I think if Doueihi can rehabilitate his knee and perhaps play one or two games before the end of the year, he will be in a strong position to land a new contact as a half with another club. With the shortage of halves in the NRL, he could be in a position to do well.
Agreed. - who lost to us!
I think you're on the money. looking at the Parramatta forum Arthur has been chasing him for years and have always been keen to have him on board. a couple of their ITK posters have said that he's agreed to terms.
Olam's defence is good; But i think Benji/Morris have stressed to the centres to slide with your opposite and the winger stay on the winger and not run in. Trust your centres to do their job with the help of the forwards also drifting in cover. We haven't done that in years.
Good analysis. He also said we need some 'cream' in the outside backs whilst need a couple more worker types (I forget how he put it) in the forwards.
They have Latrell and Murray both on a million, then walker, Cook, and Wighton on big money too, and then the likes of Graham, Arrow, KK and Johnston also on decent coin. That's where it all goes... On rep players
I could settle for Doueihi on a train and trial next season if he recovers fully from his injury. If he earns a minimum wage contract in the office season then fine, but our squad is already almost full and still needs a lot more quality
Yes their team photo looks like the pics where everyone flashes their clacker as the train goes past.
Sure is, at some stage we are going to have to give him a run on the bench to keep him happy and up to pace with the NRL. Then if he is on the bench what happens to Bud and Latu. Interesting times ahead
Exactly, Arrow is on $800k, Graham got upgraded and extended last year, they have a heap of high priced players
I suspect the TDS situation will more or less take care of itself. What he mainly needs at the moment is minutes, which he'll get in reggies. He'll get some game time - split with Simpkin, I guess - during origin unless Maguire is as brain dead as Fittler was. Then when he's ready to play regular minutes in first grade Koroisau will be at least a year older and may not be (best used as) an 80 minute player anymore.
Can't wait to put the names of Large and Makasini into the Tigers side .. !!
Not a huge loss. I don't want players that kick up a stink when they're not playing in their preferred position. Either you're fighting for the cause or you're not.
I think the best thing for him right now is 80 mins+ in Cup and coming up in the Origin period. hookers take a lot of time to come good. look at Harry Grant. he was 22 when he came to us. Tallyn is 19. these next couple years I'd just be trying to get him to dominate Cup.
Doueihi needs to improve his lateral defence and that was before his two knee ops. He is long odds to remain here Id say.
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