Flanno's New Signings

[saintmar]

FFS! I guess our wonderful BOD and hierarchy deem that we must have an over abundance of halves to pick from.

Thats the decision of our coach not the BOD

 

[Jubilee]

I think he meant Joash Papalii young bulldogs fullback

Joash Papalii

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[Jubilee]

Joash Papalii

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Compare that to Sloane's figures. I don't think Tyrell has to worry.

Tyrell Sloan

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[Jubilee]

Lucky Flano kept Hunt

This has been discussed before. It wasn't luck. Flanno decided we couldn't get rid of Hunt until we had someone to replace him. Sullivan wasn't going to be the man. Dearden declined. That NZ guy was injured.

The real culprit here was the poor way succession planning for halfback has been handled for 7 years now. Sullivan seemed to have the impression that he was the Crown Prince entitled to the position. No competition. Well, that is not the way to run a pro footie club. Everyone should be under pressure right through the pathways. As far as the halves go for the longer term, the club has brought in a few promising young guys to battle it out, as they should. But at the moment, we need Hunt unless we can scoop up, say, Trindall, or Atkinson.

 

[saintmar]

This has been discussed before. It wasn't luck. Flanno decided we couldn't get rid of Hunt until we had someone to replace him. Sullivan wasn't going to be the man. Dearden declined. That NZ guy was injured.

The real culprit here was the poor way succession planning for halfback has been handled for 7 years now. Sullivan seemed to have the impression that he was the Crown Prince entitled to the position. No competition. Well, that is not the way to run a pro footie club. Everyone should be under pressure right through the pathways. As far as the halves go for the longer term, the club has brought in a few promising young guys to battle it out, as they should. But at the moment, we need Hunt unless we can scoop up, say, Trindall, or Atkinson.

Sullivan had no opportunity while “I want every play” Hunt was in the team
Agree Atkinson or Trindall would be great

 

[The Silverdale Phantom]

Buds treatment at wt has been pretty poor.

We’ve tried to offload him, even tried in the ESL, and he hardly gets a proper game.

And despite all that he’s remained very supportive of the club and us wt fans.
He’s got a good heart.

I thought we should have stopped white-anting him and chucked everything into actually improving and trying to help him.

A $500k player is an asset, you can’t have him rotting away.

Hes in the grubby back bargain area of the wt player shop, he’s been there for ages, but you check his price tag and he should be in the window display.

Benji and his coaching staff thus far have been very poor. Low percentage player optimisers.

We bought Bud in a panic and then our inept coaching staff thought he would turn into a Munster overnight.

And a few of us, very surprised that some folk on dedicated SGI sites have been overly critical of flanno. We don’t understand it, because a lot of your players are a good chance of improving and odds on, he’s buying decent players.

 

[Jubilee]

Buds treatment at wt has been pretty poor.

We’ve tried to offload him, even tried in the ESL, and he hardly gets a proper game.

And despite all that he’s remained very supportive of the club and us wt fans.
He’s got a good heart.

I thought we should have stopped white-anting him and chucked everything into actually improving and trying to help him.

A $500k player is an asset, you can’t have him rotting away.

Hes in the grubby back bargain area of the wt player shop, he’s been there for ages, but you check his price tag and he should be in the window display.

Benji and his coaching staff thus far have been very poor. Low percentage player optimisers.

We bought Bud in a panic and then our inept coaching staff thought he would turn into a Munster overnight.

And a few of us, very surprised that some folk on dedicated SGI sites have been overly critical of flanno. We don’t understand it, because a lot of your players are a good chance of improving and odds on, he’s buying decent players.

The Tigers paid overs for Sullivan and gave him too long a contract. $500k for four years! A player of his unproven status - with no competition from other clubs - should never get more than two years. And half a million? There are SoS players on that much.

I always say it, but these people identifying and bringing on the young players should be required to provide some objective criteria when they make decisions about them bcs I reckon they often believe press releases over cold objective facts.

 

[The Silverdale Phantom]

The Tigers paid overs for Sullivan and gave him too long a contract. $500k for four years! A player of his unproven status - with no competition from other clubs - should never get more than two years. And half a million? There are SoS players on that much.

I always say it, but these people identifying and bringing on the young players should be required to provide some objective criteria when they make decisions about them bcs I reckon they often believe press releases over cold objective facts.

We just panicked.

But I get a bit upset when my club colleagues blame Bud.

As you say, it’s not his fault and if his game hasn’t been that of Munsters and he’s lived up to and exceeded all off field expectations.

We sign Luai et al, and Bud gets monstered out of the chosen few.

Hopefully JL can inspire and help him teach his potential. No man left behind if I was running the club, except most of the officials and coaching staff.

 

[Saints Forever]

The Tigers paid overs for Sullivan and gave him too long a contract. $500k for four years! A player of his unproven status - with no competition from other clubs - should never get more than two years. And half a million? There are SoS players on that much.

I always say it, but these people identifying and bringing on the young players should be required to provide some objective criteria when they make decisions about them bcs I reckon they often believe press releases over cold objective facts.

And the majority should be drug tested before being allowed to make decisions

 

[Jubilee]

We just panicked.

But I get a bit upset when my club colleagues blame Bud.

As you say, it’s not his fault and if his game hasn’t been that of Munsters and he’s lived up to and exceeded all off field expectations.

We sign Luai et al, and Bud gets monstered out of the chosen few.

Hopefully JL can inspire and help him teach his potential. No man left behind if I was running the club, except most of the officials and coaching staff.

Well, Luai is going to be good value.

 

[The Silverdale Phantom]

Well, Luai is going to be good value.

Yeah, he’s going to be fantastic. But our pack is struggling after recent lossss.

I’m going to try to work it out one day, but I think most sides spend most of the season without anything close to their top 17. And if he’s injured, turn off the lights.

Just relating it to SGI, that year when young Gaz got injured at the Charity Shield, memory serves, I think you struggled without him.

We are in such a tenuous position, it’s almost worth resting some of our decent players for matches we simply can’t win.

I know we kept rewarding holiday makers with their positions if they were in the “gang”. It didn’t work.

I think flanno is less generous,
He steered Zac into a kangaroo jersey. But yet he wasn’t willing to bend over and put up with his insulting demands.

That’s just ‘ken courage isn’t it?

“ Yeah, thanks Zac, it’s all good you’re one of the best players on planet earth, but um, you’re currently excess to SGI requirements and we want to sign a KOE player!”

I think this an important step towards the elusive DNA restoration. It’s real, but it’s also important symbolically.

“No ‘ken player tells the coach of SGI what position he is playing in.”


The rlpa must be in all-sorts!

 

[Jubilee]

Yeah, he’s going to be fantastic. But our pack is struggling after recent lossss.

I’m going to try to work it out one day, but I think most sides spend most of the season without anything close to their top 17. And if he’s injured, turn off the lights.

Just relating it to SGI, that year when young Gaz got injured at the Charity Shield, memory serves, I think you struggled without him.

We are in such a tenuous position, it’s almost worth resting some of our decent players for matches we simply can’t win.

I know we kept rewarding holiday makers with their positions if they were in the “gang”. It didn’t work.

I think flanno is less generous,
He steered Zac into a kangaroo jersey. But yet he wasn’t willing to bend over and put up with his insulting demands.

That’s just ‘ken courage isn’t it?

“ Yeah, thanks Zac, it’s all good you’re one of the best players on planet earth, but um, you’re currently excess to SGI requirements and we want to sign a KOE player!”

I think this an important step towards the elusive DNA restoration. It’s real, but it’s also important symbolically.

“No ‘ken player tells the coach of SGI what position he is playing in.”


The rlpa must be in all-sorts!

Yes. You can't have players picking their own positions. Even Ponga plays where he is told, and he is better than Hunt.

 

[The Silverdale Phantom]

Yes. You can't have players picking their own positions. Even Ponga plays where he is told, and he is better than Hunt.

Mal torches pongas jersey in front of him.

Mal was thinking he’s the highest paid player in the game but he won’t do his duty.

p

I think this could ruin Ponga, they’ll be no milkshakes.

 

[Jubilee]

Mal torches pongas jersey in front of him.

Mal was thinking he’s the highest paid player in the game but he won’t do his duty.

p

I think this could ruin Ponga, they’ll be no milkshakes.

Mal might see to it that Ponga gets a sour piece of orange at halftime.

 

[jak]

Well, Luai is going to be good value.

that will depend on who they surround him with.

 

[SnowDragon]

Sullivan was hampered by Hunt
if we could get him back it would be great
He has ability but unfortunately didn’t prepare well for 24 and he has learnt his lesson.

Get him cheap enough and he is a decent backup, with some potential to step up long term

 

[saintmar]

Get him cheap enough and he is a decent backup, with some potential to step up long term

He won’t be the back up he would be the the key man as long as Hunt was not in the side

 

[Parko1310]

He won’t be the back up he would be the the key man as long as Hunt was not in the side

You're in huge trouble if Sullivan is your "key man".. would've probably been somewhere between 15th-17th this year if he was..

 

[Ronnie Dobbs]

Sullivan and Sloan aren’t first graders.

 

[Centralcoastdragon2]

Bud was the best player on the field against us til he was sent to the bin. Benji wiped him but played Sayforth and Bateman who were notorious for penalties/bin.