
 
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Will be interesting to see how many ex Souths players coming a-knocking

Tyrell Fuimaono was brought to Souths by Maguire , and is off contract

Lack of size is slightly concerning though , but he played a lot of footy in the centres at Souths

He's not off contract he has signed with Penrith.
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Should have guessed

Whose left off contract bar Geo and I 😱pen_mouth:
 
Interesting to see what Maguire does with McQueen after he was released to the Titans in 2016, Could he turn out to be another Tim Grant for the new coach?
 
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Thought the Knights had signed many more than that
Jnr tatola was already at Souths
Im sure baileys thrilled at Bennett coming

That's the official NRL transfer tracker. I left out the re-signings, must have missed the Souths one.

This is the issue (not saying you're doing it, incidentally - but the people who think the Tigers are somehow off the back of the pack recruitment-wise definitely are). We all know what the Tigers have done but generally only have a vague idea of what's going on elsewhere other than that we know there are players signing for other clubs. If you look at the actual transfers on a club-by-club basis it becomes clear that the Tigers are at least holding their own and in fact probably doing more than most.

But who likes facts nowadays?

Sorry 2041 but the only valid analysis of recruitment and retention is to compare our top 30 to every other teams top 30\. And that is not pretty reading. If (and it’s a huge if) numbers 29 and 30 are top shelf experienced first graders, maybe, just maybe, we can agree we are improving in this area where we have failed for a long, long time.
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I wholeheartedly agree that the club has been a basket case off the field. However, it can't go from basket case to model performer overnight, ie from a roster that legitimately couldn't be expected to finish outside the bottom four to a contender. The only fair question to ask is "are we improving?" I think recruitment over the past few months is at least a positive sign.

Actually if we think about it rationally the biggest problem is pretty clearly production of our own talent not recruitment. Other than one club that pretty much everyone assumes cheats the cap, nobody gets good purely by signing other teams' established first graders. It's bad cap strategy and all it means is you'll always be paying fair-to-high value. You need a mixture of home-grown talent on cheap contracts - and at the moment we have very little of that.

The people who say "we don't need more development players, we need established first grade talent" are completely missing the point. We are actually doing ok to well at recruiting the latter, at least in recent times. But we need both.
 
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My theory

Foran to join des at manly

Reynolds back to dogs

Johnson to Tigers
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So two teams happily take busted players who are saddled with huge over-pay contracts, in order that we can free up cap space to sign the only actually good player in the trio? Seems likely.
 
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My theory

Foran to join des at manly

Reynolds back to dogs

Johnson to Tigers

So two teams happily take busted players who are saddled with huge over-pay contracts, in order that we can free up cap space to sign the only actually good player in the trio? Seems likely.
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Highly unlikely, though Johnson isn't all that good either.
 
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