@jirskyr haha you guessed it man, work uni gf…no time for videos

Stop complaining…

We aren’t linked to anyone at the moment…Nothing to talk about except fantasy…

1. Nick Meaney (Signs with us over rep weekend)

2. Kane Bradley

3. Moses Mbye

4. Esan Marsters

5. David Nofoaluma

6. Benji Marshall

7. Luke Brooks

8. Ben Matulino

9. Robbie Farah

10. Alex Twal

11. Ryan Matterson

12. Chris Lawrence

13. Josh Aloiai

14. Michael Chee kam

15. Thomas Mikhaele

16. Jacob Liddle

17. Matt Eisenhuth/Oliver Clarke

Wasn’t Marsters’ cousin a young and upcoming fullback?

Hows he going?

@boonboon 100% agree, but we won’t be getting one before June 30, so a specialist fullback is our next best option.

I think we are in a position where we urgently need a fullback, so this might be a blessing.

Unless we can offload Packer or ET before June 30, I do not think we should be outsourcing any forwards.

Theres a number of fullbacks who are not getting a run at the moment and may come good…Brad Abbey, Tristan Sailor, Bevan French, etc.

We may even be able to get a swap going with Sailor and Packer…obviously we need Dragons to top up Packers contract but they may be willing to let Sailor go to have an extra experienced forward…

Yes they aren’t game breakers, but they’re all better than what we have at the moment…

@851 said in NRL Round 14 *Spoilers:

Hope you are enjoying yourself DWZ, there is way more to come

Thank god we missed out on him…Terrible in defence

DWZ poor positioning in defence on that try…

Straight player swap with Sharks?

Woods for Packer…

Thoughts?

@jirskyr said in Signing Suggestions & Rumours:

@Milky said in Signing Suggestions & Rumours:

Will Pascoe be held accountable for our salary cap position too?

We had every player off contract last year, Clearly was able to splash big money at nuffie players.

In that time, we missed out on names like Klemmer, Napa, Pearce, Ponga, Gagai, Roberts, etc.

I don’t want to hear, ‘how are we going to attract big name players?’. If Knights and Dogs can do it, so can we.

We even missed out on keeping Papahyuzen because we had Tedesco…both were off contract at the same time. If you’re going to set an ultimatum for Tedesco, keep the best young fullback in the game…

We constantly sign left overs, Mbye was a dud at the Dogs. There is a reason they let him go.

I’m afraid we now have to wait until 2021, when all the big names come off contract to sign more dud players on large wages.

DWZ was snapped up by the dogs, Christian Welch probably will be too…Two players that could have had a big impact on our roster.

I’m sorry but this is wrong on very many levels. “We missed out” assumes we were trying to sign or available to sign certain players. For example, Pearce signed with Knights only after Roosters released him after signing Cronk. We had already signed Reynolds months prior because we could not afford to wait for Cronk to make up his mind. Klemmer expressly signed with a non-Sydney club for family reasons - how are we gonna sign the bloke to leave Canterbury and move 10 minutes down the road to Concord?

Yes Paps was released because of Tedesco, but your logic does not follow. You can’t keep on an emerging young talent for significant $$$ just in case your superstar FB leaves the club. What if Tedesco doesn’t leave and now you have 2 first-grade level FBs tying up a bunch of your money? Paps signed with Melbourne in March 2017 and Tedesco left in May 2017 - big gap in football terms, especially when you have to remember that JT got fired and Cleary signed BETWEEN those two signings.

Ponga?!?!? The dude signed with Knights in 2016 and Tedesco still had a year to run. No way would you be outlaying money for Ponga when, at the time, you had Tedesco, Brooks and Moses all locked in 1, 6, 7.

Roberts signed by Broncos in December 2015, I fail to see how that has anything to do with Cleary or this conversation.

So blokes like Pearce, Ponga, Klemmer, they aren’t taking 650K deals like the “nuffies” that we signed. Ponga might be on that right now but his next deal is $1M easily.

You have missed the point completely. ‘Missed out’ means you didn’t sign them, regardless of whether we attempted, we should have.

Patience prevails, we should have waited just the way Knights waited. We signed a bloke who has played no more than 10 games in his time at the club on 750k. We tied up 750k on a player we did not even need. We could have persisted with Brooks and Marshall, as we currently are, until a better halfback hits the matker.

Sure, we missed Klemmer because he wanted to make a move for his family, why didn’t we approach Napa? Obviously he was on the outer at the Roosters…

Re Papahyuzen: We set an ultimatum for Tedesco at the time. Take it or leave it. We did that with no intention of locking up the best young fullback in the game at the time. The people on the inside know much more than we do, and im certain there would have been a strong indiciation he was leaving prior to him actually leaving.