You think Gould would have learnt his lesson paying a premium for Brent Kite at the end of his career. He makes the same mistake in paying overs for Tamou who is ageing and on the slide.Two big costly mistakes
Gould should have gone after an aggressive prop who was hungry for a start like Paul Vaughan. Vaughan has plenty of talent and is hungry for success unlike Tamou who has done it all and is easing into retirement.
I am still starching my head as to why they let Matagi go and picked a plodder in Tim Browne.
You and us both. We've been pretty good at retaining the bulk of our youngsters (though that will mean shit if they don't have a coach who is able to improve them), but some of our other decisions have been pretty dumb recently:
- signing Korosiau when we already had an in-form Segeyaro, letting him leave early, just before Segeyaro went to shit, and then being forced to move Wallace to hooker.
- signing Wallace to an initial 3 year deal which pretty much stopped us from chasing any other decent halves during that period
- Tamou
- letting Matagi and Latimore leave - which might have made sense if Kikau or Leota were planned to come in permanently - and then just signing Browne to do fill the same role, but just not as well
- Hiku (who I like as a player more than most in our forum), who is now just pretty much standing in the way of Blake and Peachey at centre.
- Whare to a five-year deal (!) a handful of games after coming back from basically two years out with a knee injury - um, how about waiting to see how that knee holds up first?
- f**king Corey Payne. WTF?
And of course, the worst of the lot: friggin' Anthony Griffin. I wasn't too distraught about losing Cleary - he has his definite limitations, as the Tigers will find out eventually. But if I had known that Gould's plan revolved around his hard on for Griffin, I would have been in the Cleary camp all day long.
