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if Bula does ask for 1 million, the club should say No
Fullback is the easiest position to replace
Fullback is the easiest position to replace
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1.25 for Luai
1 million from 2027 onwards for Bula
450k for Turuva
Total is 2.7 million
The salary cap becomes 12 million I believe in 2027, so those 3 players alone will be taking up almost 25% of our salary cap.
All 3 are good solid players, but they do not have the quality to be taking up almost 25% of our salary cap and allowing us to build a good enough team around them to challenge for a premiership.
So we can continue with mediocrity or do something about it.
1.25 for Luai
1 million from 2027 onwards for Bula
450k for Turuva
Total is 2.7 million
The salary cap becomes 12 million I believe in 2027, so those 3 players alone will be taking up almost 25% of our salary cap.
All 3 are good solid players, but they do not have the quality to be taking up almost 25% of our salary cap and allowing us to build a good enough team around them to challenge for a premiership.
So we can continue with mediocrity or do something about it.
1.25 for Luai
1 million from 2027 onwards for Bula
450k for Turuva
Total is 2.7 million
The salary cap becomes 12 million I believe in 2027, so those 3 players alone will be taking up almost 25% of our salary cap.
All 3 are good solid players, but they do not have the quality to be taking up almost 25% of our salary cap and allowing us to build a good enough team around them to challenge for a premiership.
So we can continue with mediocrity or do something about it.
Out of respect I didn’t even mention To’a, no other club would put him in their NRL team, not sure why we do ?This is week 1 of the offseason and some of you blokes are in peak form already with some of these takes ….
Gunna be a long one this offseason I think .,,
Why include Turuva as one of your three players ? $450k is chump change for an NRL player….what is Toa on ? Think Turuva gives better value…
Another one of your “opinion as facts “ commentary …Bula hasn’t signed an extension yet that I’m aware of
Out of respect I didn’t even mention To’a, no other club would put him in their NRL team, not sure why we do ?
Replace Doueihi with Cleary and let’s add Payne Haas and Yeo. Maybe get Kikau in the back row and get Reece Walsh for depth.Fantasy Football you reckon ?
What’s even more crazy is paying players well above the value they are capable of providing , continuing to have a slow, boring and predictable team that is zero chance of challenging for a premiership when there are top quality players available from 2027 that could replace them to provide the quality and x-factor required to become genuine premiership contenders.
When there are no middles available that are any better than what we already have, but there are high quality backs available, do you just sit on your hands and be content to be a team that might scrape into the top 8 if we are lucky, or do you make the hard recruitment and retention decisions to build a team that is capable of blowing any opposition team away ?
If we wanted to we could offer elite outside outside backs such as Farnworth, Nawaqanitawase and Purdue all 1 million dollars each per season and fit them all in our salary cap.
Ask yourself the question are we more chance of winning an NRL Premiership in 2027 or 2028 with our current t backline, or with a backline like this;
1. Jaxon Purdue
2 Mark Nawaqanitwase
3. Herbie Farnworth
4. Taylan May
5. Heanasi Makasini
6. Latu Fainu
7. Adam Doueihi
🤣🤣🤣Replace Doueihi with Cleary and let’s add Payne Haas and Yeo. Maybe get Kikau in the back row and get Reece Walsh for depth.
If an NRL club way outside the top 8 does not look at ways to dramatically improve their playing roster, they continue tn finish well outside the top 8.Replace Doueihi with Cleary and let’s add Payne Haas and Yeo. Maybe get Kikau in the back row and get Reece Walsh for depth.
If an NRL club way outside the top 8 does not look at ways to dramatically improve their playing roster, they continue tn finish well outside the top 8.
Is that a better solution ?
Correct that we don’t have the capacity to change much for 2026.They got three spots left for 2026 …so I don’t see dramatic change happening in respect to the playing roster …so if any improvement is happening it needs to be from the coaches and players already there ..
The club is gradually improving its roster which is working much better than the panic buys of previous years. Back row depth has been sorted and I’m sure Richo will find us a middle in the off season.If an NRL club way outside the top 8 does not look at ways to dramatically improve their playing roster, they continue tn finish well outside the top 8.
Is that a better solution ?
News flash, there are next to no middles available and unless we are offering Payne Haas 1.6 million per season, the vast majority of middles becoming available are not going to dramatically improve us.realistically we just need middles
The bacs are not even close to being good enough to win us a premiership.The club is gradually improving its roster which is working much better than the panic buys of previous years. Back row depth has been sorted and I’m sure Richo will find us a middle in the off season.
Fantasy signings are exactly that.
I think you need to watch more footy. Most of the games we lost had little to do with the outside backs.The bacs are not even close to being good enough to win us a premiership.
If you are happy with the club you support continually being happy with mediocrity then I wish you well, but doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results, you know what they say about that.
I'm sure a deal will be done but money aside, we look pedestrian in the backs without Bula. Not only is it his pace but also his ball playing as a second 5/8 that makes him such a fine player.if Bula does ask for 1 million, the club should say No
Fullback is the easiest position to replace
At the start of the season in 2005 the backline wasn’t good enough to win a premiership either. We are a dominant middle and a quality lock, as well as a couple of juniors jumping out of the woodwork like a Makasini and a boom second rower like Ethan Roberts, from competing for a title. Richo knows how to build a premiership squad. Good things are coming.The bacs are not even close to being good enough to win us a premiership.
If you are happy with the club you support continually being happy with mediocrity then I wish you well, but doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results, you know what they say about that.
some of our backs have won a premiership 🤣The bacs are not even close to being good enough to win us a premiership.
If you are happy with the club you support continually being happy with mediocrity then I wish you well, but doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results, you know what they say about that.
In a team containing star players where they could simply fill a role.some of our backs have won a premiership 🤣