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With your guys ability to move on players it’s good for you blokes, but for us as a club we’d end up in another Dan Hunt situation if he doesn’t work out.
Well then our management should be doing everything in their power to get us the corporate cash that Easts, Brisbane and Melbourne have, if they can't accomplish this, then they should be sacked. If we can't compete with the big guns off the field, then we are always going to struggle to compete with them on the field. Illawarra juniors aren't going to win us premierships and if our juniors are any good then we have to pay them market value or we will lose them to other clubs.
I think Haas is a definite. Hunt was always lucky to be a bench player. Our management were shit stupid to sign Hunt to a big money long term contract. I certainly wouldn't have if I was our recruitment officer. At the same time B Morris and Nightingale were 2 of our highest paid players. I recall when dopey Doust resigned Morris, Nightingale and Hunt, that he referred to them as marquee signings. I couldn't believe it at the time. I still can't believe it. They were all on marquee money. What a monumental stuff up. Doust and Craig Young should have been sacked immediately after signing the above 3 mentioned players to big money contracts. Like as is there was much competition for Hunt's signature. As if there was much competition for Nightingale's signature. I recall reading that Nightingale was on 500K plus back then with representative bonuses. That was when the salary cap was over 35% less than it currently is too.
But Mary said he had the team he wanted.....so it’s still on him FF
Quality post. Its refreshing to hear someone that understands the reality.
So the correct answer is no SOO & no Kangaroos so a resume similar to Lafai
Stuck at the airport, he's been trying to fly over all year to sign his contract.
Do you really think no one wants to play with Widdop?
Flating with Rangi Chase, they both missed thier plane
Bring back Ashton, though he’s proberbly all hopped up on mayple syrup and Molson by now.
Signed a 4 year contract in ESL
At the start of the year, I said that I had us 4th pick, but I was not happy with Aitken, Lafai or Nightingale. I said that we needed the likes of Lomax and another youngster to be promoted and for them and Dufty to be success stories. We were probably over achieving at the start of the year and that got us fans into a false sense of reality. Aitken was being talked up as a State Of Origin representative. Winning was masking our deficiencies. Now reality has set in again.
The Dragons are doing great stuff in the off-season and the club always starts strongly. Only dissappoint is our last 10 weeks of the season are dicey year after year. I Hope the team can prove me wrong. Particularly our forwards with the brutal defence which put us ahead of most teams earlier this season.
Ha, this has piqued my interest too. When was the last time Bennett spoke in glowing terms about any player? I can't recall any.
Can't see it tbh. Gould likes to talk a lot about nothing whilst Bennett is reluctant to raise an eyebrow, let alone throw his two cents into the media circus. If anything, I see Bennett making a move to ESL. Just a hunch though.
Bennett recently said that he wasn't interested in going to the ESL.
