Jason Ryles - Head coach of Parramatta from 2025

[Avenger]

Missing out on a player can also be attributed to incompetence.

 

[Poupou Escobar]

It was probably close to a 50/50 chance. Lets call it 45/55 (unless you'd like me to be more generous?). No need for hindsight gloating. Even the weatherman gets it right every now n then.

And if we'd gotten him it would've been for a fair price. The fact we didn't means another club offered more than what we thought was fair. Maybe they paid it all under the cap and maybe they didn't. If you believe the rugby league media, the trump card was his former high school footy coach. Precious memories lol

 

[Poupou Escobar]

Missing out on a player can also be attributed to incompetence.

What a load of shit. 16 clubs miss out on every player. 17 clubs if he leaves the NRL.

 

[Soren Lorenson]

My point is missing out on any player isn't due to poor management, it's just due to market forces. Poor management results in overpaying players, or more to the point, overpaying too many players, since most clubs have to overpay at least some of them or they wouldn't have a team.

I know, you tell us regularly and I happen to agree. The evidence is overwhelming.

 

[Avenger]

I know, you tell us regularly and I happen to agree. The evidence is overwhelming.

If you are so thrifty with your roster you end up overpaying for one player who could always get injured and have the rest of the side compromised of fringe first graders.

Hang on.

 

[85 Baby]

I know the NRL is different to other sports, but:

Joel Embiid
Barry Sanders
Megatron
Francesco Totti

All chose to stay with poor teams, even though they could literally pick wherever they wanted to play.

For the record - I don't ever think Tino would even join the Eels.

But stranger things have happened.

Wait…. This bloke?

 

[Cumberland Eel]

ffs he wasted his career at the Decepticons!!

 

[Eelementary]

Wait…. This bloke?

That's the one!

 

[Poupou Escobar]

If you are so thrifty with your roster you end up overpaying for one player who could always get injured and have the rest of the side compromised of fringe first graders.

Hang on.

We’re not just overpaying for one player. Dylan Brown is no longer worth what he is getting paid, and neither are Lane and Matterson. Penisini is also below his best.

 

[Lemon Squash]

ffs he wasted his career at the Decepticons!!

I bet MON hasn’t even spoken to Starscream!