2022 starting 17? and BAs tenure

[Chipmunk]

Id say be well in the top 4 at the half way mark

You mean like we were this year?

 

[Chipmunk]

I don't reckon BA will be extended regardless of where we finish 2022.
He will know within the next 3-4 months that 2022 will be his last year and that the club intend to let him finish the complete year.

Whether he does stay the whole year or not will be up to him. And it isn't a sacking. It is the end of a contract - not the same thing.

Really? Is this just an opinion, or based on some kind of intel?

 

[TheParraboy]

Yes, Sivo's ACL injury will make him more agile and quicker.

Why not, few months out, proper rehab. We aint playing chess when he comes back

You mean like we were this year?

100%

 

[Chipmunk]

100%

I don't see we would learn any more mid way through next season than what we don't already know.

 

[TheParraboy]

I don't see we would learn any more mid way through next season than what we don't already know.

Fair enough , your opinion

IMO Finals performances were different
More than unlucky not to make it to week 3 this year (anyone who thinks otherwise didnt watch the game last night) , and without our hooker who was in sublime form.

Also know we got some great young talent coming through in the backline who will be better next year. and Moses finally maturing

 

[emjaycee]

Really? Is this just an opinion, or based on some kind of intel?

It is just an opinion mate because I never have any intel of value.

 

[Cumberland Eel]

I’ve got a bad feeling we’re going to try and bring in that dope Fittler for ‘22

 

[Gary Gutful]

For 22?

I think MJC's scenario is more plausible. BA sees out 22 and we get someone in for 23.

 

[Cumberland Eel]

Sorry yeah 2023! I think Fittler’s contract with the Blues ends end of 2022.

 

[Incorrect]

I don't reckon BA will be extended regardless of where we finish 2022.
He will know within the next 3-4 months that 2022 will be his last year and that the club intend to let him finish the complete year.

Whether he does stay the whole year or not will be up to him. And it isn't a sacking. It is the end of a contract - not the same thing.

Similar to the way we brought Brian Smith's tenure at the club to an end. Which basically saw the first half of his last season turn in to a cluster f**k. He wasn't invested, and the players weren't either. Somehow we scraped in to the finals after Smithy walked and JT took over.

That's my fear if he is told in the next 2-3 months that he won't be extended beyond next year. That 2022 will be a write off and a lot of those players off contract at the end of 2022 depart. We'll be starting from scratch in 2023....

 

[Avenger]

I don't reckon BA will be extended regardless of where we finish 2022.
He will know within the next 3-4 months that 2022 will be his last year and that the club intend to let him finish the complete year.

Whether he does stay the whole year or not will be up to him. And it isn't a sacking. It is the end of a contract - not the same thing.

Which is why we go all out for Trent Robinson for season 2023 and before anyone says it won't happen. Who would have thought that Bennett would go to Saints or Hasler to Canterbury.

It happen$.

 

[Twizzle]

This time last year we wanted another half as Dylbags was not a playmaker and offered little

I reckon we can put all that nonsense aside now as he really has matured a lot this year and he's starting to develop a running and passing game, still the best defending half in the NRL

safe to say we are not looking for another half now but a bigger problem may be hanging onto him if reports are correct

 

[Gary Gutful]

Name your price Robbo.

 

[strider]

Which is why we go all out for Trent Robinson for season 2023 and before anyone says it won't happen. Who would have thought that Bennett would go to Saints or Hasler to Canterbury.

It happen$.

Uncle Nick has lots of $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$

If he leaves the roosters it won't be cos we give him $s, it will be because he wants a change

 

[Gary Gutful]

This time last year we wanted another half as Dylbags was not a playmaker and offered little

I reckon we can put all that nonsense aside now as he really has matured a lot this year and he's starting to develop a running and passing game, still the best defending half in the NRL

safe to say we are not looking for another half now but a bigger problem may be hanging onto him if reports are correct

Can't agree. His attack is still fairly ordinary.

 

[Twizzle]

Can't agree. His attack is still fairly ordinary.

so you wouldn't have him in the 17 next year ?

 

[Chipmunk]

Fair enough , your opinion

IMO Finals performances were different
More than unlucky not to make it to week 3 this year (anyone who thinks otherwise didnt watch the game last night) , and without our hooker who was in sublime form.

Also know we got some great young talent coming through in the backline who will be better next year. and Moses finally maturing

Yes, but my point is that we won't be playing any Finals between now and when Origin is on, so what will we learn more between now and then that we don't already know?

There is nothing really in the positive that can occur between today and Origin, that would change what we already know.

 

[strider]

two things would have to happen to prise robbo from the rooters

1) he would have to want to leave ... maybe this could happen. Buggered if I know where he is at.

2) The roosters would need to have a shit hot alternative lined up .... who? They lost fitzgibbon. I don't think they have another strong assistant ready ..... Bennet? Bellamy?

 

[Gary Gutful]

so you wouldn't have him in the 17 next year ?

We discussed this earlier this morning in another thread.

There aren't any other options at the moment so he stays but to improve we need some more attacking potency in the spine. I have enormous respect for his effort and intensity but I don't think he is the player that we need.

Nicho Hynes would have been a great pick-up. Throw him in at 1, move Gutho to 6 and let someone else pay overs for Brown.

 

[Avenger]

This time last year we wanted another half as Dylbags was not a playmaker and offered little

I reckon we can put all that nonsense aside now as he really has matured a lot this year and he's starting to develop a running and passing game, still the best defending half in the NRL

safe to say we are not looking for another half now but a bigger problem may be hanging onto him if reports are correct

Moses, Mahoney and Brown are the last players I'd offload. He is a gun.