Rumours and Stuff

[yy_cheng]

Quick question. Who is our back up hooker?
I thought it was B.Hands. But he was moved to 5/8 on the weekend. That's very strange. He should be playing in the position he plays in NRL to work on his game and keep structures. This club boggles me.

Probably paving the way for MA

 

[Soren Lorenson]

Well this is pretty shit but fascinating. Does the Colonel get picked?

 

[hindy111]

Probably paving the way for MA

Ffs. You put your back ups in their NRL positions. That's common sense. Blew me away when I saw the team.

 

[JokerEel]

Leave?

I still watch NRL whether we're in the fight or not.

Now I just won't care.

Leave the forums and not come back leave

 

[JokerEel]

Ffs. You put your back ups in their NRL positions. That's common sense. Blew me away when I saw the team.

What do you mean! So Penrith shouldn't have played Luke at 5/8 to get him in the starting side??

 

[emjaycee]

Well this is pretty shit but fascinating. Does the Colonel get picked?

It sux absolutely but could also be exciting.
Might be forced to blood Sanders which might be enough for him to stay and not take Canberra's offer.
Dylbro gets the chance to really pay us back for last year.
Gutho to 6 and Blaize into 1 where he spent the off-season and first 2 rounds of Reggies.
Lot's of whatif's.

"It's very exciting!!"

 

[yy_cheng]

It sux absolutely but could also be exciting.
Might be forced to blood Sanders which might be enough for him to stay and not take Canberra's offer.
Dylbro gets the chance to really pay us back for last year.
Gutho to 6 and Blaize into 1 where he spent the off-season and first 2 rounds of Reggies.
Lot's of whatif's.

"It's very exciting!!"

All with a new retro jersey

 

[Chipmunk]

Leave the forums and not come back leave

No, I'm not leaving the forum. For me it's now just the off season starts in Round 3.

However, annoyingly I had the same feelings after 3 rounds last year, but for different reasons.

It's actually really really upsetting to know our season is done after 3 games again.

 

[Angry_eel]

Well it was good 24 hrs guys.

 

[Gronk]

If the club doesn't get off their arses and sign Blaize for longer we could lose him at end of this year.

LOL Is that you Phil Rothfield?

 

[Gronk]

Well it was good 24 hrs guys.

Yeah, but what a great 24 hours it was. One of the better ones.

 

[oldmancraigy]

Wow... horrible news on Moses.

At least he gets to rest his groin - which he has been carrying the last couple of weeks

I'd probably go Sanders at half to fill in for now. See if we can jag a few games in the next 10 weeks.
Even if we go 3-6 and get Mitch back in June for the Dogs game, we could finish out 8-4 pretty easily with a favourable draw.

Or maybe Dylan and Gutho go to another level and we go 5-4 until Mitch gets back.

I do really think it needs to be Sanders though. No sense having Matto there or giving Hands the gig. That's not going to do enough overall

 

[eels_fan]

Moses has previously recovered quickly and returned early.

if there was a 6-8 week period to lose him, it is now.

I reckon Dylan shifts to 7 and Hands plays 6 (or who cares which number is on their back). Hands controls, Dylan runs.

On current form our toughest game in the next 6 weeks is Cowboys. It’s at Commbank and I still think they are a little untested. They beat a poor Newcastle team by 1 and smacked 2 teams expected to be bottom 4.

I reckon we still win 3 of the next 5 minimum, and then the bye.

Moses back by magic Round

 

[Angry_eel]

Moses has previously recovered quickly and returned early.

if there was a 6-8 week period to lose him, it is now.

I reckon Dylan shifts to 7 and Hands plays 6 (or who cares which number is on their back). Hands controls, Dylan runs.

On current form our toughest game in the next 6 weeks is Cowboys. It’s at Commbank and I still think they are a little untested. They beat a poor Newcastle team by 1 and smacked 2 teams expected to be bottom 4.

I reckon we still win 3 of the next 5 minimum, and then the bye.

Moses back by magic Round

Why not Sanders or Asi in 6/7? Why Hands over genuine halves?

 

[yy_cheng]

Why not Sanders or Asi in 6/7? Why Hands over genuine halves?

Hands can at least tackle

 

[eels_fan]

Why not Sanders or Asi in 6/7? Why Hands over genuine halves?

Hands has played in the halves quite a bit in lower grades. His defence is far more solid than Asi’s and he has a better long kicking game too

From what I’ve seen of Sanders, he isn’t near ready. He’s yet to even look beyond ok/solid in nsw cup

 

[Jake the snake]

It sux absolutely but could also be exciting.
Might be forced to blood Sanders which might be enough for him to stay and not take Canberra's offer.
Dylbro gets the chance to really pay us back for last year.
Gutho to 6 and Blaize into 1 where he spent the off-season and first 2 rounds of Reggies.
Lot's of whatif's.

"It's very exciting!!"

Talagi was woeful at fullback in the trials. He would get absolutely hammered at fullback. Leave him in the 3/4 and blood Sanders. As you said. It might convince him to stay

 

[Jake the snake]

Moses injury can galvanise the team. They all have to lift now. Starting with the Tigers.

 

[eels_fan]

It might convince him to stay

I don’t think anything is convincing him to say with the raiders dollars on offer. We’d be stupid to even try to compete financially given the long term deals Mitch and Dyl have.

only way playing him the next 8 weeks makes him stay is if he’s that shit the raiders go completely cold on him

 

[Poupou Escobar]

No, a mutual option can be structured many ways. People are assuming that mutual options now look like the model that Josh Hodgson had with a higher / lower consideration. That is one form, however I would say that the most common mutual option is where both parties need to agree for there to be a desire to extend. Indeed if you look at the NRL chunk below, it kinda infers that.

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Isn’t that just how a normal extension would work?