Signings, Suggestions & Rumours Discussion

Jahream Bula is set to miss 4 weeks of action due to a hamstring injury. Bula pulled up sore chasing a Jarome Luai grubber on the final play against Canberra.

Heath Mason is expected to return to fullback, with Latu Fainu likely to partner Luai in the halves
Nooooo!!!!
OH HELL NOOOO!!!!
Oh yeah, that last bit was alright, but no not Mason he refuses to catch bombs? At least he won’t be in the front line. He is gunna get saturation bombed.
 
Can we recruit the best scouts please? It feels like this is the area we are lacking. The roosters have just signed Canberra's best scout. We should look in the chook pen for any disgruntled scouts.

Look at all the roosters rookies this year, they're all nrl ready.

We need to be better at identifying talent.

I also think our pathways isn't upto scratch.
most clubs have numerous scouts , as far as I can tell we have one .
 
There is always Manly this week, but noises coming out of Manly, Turbo not happy and picked at centre, Seibold under pressure etc.

They are there for the taking but historically this is one of those games we should win but historically never do. 😡

At least we aren't favourites with the bookies.
manly is no joke a must win game. turbo will be in centres I’m guessing To’a will be marking him so he needs to have a big game.
 
There is always Manly this week, but noises coming out of Manly, Turbo not happy and picked at centre, Seibold under pressure etc.

They are there for the taking but historically this is one of those games we should win but historically never do. 😡

At least we aren't favourites with the bookies.
Wait till they see Mason names at FB, you’ll see one of the biggest fluctuations ever.
Imagine him trying to tackle Turbo in full flight? Which hasn’t happened in two seasons, but you know he’s turning up with wings on this week.
For some reason I like seeing Seibold fail. I’m not sure why?
 
Can we recruit the best scouts please? It feels like this is the area we are lacking. The roosters have just signed Canberra's best scout. We should look in the chook pen for any disgruntled scouts.

Look at all the roosters rookies this year, they're all nrl ready.

We need to be better at identifying talent.

I also think our pathways isn't upto scratch.
I agree with your concept of having great recruiting, but we’ve had good scouts, players, admin personnel etc in the past and failed to capitalise on their skills for any consistent length of time.
The club needs a more holistic approach.
We can’t have harmonic motion on the field if it doesn’t exist in the boardrooms. If we want the best people in their field to gravitate to the club we need to be displaying consistent improvement in all areas.
 
While it’s great they want him, how much are they willing to pay for him is the question.
I’d be willing to bet they do not offer any more than 250k and that would mean we are stuck contributing the other 250k towards his 500k co tract that we signed him to.
Not ideal, but it could be worse.
They can have him at full freight for 2 years. 🤣 🤞

We'll even throw Royce in.
 
GAHHHH apparently Mason will be 5/8 again this weekend

not starting latu is costing us games 🤦🏻‍♀️
He's got to be on a playing time restriction while still getting over any niggles/injuries, but then again, Benji seems to make a lot of decisions that many of us believe cost us games.
 
Can we recruit the best scouts please? It feels like this is the area we are lacking. The roosters have just signed Canberra's best scout. We should look in the chook pen for any disgruntled scouts.

Look at all the roosters rookies this year, they're all nrl ready.

We need to be better at identifying talent.

I also think our pathways isn't upto scratch.
We can’t compete dollar wise. For example the Bulldogs spent $4 million on pathways retention and recruitment. That includes the North Coast academy and Fiji academy they have. Apparently that is by far the most out of any nrl club. The Roosters also spend up big. When you consider they will fly kids in from Nz on a Friday to play SG Ball & then fly them back on a Sunday. We should be able to stock pile talent considering we have Wests & Balmain in junior reps but we don’t, whether we aren’t identifying talent or can’t afford that talent I am not sure
 
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