Signings, Suggestions & Rumours Discussion

Demps said:
Manly lose a few backs to injury and go out, sign Aaron Schoupp....

We never really try and address our issues.
Rolling out career failures like Naden and Kepoa every week is so painful.

I hope they're telling Naden he needs to find a new deal elsewhere.
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I’m sure clubs will lining up down the block to sign a career failure.
 
Vicious said:
Retain Stefano has to be our priority. I know he’s a little bit inconsistent, but beasts like him with mobility and approaching the prime of their career are not easy to find.
Get rid of Bud and bring in Toby Sexton.
Not so much to do with Bud’s ability, more to do with our poor previous recruitment where we did not sign a natural halfback with a good level kicking game.
Get rid of Naden to bring in Jeral Skelton and Sam Stonestreet both wingers who have size, height, speed and tackle busting ability.
Upgrade Onitoni Large and Heamasi Makasini to top 30 contracts. Large as a centre or fullback option who could transition back into the halves down the track. Makasini as a block busting centre or winger.
Get rid of Bateman and two other top 30 forwards to recruit Jack Williams from the Sharks who always provides enthusiasm, leg speed and impact of the bench, also one or both of Billy Burns and Matt Doorey who are mobile tackle busting, line breaking back rowers.
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If Sexton is so good why is Drew Hutchison keeping him out of the 7?

If we move Sullivan, I don’t think we’ll replace him with another reserve grade half.
 
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Vicious said:
Alaimalo is improving all of the time.
I watched his first few games in NSW Cup and he was scared to catch a high ball and could not make a tackle to save his life.
He is now attack every high ball with confidence, making try saving tackles and his hit ups out of our danger zone are strong.
Charlie has unfortunately missed one on one tackles that are leading to tries too often this season, but if he can somehow fix that he has generally been very safe under the high ball and is our only player aside from Olam who regularly hits top speed with his hit ups.
Surely nobody can be blaming our wingers for our recent losses, but we do need more tackle busting line breaking ability from at least one of our wingers.
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Wingers are fundamentally finishers and require their inside men to create the opportunities . Throwing the ball to a winger and say make something happen is not good strategy. It works sometimes r but rarely.
Rather look for slick hands, draw and pass and get quick ball to the winger. It happens at sometime in most games but never with us. We seem to have inept inside men who struggle to throw a good pass or know how to set up their outside supports.
But I forgot, we have a coach who was so highly regarded as a player, could throw
bullet passes etc UNABLE to coach that into our backs.
 
Halbrowne61 said:
Wingers are fundamentally finishers and require their inside men to create the opportunities . Throwing the ball to a winger and say make something happen is not good strategy. It works sometimes r but rarely.
Rather look for slick hands, draw and pass and get quick ball to the winger. It happens at sometime in most games but never with us. We seem to have inept inside men who struggle to throw a good pass or know how to set up their outside supports.
But I forgot, we have a coach who was so highly regarded as a player, could throw
bullet passes etc UNABLE to coach that into our backs.
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To’o and Xavier Coates? Deine Mariner? The true modern day wingers are game changers. And they need to do some work.
 
Whilst we all argue about wingers and centres etc here's another question? Would there be any benefit in approaching Brad Arthurs for a consultancy for the remainder of the year ? The guy has 10 years coaching experience at 1st grade level, he has taken his sides further than any of our coaches over the same period and has recent experience in working out plays to exploit our considerable weaknesses and to minimise any strengths we may have. Knowing what other coaches seek to exploit and how they coach their sides against us may well be invaluable to our coaching panel. He would have an EXPLICIT role and made sure he would not be considered for the role should it become vacant so there's no need for him to white ant the existing structure.
 
TV Ted Ellery said:
Latu has played out of position and clearly has been hampered by his hamstring injury.

Once he overcomes the injury and he gets an opportunity in the halves, hopefully you'll see his promise. As a junior, he was a better prospect than Galvin.
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Yeah but that was as a junior.

Galvin is the man now.

Sam Fainu has been outstanding. Latu - not so much.
 
Nonotmeagain said:
Whilst we all argue about wingers and centres etc here's another question? Would there be any benefit in approaching Brad Arthurs for a consultancy for the remainder of the year ? The guy has 10 years coaching experience at 1st grade level, he has taken his sides further than any of our coaches over the same period and has recent experience in working out plays to exploit our considerable weaknesses and to minimise any strengths we may have. Knowing what other coaches seek to exploit and how they coach their sides against us may well be invaluable to our coaching panel. He would have an EXPLICIT role and made sure he would not be considered for the role should it become vacant so there's no need for him to white ant the existing structure.
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Do you think the board will talk to the Football department and Benji before getting Brad Arthur on board. :ROFLMAO:
 
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