Rabbitohs rumours, signings, injuries etc

[Rabbits20]

cook must stay at no9 no contest from here on .

Get rid of Farah......

 

[The Windsor Rabbit]

Get rid of Farah......

agree we need a good number 9. Bring back peats and dump the two duds we have now.

 

[southsport]

Get rid of Farah......

Maybe not if Souths have to subsidise it.

 

[Rabbits20]

agree we need a good number 9. Bring back peats and dump the two duds we have now.

Cook is a gun....

 

[Rabbits20]

Maybe not if Souths have to subsidise it.

True.........

 

[Galeforce]

Beale is OK , however do not see why we would be interested in signing him.
He is not a special dynamic winger in my mind , not a match winning winger, so why go after him , prefer someone special or our current Jennings/Burns/Campbell development options.

 

[Souths Till I Die]

Beale is OK , however do not see why we would be interested in signing him.
He is not a special dynamic winger in my mind , not a match winning winger, so why go after him , prefer someone special or our current Jennings/Burns/Campbell development options.

Don't think it's wise to have such little depth in the backs. Campbell is great don't get me wrong but he's only 18 and still makes a lot of bad defensive reads which hunt/gray have had to cover for the past 2 games. Beale is a solid winger that makes a lot of metres (something we seriously lack in our back 5) is a solid defender and finish just as good as AJ can. Chasing fancy wingers is ridiculous. You just need 2 that can do the job. I don't think burns and Jennings have showed enough to prove they're regular first graders yet. Plus Jennings is a centre not a winger.

 

[burgibigbash]

Beale is OK , however do not see why we would be interested in signing him.
He is not a special dynamic winger in my mind , not a match winning winger, so why go after him , prefer someone special or our current Jennings/Burns/Campbell development options.

I agree. The 18 year old should be kept where he is and not moved at this stage under any circumstance. Graham is an absolute bonus heading into next year and could be a real weapon in he air if Reynolds ever gets his kicking game back in order on a consistent basis.
Johnston is getting bigger and stronger and IMO has the ability to be a Darius Boyde type of fullback. He has the pace and game sense, just needs to polish up on his execution.
GI is a champion and will come back bigger stronger and fresher than he's ever been.
Jennings is a genuine 1st grade centre who would be further in his development only for injury. He has the goods
Gaiguy is a SOO Man of the series in one of the great teams in history.
Hunt is a solid first grade centre who has been a bit unlucky with injury.
There are a few outside backs in the 20s who with an off season with the senior squad will only get better.

I'd say we would be better spending the dough on a frontrower. Nathan Brown just admitted they were looking at a frontrower but it's not James Graham. I'd say they are going to sign Blair.
I'd be doing everything in my power to do a deal with the Dogs and grab Graham and try to offload Farah. I'm sure Graham could grab a third party deal and make the club an attractive option to see his career out.

 

[burgibigbash]

Don't think it's wise to have such little depth in the backs. Campbell is great don't get me wrong but he's only 18 and still makes a lot of bad defensive reads which hunt/gray have had to cover for the past 2 games. Beale is a solid winger that makes a lot of metres (something we seriously lack in our back 5) is a solid defender and finish just as good as AJ can. Chasing fancy wingers is ridiculous. You just need 2 that can do the job. I don't think burns and Jennings have showed enough to prove they're regular first graders yet. Plus Jennings is a centre not a winger.

The young Kid has made some great metres from dummy half and is a genuine keeper. Keep the kid where he is. I will be filthy if we were to sign Beale and put this kid back in the lower grades.
Jennings has done more than enough to prove he is a firstgrader . Injury is the only thing keeping him out of the mix. Burns is here for another year and does some nice things and has a genuine go. He is a not a bad depth player at this stage, but we haven't seen him in his preferred centre position yet.
Beale will be trying to get the best money deal possible at this stage of his career, so he wouldn't be coming cheap. Personally I don't think we should be buying anybody until we have a chat about fitting James Graham in the squad.
With the rise of the young backrow and the Burgi getting back to their best a bloke like James Graham in the mix would make us the most feared pack in the comp yet again.
Graham's workrate would free up Sam to play more footy instead of the carthorse.

 

[burgibigbash]

It's a really nice lineup. Tbh if hunt underperforms fui can slot in at centre and you can promote talakai to bench second row. There's a lot of options for flexibility there. Or you could bring in graham shift Gagai to centre and AJ to fullback. The reality is though that if we get a lot of injuries we're never gonna win the premiership.

Beale is my number 1 preference for recruitment. Paasi is 2nd. The best part is the fact that these guys aren't expensive players. If we don't recruit these players it'll mean that Clark/turner comes into the team and Graham is in the starting 17. Whilst I really rate graham I think another year in NYC may do him a world of good.

Passi had a good run of form for a couple of months last year but has been fairly ordinary since. Some players have a good run of form here and there and I reckon he is one of those players. I really hope the club aren't chasing him.

If the club is fairdinkum about winning the comp we should be on the phone to James Graham's manager and the Bulldogs to work a deal out. Graham would bring us well into top 4 status and premiership contenders.
Graham's chance of winning a premiership at the dogs appear to be finished , but I think we are on the verge of something big again . With fellow Englishmen The Burgi there then it is really a match made in heaven.

 

[rabbitohs95]

Beale is OK , however do not see why we would be interested in signing him.
He is not a special dynamic winger in my mind , not a match winning winger, so why go after him , prefer someone special or our current Jennings/Burns/Campbell development options.

Beale would be there just for depth for mine. He's a bloke who can play centre wing and fullback, the only other bloke that can do that is Gagai and GI although they'd be wastes on the wing.

 

[Travitoh]

I disagree about Graham, he's getting to the twilight of his career if he isn't there already and has had a few niggles this season. We're not 1 player away from a premiership tilt and we already have leaders in our forward pack so i fail to see what he would really bring.
It's the kind of signing we would've made 10 years ago but we are a better side/club now than we were back then.

I wouldn't be against having a go at Lichaa if we could offload Farah though. There isn't much else on the market and the change of scenery could do him a world of good. Also he'd be reasonably cheap and possibly on a short term deal so if he doesn't work out it'll be easy to part ways with him.
Worst case scenario - it inspires Cook to prove to the Dogs that he is the better dummyhalf.

 

[truthslayer]

Don't think it's wise to have such little depth in the backs. Campbell is great don't get me wrong but he's only 18 and still makes a lot of bad defensive reads which hunt/gray have had to cover for the past 2 games. Beale is a solid winger that makes a lot of metres (something we seriously lack in our back 5) is a solid defender and finish just as good as AJ can. Chasing fancy wingers is ridiculous. You just need 2 that can do the job. I don't think burns and Jennings have showed enough to prove they're regular first graders yet. Plus Jennings is a centre not a winger.

with Gagai coming we have a lot of depth in backs , fuiomono can slot in at center inglis fullback or center , campbell is a real find and talent and i dont think he made hardly any defensive errors last game plus prepared to take the ball up , leave him there! burns/jennings/hunt all backs , AJ as well as what do you mean no depth? .

 

[Souths Till I Die]

with Gagai coming we have a lot of depth in backs , fuiomono can slot in at center inglis fullback or center , campbell is a real find and talent and i dont think he made hardly any defensive errors last game plus prepared to take the ball up , leave him there! burns/jennings/hunt all backs , AJ as well as what do you mean no depth? .

Starting line up.

1. Gagai
2. AJ
3. Hunt
4. GI
5. Graham

Reserves. Burns(centre/winger). Jennings (centre)

We have 2 guys in reserves who can fill in if injuries hit. You can move fuimaono back but that would mean bringing another second rower into the squad that isn't as good as fui. Gagai, Graham and AJ are the only non injury prone backs that we have.
So there is a high possibility that Jennings and burns are gonna see a lot of game time next year if they're our only options. I would like to see Beale recruited as he is twice the player of both Burns and Jennings. He is also not expensive at all. Plus Jennings has proven to be quite injury prone early in his career. If I recall correctly he's already suffered a broken foot and a knee injury at Souths.

 

[Souths Till I Die]

Passi had a good run of form for a couple of months last year but has been fairly ordinary since. Some players have a good run of form here and there and I reckon he is one of those players. I really hope the club aren't chasing him.

If the club is fairdinkum about winning the comp we should be on the phone to James Graham's manager and the Bulldogs to work a deal out. Graham would bring us well into top 4 status and premiership contenders.
Graham's chance of winning a premiership at the dogs appear to be finished , but I think we are on the verge of something big again . With fellow Englishmen The Burgi there then it is really a match made in heaven.

I don't know if you look at statistics much but you're completely incorrect. Paasi is a machine when he is on the field. James Graham is on a million dollar contract and Souths are supposedly tight with the cap. How do you figure we can get James graham?

 

[Souths Till I Die]

The young Kid has made some great metres from dummy half and is a genuine keeper. Keep the kid where he is. I will be filthy if we were to sign Beale and put this kid back in the lower grades.
Jennings has done more than enough to prove he is a firstgrader . Injury is the only thing keeping him out of the mix. Burns is here for another year and does some nice things and has a genuine go. He is a not a bad depth player at this stage, but we haven't seen him in his preferred centre position yet.
Beale will be trying to get the best money deal possible at this stage of his career, so he wouldn't be coming cheap. Personally I don't think we should be buying anybody until we have a chat about fitting James Graham in the squad.
With the rise of the young backrow and the Burgi getting back to their best a bloke like James Graham in the mix would make us the most feared pack in the comp yet again.
Graham's workrate would free up Sam to play more footy instead of the carthorse.

Jennings and Burns have not proven to be regular first graders at all. They're getting better but the fact that they haven't been able to push their way into the squad with gray and hunt being injured for the majority of the season proves to me that Madge doesn't see them that way either.

Graham would still be playing NYC. I don't think he would be filthy at all. In fact it would probably be better for him considering he's only 18.

As for Beale being expensive that's just a load of shit. Beale is a solid first grader. He wouldn't be looking for more money than a player like Goodwin would be getting and with Goodwin leaving we can just offer him his money.

 

[Itsamansgame]

Jennings and Burns have not proven to be regular first graders at all. They're getting better but the fact that they haven't been able to push their way into the squad with gray and hunt being injured for the majority of the season proves to me that Madge doesn't see them that way either.

Graham would still be playing NYC. I don't think he would be filthy at all. In fact it would probably be better for him considering he's only 18.

As for Beale being expensive that's just a load of shit. Beale is a solid first grader. He wouldn't be looking for more money than a player like Goodwin would be getting and with Goodwin leaving we can just offer him his money.

Agreed regarding Burns and Jennings,signing Jesse Arthars bears testament to that.

 

[Souths Till I Die]

Agreed regarding Burns and Jennings,signing Jesse Arthars bears testament to that.

I'm curious to see how arthars goes though. He was obviously behind Scott who has proven to be a gun.

 

[handyman2190]

I don't know if you look at statistics much but you're completely incorrect. Paasi is a machine when he is on the field. James Graham is on a million dollar contract and Souths are supposedly tight with the cap. How do you figure we can get James graham?

We had 900k to offer maloney before we took it off the table so we must have at least a mill hopefully we figured out we needed a couple of backs and props instead of maloney

 

[Souths Till I Die]

We had 900k to offer maloney before we took it off the table so we must have at least a mill hopefully we figured out we needed a couple of backs and props instead of maloney

Sometimes Souths do some stupid stuff. Moving Cody out of 6 was top of that list. It really would be nice to have another prop or two. Someone needs to get Reynolds firing again.