Signings, Suggestions & Rumours Discussion

teddy23 said:
Not sure if it’s been reported on here or not but whenever I get some intel from this particular source I’m quick to share given his strike rate.

I’ve been told that Mainuse Fainu has been offered to the Wests Tigers and is hoping to potentially earn a T&T deal similar to Taylan May whenever he has earned a release from jail expecting to be sometime next year.

His management have made it clear to the club that his priority is to join his brothers and earn a spot - unsure on the clubs stance however but with Api not having too long left and Haywood being too young to rely on, it doesn’t sound like a bad idea.
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I'd give him a stab.

Am I allowed to keep using that joke until next year?
 
So we have our best win of the season and here i am looking forward to actually maybe watching 360 and 100% footy but now i have to contend with the show being all about a hand gesture most likely.

You seriously could make this shite up 🤣

How ironic Bulldogs fans having a cry they are some of the worst supporters out there for tormenting and causing general havoc. Bloody pussies take your medicine i hope you dont win another game all yeh and limp out of the finals with your golden haired boy who is a better teenager than Fitler Or Brasher was 🤣
 
liltiger said:
Only real prob with AD and I love the guy he's all heart, he just hasn't been able to string a season of consistent football togeather yet. He's had horrendous injuries he's fought back from. He's in a purple patch of form atm, my concern and alot of others concern is he signs the new deal and his form drops off a cliff. He just struggles to find a long patch of real consistent football.
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He's shown enough this season to extend him he gets the nod against latu in the halves and he kicks goals no brainer imho. He has been consistently one of our best all season.
 
teddy23 said:
Not sure if it’s been reported on here or not but whenever I get some intel from this particular source I’m quick to share given his strike rate.

I’ve been told that Mainuse Fainu has been offered to the Wests Tigers and is hoping to potentially earn a T&T deal similar to Taylan May whenever he has earned a release from jail expecting to be sometime next year.

His management have made it clear to the club that his priority is to join his brothers and earn a spot - unsure on the clubs stance however but with Api not having too long left and Haywood being too young to rely on, it doesn’t sound like a bad idea.
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He's on parole and can't play bro
 
teddy23 said:
Not sure if it’s been reported on here or not but whenever I get some intel from this particular source I’m quick to share given his strike rate.

I’ve been told that Mainuse Fainu has been offered to the Wests Tigers and is hoping to potentially earn a T&T deal similar to Taylan May whenever he has earned a release from jail expecting to be sometime next year.

His management have made it clear to the club that his priority is to join his brothers and earn a spot - unsure on the clubs stance however but with Api not having too long left and Haywood being too young to rely on, it doesn’t sound like a bad idea.
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Can’t remember where I heard or read it but it was something about the nrl not allowing him to play until his parole is finished which would be 2030 about 4 years after his pending release from jail.
 
weststigerman said:
I agree with all that, but is there a player in our side that is consistent?

To me the question is, is there a better player to take his spot? If he’s keeping out Latu after Latu has had a few games in the 7, why is Latu a better option next year? He may need another year before he’s ready.
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100% if Douhi is playing well enough to keep Latu out imo it's better for Latu to ease his way in to the halves. The kids only 19. He's got around 15 years of football ahead of him if his body holds up. I'd rather we ease him into it than just throw him in like we did with Galvin.
 
I don't want to say rocks and diamonds because I don't think AD has a bad game in regards to errors and the like....its more passionate/interested/somewhat interested/disinterested with him. not that long ago, In a really shitty team he was often our best player, in between injuries....I know that's not saying much, however I think in a team that is on an upward trend, with some quality around him, we may get more of the passionate/interested performances from him...esp if there is pressure on him to keep his spot in the first grade team. I say pay him $400k x 2 years
 
vlad said:
Can’t remember where I heard or read it but it was something about the nrl not allowing him to play until his parole is finished which would be 2030 about 4 years after his pending release from jail.
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Mainuse’s management team from what I’m being told is working very very hard from behind the scenes to try make it possible to find ways for registration by next year or potentially 2027 - then if successfully registered they’ve made it clear to the club he’d like to earn a spot via a T&T.

Mario Tartak has an extremely close bond with Mainuse and has made it his personal mission to find ways to allow him to play with his brothers pending release.

Just what I’m being told - unsure how likely or even if the club are interested.
 
It's pretty hard to say at this stage that the team hasn't improved. Obviously the cattle is better but I think an honest assessment of the squad's quality at the start of the season would have pegged us round about where we are now: clear of spoon danger but just as far from finals. FWIW I have it on decent authority that the powers that be within the club weren't expecting finals this year - it was always down as a progress season and there will be more expectation next year.

What I keep coming across at the moment is the idea that NRL is not a game about your star players but about the mid-to-bottom level of the roster. The 17th best player on your roster is going to play even when everyone is fit and with injuries you're going to need to rely on players 20-30, a lot. As we've seen, when we can put close to our best 17 on the park we're pretty competitive. We fall in a heap when we need to use the bottom end of the roster - and we haven't even been particularly unlucky with injuries this year.

That's why I think a big focus of Richardson's was getting rid of the dead wood, and why I think we'll focus in this off-season on turning over more of the bottom 10-15 players. With KPP, Taylan May and Makasini, and - hopefully - a better year out of Pole there shouldn't be an obvious weakness in the first choice side. But we need proper, first-grade standard depth: better options to come in than Staines, Hope, Sukkar (who could improve but clearly isn't there yet), Fa'atape and so forth, and a bit more reliability out of the backup middles.

What this also means is that we're only going to become competitive in the long run when we are producing first-grade quality juniors, year in year out, as a matter of course. These players, 20-30 on the roster, are going to be on low salaries (especially when you're relying on the free agent market, and thus paying overs, for your stars). Yes, there are occasional diamonds that can be picked up from the discard pile - but it's not reliable.
 
Quick question I just thought of, with this hand gesture that supposedly offended the poor dogs supporters, you know how the gesture means to bugger off. Im wondering if the middle finger is broken, dislocated, twisted kind of out of whack or if it has real bad arthritis so it's all over the shop, would that count as a speech impediment.
 
2041 said:
It's pretty hard to say at this stage that the team hasn't improved. Obviously the cattle is better but I think an honest assessment of the squad's quality at the start of the season would have pegged us round about where we are now: clear of spoon danger but just as far from finals. FWIW I have it on decent authority that the powers that be within the club weren't expecting finals this year - it was always down as a progress season and there will be more expectation next year.

What I keep coming across at the moment is the idea that NRL is not a game about your star players but about the mid-to-bottom level of the roster. The 17th best player on your roster is going to play even when everyone is fit and with injuries you're going to need to rely on players 20-30, a lot. As we've seen, when we can put close to our best 17 on the park we're pretty competitive. We fall in a heap when we need to use the bottom end of the roster - and we haven't even been particularly unlucky with injuries this year.

That's why I think a big focus of Richardson's was getting rid of the dead wood, and why I think we'll focus in this off-season on turning over more of the bottom 10-15 players. With KPP, Taylan May and Makasini, and - hopefully - a better year out of Pole there shouldn't be an obvious weakness in the first choice side. But we need proper, first-grade standard depth: better options to come in than Staines, Hope, Sukkar (who could improve but clearly isn't there yet), Fa'atape and so forth, and a bit more reliability out of the backup middles.

What this also means is that we're only going to become competitive in the long run when we are producing first-grade quality juniors, year in year out, as a matter of course. These players, 20-30 on the roster, are going to be on low salaries (especially when you're relying on the free agent market, and thus paying overs, for your stars). Yes, there are occasional diamonds that can be picked up from the discard pile - but it's not reliable.
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And you will not have wishart, pezet, fualago type players in your 17 - 30 if you are not a successful club, with good development systems in place, it is a bit of a catch 22.
 
liltiger said:
This is my real worry. I'm hoping the consistent injury free gametime hopefully he's finding consistent form.
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Considering he's wants a third of Luai wage I think he has shown he has value. I think we have to keep him personally. Plus it would be good we have players that have been here for a while wanting to stay. His public announcements to Rucho shows he wants to stay. I'd keep him personally.
 
TheEnz said:
And you will not have wishart, pezet, fualago type players in your 17 - 30 if you are not a successful club, with good development systems in place, it is a bit of a catch 22.
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It's possible to develop good pathways and a production line of talent without being a destination club for established first graders, though. Penrith and Canberra are the most obvious examples, also the Warriors.
 
Modman said:
Considering he's wants a third of Luai wage I think he has shown he has value. I think we have to keep him personally. Plus it would be good we have players that have been here for a while wanting to stay. His public announcements to Rucho shows he wants to stay. I'd keep him personally.
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He's handy in that he can play anywhere in the backline and 13, just for the utility value I'd keep him.
 
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