Signings, Suggestions & Rumours Discussion

balmain boy said:
We have to have someone lined up, whether from eels or not. We have so much cash to splash and now even more

My guess is Schuster.
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I would be surprised by that.
Manly is struggling on the creative side and called him back into starting this week.
With SOO period coming they will be hammered with DCE and Jake at least gone.
 
Kelce68 said:
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I really like Joffa, but a reported $600k for our 4/5th choice prop (which is what he's become this year) in the rotation who is playing 30/40 minutes off the bench is bad business. Our forward pack has quickly become our strength and likely greatest depth, therefore, we've got some toys that we can trade in to hopefully strengthen other areas of the squad that are glaringly in need of an upgrade. How is freeing up that cash and a roster spot a bad thing?
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Joffa was our best last year. He ranked highly NRL wide in a team full of try yards and soft players. The coaching staff must shoulder the blame for his current form. They have made decisions that haven’t worked out and when that happened, they trade him off with no notice.
It’s bad for culture, it’s bad for morale.
Who will want to come to a club that apart from being utterly incompetent for decades, treats its players like shit?
 
Eternal Tiger said:
It's a shit contract that this Club designed for him only 6 months ago. Why offer it in the first place?
We are $1m under the Cap for 2023 BEFORE the release of Ofahengaue.
Why don't we spend to our Cap?
Parra are desperate for him, did we leverage anything for his immediate release?
Just like Matterson, Aloiai, Leilua etc etc we let them go for no compensation. Shit Club run by Muppets.
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We didn’t have Klemmer or Bateman here let alone the crap going on with Papa mixed with everything else.

Joffa was hands down our best player last year he was the only leader on the park & deserved his extension at the time. The kids all listen and follow him. It was an obvious no brainer decision to extend him at the time.

Off season he was injured and carried injury into this year limiting his training.

I called out when we signed Klem having both Joffa and Klem won’t work if we also want to keep Stef/Pole and other’s transition into starting roles. Joffa needs minutes and has an engine that’s his strength is durability & reliability.

I have no issues letting him go if we have more value option in, time will tell but I’m not hopeful & right now we definitely don’t have better.

We are coming last Parra are 1 win infront of us. Seems strange to strengthen a team at the bottom competing with us for the spoon.
 
We all get suspicious of Gus when he starts to clear the decks of unwanted and under performing players, but when Shifty starts doing the same everyone’s up in arms about it.
There’s got to be a reason behind it, I suspect that it’s about creating a spot in our top 30.
We can bring up anyone from KOE if we want to now.
I said earlier in the year that I thought that Joe O would struggle to make our top17.
 
Kelce68 said:
Yeh, if we go down three props suddenly to injury after transferring him out, then that'll suck. I like joffa. He's just being outplayed and is now, and for the next two years too, overpaid for his contribution.

But I guess that's the (albeit small) risk you take with any player movement discussion and if there's a position that we can fill best in that situation across our squad, it's probably prop.

Stef, Klemmer, papali'i, Blore, twal, pole, seyfarth can all play in the middle if needs be, not to mention possible reserves options. But you don't make these kinds of decisions based upon possible catastrophic injury tolls in the future.
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You keep banging on about him being a prop.
All of his best footy last year was played at 13.
We are weak in this position.
 
Scott Fulton would have a plan
we sign Koula for 2025 season and start agitating for a release for 2024
Manly let Koula go a year early if we take Schuster

We then have a 6 in Schuster for 2023 to partner brooks.
2024 we go for Johnson to partner Schuster and if he doesn't sign you can still sign Brooks as the 7 if you need to
 
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liltiger said:
I agree I reckon he will be the marquee signing the Dolphins have been trying to sign for ages
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We are the last club he would consider imo.
It’s no fun experiencing the team’s morale anchored to a low point, by a board continually fighting over positional authority and undermining the coach.
Hunt deserves a lot of credit the way he rose above the internal politics and continually inspired the team.
 
Jedi_Tiger said:
same reason Brooks salary is 1 million dollars... lol media.
rough figures of course but that is what media are saying 650k 2024 and 2025.
As an example we are paying Papali 650k a season, Papali is lengths a better player than Joffa
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How do you know this?
 
Kaito said:
He pops up in the middle on both sides of the
ball a lot too. I don't think it's a bad idea Jedi.
Adds another dimension to our poor attack also
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Or we could have used the guy who was one of the NRLs best players last year. Might have been worth a shot before trading him off.
 
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