Eels in the media

[Delboy]

Spoke to Fogarty at a function when he was with the club, basically his family stayed up on the Gold Coast and he was very homesick. Got the sense that was the reason he went back, guess he got an NRL spot at the Titans and then was able to move on better top 30 money to Canberra with the family.

 

[Gary Gutful]

Maybe so but whether or not he should have been selected was never my argument.

Yeah. I know. Your argument with Joshuaeel is that Fogarty was given the same opportunities as JA and he was politely trying to suggest that you were wrong.

 

[Gary Gutful]

On another note, how the f**k did we go from this in 2017 with a salary cap of $7 million:
1. Gutho/French
6. Norman/Gutho/Smith
7. Moses/Robson/Norman
9. De Gois/King/Pritchard/Robson/Smith
14. Smith/King/Robson/Pritchard

To this in 2022 with a salary cap of $9.1 million:
1. Gutho/Perham
6. Brown/Arthur/Gutho/Perham
7. Moses/Arthur
9. Mahoney/Rein/Arthur
14. Arthur

Surely Gutho/Brown/Moses/Mahoney/Rein/Arthur/Perham, would cost considerably less (given the increase in salary cap) than Gutho/Norman/Moses/De Gois/French/Smith/Robson/King/Pritchard/Fogarty?

Particularly given that we still had Semi, Jenko, and Beau Scott in the team in 2017.

We've prioritised having a strong forward pack but it seems to have come at the expense of depth across the spine.

 

[Chipmunk]

Spoke to Fogarty at a function when he was with the club, basically his family stayed up on the Gold Coast and he was very homesick. Got the sense that was the reason he went back, guess he got an NRL spot at the Titans and then was able to move on better top 30 money to Canberra with the family.

What is the go with players who move to Sydney by themselves, like Papali'i, Perham, Brown, Mahoney, Fogarty, Greig, etc. (Andrew Davey is another who springs to mind but not sure if he had a family)? Can they club house them and it not be included in the cap? Although I guess if you put them all in a share house the combined portion of their rent towards the cap would be a pretty small percentage.

 

[Chipmunk]

We've prioritised having a strong forward pack but it seems to have come at the expense of depth across the spine.

That does appear the case. I'd even argue depth across the entire squad. We basically have 15 players the coaching staff are comfortable putting on the field when the game matters, although Simonsson, Dunster and Stone can probably be added to that list as backups if needed. I'm still lost with the Cartwright and Brown situation.

 

[I'm a loser baby...]

Yeah. I know. Your argument with Joshuaeel is that Fogarty was given the same opportunities as JA and he was politely trying to suggest that you were wrong.

Oh I'm impolite now, lol.

 

[King-Gutho94]

Being brutally honest fogarty is just slightly better goal kicking version of Luke Kelly.

So I don't know what the concern is about his departure.

After I said that he will tear us shreds now on Friday and we will probs make him look like Nathan cleary out there.

 

[emjaycee]

What is the go with players who move to Sydney by themselves, like Papali'i, Perham, Brown, Mahoney, Fogarty, Greig, etc. (Andrew Davey is another who springs to mind but not sure if he had a family)? Can they club house them and it not be included in the cap? Although I guess if you put them all in a share house the combined portion of their rent towards the cap would be a pretty small percentage.

I think I heard that it goes onto the Cap if the club funds it or provides the accomodation. I know the PLC owns some flats in O'Connell St near the Leagues Club that players have "rented" in the past with their families.

 

[emjaycee]

Being brutally honest fogarty is just slightly better goal kicking version of Luke Kelly.

So I don't know what the concern is about his departure.

After I said that he will tear us shreds now on Friday and we will probs make him look like Nathan cleary out there.

So why the f**k did you say it?

 

[Gary Gutful]

Being brutally honest fogarty is just slightly better goal kicking version of Luke Kelly.

So I don't know what the concern is about his departure.

After I said that he will tear us shreds now on Friday and we will probs make him look like Nathan cleary out there.

Not if we throw enough coins at him.

 

[Gronk]

What is the go with players who move to Sydney by themselves, like Papali'i, Perham, Brown, Mahoney, Fogarty, Greig, etc. (Andrew Davey is another who springs to mind but not sure if he had a family)? Can they club house them and it not be included in the cap? Although I guess if you put them all in a share house the combined portion of their rent towards the cap would be a pretty small percentage.

I suspect that its one huge Toga Party.

 

[Twizzle]

We signed Fogarty just after he won the QRL player of the year playing half back for Burleigh Bears, and whilst we had Will Smith and Co they were pretty much all back ups.

I reckon we expected Fogarty to turn out better than he did, then the opportunity came to sign Mitch.

The rest is history.

 

[Poupou Escobar]

The obvious so what is that there should be more players ahead of JA.

We obviously have a more top heavy roster now, and can't afford to have better backups than we did back then. So you're comparing apples and oranges.

 

[Poupou Escobar]

We've prioritised having a strong forward pack but it seems to have come at the expense of depth across the spine.

We have a much better pack now.

 

[I'm a loser baby...]

We obviously have a more top heavy roster now, and can't afford to have better backups than we did back then. So you're comparing apples and oranges.

I wasn't the one that made the claim that Fogarty and Arthur had been given the same opportunity.

 

[hineyrulz]

He’s since proven he’s decent but what was he showing in 2017? Sounds like he wasn’t in a great place and wanted to go home. Maybe that would have been different if he found himself in the position that Arthur does now.

Arthur has proven this season you don’t have to show much to get a run in first grade, as long as your last name is Arthur

 

[Gary Gutful]

Arthur has proven this season you don’t have to show much to get a run in first grade, as long as your last name is Arthur

Well then he should have changed his name to Arthur Fogarty.

 

[yy_cheng]

RCG reveals his side of the Panthers 'feud' | Wid…:

 

[Twizzle]

nonsense rumours in the NRL

who'd have thought ?

 

[Gary Gutful]

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