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  1. Poupou Escobar

    Parramatta Eels Juniors

    Any player that leaves costs nothing. Not having a PO doesn't change that.
  2. Poupou Escobar

    Rumours and Stuff

    Exactly. Look how well pathways investment went for your club when you had to pay overs to keep them.
  3. Poupou Escobar

    Rumours and Stuff

    Here's a hint, it won't be full of 20 year olds, unless you want to wait five years for them to become first graders.
  4. Poupou Escobar

    Rd4: 2025 Non Parra games

    I mentioned them because merkins like to mention Rouse Hill as some kind of nepo club. No, it's not actually. Joey Grima mentioned in an interview with TCT that it was the first time he could remember that one of our pathways teams consisted entirely of kids from the local comp. He sounded like...
  5. Poupou Escobar

    Rd4: 2025 Non Parra games

    If they played their best footy for us, how do you know they underperformed?
  6. Poupou Escobar

    Rd4: 2025 Non Parra games

    If we lost him due to salary cap pressure, it wouldn't make sense to replace him with a more expensive player.
  7. Poupou Escobar

    Rd4: 2025 Non Parra games

    It's because our pathways investment fell away after the club went into administration and didn't recover until after Covid. We've only been strong in that area since 2023. Before that our pathways were good until 2017. But for five years we only brought through local kids. We relied on the...
  8. Poupou Escobar

    Rumours and Stuff

    Do you think they cost the same?
  9. Poupou Escobar

    Rumours and Stuff

    Every club already knew he was a massive talent. I told you years ago that Sanders, Talagi and Tuivati were the best merkins in our SG Ball side. If I knew it, so did all the other clubs. That creates demand and drives their price up. Are you suggesting it’s impossible to overpay for a...
  10. Poupou Escobar

    Rumours and Stuff

    The more money he wants, the higher the risk. How much do you reckon he’s worth?
  11. Poupou Escobar

    Rd4: 2025 Non Parra games

    What is he doing better now? His stats were better at Parramatta. Maybe he is doing stuff that isn't reflected in the stats, but you need to support it with some other evidence. Or maybe we were in a premiership window and didn't have time to wait for them to reach their peak. It's easy in...
  12. Poupou Escobar

    Rd4: 2025 Non Parra games

    That's your business. I just took the opportunity to give my opinion, yet again. This is what you get when you troll me.
  13. Poupou Escobar

    Rd4: 2025 Non Parra games

    We also lost Sivo and Ferguson mid-game the previous week against Melbourne. You can't help bad luck.
  14. Poupou Escobar

    Rumours and Stuff

    I'd say stick to talking about footy, but you're obviously out of your depth.
  15. Poupou Escobar

    Rumours and Stuff

    Look at Fisher-Harris. He gets picked up and driven back at least once every week. Tuivati is already a more dangerous runner than he is. But JFH was the key to Penrith's defence. They suck without him, and the Warriors' defence is suddenly much better. These are the types of forwards worth big...
  16. Poupou Escobar

    Rd4: 2025 Non Parra games

    We have been March premiers before, just like the Dogs. In 2020 we led the comp until August.
  17. Poupou Escobar

    Rumours and Stuff

    It's difficult to assess if he is suited to the modern game. Yes he's big and agile and looks good at the collision, but what if he has to make three tackles in a row? The modern game punishes forwards who need a rest in the middle of a defensive set. For Tuivati the risk isn't losing him, it's...
  18. Poupou Escobar

    Rumours and Stuff

    They recruited well long before he joined the club. This is my point. It's not him doing the recruitment. NRL clubs don't work like that any more. But merkins assume it's the coach because that's how it worked up until the nineties (and later, at the poorer clubs), and so it's how the media...
  19. Poupou Escobar

    Rd4: 2025 Non Parra games

    Gee they have completely turned around from missing the finals for seven straight years? So if they make the finals this year it will be two years in a row! What a massive achievement. Did you know we did a similar thing under our current management? Before they took over we made the finals once...
  20. Poupou Escobar

    Rumours and Stuff

    The Sharks are a well resourced club. Their pathways have been strong for decades. They won a comp before Fitzgibbon joined, and in the ten years before he got on board, they only missed the finals twice; 2014 when they ran last, and 2021 (the year right before Fitzgibbon started) when they...

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