Signings, Suggestions & Rumours Discussion

[851]

Roosters going hard for Doueihi apparently. So glad we don’t have guys like Politis and Robinson running our club. They’ve clearly got no idea what talent is!

I think you are misrepresenting the views of many on here. I don't think anyone is suggesting that AD is not a talented young footballer. And most would be happy for him to join the club. The issue is the price. If it's true that he wants a four year deal and $600k next year, then many of us think that it's too much at this stage of his career.

so why do we see things differently to the Roosters? Why do they feel like he is worth talking to assuming he’s asking the same thing.


“Many of us think that it’s too much at this stage of his career”.

At what stage then would he be worth his asking price?
We lost Moses who thought he was worth $800k. We thought that was too much at his stage of his career. Eels thought they would encourage Moses to live up to his own expectations rather than putting him down.


Just my opinion , but it looks to me that Moses lived up to his own expectations, rather than the lower expectations of WT.

Yes he always had high opinion of his talents.
But no matter how good or bad he turns out to be ... he’s not a person I want anywhere near our club. Pretty much same tag I would pin on to guys like Matterson and Mitchell.

I rate Moses really highly as a player. I think he’s got a heap of talent. But as a person he’s a shocker. Tanking like he did for us is unforgivable. Such a poor display of character.

Moses is a dead set frontrunner. Looks like a diamond when his team are giving someone a flogging but he is a peaheart sook when things aren't going the best. He's a Kyrgios of the footy field.
Don't rate him much for that reason alone.

Fair point actually. He’s never really overcome adversity. Struggles to turn a game around when they’re on the back foot like the great ones can.

I agree, but the same could be said of Brooks.

 

[supercoach]

Raiders pulled a miracle off to get Jack Whighton back on the paddock so soon after his brush with the law...the Scott incident may not have the same happy ending

 

[Telltails]

And I guess that answers the question why no Sydney clubs went near Curtis Scott.

 

[Tiger5150]

Roosters going hard for Doueihi apparently. So glad we don’t have guys like Politis and Robinson running our club. They’ve clearly got no idea what talent is!

or.....they are from a club so brimming with talent that they can afford to fill a valuable spot with an expensive utility.

 

[Geo]

Roosters going hard for Doueihi apparently. So glad we don’t have guys like Politis and Robinson running our club. They’ve clearly got no idea what talent is!

Douehi will get the money he wants there, 350k contract, the rest topped up in the bag ?

They’ve lost Cronk and Mitchell. Pretty sure they can afford him without paper bags. Watch him go on and develop into a star.

Nah ...he’ll be the next Moltzen
ACL ✅
Thinks he’s a fullback ✅
Thinks he’s a 5/8 ✅
Dodged a bullet ?

They couldn’t be more different. Moltzen was a coward, that’s what his biggest issue was. No heart. Doueihi the complete opposite, he’s all heart. I think not signing him will turn out to be a mistake. He was more important than Leilua imo.

Your kidding yourself...anyone who plays NRL is no coward. I saw Moltzen make some unbelievable one on one tackles. Okay he was not the best no1 but he sure was not a coward

Kid played with a metal plate in his head...not a coward in my eyes either

 

[Tiger5150]

Roosters going hard for Doueihi apparently. So glad we don’t have guys like Politis and Robinson running our club. They’ve clearly got no idea what talent is!

Douehi will get the money he wants there, 350k contract, the rest topped up in the bag ?

They’ve lost Cronk and Mitchell. Pretty sure they can afford him without paper bags. Watch him go on and develop into a star.

Nah ...he’ll be the next Moltzen
ACL ✅
Thinks he’s a fullback ✅
Thinks he’s a 5/8 ✅
Dodged a bullet ?

I think he is more robust than Moltzen. he reminds me a LOT of Michael Withers. Big, fast(ish), nearly a fullback, nearly a 5/8, nearly a second rower, nearly worth having.

 

[twentyforty]

Raiders pulled a miracle off to get Jack Whighton back on the paddock so soon after his brush with the law...the Scott incident may not have the same happy ending

Just as well,looks like he could be playing centre?

 

[Curaeus]

Been following Rugby League since 1963. In that time I've seen a lot of players of greater or lesser ability but not one who could ever be described as any kind of coward.

 

[momo_amp_medo]

Roosters going hard for Doueihi apparently. So glad we don’t have guys like Politis and Robinson running our club. They’ve clearly got no idea what talent is!

I think you are misrepresenting the views of many on here. I don't think anyone is suggesting that AD is not a talented young footballer. And most would be happy for him to join the club. The issue is the price. If it's true that he wants a four year deal and $600k next year, then many of us think that it's too much at this stage of his career.

so why do we see things differently to the Roosters? Why do they feel like he is worth talking to assuming he’s asking the same thing.


“Many of us think that it’s too much at this stage of his career”.

At what stage then would he be worth his asking price?
We lost Moses who thought he was worth $800k. We thought that was too much at his stage of his career. Eels thought they would encourage Moses to live up to his own expectations rather than putting him down.


Just my opinion , but it looks to me that Moses lived up to his own expectations, rather than the lower expectations of WT.

Yes he always had high opinion of his talents.
But no matter how good or bad he turns out to be ... he’s not a person I want anywhere near our club. Pretty much same tag I would pin on to guys like Matterson and Mitchell.


There would be very few nrl players who don’t have high expectations of their own ability. If their club doesn’t see that as a quality worth fostering Then obviously there will be conflict. At the same time I can understand that coaches want coach able players.

It’s not his expectations that I have a problem with.
You Just need to wind back the clock and see how he acted during the lat few months he was with us. Unforgivable!


There has been a host of players tanking and behaving badly at various times during the last decade. I agree their behaviour was embarrassing and reflected poorly on those players. That unfortunately was a symptom of the culture being developed by the club at the time. I know it’s convenient for fans to lay blame on the departing players, but ultimately the responsibility for managing player behaviour lies at the feet of the clubs leadership, which begins at board level.

Wow OK so it was WT all the time. Great to hear that one. And you love the guy .... so that’s good.
Thanks for putting me on right path brother.

 

[Harvey]

The NRL is today dealing with another potential off-season scandal following the overnight arrest of Canberra Raiders’ star recruit Curtis Scott.

Club officials have yet to inform the NRL integrity unit that Scott was locked up in Sydney overnight following an incident with police after a boozy Australia Day celebration.

He is facing charges of resisting arrest after being approached by police in the Moore Park area.

Raiders coach Ricky Stuart was informed of the drama at 9.45am today.


Scott joined the Raiders after being granted an early release by Storm, two years before his contract expired.

It is a blow for the Raiders who released another centre Joey Leilua to the Wests Tigers over the weekend.

The former Melbourne Storm star has spent the long weekend in Sydney catching up with family and old mates.

He also had drama on Saturday night at the Clovelly Hotel where he was searched on the footpath outside the premises in a random police drug check.

He was found to have had nothing in his possession, according to his manager Sam Ayoub.

The Daily Telegraph is awaiting comment from the Raiders and NSW Police.

Only last week Scott spoke in a Fox Sports interview about why he enjoyed playing for a club outside of Sydney.

“(Signing with Canberra) was to stay out of the Sydney rat-race and the Sydney fishbowl,” he said, “It’s a good place to just concentrate on footy and at the moment, that’s the most important thing – apart from my family – that’s going on in my life,”

So let me get this straight, the tweet that went out yesterday morning regarding Scott was in relation to an incident on Sat which he was later cleared. Instead of taking caution, he has since been arrested for an entirely different situation?
Is he trying to get out of a bad contract with Canberra?

Night two, if it was as reported, was utter stupidity and might be the end of his career. You don't punch a cop and expect leniency.

But the reporting of the previous night is what irks me about the media.

Being randomly searched for drugs (presumably so were hundreds of others) and having nothing found is NOT "being involved in an incident". It is a deliberate choice of language to misrepresent what happened.

I am curious whether he was picked out by a dog? I know that they are not particularly accurate, but would be interesting for ASADA to turn up today & get a "random" test.

 

[mike]

Been following Rugby League since 1963. In that time I've seen a lot of players of greater or lesser ability but not one who could ever be described as any kind of coward.

Likewise. It’s a brave man that plays NRL. Not for the faint hearted.

 

[OzLuke]

JRey injured already......he has to be the worst signing ever

Careful, there are A LOT of people in contention for that prize here.
Ballin, McQueen (assuming injury was known, WHY !?), we got some kind of Value from Blair although his style never worked at the Tigers (if we had 2x Melbourne players it may have*). Anasta seemed to half retire, half put in.

Josh Reynolds, as a signing made good sense at the time. We had just lost 3 of the big 4 and looked to be bottom of the table for 4 seasons. Sure we should have spent hard for either Maloney or Cooper Cronk, but I could imagine Maloney going the same way as Reynolds. I doubt we would have gotten either of them with where the tigers are at now let alone then (in coaching Chaos). Had jRey not signed with us I don't know if other players would have signed for us. Hindsight, it was a bad decision. But that's hindsight.

*Blair getting 3 matches while Glen Stewart got 2x was wrong. Even though every Manly player ran in got 2x weeks, it was still unfair that Blair missed that final. Blair/Glen should have gotten like for like.

B Stewart ended up destroying his knee in that fight and missed the rest of the comp....

 

[OzLuke]

What did curtis do? Seen an article but I coudnt read it think it was smh

Canberra Raiders’ recruit Curtis Scott tasered after allegedly kicking & punching a police officer near SCG. He’s been charged with
2 x assault police officer
1 x resist arrest
2 x behaving in offensive manner
1 x remaining on Trust lands after request to leave via @9NewsSyd
https://twitter.com/em_partridge/status/1221587177764577280?s=19

grub should've spent more time in the cells.....

 

[Deleted member 3518]

The NRL is today dealing with another potential off-season scandal following the overnight arrest of Canberra Raiders’ star recruit Curtis Scott.

Club officials have yet to inform the NRL integrity unit that Scott was locked up in Sydney overnight following an incident with police after a boozy Australia Day celebration.

He is facing charges of resisting arrest after being approached by police in the Moore Park area.

Raiders coach Ricky Stuart was informed of the drama at 9.45am today.


Scott joined the Raiders after being granted an early release by Storm, two years before his contract expired.

It is a blow for the Raiders who released another centre Joey Leilua to the Wests Tigers over the weekend.

The former Melbourne Storm star has spent the long weekend in Sydney catching up with family and old mates.

He also had drama on Saturday night at the Clovelly Hotel where he was searched on the footpath outside the premises in a random police drug check.

He was found to have had nothing in his possession, according to his manager Sam Ayoub.

The Daily Telegraph is awaiting comment from the Raiders and NSW Police.

Only last week Scott spoke in a Fox Sports interview about why he enjoyed playing for a club outside of Sydney.

“(Signing with Canberra) was to stay out of the Sydney rat-race and the Sydney fishbowl,” he said, “It’s a good place to just concentrate on footy and at the moment, that’s the most important thing – apart from my family – that’s going on in my life,”

Allegedly his manager is lying . Just saying ...

 

[tony soprano]

Raiders pulled a miracle off to get Jack Whighton back on the paddock so soon after his brush with the law...the Scott incident may not have the same happy ending


Just as well,looks like he could be playing centre?

That sorrenson dude could play there, but still a big hole to fill Leilua and Scott

 

[tony soprano]

JRey injured already......he has to be the worst signing ever

Careful, there are A LOT of people in contention for that prize here.
Ballin, McQueen (assuming injury was known, WHY !?), we got some kind of Value from Blair although his style never worked at the Tigers (if we had 2x Melbourne players it may have*). Anasta seemed to half retire, half put in.

Josh Reynolds, as a signing made good sense at the time. We had just lost 3 of the big 4 and looked to be bottom of the table for 4 seasons. Sure we should have spent hard for either Maloney or Cooper Cronk, but I could imagine Maloney going the same way as Reynolds. I doubt we would have gotten either of them with where the tigers are at now let alone then (in coaching Chaos). Had jRey not signed with us I don't know if other players would have signed for us. Hindsight, it was a bad decision. But that's hindsight.

*Blair getting 3 matches while Glen Stewart got 2x was wrong. Even though every Manly player ran in got 2x weeks, it was still unfair that Blair missed that final. Blair/Glen should have gotten like for like.

B Stewart ended up destroying his knee in that fight and missed the rest of the comp....

Really never knew that

 

[yeahcaz]

If we are still after a fullback we should have a look at the Storm fullback (3rd in line) Nicho Hynes .. should plenty in his few games that he played last season.

Posted something similar on a tigers FB page a few weeks ago. Expects a bench spot for Melbourne this year but clearly wants to play fullback. Elite ball playing back and is in his last year of his contract.

 

[finnzo]

Melbourne are short on outside backs I’m sure he will get a decent run this year but it certainly doesn’t hurt to ask

 

[twentyforty]

Raiders pulled a miracle off to get Jack Whighton back on the paddock so soon after his brush with the law...the Scott incident may not have the same happy ending


Just as well,looks like he could be playing centre?

That sorrenson dude could play there, but still a big hole to fill Leilua and Scott

You’ve gotta wonder about Canberra’s judgement? I mean it’s hard to find perfect angels playing the game, but why did they think Scott would be a much better option than Joey?

 

[OzLuke]

JRey injured already......he has to be the worst signing ever

Careful, there are A LOT of people in contention for that prize here.
Ballin, McQueen (assuming injury was known, WHY !?), we got some kind of Value from Blair although his style never worked at the Tigers (if we had 2x Melbourne players it may have*). Anasta seemed to half retire, half put in.

Josh Reynolds, as a signing made good sense at the time. We had just lost 3 of the big 4 and looked to be bottom of the table for 4 seasons. Sure we should have spent hard for either Maloney or Cooper Cronk, but I could imagine Maloney going the same way as Reynolds. I doubt we would have gotten either of them with where the tigers are at now let alone then (in coaching Chaos). Had jRey not signed with us I don't know if other players would have signed for us. Hindsight, it was a bad decision. But that's hindsight.

*Blair getting 3 matches while Glen Stewart got 2x was wrong. Even though every Manly player ran in got 2x weeks, it was still unfair that Blair missed that final. Blair/Glen should have gotten like for like.

B Stewart ended up destroying his knee in that fight and missed the rest of the comp....

Really never knew that

Yeah you watch the fight and the first one in was B Stewart who flew over the top with the worst punch ever, missed everything and landed next to them. That was when he did it because he fell awkwardly