Signings, Suggestions & Rumours Discussion
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They won’t offer them up.
Kelce68
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Sione is yet to be officially resigned.
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Seems like 29 contracted players with no Miller, Faagatu or Sione Fainu.
Without inclusion of Fa’agutu on this, I'd say that's a pretty strong clue he might've been the first moved on.
I hope not. I've got huge wraps on him.
Hope I'm wrong.
Kelce68
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They'll still be cheap.
As bad as Sheens and Pascoe were at writing club-positive contracts.
I don’t expect them on big big coin, but I wouldn’t be surprised if they have clauses or something along those lines in case they were tried to be let go early. Otherwise I don’t see why the club retained them.
Kelce68
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Also not.
Te Whare was a perfect chance for Bennett to show his wares in that department in the past 2 seasons. Ditto for Milford.
It's often about finding the right attitude inbuilt in the player, not necessarily 'turning them around'.
That's on the player themselves.
He is most likely gone but Sione will most likely be re-signed now that we have a spot available.
GNR4LIFE
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Why would you even waste time writing this?
Kelce68
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Potential.
That, and a club history of lamenting letting go of gun juniors.
They massively overcorrected and here we are.
A year or two more and we (hopefully) won't need to talk about these types of silly contracts too much anymore.
Kelce68
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I feel Richo won’t screw us around in terms of player retention/recruitment but it was no secret all these poor deals were done by the old admin and the new one is dealing with the punishment for it.
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Seems like 29 contracted players with no Miller, Faagatu or Sione Fainu.
Expect little.. Avoid disappointment... Anything else is a bonus. (maybe)
Tiger_Yoshi
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I heard he broke curfew, going to 7/11 to buy a phone charger… nothing wrong with that just ask JAC
Tiger_Yoshi
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Because I believe Melbourne would be keen for it to happen.
Paps is not happy with their offer and will not extend with them for what they have offered and they would likely be more than happy to swap a young up and coming Pole for an ageing Asofa-Solomona.
Of course we would ideally want to keep Bula and Pole long term, but we need instant success and it’s more likely to happen with players already at the top of the tree, not ones still climbing.
Wouldn’t be surprised if Dragons have a play at Sione Fainu in an attempt to eventually have all 3 brothers. Think Flanagan has a high opinion of them from coaching them at manly in 2023 & would certainly be a selling point to play halfback in the future for Latu with no one in front there. Hopefully Sione signs on soon once a player is released to keep them all together
I think Storm would be pretty comfortable having Faalago over Bula. A front row swap sounds possible tho depending on what Pole decides
To be fair though , he’s from qld , and as we saw tragically with Fotuaika , the isolation of being away from home , combined with the grind of progressing through the ranks and development , can wear on players .
It’s not to say he won’t / can’t develop here or anything , but yea , it’s no surprise to me that a lot of players who move form the country or qld down to Sydney , struggle with the day to day life of the grind . Especially if they arnt developing as quickly as they’d hoped .
Miller ? Well yea… after his tantrums on the sideline last year about being benched , his generally lazy approach to training , and I’m assuming the “late to training “ cop out/ excuse , probably will mean he’s playing for manly sooner or later . Paseka and Suli had the same tags on them , and both took a long time , comparative to the wraps on them , to cement first grade spots . You’d love them both in 2024 version though right now .
Paseka , whilst a very good first grader , had Payne Hass level wraps , and Suli was also the next great centre. .As good as both of them are , it’s hard to not look at thier careers so far and lament what could have been . I feel this is the path of miller , only he’s even lazier than both those guys . In the nrl it’s about fitness ! Fitness ! Fitness ! .
GNR4LIFE
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It’s not going to happen though
There’s no spot for Bula at the Storm apart for depth. Faalogo at 1 with Coates and Warbrick on the wing and Howarth and Meaney at centre he’s only gonna be depth at the Storm. There’s more chance of NAS for Pole though if there’s a swap between Storm and Tigers that’s the only one I see happening. But I don’t think it’ll happen regardless.
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