Signings, Suggestions & Rumours Discussion

[Demps]

2026:

Jock Madden
Javon Andrews
Kai Pearce-Paul
Mavrik Geyer

 

[Jimmy Jazz]

Yep been there too...we had so many between dundas shamrocks and dundas valley vikings,training times had to be worked on between the two some years ...lucky union was sat and.league sundays

Yeah

Yep been there too...we had so many between dundas shamrocks and dundas valley vikings,training times had to be worked on between the two some years ...lucky union was sat and.league sundays

Good times. I'm up in the Hunter so the travelling was ridiculous the rugby comp was spread between Newcastle, Nelson Bay and Singleton,, the league from Belmont to Nelson Bay and up to Scone not unusual to go through a tank of petrol on a Saturday. Met some great people though and young blokes had a ball so it was well worth it. Ironically not one major injury for either one but after the youngest gave it away he took up snowboarding travelling to Canada and in his 2nd season did his medial and ACL crashing into a guard rail so a total knee reconstruction a week after he signed up to play rugby in Banff.

 

[hsvjones]

2026:

Jock Madden
Javon Andrews
Kai Pearce-Paul
Mavrik Geyer

Demps I also think Richo is building a nice pile of money for 1 or 2 good signings that pop out of the tree later in the year.

He does not overpay for players it seems so very happy to trust him.

 

[CWWTF]

2026:

Jock Madden
Javon Andrews
Kai Pearce-Paul
Mavrik Geyer

When you consider what is available and how it’s likely we haven’t paid overs for any of them, they aren’t bad signings mostly for depth & cap management, apart from KPP who is a genuine first grader. Let’s hope for a couple more established first graders and some news around who we are moving on (hopefully Bird and some others). I reckon Richo will be keeping some coin up his sleeve to see who falls out of the tree like Terrell May did last off season.

 

[balmain boy]

The obligatory highlight reel

Looks like he's scored more tries last year than Sukkar has in his life. A big body with some athleticism by the looks, a solid squaddie.
Wonder if we'll be releasing Bird

 

[coivtny]

Agree.

Interesting its only one year.

My memory ain't what it was but I think his old man played out of WA. Maybe that's the plan for 2027 and beyond.

 

[Tiger Tarl]

Finally got some crumbs re. Doueihi's contract talks. So Dragon's offer is still at $400k for 2 seasons (not $500k as some reported). Our Offer is now at $350k for 2 seasons. If Doueihi extends with us, then he doesn't have to pay Moses commission. If he goes with Dragons then he pays Moses 8% commission, which is $32k, ostensibly making his salary $368k per year at the Dragons. For the sake of $18k, I think he stays. Probably could get a third party to cover that anyway as a local junior... My only concern is if he gets offended by Richo refusing to budge on the price.

One more tidbit... APPARENTLY (still not 100% sold on their intel) Richo has cloistered $1M from next year's cap for a possible new signing. I did the maths (albeit using the Zero Tackle numbers and generous estimations of some player wages) and even including Sullivan, Doueihi and May on the books it brings us to around $10.5M spend for next year. And the NRL Salary Cap for 2026 is set at $11.5M. So it does add up. But who knows what dark arts (ie. frontloading, etc.) Richo may be doing. And it doesn't mean we have someone lined up, just that there's $1M ready if a big fish 'falls out of a tree.'

 

[liltiger]

Wonder what's going to happen with Hunt, if he pushes his way back onto the bench perminatly or if he never sees first grade again with us.

 

[SeanT]

When you consider what is available and how it’s likely we haven’t paid overs for any of them, they aren’t bad signings mostly for depth & cap management, apart from KPP who is a genuine first grader. Let’s hope for a couple more established first graders and some news around who we are moving on (hopefully Bird and some others). I reckon Richo will be keeping some coin up his sleeve to see who falls out of the tree like Terrell May did last off season.

100% go for Koloamatangi in November. Perfect lock. Plays big minutes. Makes 30 tackles and runs 150m a game. If Souths have a bad end to the year you never know.

 

[Westoz]

4 spots left now in the top 30

 

[Demps]

My memory ain't what it was but I think his old man played out of WA. Maybe that's the plan for 2027 and beyond.

He did.

Perhaps ey.

 

[Demps]

100% go for Koloamatangi in November. Perfect lock. Plays big minutes. Makes 30 tackles and runs 150m a game. If Souths have a bad end to the year you never know.

Keon is playing prop and said he doesn't want to play prop.

If he can get what he wants elsewhere, we should make the offer.

 

[CWWTF]

One more tidbit... APPARENTLY (still not 100% sold on their intel) Richo has cloistered $1M from next year's cap for a possible new signing. I did the maths (albeit using the Zero Tackle numbers and generous estimations of some player wages) and even including Sullivan, Doueihi and May on the books it brings us to around $10.5M spend for next year. And the NRL Salary Cap for 2026 is set at $11.5M. So it does add up. But who knows what dark arts (ie. frontloading, etc.) Richo may be doing. And it doesn't mean we have someone lined up, just that there's $1M ready if a big fish 'falls out of a tree.'

And who knows who else will be moved on. Hopefully some additional cap freed up for the dark arts you speak of or for the big fish!

 

[stephen]

My memory ain't what it was but I think his old man played out of WA. Maybe that's the plan for 2027 and beyond.

Bit of history repeating, maybe?
Might also be looking at a return to Panthers in future.

 

[bbobb]

I watched Mavrik closely when he played Wests in KOE. Had a weird feeling he could be on our radar - as an attacking threat he was quite difficult to handle, always made metres against us and defence was solid. I am thinking this may be a bit better than what peeps are expecting.

 

[mtd#2]

100% go for Koloamatangi in November. Perfect lock. Plays big minutes. Makes 30 tackles and runs 150m a game. If Souths have a bad end to the year you never know.

Imagine that. Terrell and Keon. Both origin players who won't get picked because they play for the tigers 😂

 

[Coastie_Tiger]

Guess that means Hasslett is off the table then.

 

[rihannafan1]

I watched Mavrik closely when he played Wests in KOE. Had a weird feeling he could be on our radar - as an attacking threat he was quite difficult to handle, always made metres against us and defence was solid. I am thinking this may be a bit better than what peeps are expecting.

He's a solid signing. Coming into his best years and Penrith have paid for most of his development. He's completely average but for depth it's the sort of player you hope to get and honestly, the sort of player we usually let go.

 

[TheEnz]

Agree.

Interesting its only one year.

I don't hate this, could be a handy first grade back up and fulltime KOE player. I'm guessing Jerome gave Benji the lowdown on him. We also would not have broken the bank, as I'm guessing it's a minimum contract and its one year because he probably wants to follow in his fathers footsteps and hook up with the Perth team in 2027.

 

[Jolls]

Mav was on my watch list as a potential earlier in the year. Pretty sure someone had "int" at the time that he was not a chance as he was about to be tied up in the Penrith system. He has plenty of up side and will push for a spot in FG ahead of Seyfarth/Sukkar.

I would not be surprised to see him on the pine come round 1.

It will all depend on his application over the off season.