Signings, Suggestions & Rumours Discussion

[pawsandclaws1]

Manly are trying to shed players, their cap is under pressure.

Under pressure because they want to re-sign a player or two? We should be looking at the player(s) they want to re-sign using Fogarty's contract money.

 

[Leck]

I don’t believe I made positive comments on the other three.

There is a lack of decent half backs in the game. Fogarty is one. Would enable whoever our six is to play accordingly and spread the ball wide.

Fogarty is 32. Still should have some miles in his legs. If it forces out AD so be it.

At this stage, I think dumping Adam’s contract would be a mistake. We need depth, even though Adams manager, Isaac Moses, has proven to be a cancer to the game. Fogarty, in my opinion, is not the answer.

 

[king_sirro]

Is Manly feeling the damage of too many Isaac Moses clients again?

I’d take Fogarty, Paseka and Nathan Brown with Manly chipping in ATLEAST half of their wages.

Oh thank God you arent in recruitment. You have no idea

 

[balmain boy]

Adam's game impact metric is +5.90, compared to Jamal's +5.00. Adam has the added advantage of being able to cover multiple positions, which Jamal can't.

Adam's biggest liability is his body. He's extremely injury-prone. Jamal's biggest liability is his age, he'll be 33 next year.

Adam cannot cover positions. He can only play one position and that's 5/8. He cannot play centre or fullback. He can't play halfback. He won't play in the forwards.

He's a selfish player, that makes everyone around him worse. He has some individual skills but his body and his attitude is appalling. Ultimately he's a toxic player and needs to be released ASAP.

 

[Rock Hopper Steve]

Under pressure because they want to re-sign a player or two? We should be looking at the player(s) they want to re-sign using Fogarty's contract money.

That would be ideal if you could prise them away and they are a good fit, I'm not all over their roster but think their guns are locked away long term.

 

[Ecto-1]

She's just at the start of her career. She's another 15 years from retirement.... 😂😂😂

Same could have been said for Ash Barty. Being a parent is a powerful motivator. How many NRLW players have stopped playing to have a kid then come back.

 

[balmain boy]

We are also short of players with genuine tackle break and line break ability.
We are one of the worst, if not the worst team in the NRL in that area .
AD is close to our best tackle breaker and line breaker, so who is going to make the tackle breaks and line breaks if we get rid of him?
Even if you have Nathan Cleary in your team, he cannot do much to help if the team is very limited in way of tackle break and line break ability.

This is why we can't sign Murray, Mason and Sukkar. None of them can break a tackle. We already have players at 29 and 30 like Herbert and Roberts who can't break tackles and are on minimum. If we suddenly have 7-8 players on minimum who offer no value or versatility to an NRL side then we're effectively playing with a top 22 and a heap of NSW cup players

 

[cktiger]

This might be a fair observation if he had only started playing selfish footy on his current contract. A few years back he was reportedly on about $650k and still playing the same selfish footy.

If I had to make up a reason why (other than him being a selfish player generally), I'd say it comes back to his high school days. He is one of the few regular first graders that didn't come through one of the top school programs. He didn't have the quality around him that most did, so he often would have had to go himself. This play has been ingrained in him to the point we still see it today (though I think more likely just a selfish footballer, rather than anything to do with junior days).

He played rugby union in high school for St Patrick’s Strathfield.

 

[Tito Santana]

Oh thank God you arent in recruitment. You have no idea

Ok. Would you go after anyone over there?

 

[Cultured_Bogan]

So we made an offer and got rejected in less than a week? It’s that or we were anti tampering.

Or a journo had a slow news day and knows that WTs parent owns an ALW franchise.