Rumours and Stuff

[Poupou Escobar]

That was 4 f**king years ago, his performance since the off season of 2021 has been horrific. Keep your head up Mon's datehole it's the only way you can't see what a shit job he's been doing.

Four years ago? I wonder how he became so shit at his job.

 

[Poupou Escobar]

Genuine question to those that know more than me about the inner workings. Isn't our recruitement manager Ben Rogers? Is he responsible for all of our recriutement & constant misses or is that soley the domain of MON as football manager? I feel like Rogers gets a free ride around here, when surely he's as culpable as anyone for our current predicamant and unbalanced squad.

Nobody here knows the individual responsibilities of the people inside the club. The only reason we would want to is so we can make scapegoats of merkins. The fact is clubs succeed or fail as a whole.

 

[Poupou Escobar]

If this is the case the Eels Football club needs to come out in the media and say so because we presently look like a club of simps that no good player will go to. If the club does not come out and say it (something like "we did not offer close to $900k") I am going to assume it is true and he is another player that will not play for us for any amount.

Never assume any of these figures are true. They all might be but I doubt it. Why would they? Rugby league journos sell outrage and resentment, not facts.

 

[Poupou Escobar]

Except we offered an older forward almost 900k.

I doubt it.

 

[The Predictor]

So we missed out on Barnett. Probably for the best but MON couldn’t score a root in a monkey brothel with a bag full of bananas

Monkey brothel ? 🫤 I’m pretty sure most people wouldn’t not find a monkey brothel very appealing, but hey no judgement here

 

[Poupou Escobar]

Anyone who is happy with our roster is nuts. If you compare it to other rosters like Storm, Brisbane, Panthers, Rooster etc...it is way off the pace. Even the Knights roster is quite a bit better than ours. We may be last - although I would need to look at the Dragons, Tigers and Titans roster to commit to this.

You need to assess us against all rosters to even know if we are above or below average.

 

[The Predictor]

Rigers has the tithe if List Manager, and was praised by MON for his work, they have known each other for a while it seems. Not sure what list he manages, believe it’s NRL, what a friggin joke, a list with limited backs, that’s his contribution, but who knows as doesn’t look like scouting is up there

Nursing home list I believe

 

[Poupou Escobar]

We should have sponsors bashing down the door to be involved so we can offer the big players extra outside the cap like Broncos do.

That would be illegal.

 

[Poupou Escobar]

So the good enough players aren’t good enough?

We want scapegoats ffs. We can’t blame the players we don’t have so we will blame the ‘good enough’ players we do have. That’s until we can figure out who’s to blame for the players we don’t have. As a Tigers fan, your money would have to be on MON.

 

[Stevie]

Seriously. Can we just pick the best squad clubs and throw silly money to land a couple of top f**king players? Is it really that hard? 1 outside back, 1 great prop. I don’t care if we over pay 200-250 a year. Surely there are loads of players who we can be snaky with. Clubs are apparently alway juggling their roster.

Dogs have multiple great centres. Xerri?
Penrith have HOW many top outside backs who stroll into our team and make us better. McLean? Doubtful but why not. Offer him stupid money he is the next Crighton.

Dolphins have HOW many backs? Isaako? Bostock?

Raiders? Roosters?

I’m willing to take the job on. Call me please Parramatta. I’ll get it done. I did a $76mil close yesterday over 2 years. And dealing with player managers has to be easier than dealing with private equity wankers.

 

[Captain Apollo]

Who are the Broncos trading to the Warriors?

I’m going to go with….. nobody.

Warriors can’t enforce it as it was a compassionate grounds release.

You are in error. Cameron george, CEO of the Warriors gave an interview a couple of weeks back (around the time the news broke about Barnett's release IIRC) an daid the Warriors would expect some form of compensation, be it a transfer fee or a player swap.

 

[T-Boon]

You need to assess us against all rosters to even know if we are above or below average.

I have done that and we are in the bottom 3.

 

[85 Baby]

They have finished ahead of us once in seven years. Is seven years too short or insufficiently recent for your analysis? What’s a better period for comparing the two clubs? Don’t say one off season. You know that’s an indefensible statement.

I think 7 years is more the limit and more weight should be on recent years and that there’s very little difference between finishing between roughly 10th and 16th. I’m not suggesting that Dragons are better performing than us but unequivocally saying they are worse performing is also indefensible.

 

[gaffer]

Who are the Broncos trading to the Warriors?

pezet

 

[senior]

Is MON even under pressure? Who is his boss

One of the worst recruitment managers I’ve ever seen in any sport

 

[LyonHeart]

You are in error. Cameron george, CEO of the Warriors gave an interview a couple of weeks back (around the time the news broke about Barnett's release IIRC) an daid the Warriors would expect some form of compensation, be it a transfer fee or a player swap.

This might be an opportunity for Broncos to offload Pezet before he arrives

 

[Jake the snake]

Is MON even under pressure? Who is his boss

One of the worst recruitment managers I’ve ever seen in any sport

MON under pressure ? HAHAHAHA
HAHA. The bloke has been kissed on the pecker with a job for life.

 

[lucablight]

MON under pressure ? HAHAHAHA
HAHA. The bloke has been kissed on the pecker with a job for life.

Who does he answer to?

 

[pazzaeel]

We seem to be missing out on quality players since we moved our training to kellyville, unless you live in the hills district it's an out of the way location for a lot of players I'd imagine , this is not trying to to justify how useless our recruiting guys are, and is Ben rogers our guru recruiter the same one who played at Souths years ago?

Interesting thought.
I’m not from Sydney but I imagine if you are earning decent coin (like rugby league players) you aren’t going to live close to kellyville unless you are born and bred.

 

[Jake the snake]

Who does he answer to?

I believe Jim‘s mowing services