Do we keep Sandow?

[lingard]

So Seward says we can still be active in the player market, and that Norman and Sandow remain part of our future plans.

Sounds good to me. Decision comes down to keeping Hoppa, and whether we plan for his future in the centres or at fullback - and we sign somene else to fill the other gap accordingly.

I don't care what anyone says, I reckon one of Norman, Sandow, or Hoppa is gone next year. Nothing else makes sense.

 

[lingard]

Well, the only other thing that makes sense is to play Sandow at 14 as an extra attacking weapon. That has a lot of drawbacks, though.

 

[yy_cheng]

Well, the only other thing that makes sense is to play Sandow at 14 as an extra attacking weapon. That has a lot of drawbacks, though.

With degois and seffa and sandow on the bench, we will have a lightweight bench

Imagine peats , Isaac, sandow, foran, Norman, seffa on the Park at the same time

 

[Twizzle]

would never happen

Isn't IDG out of contract at the end of this year ?

If he's gone then Sandow at 14 maybe an option

 

[yy_cheng]

would never happen

Isn't IDG out of contract at the end of this year ?

If he's gone then Sandow at 14 maybe an option

Nope. Signed for 2.5 years

 

[Swiftstylez]

:crazy::crazy: SANDOW HAS PLAYED 1.5 GAMES THIS YEAR AND THE FULL ONE HE DID PLAY UNINJURED WAS AMAZING, TIME TO PANIC!!! :crazy::crazy::crazy:

The answer to this thread is common sense:

If Sandow massively under-performs he will be at another club next year. We have a bit of spare money that will be used in conjunction with their money elsewhere (e.g Israel Folau) if we don't need one of them. I personally think Sandow will have a good season, it's whether or not Hopoate lives up to his price tag or not. If he doesn't it's just as easy to move Norman to Fullback. If we decide to keep Sandow and Hopoate based on their performance that will probably be it for signings in 2016. Too early to tell.

 

[Obscene Assassin]

Norman isn't a fullback though. His decision making is just too good to play fullback. He also doesn't have the strength you want at fullback, when was the last time you saw Norman break a tackle? His strengths are the fact that he knows when to pass the ball and when to hold onto it.

 

[T.S Quint]

Norman isn't a fullback though. His decision making is just too good to play fullback. He also doesn't have the strength you want at fullback, when was the last time you saw Norman break a tackle? His strengths are the fact that he knows when to pass the ball and when to hold onto it.

He should have used that knowledge last Friday.

 

[Obscene Assassin]

He did. That's why we scored 3 tries when he was the dominant half when Chris Sandow was off the field.

 

[Noise]

I think he's referring to the turning point in the game where Norman was on his knees with the ball, after we had almost lost it twice already, then threw it to the dogs. They scored 2 tries straight after. There was nothing on. He should have held it.

 

[Obscene Assassin]

You think that was the turning point? There is not on absolute turning point in a match, there are multiple factors that lead a team to victory or loss. That was probably one of them but not THE turning point. But still the fact remains that we scored 3 tries due to the fact that Norman knew what to do as the dominant playmaker.

 

[Poupou Escobar]

The pro-Sandow brigade are just sweating on Norman to make a mistake. So when he does that's all they remember. Meanwhile Corey Norman has been outstanding in both games this year plus the Nines.

 

[Jake the snake]

The pro-Sandow brigade are just sweating on Norman to make a mistake. So when he does that's all they remember. Meanwhile Corey Norman has been outstanding in both games this year plus the Nines.

No brigades here I don't think, we just want the damn team to win. I think you read to much into everything. I'd hate to be your psychologist.

 

[Noise]

I like Sandow and Norman. I am one of the few that didn't want Foran because I rate them both and reckon they are good value $$ wise. Regardless of which player you like, the pass was stupid and turned the momentum of the game. And as TS Quint pointed out still shows that Norman needs to learn when to pass and hold it. It was as dumb as Sandow's chip and chase (even though the game was gone at that point).

 

[eel01s]

You think that was the turning point? There is not on absolute turning point in a match, there are multiple factors that lead a team to victory or loss. That was probably one of them but not THE turning point. But still the fact remains that we scored 3 tries due to the fact that Norman knew what to do as the dominant playmaker.

After Norman gave them the ball and they scored it was all over for us. Had we scored next, we would have gone on to win IMO.

 

[Gronk]

No brigades here I don't think, we just want the damn team to win. I think you read to much into everything. I'd hate to be your psychologist.

Pou's psychologist is doing OK now after a bit of a holiday. Now contemplating a career change.

 

[Poupou Escobar]

After Norman gave them the ball and they scored it was all over for us. Had we scored next, we would have gone on to win IMO.

If one try is the turning point then there were about eight or nine turning points in that game. If a turnover can lose you the game then we must have lost the game a dozen times.

The real turning point in that game (if there even was one) was Radradra's injury, because it f**ked our entire left side defence. Champion's loss on the other side was the icing on the cake, leading to the blow out.

 

[Eelementary]

The pro-Sandow brigade are just sweating on Norman to make a mistake. So when he does that's all they remember. Meanwhile Corey Norman has been outstanding in both games this year plus the Nines.

I've always liked Norman, but he's been very, very impressive in 2015.

 

[I bleed blue & gold]

It makes a huge difference when he is play 100% fit.

 

[Eelementary]

It makes a huge difference when he is play 100% fit.

Absolutely.