Signings, Suggestions & Rumours Discussion

[BalmainJnr]

Our new recruitment guru must have decided that he was not worth pursuing. Or has a better option up his sleeve ?

You would hope there is a plan but it is hard to have any confidence in WT.

 

[weststigerman]

Did the Dogs just sign Toby Sexton from now ?
If so, how did we not look into this considering how terrible we are in the halves. Its like the light are on with no one inside working

Bulldogs might be struggling but at least they are trying to improve. We’re just happy to be in the NRL.

 

[BalmainJnr]

Do they cap?

Reeks of desperation

Dunno.
Apparently he is joining the dogs immediately though.
Wouldn’t have been my first (of those seemingly available) for WT, but we could use a half immediately, Fainu would be a decent start.

 

[weststigerman]

Or Sexton rejected our advances or wasn’t prepared to “fall from the trees”

Or it didn’t fall out of the tree into our lap.

 

[GCfan]

I wonder if we’re aiming so high that what’s left odds not appealing us. Thing is w we have zilch. Maybe Will Smith and even he’s not played grade this year. At some point you have to eat a little humble pie and get a lower ranked player in their position and bide your time until something comes on the market.

 

[Halbrowne61]

I wonder if we’re aiming so high that what’s left odds not appealing us. Thing is w we have zilch. Maybe Will Smith and even he’s not played grade this year. At some point you have to eat a little humble pie and get a lower ranked player in their position and bide your time until something comes on the market.

Well I kinda that Smith was brought in as a potential no 7 back up but rarely mentioned. Surely with his experience he couldn’t be that bad. Would just like to see him have a game or two to see if can add something. Couldn’t be any slower than Brandon.

 

[tony soprano]

Bulldogs might be struggling but at least they are trying to improve. We’re just happy to be in the NRL.

Hopefully they get their shit together soon

 

[tony soprano]

Dunno.
Apparently he is joining the dogs immediately though.
Wouldn’t have been my first (of those seemingly available) for WT, but we could use a half immediately, Fainu would be a decent start.

Absolutely. Just not confident they can get it done.

 

[Conbat07]

So when do we get an answer on the Manly whizz kids ? Or is that going to drag on for months as well.

Set a deadline and move on. Sick of players using us to get more $$$ else where

 

[Kelce68]

He made a very valid point around the same time we went on a month long losing streak, culminating in a loss by seventy four points. How any nuffies can think otherwise amazes me. I guess it shouldn’t surprise me when a pair of Nuffies managed to get to a point where they are running a professional football club.

No.

He has continued to argue for six weeks that Ofahengaue should've been replaced when the very goal of releasing him wasn't to find a replacement.

So it's a moot point.

Criticising the club for not achieving an outcome that they weren't trying to achieve is redundant.

And a buried issue.

Move on.

 

[bathursttiger1]

Cash.😂

Johnny or June?

 

[bathursttiger1]

What authority do you have to speak on the goals of the club? The goal is to field a competitive team and win. He is rightly pointing out they failed. Again. And again. And again……. It’s not me who needs to move on.

Well you seem to think that you have the authority to speak on all things related to the club.

 

[Eternal Tiger]

You have been banging on about lack of replacements for released players for months.

Joffa in particular, you would have mentioned in nothing short of 20 comments, all the same, along the lines of 'we let Joffa go and replaced him with ______'

Surely you know that is not the way that these things work. A new signing is not contingent on a release and a release is not contingent on a new signing. The two have nothing to do with each other.

How often does a like for like replacement happen across the league?

People have spelled out, extremely clearly, that this release wasn't designed as a replacement, it was designed as cap relief for a bench player.

Ad nauseum.

Whether or not you agree with the decision is irrelevant, it was never designed as a replacement type signing, so why do you keep mentioning the same, tired, old copy and paste?

You made your incorrect point 6 weeks ago, let it go.

😂😂😂 my issue is we are travelling so well, that we let a senior player go and didn't replace him in our squad.
Scroll past my posts if they annoy you. As I will with yours, which enable mediocrity.

 

[Kelce68]

😂😂😂 my issue is we are travelling so well, that we let a senior player go and didn't replace him in our squad.
Scroll past my posts if they annoy you. As I will with yours.

Your posts in general don't annoy me, but you're flogging a dead horse on this particular point.

I scrolled past it for 6 weeks.

It had to be mentioned.

 

[tony soprano]

Johnny or June?

On 🔥

 

[Eternal Tiger]

Your posts in general don't annoy me, but you're flogging a dead horse on this particular point.

I scrolled past it for 6 weeks.

It had to be mentioned.

It just had to 😂

 

[Kelce68]

What authority do you have to speak on the goals of the club? The goal is to field a competitive team and win. He is rightly pointing out they failed. Again. And again. And again……. It’s not me who needs to move on.

Oh, goodness me.

'The goal is to field a competitive team and win.'

So the goal of releasing Ofahengaue was to field a competitive team and win?

We're talking about a specific contract situation, not rugby league at large.

Try and stay on topic.

What authority do I have to speak on the goals of the club?

I was referring to what I suspect they were likely trying to achieve through the release. The cap relief is self-evident, but supported by the club using the phrase that the situation 'works for both parties' as well as the scuttlebutt at the time regarding his salary being a major consideration in granting the release.

I may speak on that to my heart's content. And I am backed up by language directly from the club.

And I was calling on Eternal to move on from his broken record argument. Not you and not him as a poster in general.

I'm very specific with my words and context matters in these discussions.

 

[Kelce68]

😂😂😂 my issue is we are travelling so well, that we let a senior player go and didn't replace him in our squad.
Scroll past my posts if they annoy you. As I will with yours, which enable mediocrity.

This must've been a late edit. I missed it in my original reply.

How exactly do my posts enable mediocrity?

 

[Eternal Tiger]

This must've been a late edit. I missed it in my original reply.

How exactly do my posts enable mediocrity?

By being satisfied by spending nowhere near our Cap limit (Sheens told us at 10yr Member function) I don't want to continue because the horse is already dead apparently.
Accepting these actions is enabling wooden spoon Management.

 

[Harvey]

You have been banging on about lack of replacements for released players for months.

Joffa in particular, you would have mentioned in nothing short of 20 comments, all the same, along the lines of 'we let Joffa go and replaced him with ______'

Surely you know that is not the way that these things work. A new signing is not contingent on a release and a release is not contingent on a new signing. The two have nothing to do with each other.

How often does a like for like replacement happen across the league?

People have spelled out, extremely clearly, that this release wasn't designed as a replacement, it was designed as cap relief for a bench player.

Ad nauseum.

Whether or not you agree with the decision is irrelevant, it was never designed as a replacement type signing, so why do you keep mentioning the same, tired, old copy and paste?

You made your incorrect point 6 weeks ago, let it go.

If we need cap relief with the roster we have assembled there is something wrong. We shouldn’t be anywhere near the cap.

If there is no cap reason, then you don’t release a player unless you have someone to replace them, either inside the club or available to sign