Every player has a value and to go from the bottom to the top of the NRL it is vital to ensure the players being paid big money are providing value for money.
Sure. But who with the available 900k or even 1mil could we sign to replace Bula?
Latu needs to earn his spot , AD to start season with Latu injury but Latu still for me has shown very little to be the half in nrl level team , he needs to earn it and by earn it I mean play great football in reserve grade and bring it to nrl level team, for me I’m still not sold yet
It’s like swapping like for like but I can see us getting more out of Brown than Bird. Not a big needle mover but I think Brown shows more aggression.
Brown was good for manly and plays a roll we don’t have anyone doing , Pole should be but isn’t , Bird become a passenger in our top 20 players so a swap is well and truly best for us , brown off the bench does add some punch and he can play Lock , back row , prop , it’s not a bad deal
Agree, he adds some mongrel to the pack and even though hes toward the end can still bend the line and offload. One more headache for the opposing defence and might spark big Royce to up his game. Win.
We were light on 2nd row last year and Bird as cover made sense, but we have added a fair bit to our 2nd row stocks. A middle in a swap does offer us more in 2026. Bird’s other coverage of centre is handled by Douehi.
Nobody will ever get to that level.
I like the idea of buying one more middle similar level to brown (ideally better) and allowing for a competition for a bench spot.
Bird wasnt big enuff for a 2nd rower,and too slow at centre
The biggest thing having aging players on the bench allows is for young players to push through and claim thier spot . Guys like Kit , and the prop we signed from the raiders along with really young players Like Tapau Moors or any other jersey flegg prop, can now push through in the hope they can supplant one of those 3 .
Hunt and Brown are both better than Seyfarth.
I’m just disappointed that Brown and Staines won’t be in the same team.
A running, leaping fullback ?
no one will say it because they’re too scarred by what transpired later in the game, but the best we looked all year was the first half against the Titans on the Gold Coast. I don’t need to tell you who the 7 was that night and how we fell off a cliff when he came off injured.
