Signings, Suggestions & Rumours Discussion
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GNR4LIFE
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The domino effect is huge. If they had gone in full strength and won, last round would have been a cracker.
tigahhh
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penrith’s always played by their own rules. i guess when you win 4 premierships you kinda can
GNR4LIFE
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Odd timing. You’d think they’d be more likely to rest players in the final round. No doubt Raiders and Storm will if they cement 1st and 2nd respectively.
tigahhh
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the bench… 😬 we need middles i hope richo sees it
Tito Santana
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It's ordinary as it gets.
2026? What are we thinking?
14. Mavrik Geyer [ backrow/centre utiltiy]
15. Alex Seyfarth [impact prop / hitman ]
16. Ethan Roberts [ prop / backrow utility ]
17. Royce Hunt [ impact prop ]
Heath Mason is even worse than those two. He's a fullback who can't catch
weststigers
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Possibly your greatest ever comment. This should be etched on the walls of the COE.
tigahhh
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they can do a job but we can’t have them week in week out.
you’d think KPP coming means Sione goes back to prop rotation off the bench & probably seyfarth too.
Charlie Murray while not being overly big, strong or fast, he’s hard working, a good solid defender who makes nearly all of his tackles and generally has no issue getting back to marker or in the defensive line,
In his limited game time against the Cowboys he also demonstrated he can play as a 1st receiver ball playing style of 13 very comfortable and it actually created more time and soace for Luai and our left edge to function effectively.
In addition to this he can play 9 and his service from dummy half looks decent.
I’m not saying he is anything special, but he looks capable of playing roles that are required off the bench and do them effectively.
For someone outside of our top 30 I think he’s doing well, he will get an opportunity to do a full pre season with us in the lead up to 2026 and has scope to improve quite a bit because of it.
You would like to think Heath Mason being named at 14 could spend some time at 9 giving Api a rest and he offers great utility value to cover for plenty of other positions if required.
He is still only 20 years old, he will also not be considered as part of our best 17 for 2026 at the moment, but he’s known as an extremely hard worker who I’m certain will relish the challenge of improving himself to at least put himself in contention for our top 17 and I think he will relish the opportunity to impress in likely playing positions such as 9 that he has not played previously.
Sukkar is still quite young at age 21, he will have benefited from his NRL experience this seaon and while he has not set the world on fire, he has good size and mobility for a young lad and I am seeing stronger ball carries and steady all round improvement from him. Like the other two he probably will not be considered part of our initial top 17 for 2026, but he now has a good taste of NRL, so it’s up to him to have a strong off season and improve enough to at least put himself in contention.
Royce Hunt is Royce Hunt, he will give us a strong 20mins and it’s up our other 2 bench middles to provide more minutes.
I can’t see us beating the Raiders this weekend, but I can’t be blaming our bench, they are not asking to each play very minimal game time.
In his limited game time against the Cowboys he also demonstrated he can play as a 1st receiver ball playing style of 13 very comfortable and it actually created more time and soace for Luai and our left edge to function effectively.
In addition to this he can play 9 and his service from dummy half looks decent.
I’m not saying he is anything special, but he looks capable of playing roles that are required off the bench and do them effectively.
For someone outside of our top 30 I think he’s doing well, he will get an opportunity to do a full pre season with us in the lead up to 2026 and has scope to improve quite a bit because of it.
You would like to think Heath Mason being named at 14 could spend some time at 9 giving Api a rest and he offers great utility value to cover for plenty of other positions if required.
He is still only 20 years old, he will also not be considered as part of our best 17 for 2026 at the moment, but he’s known as an extremely hard worker who I’m certain will relish the challenge of improving himself to at least put himself in contention for our top 17 and I think he will relish the opportunity to impress in likely playing positions such as 9 that he has not played previously.
Sukkar is still quite young at age 21, he will have benefited from his NRL experience this seaon and while he has not set the world on fire, he has good size and mobility for a young lad and I am seeing stronger ball carries and steady all round improvement from him. Like the other two he probably will not be considered part of our initial top 17 for 2026, but he now has a good taste of NRL, so it’s up to him to have a strong off season and improve enough to at least put himself in contention.
Royce Hunt is Royce Hunt, he will give us a strong 20mins and it’s up our other 2 bench middles to provide more minutes.
I can’t see us beating the Raiders this weekend, but I can’t be blaming our bench, they are not asking to each play very minimal game time.
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tiger05premier
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Our bench is disgusting
GNR4LIFE
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Will be a long afternoon.
tiger05premier
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Can't wait lol
GNR4LIFE
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Should at least put a score on the Titans the week after 🤷🏻♂️
king_sirro
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The fact most aren't seeing this is embarrassing. I agree with all of what you have said.
Murray carried the ball strong for his size the past 2 weeks and doesn't get driven back. He has shown a nice slight of hand with the ball creating some space for others, and makes his tackles. I seriously question those putting shit on him.
tiger05premier
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Can only hope
Put it this way, a player such as Lachlan Hubner at the Rabbitohs is similar in size and similar in playing style to Charlie Murray. He has been in their top 17 all season long and been a good contributor in some of their wins.
He probably has better impact than CM, but he does not have the same versatility or ball playing ability.
I don’t know on what planet people are living on expecting every player in any NRL teams top 17 to all be impactful star players.
If you don’t agree, have a good look through every teams top 17 and you will see at least one player in every line up that would not improve our team, but play an important role to plug the gaps off the bench for their team when required.
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tigahhh
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AOB lookin like he’ll be sacked too
Odessa
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He's solid does his job and not on big $$$ and low mistakes every club needs a player like him
