Signings, Suggestions & Rumours Discussion

Vicious said:
Until we find more players who are willing to demonstrate good defensive line speed and hit hard, we are going to continue to continue to leak points too easily.
I can’t see it being an easy fix as most of our forwards are passive defenders, none of them hit hard very often.
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And therein is our problem, at the end of the game our smaller forwards got buried by the NQL big pack all our energy was gone.
 
Dennisspicer1 said:
And therein is our problem, at the end of the game our smaller forwards got buried by the NQL big pack all our energy was gone.
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The Eels starting forward pack and bench last night was much smaller than ours today, so extra size alone is not the answer.
You need players with aggression and a strong desire for collision, the Eels have a few of them with the likes of Hopgood, Jack Williams etc. Who in our current forwards pack really wants to get off the line fast and whack our opposition ? Really only the Fainu boys on occasions and when he’s angry Alex Seyfarth.
 
hsvjones said:
I would love the club to announce the extensions of May x 2 and Bula.

These guys are what you build a club around and should not let other clubs poach when we are on our way up.
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is Bula really special ,im starting to doubt he is nothing but solid ,
 
hsvjones said:
100% he is and will be a superstar in a few years IMO

He is a must and would love a 4-year deal signed
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wow , they (club ) have really persisted in a passive education with him ,1 year in Reggies ,watching , not participating at all - stand there and watch how the game unfolds . 3 years on ,a few injuries out ,think its time for him to mature
 
BBTF said:
I think its more because we are gassed. Most of our forwards play large minutes. Compared to most clubs who share say 4 props playing roughly 40 minutes each. Wea re overworking ours. We are easily 2-3 forwards short.

Without being negative, we had a good year injury wise (compared to every other side outside the 8). If we had a few injuries we would be really stretched, particularly forward wise.
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100%

Imagine if May went down instead of Pole? We would have been done.
Even then Pole going down was when our season hit a real rough patch.

Were definately down forwards. We lost Stef, Klem, Bateman and Papalii... The fact that May has replaced all 4 is incredible.
 
Vicious said:
The Eels starting forward pack and bench last night was much smaller than ours today, so extra size alone is not the answer.
You need players with aggression and a strong desire for collision, the Eels have a few of them with the likes of Hopgood, Jack Williams etc. Who in our current forwards pack really wants to get off the line fast and whack our opposition ? Really only the Fainu boys on occasions and when he’s angry Alex Seyfarth.
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Been saying the same thing- we lack that guy who tries to turn the momentum for us- a big hit, line speed, not getting bullied etc.


You know who I'd recommend anyway.
 
crazycat said:
100%

Imagine if May went down instead of Pole? We would have been done.
Even then Pole going down was when our season hit a real rough patch.

Were definately down forwards. We lost Stef, Klem, Bateman and Papalii... The fact that May has replaced all 4 is incredible.
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May - Terrell going down , may just lift the rest of the pack instead of just watching him do it. Sarcasm is a form of wit, and so on
 
I think today showed we’re only a 2-3 decent signings away from being a genuine top 8 side. We seem to have the fight in us now and it’s pretty incredible to see the improvements guys like Luai, Turuva and the May brothers have brought to us this year.

We just need to get that last bit of grunt and class to help finish the job.

We’ve got too many players who are at the bottom of the 30/cup players in the 17 consistently. We’re one major injury away in certain positions to our season derailing with us depending on guys who try, but just aren’t there yet.

Our top 22-23 players need to be just little bit better quality, but it’s almost as if we go into the season with a top 17 and the players below that are either too green, signed on potential, inconsistent or pretty spent.

I’d be looking at a couple of players who might not be in the long term plans anymore at other clubs but could add something huge for us.

Imagine if we could land NAS, Leniu & Talakai and release Hunt and Bird.

Our forward rotation is instantly pretty scary. A couple of short burst forwards to give our big minute forwards a breather (which I think they need more of).

Latu off the bench into lock or hooker for a while to give Api a spell or increase our attack. Terrell is playing like a centre-field lock at the moment.

Imagine a pack of:
8. Sione Fainu
9. Api
10. Twal
11. Samuela Fainu
12. KPP
13. Terrell May

14. Latu Fainu
15. Leniu
16. NAS
17. Talakai (2RW/CENTRE)
18. Pole
19. Seyfarth

One of Twal, Sione Fainu or Pole would become a depth squad member and a much more reliable backup that doesn’t lose much.

And for the love of god can we spend the off-season working on our inside 20m attack.
 
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