Breakout year?

[Old Kogarah Boy 1]

Ford, Saab & Rav4....all for brake out year!

Think they’ll have a wheelie good year.
Sorry.
Their grand final will be at Bathurst....... sorry.
I’d better motor along.
Sorry.

 

[muzby]

Think they’ll have a wheelie good year.
Sorry.
Their grand final will be at Bathurst....... sorry.
I’d better motor along.
Sorry.

That’s terrible

 

[avocado]

Luc.

 

[Saint Pedro]

Jack de belin to break out of jail.

 

[Frank Facer]

I predict Lomax to have a breakout year. Ford and Saab are the only other 2 who I think could have breakout seasons. whether they will or not is another story.

 

[BLM01]

Whoever is coming off contract normally have breakout years.
But I will be bias and say Lomax
I like the potential of Saab & Jayden Sullivan to have strong years if stay injury free

 

[SaintPauli]

Sailor if we sign hiim?

 

[nontime111]

Sailor, Dufty ( yes the DUFF will be BACK! to the extent by the end of the season well be calling him DUFF THE MAGIC DRAGON!) ) , Ford, Lomax, Saab, Kerr, Lawrie, Ravi, Pearson, Clune, Blacker

 

[Eatons Hill Dragon]

Luciona will have a break out year at the Tigers.
Reece Robson to also have a breakout year at the Cows.
I think Marsters will have a breakout year at the Bunnies.
Garrick to have a breakout year for the Sea Eagles and go so well finish leading try scorer, leading point scorer and represent Australia, surely that couldn’t happen for a no good reserve grader.

 

[BBTB]

Ford & Rav to have excellent 2020.

 

[SBD82]

Who was the last player that we had who had a genuine breakout year, and didn’t just graduate to being a solid NRL player?

JDB? Anyone later than him?

 

[muzby]

Who was the last player that we had who had a genuine breakout year, and didn’t just graduate to being a solid NRL player?

JDB? Anyone later than him?

Tyson?

Maybe Vaughan a couple of years back..

Mick Ennis? I know he was going okay at souffs but once he came here he was in line for Origin contention..

 

[possm]

Ford, Saab & Rav4....all for brake out year!

I agree, Ford, Saab, Ravalawa, Lomax and Kerr could all have a breakout season however, their needs to be significant changes made:
Lomax to fullback
Ravalawa to right centre
Saab to retain his left wing spot
Ford to left centre
Pereira or Pearson to right wing
Norman at five-eighth with Dufty and Sailor as backup
Hunt at halfback with Norman and Sailor as backup

Kerr and Vaughan as the starting props
McInnes and Luke in hooker rotation
Sims and Frizell as starting second rowers
De Belin as lock or recruit Fifita from the Broncos and move Frizell to lock

To me, the above run on 13 is well balanced and has the potential to improve on last seasons effort. There are plenty of options for the bench and I went for the following:

Graham if he is forced to medically retire, recruit Arrow
K Sims
Lawrie
Luke

I hope Blacker steps up in 2020 and would like to think we have enough cap left to replace Leilua with a good first grade second rower. In my opinion Leilua is a big loss.

 

[SBD82]

Ha. Ennis. I almost forget that he played for us after seeing him wear so many other jerseys over the years.

Edit. Woooooooosh

I think It’s Vaughan. I’d forgotten about him.

 

[muzby]

Ha. Ennis. I almost forget that he played for us after seeing him wear so many other jerseys over the years.

I think It’s Vaughan. I’d forgotten about him.

Mick Ennis = McInness..

 

[SBD82]

Mick Ennis = McInness..

Yep. I just got that. Haha. Oops.

 

[possm]

Luciona will have a break out year at the Tigers.
Reece Robson to also have a breakout year at the Cows.
I think Marsters will have a breakout year at the Bunnies.
Garrick to have a breakout year for the Sea Eagles and go so well finish leading try scorer, leading point scorer and represent Australia, surely that couldn’t happen for a no good reserve grader.

So what does this say about our pathways/recruiting/retention department?

 

[BLM01]

So what does this say about our pathways/recruiting/retention department?

Nothing yet. None of that stuff EHD quoted has happened yet.
Garrick play for Australia. Ha...see how he goes in his 2nd year first. Not even close IMO and he had his breakout year in 2019.

 

[Coffs dragon]

Who was the last player that we had who had a genuine breakout year, and didn’t just graduate to being a solid NRL player?

JDB? Anyone later than him?

Michael O'CONNOR & he then left to go to Manly and win a few premierships plus be a permanent representative player.
We certainly have history in rooted retention!

 

[merahputih]

I believe Norman and Hunt's combination will flourish in 2020. Hunt has shown when given stability he can be among our best, we must remember 2018 was only last year during that first half of the season when he was the form half of the NRL until his family tragically suffered a miscarriage.

I'm not mentioning Mary here for the sake of negativity, but his spine strategy in 2019 was horrible and was a large part of our complete lack of flow this year. Now that our 6 and 7 is set with no doubts, they have a whole off season to pair up

Expecting good things from Sailor as well

You mentioned him!