Signings, Suggestions & Rumours Discussion

[hsvjones]

So we have all this money available and no one to spend it on :face_palm:
So besides Dale Funicane who is available we could target ??
Even the Cheese is not available so our luck we might end up keeping Packer or Joey.. (god I hope not)
We don't need anymore juniors as we have plenty we desperately need experienced players so fingers crossed the powers have some sort of back up plan.

Our lower grades are doing well, we are going to need the cap sorted when the time comes to lock them up. There are some ruthless clubs which will stop at nothing to prey on our future stars.

Correct and with the inclusion of Sheen and Kimmorley hopefully we can be more certain of the top classed ones and lock them away before others poach. They have a lot of experience to draw from and you add Madge and Farah to that we might be on a winner here.

But how do you then get the juniors to stay if we are going to get smashed like we have so many times this season

Thye have already proven they aren't a loyal clubman ....why would they show any more loyalty to their 2nd club who finished 11th ....or even worse .....we become a transit centre .....exactly what 3 players who were our own juniors did .......

Simple answer IMO is we can not keep them unless we buy the experience players to help develop there trade.
I have been getting shot down for the last 24 hours for saying this and if you look at every single successful club you will see they have experience players there to guide them around through the thick and thin.
Lets be real our experience players that are currently leading our young future stars are .... Packer, Mbye, Tamou, Joey and JTJ. I for one don't feel any of these guys except Tamou is helping them and thats why we need to buy....
Unfortunately we are in a hard position but we have options due to having money unlike past years..

1 - We continue with development and hope we don't get smashed and lose the good ones
or
2 - We put some money into recruitment for an experience player or 2 that will help with there development but for that to happen we need to pay overs because no one wants to come here.. Finucane and Smith would be ideal

Its reality and for me I say option 2 because once we get 1 or 2 of the top players others will want to come if we are successful. Before others explode on me again I am not saying pay TPJ 850k or Finucane 4 years at 800k but we need to pick carefully. We already have the foundations built with the juniors but need help.

We need at least 3 top 50 players to put around the young blokes ......

And the paying overs talk ......is paying someone 50 or 100 k over when they are valued at 750 k such a mass panic ..if only for 2 players ...?

Nope and I would be happy to for the right ones.. I would love Brendan Smith and Dale F but I think that is a pipe dream.

I can't see the Dogs attracting Finucane ...they pushed him out once ......Roosters though ......

Maybe I need to do some research on our most likely top line player that everyone is talking about -Harley Smith-Shields
Hope he is top notch as we will need him top be :eyes:

he was calling up madge at all hours begging for a spot
madge played hard ball: look kid, i like the cut of your jib but i got superstars begging to don the black white and orange, what can you bring to the table?
whatever harley responded with was enough to have an offer tabled to him

:grinning: :grinning: :grinning: That made me laugh .. Well played Sir

 

[happy_tiger]

So we have all this money available and no one to spend it on :face_palm:
So besides Dale Funicane who is available we could target ??
Even the Cheese is not available so our luck we might end up keeping Packer or Joey.. (god I hope not)
We don't need anymore juniors as we have plenty we desperately need experienced players so fingers crossed the powers have some sort of back up plan.

Our lower grades are doing well, we are going to need the cap sorted when the time comes to lock them up. There are some ruthless clubs which will stop at nothing to prey on our future stars.

Correct and with the inclusion of Sheen and Kimmorley hopefully we can be more certain of the top classed ones and lock them away before others poach. They have a lot of experience to draw from and you add Madge and Farah to that we might be on a winner here.

But how do you then get the juniors to stay if we are going to get smashed like we have so many times this season

Thye have already proven they aren't a loyal clubman ....why would they show any more loyalty to their 2nd club who finished 11th ....or even worse .....we become a transit centre .....exactly what 3 players who were our own juniors did .......

Simple answer IMO is we can not keep them unless we buy the experience players to help develop there trade.
I have been getting shot down for the last 24 hours for saying this and if you look at every single successful club you will see they have experience players there to guide them around through the thick and thin.
Lets be real our experience players that are currently leading our young future stars are .... Packer, Mbye, Tamou, Joey and JTJ. I for one don't feel any of these guys except Tamou is helping them and thats why we need to buy....
Unfortunately we are in a hard position but we have options due to having money unlike past years..

1 - We continue with development and hope we don't get smashed and lose the good ones
or
2 - We put some money into recruitment for an experience player or 2 that will help with there development but for that to happen we need to pay overs because no one wants to come here.. Finucane and Smith would be ideal

Its reality and for me I say option 2 because once we get 1 or 2 of the top players others will want to come if we are successful. Before others explode on me again I am not saying pay TPJ 850k or Finucane 4 years at 800k but we need to pick carefully. We already have the foundations built with the juniors but need help.

We need at least 3 top 50 players to put around the young blokes ......

And the paying overs talk ......is paying someone 50 or 100 k over when they are valued at 750 k such a mass panic ..if only for 2 players ...?

Nope and I would be happy to for the right ones.. I would love Brendan Smith and Dale F but I think that is a pipe dream.

I can't see the Dogs attracting Finucane ...they pushed him out once ......Roosters though ......

Maybe I need to do some research on our most likely top line player that everyone is talking about -Harley Smith-Shields
Hope he is top notch as we will need him top be :eyes:

Never heard of him until mentioned on here ...can't get a start at Canberra ......not pretty for starters

It blows my mind that people want to win but don't want to invest into the right players even if they cost some overs.. Need to erase the memory bank of the past bad decisions.. Now we are sitting here talking about a guy from reserved grade that is going to be a saviour.. :face_palm:

Overs for the right player .....maybe ...has to be the right player .....TPJ NO .......Finucane only if he agreed to reduced years

 

[nuggetron]

in all seriousness, we got pumped by the storm 66-16, roosters got pumped 46-0
we mustnt be far off the pace...

 

[hsvjones]

So we have all this money available and no one to spend it on :face_palm:
So besides Dale Funicane who is available we could target ??
Even the Cheese is not available so our luck we might end up keeping Packer or Joey.. (god I hope not)
We don't need anymore juniors as we have plenty we desperately need experienced players so fingers crossed the powers have some sort of back up plan.

Our lower grades are doing well, we are going to need the cap sorted when the time comes to lock them up. There are some ruthless clubs which will stop at nothing to prey on our future stars.

Correct and with the inclusion of Sheen and Kimmorley hopefully we can be more certain of the top classed ones and lock them away before others poach. They have a lot of experience to draw from and you add Madge and Farah to that we might be on a winner here.

But how do you then get the juniors to stay if we are going to get smashed like we have so many times this season

Thye have already proven they aren't a loyal clubman ....why would they show any more loyalty to their 2nd club who finished 11th ....or even worse .....we become a transit centre .....exactly what 3 players who were our own juniors did .......

Simple answer IMO is we can not keep them unless we buy the experience players to help develop there trade.
I have been getting shot down for the last 24 hours for saying this and if you look at every single successful club you will see they have experience players there to guide them around through the thick and thin.
Lets be real our experience players that are currently leading our young future stars are .... Packer, Mbye, Tamou, Joey and JTJ. I for one don't feel any of these guys except Tamou is helping them and thats why we need to buy....
Unfortunately we are in a hard position but we have options due to having money unlike past years..

1 - We continue with development and hope we don't get smashed and lose the good ones
or
2 - We put some money into recruitment for an experience player or 2 that will help with there development but for that to happen we need to pay overs because no one wants to come here.. Finucane and Smith would be ideal

Its reality and for me I say option 2 because once we get 1 or 2 of the top players others will want to come if we are successful. Before others explode on me again I am not saying pay TPJ 850k or Finucane 4 years at 800k but we need to pick carefully. We already have the foundations built with the juniors but need help.

We need at least 3 top 50 players to put around the young blokes ......

And the paying overs talk ......is paying someone 50 or 100 k over when they are valued at 750 k such a mass panic ..if only for 2 players ...?

Nope and I would be happy to for the right ones.. I would love Brendan Smith and Dale F but I think that is a pipe dream.

I can't see the Dogs attracting Finucane ...they pushed him out once ......Roosters though ......

Maybe I need to do some research on our most likely top line player that everyone is talking about -Harley Smith-Shields
Hope he is top notch as we will need him top be :eyes:

Never heard of him until mentioned on here ...can't get a start at Canberra ......not pretty for starters

It blows my mind that people want to win but don't want to invest into the right players even if they cost some overs.. Need to erase the memory bank of the past bad decisions.. Now we are sitting here talking about a guy from reserved grade that is going to be a saviour.. :face_palm:

Overs for the right player .....maybe ...has to be the right player .....TPJ NO .......Finucane only if he agreed to reduced years

3 years is what he wants so I would have no problem with that and even at 650k.
He is in the current SOO squad and playing top football and if you match that to Packer getting 700-800k that is a bargain. I would swap these 2 in a heartbeat.

 

[happy_tiger]

in all seriousness, we got pumped by the storm 66-16, roosters got pumped 46-0
we mustnt be far off the pace...

Look at the Roosters line up 3rd string hooker ...half the pack is 2nd string ......

One of their starting spine .....

Do that to our side and see the scorelines

 

[happy_tiger]

So we have all this money available and no one to spend it on :face_palm:
So besides Dale Funicane who is available we could target ??
Even the Cheese is not available so our luck we might end up keeping Packer or Joey.. (god I hope not)
We don't need anymore juniors as we have plenty we desperately need experienced players so fingers crossed the powers have some sort of back up plan.

Our lower grades are doing well, we are going to need the cap sorted when the time comes to lock them up. There are some ruthless clubs which will stop at nothing to prey on our future stars.

Correct and with the inclusion of Sheen and Kimmorley hopefully we can be more certain of the top classed ones and lock them away before others poach. They have a lot of experience to draw from and you add Madge and Farah to that we might be on a winner here.

But how do you then get the juniors to stay if we are going to get smashed like we have so many times this season

Thye have already proven they aren't a loyal clubman ....why would they show any more loyalty to their 2nd club who finished 11th ....or even worse .....we become a transit centre .....exactly what 3 players who were our own juniors did .......

Simple answer IMO is we can not keep them unless we buy the experience players to help develop there trade.
I have been getting shot down for the last 24 hours for saying this and if you look at every single successful club you will see they have experience players there to guide them around through the thick and thin.
Lets be real our experience players that are currently leading our young future stars are .... Packer, Mbye, Tamou, Joey and JTJ. I for one don't feel any of these guys except Tamou is helping them and thats why we need to buy....
Unfortunately we are in a hard position but we have options due to having money unlike past years..

1 - We continue with development and hope we don't get smashed and lose the good ones
or
2 - We put some money into recruitment for an experience player or 2 that will help with there development but for that to happen we need to pay overs because no one wants to come here.. Finucane and Smith would be ideal

Its reality and for me I say option 2 because once we get 1 or 2 of the top players others will want to come if we are successful. Before others explode on me again I am not saying pay TPJ 850k or Finucane 4 years at 800k but we need to pick carefully. We already have the foundations built with the juniors but need help.

We need at least 3 top 50 players to put around the young blokes ......

And the paying overs talk ......is paying someone 50 or 100 k over when they are valued at 750 k such a mass panic ..if only for 2 players ...?

Nope and I would be happy to for the right ones.. I would love Brendan Smith and Dale F but I think that is a pipe dream.

I can't see the Dogs attracting Finucane ...they pushed him out once ......Roosters though ......

Maybe I need to do some research on our most likely top line player that everyone is talking about -Harley Smith-Shields
Hope he is top notch as we will need him top be :eyes:

he was calling up madge at all hours begging for a spot
madge played hard ball: look kid, i like the cut of your jib but i got superstars begging to don the black white and orange, what can you bring to the table?
whatever harley responded with was enough to have an offer tabled to him

Tangerine ....not orange

 

[Telltails]

in all seriousness, we got pumped by the storm 66-16, roosters got pumped 46-0
we mustnt be far off the pace...

Look at the Roosters line up 3rd string hooker ...half the pack is 2nd string ......

One of their starting spine .....

Do that to our side and see the scorelines

Add Teddy, Manu, Crichton Tupou, JWH, Tupinua, Lui, Morris to our squad - we could only wish.

 

[hobbo1]

So we have all this money available and no one to spend it on :face_palm:
So besides Dale Funicane who is available we could target ??
Even the Cheese is not available so our luck we might end up keeping Packer or Joey.. (god I hope not)
We don't need anymore juniors as we have plenty we desperately need experienced players so fingers crossed the powers have some sort of back up plan.

Our lower grades are doing well, we are going to need the cap sorted when the time comes to lock them up. There are some ruthless clubs which will stop at nothing to prey on our future stars.

Correct and with the inclusion of Sheen and Kimmorley hopefully we can be more certain of the top classed ones and lock them away before others poach. They have a lot of experience to draw from and you add Madge and Farah to that we might be on a winner here.

But how do you then get the juniors to stay if we are going to get smashed like we have so many times this season

Thye have already proven they aren't a loyal clubman ....why would they show any more loyalty to their 2nd club who finished 11th ....or even worse .....we become a transit centre .....exactly what 3 players who were our own juniors did .......

Simple answer IMO is we can not keep them unless we buy the experience players to help develop there trade.
I have been getting shot down for the last 24 hours for saying this and if you look at every single successful club you will see they have experience players there to guide them around through the thick and thin.
Lets be real our experience players that are currently leading our young future stars are .... Packer, Mbye, Tamou, Joey and JTJ. I for one don't feel any of these guys except Tamou is helping them and thats why we need to buy....
Unfortunately we are in a hard position but we have options due to having money unlike past years..

1 - We continue with development and hope we don't get smashed and lose the good ones
or
2 - We put some money into recruitment for an experience player or 2 that will help with there development but for that to happen we need to pay overs because no one wants to come here.. Finucane and Smith would be ideal

Its reality and for me I say option 2 because once we get 1 or 2 of the top players others will want to come if we are successful. Before others explode on me again I am not saying pay TPJ 850k or Finucane 4 years at 800k but we need to pick carefully. We already have the foundations built with the juniors but need help.

We need at least 3 top 50 players to put around the young blokes ......

And the paying overs talk ......is paying someone 50 or 100 k over when they are valued at 750 k such a mass panic ..if only for 2 players ...?

Nope and I would be happy to for the right ones.. I would love Brendan Smith and Dale F but I think that is a pipe dream.

I can't see the Dogs attracting Finucane ...they pushed him out once ......Roosters though ......

Maybe I need to do some research on our most likely top line player that everyone is talking about -Harley Smith-Shields
Hope he is top notch as we will need him top be :eyes:

he was calling up madge at all hours begging for a spot
madge played hard ball: look kid, i like the cut of your jib but i got superstars begging to don the black white and orange, what can you bring to the table?
whatever harley responded with was enough to have an offer tabled to him

Tangerine ....not orange

Blood orange these days ?

 

[nuggetron]

So we have all this money available and no one to spend it on :face_palm:
So besides Dale Funicane who is available we could target ??
Even the Cheese is not available so our luck we might end up keeping Packer or Joey.. (god I hope not)
We don't need anymore juniors as we have plenty we desperately need experienced players so fingers crossed the powers have some sort of back up plan.

Our lower grades are doing well, we are going to need the cap sorted when the time comes to lock them up. There are some ruthless clubs which will stop at nothing to prey on our future stars.

Correct and with the inclusion of Sheen and Kimmorley hopefully we can be more certain of the top classed ones and lock them away before others poach. They have a lot of experience to draw from and you add Madge and Farah to that we might be on a winner here.

But how do you then get the juniors to stay if we are going to get smashed like we have so many times this season

Thye have already proven they aren't a loyal clubman ....why would they show any more loyalty to their 2nd club who finished 11th ....or even worse .....we become a transit centre .....exactly what 3 players who were our own juniors did .......

Simple answer IMO is we can not keep them unless we buy the experience players to help develop there trade.
I have been getting shot down for the last 24 hours for saying this and if you look at every single successful club you will see they have experience players there to guide them around through the thick and thin.
Lets be real our experience players that are currently leading our young future stars are .... Packer, Mbye, Tamou, Joey and JTJ. I for one don't feel any of these guys except Tamou is helping them and thats why we need to buy....
Unfortunately we are in a hard position but we have options due to having money unlike past years..

1 - We continue with development and hope we don't get smashed and lose the good ones
or
2 - We put some money into recruitment for an experience player or 2 that will help with there development but for that to happen we need to pay overs because no one wants to come here.. Finucane and Smith would be ideal

Its reality and for me I say option 2 because once we get 1 or 2 of the top players others will want to come if we are successful. Before others explode on me again I am not saying pay TPJ 850k or Finucane 4 years at 800k but we need to pick carefully. We already have the foundations built with the juniors but need help.

We need at least 3 top 50 players to put around the young blokes ......

And the paying overs talk ......is paying someone 50 or 100 k over when they are valued at 750 k such a mass panic ..if only for 2 players ...?

Nope and I would be happy to for the right ones.. I would love Brendan Smith and Dale F but I think that is a pipe dream.

I can't see the Dogs attracting Finucane ...they pushed him out once ......Roosters though ......

Maybe I need to do some research on our most likely top line player that everyone is talking about -Harley Smith-Shields
Hope he is top notch as we will need him top be :eyes:

he was calling up madge at all hours begging for a spot
madge played hard ball: look kid, i like the cut of your jib but i got superstars begging to don the black white and orange, what can you bring to the table?
whatever harley responded with was enough to have an offer tabled to him

Tangerine ....not orange

im a mans man, i know basic colours. when we built our house the missus wanted input on the wall colour and showed me like 20 swabs of off white, she asked my favourite one. I thought she was going to stick them to the wall instead of painting, apparently they were all different

 

[nuggetron]

in all seriousness, we got pumped by the storm 66-16, roosters got pumped 46-0
we mustnt be far off the pace...

Look at the Roosters line up 3rd string hooker ...half the pack is 2nd string ......

One of their starting spine .....

Do that to our side and see the scorelines

yeh i was totally joking by the way

 

[jrtiger]

So we have all this money available and no one to spend it on :face_palm:
So besides Dale Funicane who is available we could target ??
Even the Cheese is not available so our luck we might end up keeping Packer or Joey.. (god I hope not)
We don't need anymore juniors as we have plenty we desperately need experienced players so fingers crossed the powers have some sort of back up plan.

Our lower grades are doing well, we are going to need the cap sorted when the time comes to lock them up. There are some ruthless clubs which will stop at nothing to prey on our future stars.

Correct and with the inclusion of Sheen and Kimmorley hopefully we can be more certain of the top classed ones and lock them away before others poach. They have a lot of experience to draw from and you add Madge and Farah to that we might be on a winner here.

But how do you then get the juniors to stay if we are going to get smashed like we have so many times this season

Thye have already proven they aren't a loyal clubman ....why would they show any more loyalty to their 2nd club who finished 11th ....or even worse .....we become a transit centre .....exactly what 3 players who were our own juniors did .......

Simple answer IMO is we can not keep them unless we buy the experience players to help develop there trade.
I have been getting shot down for the last 24 hours for saying this and if you look at every single successful club you will see they have experience players there to guide them around through the thick and thin.
Lets be real our experience players that are currently leading our young future stars are .... Packer, Mbye, Tamou, Joey and JTJ. I for one don't feel any of these guys except Tamou is helping them and thats why we need to buy....
Unfortunately we are in a hard position but we have options due to having money unlike past years..

1 - We continue with development and hope we don't get smashed and lose the good ones
or
2 - We put some money into recruitment for an experience player or 2 that will help with there development but for that to happen we need to pay overs because no one wants to come here.. Finucane and Smith would be ideal

Its reality and for me I say option 2 because once we get 1 or 2 of the top players others will want to come if we are successful. Before others explode on me again I am not saying pay TPJ 850k or Finucane 4 years at 800k but we need to pick carefully. We already have the foundations built with the juniors but need help.

We need at least 3 top 50 players to put around the young blokes ......

And the paying overs talk ......is paying someone 50 or 100 k over when they are valued at 750 k such a mass panic ..if only for 2 players ...?

Nope and I would be happy to for the right ones.. I would love Brendan Smith and Dale F but I think that is a pipe dream.

I can't see the Dogs attracting Finucane ...they pushed him out once ......Roosters though ......

Maybe I need to do some research on our most likely top line player that everyone is talking about -Harley Smith-Shields
Hope he is top notch as we will need him top be :eyes:

Never heard of him until mentioned on here ...can't get a start at Canberra ......not pretty for starters

It blows my mind that people want to win but don't want to invest into the right players even if they cost some overs.. Need to erase the memory bank of the past bad decisions.. Now we are sitting here talking about a guy from reserved grade that is going to be a saviour.. :face_palm:

don't think anyone called him a saviour mate. quite frankly our centres at the moment are diabolical, and he offers speed, size and the ability to defend, none of our centres have all three of those. he's 21 with a high ceiling and gives us a genuine option that stops us from playing Talau and Roberts every week who are not up to first grade and the likes of Kei and Hoffman who are nowhere near where they need to be. Doueihi and Gildart will be the first choice pairing next year but HSS certainly improves our squad.

 

[pawsandclaws1]

So we have all this money available and no one to spend it on :face_palm:
So besides Dale Funicane who is available we could target ??
Even the Cheese is not available so our luck we might end up keeping Packer or Joey.. (god I hope not)
We don't need anymore juniors as we have plenty we desperately need experienced players so fingers crossed the powers have some sort of back up plan.

Our lower grades are doing well, we are going to need the cap sorted when the time comes to lock them up. There are some ruthless clubs which will stop at nothing to prey on our future stars.

Correct and with the inclusion of Sheen and Kimmorley hopefully we can be more certain of the top classed ones and lock them away before others poach. They have a lot of experience to draw from and you add Madge and Farah to that we might be on a winner here.

But how do you then get the juniors to stay if we are going to get smashed like we have so many times this season

Thye have already proven they aren't a loyal clubman ....why would they show any more loyalty to their 2nd club who finished 11th ....or even worse .....we become a transit centre .....exactly what 3 players who were our own juniors did .......

Simple answer IMO is we can not keep them unless we buy the experience players to help develop there trade.
I have been getting shot down for the last 24 hours for saying this and if you look at every single successful club you will see they have experience players there to guide them around through the thick and thin.
Lets be real our experience players that are currently leading our young future stars are .... Packer, Mbye, Tamou, Joey and JTJ. I for one don't feel any of these guys except Tamou is helping them and thats why we need to buy....
Unfortunately we are in a hard position but we have options due to having money unlike past years..

1 - We continue with development and hope we don't get smashed and lose the good ones
or
2 - We put some money into recruitment for an experience player or 2 that will help with there development but for that to happen we need to pay overs because no one wants to come here.. Finucane and Smith would be ideal

Its reality and for me I say option 2 because once we get 1 or 2 of the top players others will want to come if we are successful. Before others explode on me again I am not saying pay TPJ 850k or Finucane 4 years at 800k but we need to pick carefully. We already have the foundations built with the juniors but need help.

We need at least 3 top 50 players to put around the young blokes ......

And the paying overs talk ......is paying someone 50 or 100 k over when they are valued at 750 k such a mass panic ..if only for 2 players ...?

Nope and I would be happy to for the right ones.. I would love Brendan Smith and Dale F but I think that is a pipe dream.

I can't see the Dogs attracting Finucane ...they pushed him out once ......Roosters though ......

Maybe I need to do some research on our most likely top line player that everyone is talking about -Harley Smith-Shields
Hope he is top notch as we will need him top be :eyes:

Some highlights. Good to see some of his tries are over distance and not from 20 metres out.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6rGpT5gfRP4

 

[hsvjones]

So we have all this money available and no one to spend it on :face_palm:
So besides Dale Funicane who is available we could target ??
Even the Cheese is not available so our luck we might end up keeping Packer or Joey.. (god I hope not)
We don't need anymore juniors as we have plenty we desperately need experienced players so fingers crossed the powers have some sort of back up plan.

Our lower grades are doing well, we are going to need the cap sorted when the time comes to lock them up. There are some ruthless clubs which will stop at nothing to prey on our future stars.

Correct and with the inclusion of Sheen and Kimmorley hopefully we can be more certain of the top classed ones and lock them away before others poach. They have a lot of experience to draw from and you add Madge and Farah to that we might be on a winner here.

But how do you then get the juniors to stay if we are going to get smashed like we have so many times this season

Thye have already proven they aren't a loyal clubman ....why would they show any more loyalty to their 2nd club who finished 11th ....or even worse .....we become a transit centre .....exactly what 3 players who were our own juniors did .......

Simple answer IMO is we can not keep them unless we buy the experience players to help develop there trade.
I have been getting shot down for the last 24 hours for saying this and if you look at every single successful club you will see they have experience players there to guide them around through the thick and thin.
Lets be real our experience players that are currently leading our young future stars are .... Packer, Mbye, Tamou, Joey and JTJ. I for one don't feel any of these guys except Tamou is helping them and thats why we need to buy....
Unfortunately we are in a hard position but we have options due to having money unlike past years..

1 - We continue with development and hope we don't get smashed and lose the good ones
or
2 - We put some money into recruitment for an experience player or 2 that will help with there development but for that to happen we need to pay overs because no one wants to come here.. Finucane and Smith would be ideal

Its reality and for me I say option 2 because once we get 1 or 2 of the top players others will want to come if we are successful. Before others explode on me again I am not saying pay TPJ 850k or Finucane 4 years at 800k but we need to pick carefully. We already have the foundations built with the juniors but need help.

We need at least 3 top 50 players to put around the young blokes ......

And the paying overs talk ......is paying someone 50 or 100 k over when they are valued at 750 k such a mass panic ..if only for 2 players ...?

Nope and I would be happy to for the right ones.. I would love Brendan Smith and Dale F but I think that is a pipe dream.

I can't see the Dogs attracting Finucane ...they pushed him out once ......Roosters though ......

Maybe I need to do some research on our most likely top line player that everyone is talking about -Harley Smith-Shields
Hope he is top notch as we will need him top be :eyes:

Never heard of him until mentioned on here ...can't get a start at Canberra ......not pretty for starters

It blows my mind that people want to win but don't want to invest into the right players even if they cost some overs.. Need to erase the memory bank of the past bad decisions.. Now we are sitting here talking about a guy from reserved grade that is going to be a saviour.. :face_palm:

don't think anyone called him a saviour mate. quite frankly our centres at the moment are diabolical, and he offers speed, size and the ability to defend, none of our centres have all three of those. he's 21 with a high ceiling and gives us a genuine option that stops us from playing Talau and Roberts every week who are not up to first grade and the likes of Kei and Hoffman who are nowhere near where they need to be. Doueihi and Gildart will be the first choice pairing next year but HSS certainly improves our squad.

Sounds promising and if he can keep butter fingers TT out of the team I am happy..
As a club we are picking up all the right players to build a team of the future my only biff is that we need some true professional experienced players to set them in the right direction. We don't want to spend all this money on quality juniors and not train them right.. I will keep an eye out for him in the future weeks if COVID goes away

 

[Roar_Power]

Finucane is still holding out hope that the Storm can offer him a deal. He has indicated that he would take unders to stay. However, if he does leave the Storm then Newcastle are the likely destination.

Isaac Liu is the most likely target at this point. The Roosters do have a bit of room to work now with cordner retiring and are working on re-signing Tupou and Morris. They may be able to retain Liu, but he would likely be stuck on the bench. There is also a belief at the club, and other clubs that a few players might become available at seasons end.

Harley Smith-Shields looks to be a done deal.

Hasn't Liu signed with the Titans to be closer to family?

 

[hobbo1]

So we have all this money available and no one to spend it on :face_palm:
So besides Dale Funicane who is available we could target ??
Even the Cheese is not available so our luck we might end up keeping Packer or Joey.. (god I hope not)
We don't need anymore juniors as we have plenty we desperately need experienced players so fingers crossed the powers have some sort of back up plan.

Our lower grades are doing well, we are going to need the cap sorted when the time comes to lock them up. There are some ruthless clubs which will stop at nothing to prey on our future stars.

Correct and with the inclusion of Sheen and Kimmorley hopefully we can be more certain of the top classed ones and lock them away before others poach. They have a lot of experience to draw from and you add Madge and Farah to that we might be on a winner here.

But how do you then get the juniors to stay if we are going to get smashed like we have so many times this season

Thye have already proven they aren't a loyal clubman ....why would they show any more loyalty to their 2nd club who finished 11th ....or even worse .....we become a transit centre .....exactly what 3 players who were our own juniors did .......

Simple answer IMO is we can not keep them unless we buy the experience players to help develop there trade.
I have been getting shot down for the last 24 hours for saying this and if you look at every single successful club you will see they have experience players there to guide them around through the thick and thin.
Lets be real our experience players that are currently leading our young future stars are .... Packer, Mbye, Tamou, Joey and JTJ. I for one don't feel any of these guys except Tamou is helping them and thats why we need to buy....
Unfortunately we are in a hard position but we have options due to having money unlike past years..

1 - We continue with development and hope we don't get smashed and lose the good ones
or
2 - We put some money into recruitment for an experience player or 2 that will help with there development but for that to happen we need to pay overs because no one wants to come here.. Finucane and Smith would be ideal

Its reality and for me I say option 2 because once we get 1 or 2 of the top players others will want to come if we are successful. Before others explode on me again I am not saying pay TPJ 850k or Finucane 4 years at 800k but we need to pick carefully. We already have the foundations built with the juniors but need help.

We need at least 3 top 50 players to put around the young blokes ......

And the paying overs talk ......is paying someone 50 or 100 k over when they are valued at 750 k such a mass panic ..if only for 2 players ...?

Nope and I would be happy to for the right ones.. I would love Brendan Smith and Dale F but I think that is a pipe dream.

I can't see the Dogs attracting Finucane ...they pushed him out once ......Roosters though ......

Maybe I need to do some research on our most likely top line player that everyone is talking about -Harley Smith-Shields
Hope he is top notch as we will need him top be :eyes:

Some highlights. Good to see some of his tries are over distance and not from 20 metres out.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6rGpT5gfRP4

But can he tackle ?

 

[BAGNF05]

NSW Cup highlights - Thoughts on a ban?

Only fuelling my anger here 🤬

 

[jrtiger]

So we have all this money available and no one to spend it on :face_palm:
So besides Dale Funicane who is available we could target ??
Even the Cheese is not available so our luck we might end up keeping Packer or Joey.. (god I hope not)
We don't need anymore juniors as we have plenty we desperately need experienced players so fingers crossed the powers have some sort of back up plan.

Our lower grades are doing well, we are going to need the cap sorted when the time comes to lock them up. There are some ruthless clubs which will stop at nothing to prey on our future stars.

Correct and with the inclusion of Sheen and Kimmorley hopefully we can be more certain of the top classed ones and lock them away before others poach. They have a lot of experience to draw from and you add Madge and Farah to that we might be on a winner here.

But how do you then get the juniors to stay if we are going to get smashed like we have so many times this season

Thye have already proven they aren't a loyal clubman ....why would they show any more loyalty to their 2nd club who finished 11th ....or even worse .....we become a transit centre .....exactly what 3 players who were our own juniors did .......

Simple answer IMO is we can not keep them unless we buy the experience players to help develop there trade.
I have been getting shot down for the last 24 hours for saying this and if you look at every single successful club you will see they have experience players there to guide them around through the thick and thin.
Lets be real our experience players that are currently leading our young future stars are .... Packer, Mbye, Tamou, Joey and JTJ. I for one don't feel any of these guys except Tamou is helping them and thats why we need to buy....
Unfortunately we are in a hard position but we have options due to having money unlike past years..

1 - We continue with development and hope we don't get smashed and lose the good ones
or
2 - We put some money into recruitment for an experience player or 2 that will help with there development but for that to happen we need to pay overs because no one wants to come here.. Finucane and Smith would be ideal

Its reality and for me I say option 2 because once we get 1 or 2 of the top players others will want to come if we are successful. Before others explode on me again I am not saying pay TPJ 850k or Finucane 4 years at 800k but we need to pick carefully. We already have the foundations built with the juniors but need help.

We need at least 3 top 50 players to put around the young blokes ......

And the paying overs talk ......is paying someone 50 or 100 k over when they are valued at 750 k such a mass panic ..if only for 2 players ...?

Nope and I would be happy to for the right ones.. I would love Brendan Smith and Dale F but I think that is a pipe dream.

I can't see the Dogs attracting Finucane ...they pushed him out once ......Roosters though ......

Maybe I need to do some research on our most likely top line player that everyone is talking about -Harley Smith-Shields
Hope he is top notch as we will need him top be :eyes:

Never heard of him until mentioned on here ...can't get a start at Canberra ......not pretty for starters

It blows my mind that people want to win but don't want to invest into the right players even if they cost some overs.. Need to erase the memory bank of the past bad decisions.. Now we are sitting here talking about a guy from reserved grade that is going to be a saviour.. :face_palm:

don't think anyone called him a saviour mate. quite frankly our centres at the moment are diabolical, and he offers speed, size and the ability to defend, none of our centres have all three of those. he's 21 with a high ceiling and gives us a genuine option that stops us from playing Talau and Roberts every week who are not up to first grade and the likes of Kei and Hoffman who are nowhere near where they need to be. Doueihi and Gildart will be the first choice pairing next year but HSS certainly improves our squad.

Sounds promising and if he can keep butter fingers TT out of the team I am happy..
As a club we are picking up all the right players to build a team of the future my only biff is that we need some true professional experienced players to set them in the right direction. We don't want to spend all this money on quality juniors and not train them right.. I will keep an eye out for him in the future weeks if COVID goes away

Our issues don't lie in training, it's in mentality. everyone is well aware that Madge flogs them in pre-season and they maintain a high intensity throughout the season. we have never been seen as unfit or underdone under Michael Maguire.

given we have the youngest squad in the league I agree with you, we need experienced heads, but TPJ would not have helped with that in any case. Finucane would certainly help our cause, but he'd be short odds to remain at Melbourne. it makes sense for us to be chasing Isaac Liu given the circumstances, we need only one or two to set the wheels in motion. if we can find those types of players you will see a change. for now, the current policy of looking for elite talent stuck in the system or forgotten due to injury is fine.

 

[bathursttiger1]

So we have all this money available and no one to spend it on :face_palm:
So besides Dale Funicane who is available we could target ??
Even the Cheese is not available so our luck we might end up keeping Packer or Joey.. (god I hope not)
We don't need anymore juniors as we have plenty we desperately need experienced players so fingers crossed the powers have some sort of back up plan.

Our lower grades are doing well, we are going to need the cap sorted when the time comes to lock them up. There are some ruthless clubs which will stop at nothing to prey on our future stars.

Correct and with the inclusion of Sheen and Kimmorley hopefully we can be more certain of the top classed ones and lock them away before others poach. They have a lot of experience to draw from and you add Madge and Farah to that we might be on a winner here.

But how do you then get the juniors to stay if we are going to get smashed like we have so many times this season

Thye have already proven they aren't a loyal clubman ....why would they show any more loyalty to their 2nd club who finished 11th ....or even worse .....we become a transit centre .....exactly what 3 players who were our own juniors did .......

Simple answer IMO is we can not keep them unless we buy the experience players to help develop there trade.
I have been getting shot down for the last 24 hours for saying this and if you look at every single successful club you will see they have experience players there to guide them around through the thick and thin.
Lets be real our experience players that are currently leading our young future stars are .... Packer, Mbye, Tamou, Joey and JTJ. I for one don't feel any of these guys except Tamou is helping them and thats why we need to buy....
Unfortunately we are in a hard position but we have options due to having money unlike past years..

1 - We continue with development and hope we don't get smashed and lose the good ones
or
2 - We put some money into recruitment for an experience player or 2 that will help with there development but for that to happen we need to pay overs because no one wants to come here.. Finucane and Smith would be ideal

Its reality and for me I say option 2 because once we get 1 or 2 of the top players others will want to come if we are successful. Before others explode on me again I am not saying pay TPJ 850k or Finucane 4 years at 800k but we need to pick carefully. We already have the foundations built with the juniors but need help.

We need at least 3 top 50 players to put around the young blokes ......

And the paying overs talk ......is paying someone 50 or 100 k over when they are valued at 750 k such a mass panic ..if only for 2 players ...?

Nope and I would be happy to for the right ones.. I would love Brendan Smith and Dale F but I think that is a pipe dream.

I can't see the Dogs attracting Finucane ...they pushed him out once ......Roosters though ......

Maybe I need to do some research on our most likely top line player that everyone is talking about -Harley Smith-Shields
Hope he is top notch as we will need him top be :eyes:

Some highlights. Good to see some of his tries are over distance and not from 20 metres out.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6rGpT5gfRP4

“But can he tackle ?”

Why does that matter no one else in the team tackles.

 

[pawsandclaws1]

So we have all this money available and no one to spend it on :face_palm:
So besides Dale Funicane who is available we could target ??
Even the Cheese is not available so our luck we might end up keeping Packer or Joey.. (god I hope not)
We don't need anymore juniors as we have plenty we desperately need experienced players so fingers crossed the powers have some sort of back up plan.

Our lower grades are doing well, we are going to need the cap sorted when the time comes to lock them up. There are some ruthless clubs which will stop at nothing to prey on our future stars.

Correct and with the inclusion of Sheen and Kimmorley hopefully we can be more certain of the top classed ones and lock them away before others poach. They have a lot of experience to draw from and you add Madge and Farah to that we might be on a winner here.

But how do you then get the juniors to stay if we are going to get smashed like we have so many times this season

Thye have already proven they aren't a loyal clubman ....why would they show any more loyalty to their 2nd club who finished 11th ....or even worse .....we become a transit centre .....exactly what 3 players who were our own juniors did .......

Simple answer IMO is we can not keep them unless we buy the experience players to help develop there trade.
I have been getting shot down for the last 24 hours for saying this and if you look at every single successful club you will see they have experience players there to guide them around through the thick and thin.
Lets be real our experience players that are currently leading our young future stars are .... Packer, Mbye, Tamou, Joey and JTJ. I for one don't feel any of these guys except Tamou is helping them and thats why we need to buy....
Unfortunately we are in a hard position but we have options due to having money unlike past years..

1 - We continue with development and hope we don't get smashed and lose the good ones
or
2 - We put some money into recruitment for an experience player or 2 that will help with there development but for that to happen we need to pay overs because no one wants to come here.. Finucane and Smith would be ideal

Its reality and for me I say option 2 because once we get 1 or 2 of the top players others will want to come if we are successful. Before others explode on me again I am not saying pay TPJ 850k or Finucane 4 years at 800k but we need to pick carefully. We already have the foundations built with the juniors but need help.

We need at least 3 top 50 players to put around the young blokes ......

And the paying overs talk ......is paying someone 50 or 100 k over when they are valued at 750 k such a mass panic ..if only for 2 players ...?

Nope and I would be happy to for the right ones.. I would love Brendan Smith and Dale F but I think that is a pipe dream.

I can't see the Dogs attracting Finucane ...they pushed him out once ......Roosters though ......

Maybe I need to do some research on our most likely top line player that everyone is talking about -Harley Smith-Shields
Hope he is top notch as we will need him top be :eyes:

Some highlights. Good to see some of his tries are over distance and not from 20 metres out.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6rGpT5gfRP4

But can he tackle ?

We'll find out. He's a local Raiders' junior so remaining with the Raiders could have been taken for granted. Kris, Timoko and Savage are a pretty talented trio.

 

[jrtiger]

But can he tackle ?

We’ll find out. He’s a local Raiders’ junior so remaining with the Raiders could have been taken for granted. Kris, Timoko and Savage are a pretty talented trio.

Canberra have an incredible amount of untapped talent. Xavier Savage is going to be a star. Timoko is unbelievably strong. guys like Hudson Young and Emre Guler are lucky to make the bench of their first grade side. Starling has bided his time but is about to unseat Hodgson as their starting 9. Kai O'Donnell is a serious prospect. Smith-Shields himself is a very good centre in his own right.