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Is Staines really that much of an improvement at fullback? Surely the club might be a chance at jagging Jayden Campbell or the Hammer Tabuai-Fidow who can't get a start at their current clubs, Toddy P owes us a favour
 
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tigger19 said:
Is Staines really that much of an improvement at fullback? Surely the club might be a chance at jagging Jayden Campbell or the Hammer Tabuai-Fidow who can't get a start at their current clubs, Toddy P owes us a favour
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i wouldn’t be happy with any of these , recruit properly set your targets. These kind of players won’t turn our club or do anything for our spine
 
The SHADOW said:
i don’t like Gus but you got it wrong
JM decided to stay for less
RCG was paid accordingly at the time
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Mate if he got the contracts rite why was moving them on the first thing Ivan did? Signing up veterans on big contracts when you have a crop of outstanding kids coming through is a mistake
 
Kaito said:
You're not up to date with the
news, Sheens is letting Benji
shape the roster & recruit.
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I was responding to the point about Sheens idea vs Benjis. To me the actual idea is irrelevant. Both parties are stubborn and it will end in tears, being dragged through the media: AGAIN. They both can’t help themselves.
 
tigger19 said:
Is Staines really that much of an improvement at fullback? Surely the club might be a chance at jagging Jayden Campbell or the Hammer Tabuai-Fidow who can't get a start at their current clubs, Toddy P owes us a favour
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The issue with Laurie is his defence . Everyone talks about line breaks etc , but his defence as in positioning and ability to organise the line makes it impossible to keep him .
There’s a reason our kick diffusion is the worst in the nrl .
If we are going to run a ball playing 13 it really negates what Laurie is good at , especially if the sweeping and linking is done by the opposite side half. By the time Laurie / fullback gets the ball he’s only operating in the far channel , usually 3 on 2 but over like 5m of total width .
What he doesn’t do , is support around the ruck . So many times I’ve watched joffa especially get his arms free , to see no one there .
From what I’ve seen of Staines what he provides , is what we lack .
But like I said this is all dependant on playing a ball playing 13:
 
tigger19 said:
Is Staines really that much of an improvement at fullback? Surely the club might be a chance at jagging Jayden Campbell or the Hammer Tabuai-Fidow who can't get a start at their current clubs, Toddy P owes us a favour
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Jayden Campbell is injured that’s why he’s not played by
 
Demps said:
Got big money players too like TPJ, JAC & Thompson...

Then other duds like Allan, Burns, Flanno.
They're all getting paid.

They must be planning a huge clean out.
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Yea the only thing that makes sense is everyone else in that squad is on 200k or less .
Which doesn’t make any real sense because most of thier signings the last 4 years were desperation signings . They’ve been paying overs for a long time .
So how they’re under the cap is anyones guess really .
 
Strongee said:
The issue with Laurie is his defence . Everyone talks about line breaks etc , but his defence as in positioning and ability to organise the line makes it impossible to keep him .
There’s a reason our kick diffusion is the worst in the nrl .
If we are going to run a ball playing 13 it really negates what Laurie is good at , especially if the sweeping and linking is done by the opposite side half. By the time Laurie / fullback gets the ball he’s only operating in the far channel , usually 3 on 2 but over like 5m of total width .
What he doesn’t do , is support around the ruck . So many times I’ve watched joffa especially get his arms free , to see no one there .
From what I’ve seen of Staines what he provides , is what we lack .
But like I said this is all dependant on playing a ball playing 13:
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All of that comes back to his tenacity....
He's lazy.
There's no competition in him... 98% of the time.
It's always park footy with mates to him.

On top of all of the above - He's very rarely in the frame of a try scored...
There's a halfback in there, Or an Outside Back
- Never the Fullback

He's not there - Because he doesn't wanna be there.
Watch him loafing across in the 2nd Souths game when Walker shifts left
- As cumbersome as you can possibly be.
Alex Johnson has scored a gazillion tries - Anyone who's half watched a game of Footy know how Souths left edge and Walker plays out there...
Walker is Daines' uncle - And he looked as surprised as anyone they put that many tries down that edge...

He's 150k Back up fullback (If that) - Same as he was at Penrith....
Nice kid, But he's not getting another gig outside the Tigers.
 
I still don't understand how clubs can keep signing players for following seasons when they will be over the cap .it's just not right .no way should we help the dogs at all
 
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