Rumoured Signings

[dogslife]

So what you're saying is you have 13 million dollars to spend?

Billion. With a B.

 

[Trifili13]

This joke doesn't really hit the mark this year.

We have lost JWH, Keary, Manu, Sualli, Sitilli and May from last year. B Smith is gone for next season and looks like Young too.

We have signed Chad Townsend and Reece Robson in that time.

Agree. But spot on the previous decade however.

 

[Canard]

I'm not sure young is on top dollar... $500k... Is that top dollar for a winger?

It's top dollar for someone of his abilities.

It's just poor recruitment overall.

Smith is all time bad though, a lazy showboating loudmouth he seemed the anti-Robinson

 

[yobbo84]

Roosters recruiting the past few years have been odd, like the ADHD implusive kid who just buys the first shiny toy they see without any thought behind why they want it

I hope they sign DCE and one of their young halves cracks it and pisses off and starts winning elsewhere

 

[yobbo84]

https://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/s...s/news-story/c41f5de8fb1c121bc2c10b74e2082e48

Speaking of... the Chooks definitely looking for a bail-out to fund DCE, dunno if I'd give it to them but it looks like we are.

We're not winning anything this year so let I'd have preferred we let Smith get fit under the Roosters dime and then once he has some form he can come over for 2026.

Alas.

 

[Wb1234]

https://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/s...s/news-story/c41f5de8fb1c121bc2c10b74e2082e48

Speaking of... the Chooks definitely looking for a bail-out to fund DCE, dunno if I'd give it to them but it looks like we are.

We're not winning anything this year so let I'd have preferred we let Smith get fit under the Roosters dime and then once he has some form he can come over for 2026.

Alas.

 

[yobbo84]

Thank you for quoting my post quoting Buzz Rothfield with a tweet quoting Buzz Rothfield.

 

[Valheru]

https://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/s...s/news-story/c41f5de8fb1c121bc2c10b74e2082e48

Speaking of... the Chooks definitely looking for a bail-out to fund DCE, dunno if I'd give it to them but it looks like we are.

We're not winning anything this year so let I'd have preferred we let Smith get fit under the Roosters dime and then once he has some form he can come over for 2026.

Alas.

We don't need anyone's help to fund DCE if indeed they choose to sign him. That's just the media making shit up.

And Smith going early makes absolutely no difference anyways given he is off the books for next season already which is when DCE would arrive.

 

[yobbo84]

We don't need anyone's help to fund DCE if indeed they choose to sign him. That's just the media making shit up.

And Smith going early makes absolutely no difference anyways given he is off the books for next season already which is when DCE would arrive.

It does make a difference if it means you use that money to front-load a few other guys (Whyte, etc) so you don't have to increase their salaries as much for 2026-27. You'd have the cap room for it this year too I would think for that sort of thing.

Regarding the salary cap in terms of pure ins-and-outs is way too basic.

My point anyway was "why should we help out the Roosters?", because if the shoe was on the other foot you'd (rightly) tell us to f** off.

 

[Vic Mackey]

Wow Easts are really clearing the decks

 

[Wb1234]

It does make a difference if it means you use that money to front-load a few other guys (Whyte, etc) so you don't have to increase their salaries as much for 2026-27. You'd have the cap room for it this year too I would think for that sort of thing.

Regarding the salary cap in terms of pure ins-and-outs is way too basic.

My point anyway was "why should we help out the Roosters?", because if the shoe was on the other foot you'd (rightly) tell us to f** off.

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You were spot on about them clearing the decks for dce

 

[Wb1234]

‘Failed move’: Roosters ‘buying to win a comp’ with $1m DCE deal ‘agreed’ but could lose young guns

‘Failed move’: Roosters ‘buying to win a comp’ with $1m DCE deal ‘agreed’ but could lose young guns

www.foxsports.com.au

Allegedly one year deal at chooks

 

[yobbo84]

Wow Easts are really clearing the decks

Odd timing with the Dave Fifita stuff too

 

[SirPies&Beers]

Roosters recruiting the past few years have been odd, like the ADHD implusive kid who just buys the first shiny toy they see without any thought behind why they want it

I hope they sign DCE and one of their young halves cracks it and pisses off and starts winning elsewhere

one of the kids will end up in perth playing for bears in 2027. wont be walker, probably not sandon either. likely savala who will be surplus.

 

[Wb1234]

one of the kids will end up in perth playing for bears in 2027. wont be walker, probably not sandon either. likely savala who will be surplus.

Anybody needing a half should be offering both of them deals when it’s allowed (dunno their contract lengths)

 

[Captain Apollo]

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You were spot on about them clearing the decks for dce

"Tip in"?! Considering players are paid progressively over the course of the year, I suspect that about what they would have paid him up until he goes. Bit of a long bow there.

 

[Wb1234]

"Tip in"?! Considering players are paid progressively over the course of the year, I suspect that about what they would have paid him up until he goes. Bit of a long bow there.

You are correct but maybe year two ?

 

[Captain Apollo]

one of the kids will end up in perth playing for bears in 2027. wont be walker, probably not sandon either. likely savala who will be surplus.

Toby Rodwell will be in the mix by then too. Kid was the player of the match in the SG Ball Grand Final on the weekend when he helped them win the GF in extra time against Parramatta. There are big wraps on him.

 

[chrisD]

The days of Brandon Smith being a notable football player are over.

 

[Captain Apollo]

Odd timing with the Dave Fifita stuff too

They won't go back for Fifita. He burned his bridges when he elected to stay at the Titans.