We go hard for Woods now, no doubt.
Cassius Tia
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Up and coming gun at the Bulldogs;
May feel his path is blocked, especially if they sign Burton.
All the talk is around the kid, Woods, being the future 7 at the club.
Might be worth a look, our first choice backup.
Faalogo is faster than anyone at the club. No one could tackle him if he gets given space. Mason is no chance, he's still a year or two away from NRL standard
I'm not really big on Origin personally. Gave up on it when I got sick of blokes being pick on name and not position. Like N.S.W will have 4 weekly playing fullbacks playing in the centres, wing and fullback just to acclimate blokes and I'd be thinking what's the point trying to make origin if your a centre or winger. Personally the N.S.W team should be picked by position not name. Best centre at centre, lock at lock. Not a 5/8 at lock because there's another 5/8 they want to put in the team. I know Qld do the exact same thing. But this year I hope Qld put them to the sword, noone can justify to me the way the clubs going that we don't have 1 N.S.W player in the squad. May and Api were certainties imo. They're only crime is they're playing for the Tigers. Screw Daley and N.S.W hope Qld rip them apart.
Other thing we need to remember to keep things in a bit more context is that our total lack of depth is completely detrimental to these guys ability to develop properly and just do their jobs. Imagine being in a workplace where the guy next to you needs help every few minutes. Then the next week it's the person 5 people down from you, your productivity would cop a beating, I'd imagine it's much the same with us in that the guys we need to rely on to do what they do best can't just focus on themselves and what they do but need to help out the other guys at times aswell. In a hardened N.R.L squad it's fine there's plenty of leaders and players with experience to help out, but a squad like ours it has a detrimental effect, maybe next year with another year of grade and more experience the squad handles it better, but we need more depth just regular tradesman type players, guys that can just do a job, that'll help Luai and co out massively.
What passes me off is his value is close to 1 million. I think 1 million was way overs for him but that's what we offered, how can the N.R.L now turn around and allow another club to sign him for around 750k. He shouldn't be allowed to be signed for less than 900k if the salary cap is fair. If a club values him at 1 million how can the game allow him to sign for 25% less at the competition leaders so they can fit him in their cap. The systems busted.
How anyone can say now that Gus doesn't use the media to further his own agenda as the g.m of football at the Dogs or whatever club he is at is astounding. How the N.R.L don't tell him it's either one or the other. Your in the media or the g.m of football but we won't allow both is beyond me.
Luke Brooks?
As a former referee explained to me, the NRL is about entertainment and theatre, not football. This is big news for the NRL and the story will be on the front page for a few weeks with his manager milking the opportunity to further his own interests as well as those of his clients. WTs will suffer like it did yesterday with the article from Weidler. The worst part about this is the inside knowledge that everyone knew in advance what would play out. Disgusting all round.
Luai is the reason why many players have joined the club. He is the glue, together with Koroisau, which binds the team together. He goes about his work with the minimum of fuss and maximum of effort. He has matured as a player and as a man. He is one of, if not our best, purchases together with Koroisau.
What’s your plan to replace him?
Lets see what he does the next few weeks now hes free from Daddy daycare services and has Latu to work with.
It must have been a humilating experience for him having to put the individual ahead of the team. It goes against all his learning at the Panthers.
Agree mate....I think hes had to deal with being the mentor for a fuxxing brat as well as organising and taking his shots. Freedom. Hope Latu is healed up and ready to rock, we could witness a resurgence in the halves.
The early nineties was a funny time at the back for Wests - during Devine’s time he variously battled with Danny Peacock, Russell Wyer, Mark Bell, Jason Alchin & Anthony Xuereb for the #1 jersey.
I think that’s the point
Mapa is the only one on that list that deserves a promotion. Promoting anyone else is a Major insult to the club and it's members
That would be an insult. He's not first grade standard, he's not on a first grade contract, there's no need to recruit internally.
