Rumoured and Confirmed Signings and even more Crap XXI

[Gronk]

There is a triple M tweet which repeats what Read said on radio last night. It said that Hoppa is on the outer at the eels.

 

[Barry O'Speedwagon]

That's true, i just think Simona is worth quite a deal more than Hoppa. Hoppa has failed at fullback this season which has probably dropped his asking price quite a bit. I reckon Simona would make quite a good fist at fullback if he was ever given the chance.

Absolutely.

 

[Poupou Escobar]

Obviously some other club is offering more.

 

[The Elephant In The room]

That's true, i just think Simona is worth quite a deal more than Hoppa. Hoppa has failed at fullback this season which has probably dropped his asking price quite a bit. I reckon Simona would make quite a good fist at fullback if he was ever given the chance.

I think most people thought Hoppa would make a good fullback too though. Until Simona plays a few games at FB it's all guess work.

 

[Poupou Escobar]

Hoppa won consecutive man-of-the-match awards playing fullback at Manly in 2011.

 

[Gronk]

Hoppa is a good finisher, but he is not a creative linebreaker that the good fullbacks (or centres for that matter) are.

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[strider]

Hoppa won consecutive man-of-the-match awards playing fullback at Manly in 2011.

And manly won the GF in 2011 - they're now sitting last

#shitChanges

 

[Bigfella]

If we get Simona it had better be to play f**king centre not fullback.

It's close to the most important position on the field.

No more hoping someone turns in to a good fullback.

Otherwise another season (at least) will be written off.

 

[Poupou Escobar]

And manly won the GF in 2011 - they're now sitting last

#shitChanges

Teams change for different reasons than do players. Hopoate is stronger and more experienced now. And I doubt he is any slower.

 

[Gronk]

Maybe Foran & Judas just made Hoppa look better than he really is ?

 

[Poupou Escobar]

Maybe our current team is making him look worse?

 

[Gronk]

Maybe our current team is making him look worse?

That may be the case about a winger or to a lesser extent centre. But not fullback. He failed there and the coach agrees.

 

[strider]

Teams change for different reasons than do players. Hopoate is stronger and more experienced now. And I doubt he is any slower.

its irrelevant that teams and players change for different reasons - they both still change

whatever!

#shitChanges

 

[Avenger]

Jackson Hastings leaving the Roosters. How does he go? Would he be a good replacement if Sandow turned down our offer?

 

[The Engineers Room]

From the first game with us he looked slow. People said it was because he was injured maybe that wasn't the case because he still looks slow. The touches Robinson had last week showed want a quick fullback can provide.

I don't know who is out there but I hope we let Hoppa go and go after a fast young fullback.

 

[Bigfella]

Maybe our current team is making him look worse?

Hayne must be better than we realised then.

And why did the current team make an average player in Reece Robinson look significantly better than Hopoate in one week?

 

[Poupou Escobar]

That may be the case about a winger or to a lesser extent centre. But not fullback. He failed there and the coach agrees.

Does he agree? He said that Hopoate has moved to strengthen our defence on Sandow's side.

 

[Gronk]

Does he agree? He said that Hopoate has moved to strengthen our defence on Sandow's side.

He's a people manager. Of course he would say that shifting Hoppa was to strengthen the edges. Far better than saying that Hoppa has been hooked.

Blind freddy knows that he was sacked however. The fullback experiment failed.

 

[Poupou Escobar]

Hayne must be better than we realised then.

And why did the current team make an average player in Reece Robinson look significantly better than Hopoate in one week?

What did Robinson do last week? Hopoate has been making huge metres as well as catching all but the hardest bombs. Robinson dropped one that landed on his chest. Hopoate also scored a great try against the Tigers when he beat three players.

I agree Robinson is a better attacking fullback than Hopoate (based on Robinson's form at Canberra) but he did f**k all last week. The conditions weren't right for a lightweight like Robinson.

 

[Poupou Escobar]

He's a people manager. Of course he would say that shifting Hoppa was to strengthen the edges. Far better than saying that Hoppa has been hooked.

Blind freddy knows that he was sacked however. The fullback experiment failed.

Well mate, you might trust Blind Freddy but I'll trust the coach thanks. Hopoate's move says more about Morgan than it does about Hopoate.