Signings, Suggestions & Rumours Discussion

Getting worried about our backrow for next year. Papali'i is a great signing but we need another quality backrower to partner him. We're getting a bit thin there and there's not much on the market.
Can't be expecting much from Blore either after missing a whole season.
 
We need another one. Currently, there is not one player at the club who has his name pencilled in as a starting back rower in 2023. Think about that. Don’t say Blore. The good thing is the club at least recognises this and is actively looking for someone to partner Pap. We’ll hit on somebody as long as we keep looking.
 
Does anyone know how much cap we will have after everyone leaves and we count the two coming in , because there is no use having $ in the bank and no decent players .
 
bptiger 0 said:
Does anyone know how much cap we will have after everyone leaves and we count the two coming in , because there is no use having $ in the bank and no decent players .
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There’s not as much as you think. Hastings will have to be increased likely this year as he is free to negotiate November 1. He’s reportedly on $350k which will chew up at least another 300k. Part of the reason we are no chance of keeping Madden as depth.
 
If the rumours are correct and we have now missed Bird, Hopgood, Nikora, Atkins, Angus C etc... it is really starting to become concerning. We are not going to get lucky like Papa again and get top players for under's.
We will be sitting there with shortage of players and all this money to burn like normal... For me we need to pay a little overs until we start WINNING and players want to come here... Sick of getting the left overs and also sick of relying on all younger players to develop.. We need a balance to be successful and help develop the younger ones.
 
TYGA said:
There’s not as much as you think. Hastings will have to be increased likely this year as he is free to negotiate November 1. He’s reportedly on $350k which will chew up at least another 300k. Part of the reason we are no chance of keeping Madden as depth.
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Does the question need to be asked then...
We don't have anywhere near the quality of players the top clubs have yet we don't have much money to burn and have a younger roster on lower wages.. We have offloaded the overpaid players from the past so we must be overpaying internal players but not prepared to pay overs for external players.. Blows my mind
 
GNR4LIFE said:
We need another one. Currently, there is not one player at the club who has his name pencilled in as a starting back rower in 2023. Think about that. Don’t say Blore. The good thing is the club at least recognises this and is actively looking for someone to partner Pap. We’ll hit on somebody as long as we keep looking.
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The disappointing thing is that Papali'i and Garner would have been a great starting backrower and at a fairly low cost too.
 
GNR4LIFE said:
We need another one. Currently, there is not one player at the club who has his name pencilled in as a starting back rower in 2023. Think about that. Don’t say Blore. The good thing is the club at least recognises this and is actively looking for someone to partner Pap. We’ll hit on somebody as long as we keep looking.
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Blore.

I don’t disagree we need another one but if he was fit he starts this year ahead of Garner and Tuilagi. He’s had 2 big injuries since joining us, he just needs a bit of luck. We need depth, don’t need another 700k back rower.
 
TYGA said:
There’s not as much as you think. Hastings will have to be increased likely this year as he is free to negotiate November 1. He’s reportedly on $350k which will chew up at least another 300k. Part of the reason we are no chance of keeping Madden as depth.
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Mbye money.
 
weststigerman said:
Blore.

I don’t disagree we need another one but if he was fit he starts this year ahead of Garner and Tuilagi. He’s had 2 big injuries since joining us, he just needs a bit of luck. We need depth, don’t need another 700k back rower.
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Blore has done absolutely nothing on field to suggest he's a shadow of the player he's intended to be here...
"Killing it pre-season" counts for 2/5ths of SFA unfortunately...
 
hsvjones said:
Does the question need to be asked then...
We don't have anywhere near the quality of players the top clubs have yet we don't have much money to burn and have a younger roster on lower wages.. We have offloaded the overpaid players from the past so we must be overpaying internal players but not prepared to pay overs for external players.. Blows my mind
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We all know where 11% of next years cap is going though. Bloke who used to try and play halfback. That's why there's not that much left over
 
Hbom said:
Mbye money.
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Did your iphone calculate that for you?

We have another High End Hooker on the books next year...
Where's that money coming from?
There's players getting upgrades next year - Laurie being one of them....

I don't get this theory that if you stop paying someone at some point that there's automatically 'x' amount of dollars to spend elsewhere...
The cap is fluid - Very few contracted players are on the same amount of money every year for the length of the contract....
And here's the tip - The amount very rarely goes down.
 
weststigerman said:
You are ill informed. Tuilagi was playing reserve grade when Blore was fit.
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Out of what you've said here - Nothing makes me ill informed...
If you wish to argue the point, Maybe point out something (Apart from his Couple hits on Brown)
that he's done to convince everyone he's an 80 minute quality back rower..
- I'll wait....

Furthermore, There's no evidence he wouldn't have lost his spot to Kelma at some point - Even then, Kelma has certainly dropped off.
 
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