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Blacker is young and only on min wage. Props usually take f few years to come good. I think Griffin will rotate his bench from week to week and give everyone a chance to prove themselves. For those who aren't up to it - maybe Blacker, the club will decide to cut him or to continue his development.
You only have to see who played inside him to understand why he only scored 1 try. May as well have had Stevie Wonder playing centre on the left side
I'm not saying he will play origin or anything silly but reckon he will be an important member of the first grade team.
I have big wraps on Blacker in my opinion he’s Vaughan’s replacement in the next couple of years. If he could have played a full 2020 in CC then I think he’s challenging for a spot round one. But as it is we’ll need to see how he develops & hopefully he gets a crack at first grade in the second half of the season.
That’s very true but given his robust running I think he could have been more proactive looking for work in the middle. Our pack could have used his help.
If Billy M comes to our club it will not be in 2021.
Norman alone will free up over 800k.
Given that all clubs are well into preseason training with squads largely assembled our immediate recruitment might be at an end. If this is the case we’ll be well under the cap in 2021, add this to the $1M or so we’ll get back in 2021 Hook will be very well placed to recruit aggressively.
Whomever approved that signing on that money, should be collectively removed for the biggest waste of cap space & money in the RedV’s history.
You have your wish..almost
Although we will have a very talented young backline initially at a bargain price, we will need all the salary cap we can gather to keep them at our Club. So a plan should be in place to ditch all depth players who are above or not close to base salary. Like with Lomax, retain these players long term on medium priced contracts. My estimation on todays money is that this could be done for about 3m - 4m p/a. Then make incremental salary adjustments as necessary.
The former Director of Pathways & recruitment should have been sent packing along the pathway & out the gate of DragonWorld....never to return. Demotion of position was a cop out.
He still may yet. But they could not get rid of him until there is a transition for someone else to come up to speed (Hook & Haran) to where our whole recruitment $$$, negotiations, contracts, future year $$ plan spending etc was at.
And who do you suggest to replace those 11 players....it’s not as if we have players wanting to break contracts to come over to the Dragons.....
I think it is too early to judge many of these players. 2021 will be a season for testing who we want to keep and who we want to replace. Over the off-season Griffin will get a good idea of who he believes need to step up further and hopefully he will be able to get them to do that.
