Signings, Suggestions & Rumours Discussion

[Vicious]

A bloke that doesn't pass in the halves is an even worse outcome.

With the players we had in our backs for most of the 2026 season, even Nathan Cleary wouldn’t pass the ball to them.

 

[Buttface]

With the players we had in our backs for most of the 2026 season, even Nathan Cleary wouldn’t pass the ball to them.

May and Turuva say hello? 👋

Doobs is a hog.

 

[Vicious]

tago / dunster - nsw cup contracts
shuester - train and trial

What are the chances Izaac Tago ends up with us?
The Panthers are needing to create cap space for their big name players and I’m sure they would ideally like to offload Izaac’s 700k contract even if they contribute 100-200k towards it.
The sticking point would be we have Jake Averillo to play predominantly right centre, but it’s much better to have one too many in each position, rather than not enough.
I’ve also heard some player is trying to get out of a Perth Bears deal to sign with us.
Logically it could be Kit Laulilli, but I have a sneaky suspicion it could be Josh Curran?

 

[Merlot]

Why not both. 😎

you must be short of friends tonight

 

[Flippedy]

I swear thats the same news channel that said we signed Shaquelle O'Neill. The Betoota Advocate.

F…wits.

 

[Tigerscout]

W

Very disappointing WT11, I just saw his agent's Insta post announcing it.

I thought Mitch Taotua was one of few in our club's senior pathways who possessed the physical attributes, athletic ability & football skill to be a future NRL level player. I was hoping the club would extend him on a Dev or T&T but obviously the club didn't prioritise him as much as the Bears.

Our backrow depth will be looking slim if Sukkar goes as well.

coaching staff won’t stop until we let go of everyone we worked so hard to prepare for the league, looks like we need to add Sukkar to the lineup of players we let go

Between Tedesco, addo Carr, stefano and Moses, that lineup would probably win the league

we have had players like Sukkar, sakuru and Heath in our junior systems since they bought their first pair of cleats and now that they are playing rep footy and earning their stripes our coaching staff feels the need to start fresh with players who use our club as a stepping stone to gain bigger club notoriety

Save our juniors, don’t let them go

We need to cultivate our pathways and support our boys that showed us loyalty

 

[tiger_one]

There's some eerie similarities between these two situations

Latrell Mitchell:

Won the Grand Final with the Roosters in October 2019

The Roosters pulled a $800K, two-year deal for Latrell

He moved to Souths for the 2020 season

Sam Walker:

Won the Grand Final with the Roosters in October 2026

The Roosters pulled a $1.2M per year deal for Walker

Potentially played his last game for the club.

 

[Tigerscout]

Agreed, we are going to throw him away for no reason, it’s not like the team they plan on fielding are doing any better

Would be disappointing to not resign Tony Sukar now he is starting to show something. Definitely now nrl standard depth.

 

[Vicious]

W

coaching staff won’t stop until we let go of everyone we worked so hard to prepare for the league, looks like we need to add Sukkar to the lineup of players we let go

Between Tedesco, addo Carr, stefano and Moses, that lineup would probably win the league

we have had players like Sukkar, sakuru and Heath in our junior systems since they bought their first pair of cleats and now that they are playing rep footy and earning their stripes our coaching staff feels the need to start fresh with players who use our club as a stepping stone to gain bigger club notoriety

Save our juniors, don’t let them go

We need to cultivate our pathways and support our boys that showed us loyalty

I 💯 agree with this.
I think we have far too many fans who under estimate the importance of developing a reasonable amount of our local juniors, particularly ones such as these 2 who we no doubt put on top 30 contracts a little before they were really ready for it, but now have good NSW Cup and NRL experience which will likely see them improve in leaps and bounds over the next couple of years.
I think the 2 contract negotiations are quite different with Sukkar likely wanting well above the minimum contract value to be comparative with what he could get in the UK Super League, where I’d say Heath simply wants a minimum top 30 deal where we are more leaning towards a Train and Trial deal for him.
Edge back row is no doubt an area where we are again very thin in quality of depth, which will only become worse if we do not re-sign Sukkar.

 

[Merlot]

I 💯 agree with this.
I think we have far too many fans who under estimate the importance of developing a reasonable amount of our local juniors, particularly ones such as these 2 who we no doubt put on top 30 contracts a little before they were really ready for it, but now have good NSW Cup and NRL experience which will likely see them improve in leaps and bounds over the next couple of years.
I think the 2 contract negotiations are quite different with Sukkar likely wanting well above the minimum contract value to be comparatively what he could get in the UK Super League, where I’d say Heath simply wants a minimum top 30 deal where we are more leaning towards a Train and Trial deal for him.
Edge back row is no doubt an area where we are again very think in quality of depth, which will only become worse if we do not re-sign Sukkar.

All very romantic and the latest buzz words - is - keep n edumacate your juniors
Need very shrewd operators for all the cards to fall into place