Halfback needed

[TheRev]

Field and Payne are good young players but a tad on the small side.

Its so hard to get a gauge on them, so young.. and will need to fend their posts off from future contenders (is Sailor due next year?).. Payne seems to run the team and do most of the kicking, Field has a good running and passing game, if I had to pick one or the other as more likely to succeed, I couldnt.. but I like Field's goalkicking, which is what I hate most about rugby league, that 1 boring individual skill (aka elmasri/halligan) is worth 50% of a brilliant team try.

 

[watatank]

Payne is no chance of playing NRL. Field looks more suited to fullback, doubt he makes it as a 6/7.

 

[Get2dachopper!]

Its so hard to get a gauge on them, so young.. and will need to fend their posts off from future contenders (is Sailor due next year?).. Payne seems to run the team and do most of the kicking, Field has a good running and passing game, if I had to pick one or the other as more likely to succeed, I couldnt.. but I like Field's goalkicking, which is what I hate most about rugby league, that 1 boring individual skill (aka elmasri/halligan) is worth 50% of a brilliant team try.

They seem to compliment each other, exactly what an old fashioned halves pairing used to do.
Maybe they should be brought into the cutters together as a pairing for a year or two and see how they go. A young halves pairing coming through grade together, that's like gold. And let's be honest, we're never going to snare a cronk or a thurston type player. Our only chance is to develop our own juniors, like the tigers.

We need to start using the lower grade sides for the benefit of the nrl side. At the moment, it seems that we have 3 coaches, all rookies, all doing their best to showcase their own results in the hope of getting a long term coaching gig here or somewhere else. I mean does Mary sit down with Demetriou and Head to discuss succession planning and who has the potential to step up to NRL? I hope they are all communicating with each other.

But yeah, promote from within for the expensive positions (spine), create a core playing group made up of our juniors and sprinkle with a few outsiders in the less expensive positions (forwards). It seems to be the winning formula.

 

[Dragsters]

They seem to compliment each other, exactly what an old fashioned halves pairing used to do.
Maybe they should be brought into the cutters together as a pairing for a year or two and see how they go. A young halves pairing coming through grade together, that's like gold. And let's be honest, we're never going to snare a cronk or a thurston type player. Our only chance is to develop our own juniors, like the tigers.

We need to start using the lower grade sides for the benefit of the nrl side. At the moment, it seems that we have 3 coaches, all rookies, all doing their best to showcase their own results in the hope of getting a long term coaching gig here or somewhere else. I mean does Mary sit down with Demetriou and Head to discuss succession planning and who has the potential to step up to NRL? I hope they are all communicating with each other.

But yeah, promote from within for the expensive positions (spine), create a core playing group made up of our juniors and sprinkle with a few outsiders in the less expensive positions (forwards). It seems to be the winning formula.

This.

They look like they could play alongside each other with their eyes closed!

 

[BennyV]

There's big risk in bringing halves through together. Like we are seeing at the Tigpies, you gotta be willing to cop a few years of pain while they find their feet and after the last 5 years, it would be a ridiculous move by the club. You've then got issues of keeping them together if they excel and so on.

 

[Dragsters]

I was talking about bringing them into the cutters together for their development, and not until next year at the earliest, not as a solution for our current first grade halves conundrum.

 

[_Johnsy]

chris sandow is on fire in super leauge

I almost leant out & motioned to slap you :lol:

 

[BennyV]

I was talking about bringing them into the cutters together for their development, and not until next year at the earliest, not as a solution for our current first grade halves conundrum.

Fair enough. Again, the issue there is that you are then relying on them for the future, which comes with the other issues as mentioned.

 

[_Johnsy]

There's big risk in bringing halves through together. Like we are seeing at the Tigpies, you gotta be willing to cop a few years of pain while they find their feet and after the last 5 years, it would be a ridiculous move by the club. You've then got issues of keeping them together if they excel and so on.

The Tigers could have had Benji & had the job of mentoring them into 1st grade over a 3 - 5 year period. That role would have been perfect for Benji, and Moses & Brooks.

 

[BennyV]

The Tigers could have had Benji & had the job of mentoring them into 1st grade over a 3 - 5 year period. That role would have been perfect for Benji, and Moses & Brooks.

Fully agree. I think the eagerness of Tigpies plus a couple of egos around the place prevented what could have been the start of a great run of home-grown talent for them.

 

[Slippery Morris]

Tigers are a basket case until they get rid of Farrah. Feel for Moses and Brooks because they had the coach and capt (last year) fighting which was their first year and continuing this year.

 

[Wittenberg]

I must admit I'm tired of the 'give them time in the Cutters' line. Price and McGregor were and are the most conservative and cautious coaches in the game. Dufty will go. If we fade out towards the end of the year, try something with these kids or someone will.

 

[BringTheNoise]

Word on the street is we're talking to Corey Norman.

 

[chewbacca]

Word on the street is we're talking to Corey Norman.

Sesame Street?
or another made up place that fantasies come true...?

 

[Dragsters]

Word on the street is we're talking to Corey Norman.

This should be interesting.

Cue "Norman a Dragon" thread.... Now.....no wait.......................now!

 

[JohnnoMcJohnno]

Word on the street is we're talking to Corey Norman.

You aren't secretly Corey Norman's manager by any chance are you?

 

[Coffs dragon]

Word on the street is we're talking to Corey Norman.

Trouble is Doust and Millward talk a different language......$$$$$ ÷ 4

 

[blacksafake]

Word on the street is we're talking to Corey Norman.

Then sign's elsewhere.

 

[hazzbeen]

I must admit I'm tired of the 'give them time in the Cutters' line. Price and McGregor were and are the most conservative and cautious coaches in the game. Dufty will go. If we fade out towards the end of the year, try something with these kids or someone will.

This .....

 

[_Johnsy]

I must admit I'm tired of the 'give them time in the Cutters' line. Price and McGregor were and are the most conservative and cautious coaches in the game. Dufty will go. If we fade out towards the end of the year, try something with these kids or someone will.

100% correct, this is the attitude that went some way to us losing Bird.