Signings, Suggestions & Rumours Discussion

LukeyTuiaki said:
Of the 27 players signed to next year, I’d keep 16. Not sure the club can amnesty/cut/trade 10 professionals in one off-season. Regardless of everyone at the clubs best efforts, it will be another 5 years to clean up the playing roster and support it with depth below. Good luck to Rich, Benji and the team, turning this club around.
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Of our starting 13s from throughout the season realistically only 2-3 players would be starting for any other club. Api, Stef, and maybe Sam Fainu. No one else that we consider good enough to be a starter would get regular gametime elsewhere. At best they'd be Pauga type backups filling in.
The likes of klem, Twal, Papalii might be on the bench. Bula would still be in NSW Cup at most clubs, learning the role like Harry Grant. Most clubs wouldn't have thrown Galvin in yet, he'd be in Cup or maybe coming off the bench, but he wouldn't be thrown in the deep end.
 
jrtiger said:
we are in dire need of some speed and power in the backs and footballing IQ. Turuva and Luai help but we’re still at least two classy additions off being competitive, possibly more depending on Laulili’i’s development.
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Spot on.

We need to make it like buying a house... Yiu have certain criteria you want and you stick hard and fast to that bar an extrely exceptional circumstance
Big
Powerful
Fast (most crucial)
Don't settle for anything lass however in reality our shopping list is quite restricted in we can't afford to pick and choose... We're beggars and can't be choosy
 
Less than a week out from Origin teams being picked. I have received information that if Payne Haas decides to take off some time during Origin due to his personal situation, Madge will turn to big Taniela Paseka from Manly who is having a great year. Haumole also been in discussions with Madge in the past week. Mitch Barnett is another smokey who is being considered by the Blues
 
Odessa said:
Someone for next year

Braidon Burns
Mawene Hiroto
Raymond Vaega
Paul Alamoti
Daniel Tupou
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Tupou is close to re-signing with the Roosters so he won’t happen and I think Alamoti is at Panthers next year. Vargas is a maybe the other two I don’t know. I know Burns was decent the other night but him not playing first grade regularly is a concern.
 
jrtiger said:
we are in dire need of some speed and power in the backs and footballing IQ. Turuva and Luai help but we’re still at least two classy additions off being competitive, possibly more depending on Laulili’i’s
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Seriously if we have Olam, Turuva and Laulilli all in our 2-5 we will have to enter in the Dwarf Competition.
We might get away with 2 short players within our 2-5, definately not any more.
 
Vicious said:
Seriously if we have Olam, Turuva and Laulilli all in our 2-5 we will have to enter in the Dwarf Competition.
We might get away with 2 short players within our 2-5, definately not any more.
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I've been through this before. Penrith's full strength backline contains May, Tago, Turuva and To'o. none of them are above 184cm. there are ways to counteract taller wingers.

and furthermore, it's only going to be temporary. Makasini and Willett will likely make their way into first grade in due course and those two are towers. right now, if we can get 2/3 in regards to speed, power and height, I'll take it. Laulili'i and Turuva are also ten times more skilful than what we currently have playing first grade.
 
jadtiger said:
Naden should not be in our team again,his stupidity has cost us 2 games recently due to his poor discipline.Off load him during the off season he is a liability
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I agree he should be in KOE but I reckon it’s our attack that is costing us games. Even after the double sinbinning we had more than enough chances to win the game. Attack is our major problem at the moment.
 
lathami said:
lathami said:
I agree he should be in KOE but I reckon it’s our attack that is costing us games. Even after the double sinbinning we had more than enough chances to win the game. Attack is our major problem at the moment.
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I agree he should be in KOE but I reckon it’s our attack that is costing us games. Even after the double sinbinning we had more than enough chances to win the game. Attack is our major problem at the moment.
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Exactly right.
The frustration and stupidity only escalates from the frustration of constantly having such a boring predictable attack.
I’ve been saying for 2 years you need a good attack minded fullback and edge back rowers that run a hard fast line all day long to allow the halves to play.
In saying this the kicking game from our halves hasn’t been up the scratch either.
 
tigertuff said:
Penrith seem to cope alright. Their backs aren't really big.
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I see this a lot,
Doesn't seem to be much consideration given to Penriths game.

Easier to have smaller backs when you're mostly playing the game down one end,
And they can graze upfield for 20-30m untouched on the majority of the kick returns.

They do plenty of tough carries, Don't get me wrong....
But To'o and Turuva would struggle in our side atm if they were swapped.
Tito gets monstered plenty don't worry....
To'o not so much monstered,
But has plenty of deficiencies in his game that would be well exposed here.
 
tigertuff said:
Penrith seem to cope alright. Their backs aren't really big.
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At full strength both of the Panthers centres are wrecking balls who always run hard and tackle hard, plus have the ability play their wingers at the right time.
We have Olam who fits into this category, we desperately need someone capable on the right.
Comparing us the the Panthers makes no sense as they have good halves, good edge back rowers who run hard fast lines every time they play and have a fullback who adds an extra dimension to their attack.
We don’t have this and therefore need an aerial threat out wide to help compensate for what we lack.
Alaimalo showing signs of improvement, would be nice if our kicker could put the ball in the right areas to give him a chance.
 
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Vicious said:
Seriously if we have Olam, Turuva and Laulilli all in our 2-5 we will have to enter in the Dwarf Competition.
We might get away with 2 short players within our 2-5, definately not any more.
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I know you focus on negatives a lot but this is not an issue
 
Vicious said:
At full strength both of the Panthers centres are wrecking balls who always run hard and tackle hard, plus have the ability play their wingers at the right time.
We have Olam who fits into this category, we desperately need someone capable on the right.
Comparing us the the Panthers makes no sense as they have good halves, good edge back rowers who run hard fast lines every time they play and have a fullback who adds an extra dimension to their attack.
We don’t have this and therefore need an aerial threat out wide to help compensate for what we lack.
Alaimalo showing signs of improvement, would be nice if our kicker could put the ball in the right areas to give him a chance.
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Your original post was about us being dwarfs and not being big enough. Whilst I agree with you (sleepy and Dopey are already in the backline now), size is not always the deciding factor in getting wins. I'll take heart over size any day.
 
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innsaneink said:
Spot on.

We need to make it like buying a house... Yiu have certain criteria you want and you stick hard and fast to that bar an extrely exceptional circumstance
Big
Powerful
Fast (most crucial)
Don't settle for anything lass however in reality our shopping list is quite restricted in we can't afford to pick and choose... We're beggars and can't be choosy
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The most important 2 are intelligence and diligence.
 
Vicious said:
You don’t think rival teams will target us aerially if we have three of our 2-5 well under 6 foot tall ?
Turuva might play fullback and save it being an issue.
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Turuva is under 6 ft so Fullback comes with a risk for him if you’re basing it off our players not being 6 ft tall minimum.
 
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Vicious said:
You don’t think rival teams will target us aerially if we have three of our 2-5 well under 6 foot tall ?
Turuva might play fullback and save it being an issue.
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Turuva is good in the air. Staines is shit so it doesn't matter what his height is. I am certain that we will have someone in the juniors who is a good fit there. Alaimalo isn't short
 
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Glenji95 said:
Turuva is under 6 ft so Fullback comes with a risk for him if you’re basing it off our players not being 6 ft tall minimum.
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If Turuva plays fullback we improve as a side dramatically, but even he is not what you would call a classic ball playing fullback with a kicking game to assist the halves.
Someone mentioned it’s much better having shorter smaller players with plenty of heart, than taller bigger players with no heart and I agree with that comment 💯 but surely we can find a couple of big, tall & fast outside backs who also have half a brain and play with heart ?
Jeral Skelton, Sam Stonestreet, Grant Anderson, Blake Wilson just to name a few that can potentially fill a couple of pieces to our puzzle and not cost a lot to find out.
 
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