It's time to go

[Joel-22]

Jarrod Mullen - injury prone, mental midget
Trent Hodkinson - offers nothing
Tariq Sims - suspended half the year and plays like shit the other half.
Dane Gagai - Made of straw, driven back by a strong breeze
Aku Uate - Shit defence, dumb errors, no longer explosive like 2009-2012
Robbie Rochow - hits like a bit of wet toilet paper against a brick wall



All 6 of you can f**k off.

I'm curious, does anyone think we should look at resigning Tariq or Rochow?

 

[perverse]

I don't think there's a player on the roster I would re-sign at their current value. Paycuts or piss off.

 

[ryana87]

I'd honestly only want to keep sione, Pete, Levi, Korbin, saifiti x2, matora

The rest are poo

 

[Misanthrope]

I would agree with all of the above, although Sims and Uate do at least offer something on occasion.

Uate has made good metres all afternoon, took a difficult kick under pressure, and hasn't made his usual glaring defensive errors as frequently.

 

[BuderusIsaBeast]

Personally I would like to see the last of Gagai and the Sims brothers

 

[slotmachine]

I don't think there's a player on the roster I would re-sign at their current value. Paycuts or piss off.

Mataora earning his small contract I reckon.

Saifiti's definitely.

That's about it sadly.

 

[The Showstopper]

This club re-signs out of sheer fear we can't replace them with anyone else. It is pathetic. The kids are talented. Levi, Safitis, Mataora, Sione and Pete. I truly would go in for Soward next year. For real. He is exactly what we need.

 

[perverse]

Mataora earning his small contract I reckon.

Saifiti's definitely.

That's about it sadly.

You could probably build an argument for Pauli Pauli, too.

 

[Swarzey]

Should have signed Richie Myler when we had the chance. smh. Would have been at half the value.

 

[The Showstopper]

I am a huge Myler fan. He has plenty of ticker. Killing it at Le Catalans.

 

[Joel-22]

The saddest thing is I don't see any major improvements heading into 2017. I think we're best off writing-off 2016-17 and aiming for a competitive side in 2018.

This year we have:
Cory Denniss, Bryce Donovan, Krys Freeman, Josh King, Tama Koopu, James McManus, Robbie Rochow, Nathan Ross, Tariq Sims, Bradie Smith, Jeremy Smith, James Taylor and Tekina Vailea Off-contract.

Bolded are the ones I'd resign.

Next year we have:
David Bhana, Jaelen Feeney, Lachlan Fitzgibbon, Dane Gagai, Brock Lamb, Jake Mamo, Peter Mata'utia, Sam Mataora, Mickey Paea, Pauli Pauli, Will Pearsall, Tyler Randell, Korbin Sims, Kade Snowden, Jack Stockwell, Akuila Uate, Luke Yates

I'd like to see us shed Mullen before his contract is up.

Potential 2018 Line-Up:

1.
2.
3.Sione Mata'utia
4.
5.
6.
7.
8.Jacob Saifiti
9.Danny Levi
10.Daneil Saifiti
11.
12.
13.Korbin Sims

14.Jack Stockwell
15.Sam Mataora
16.Pauli Pauli
17.

Fill-in the blanks.

 

[perverse]

Should have signed Richie Myler when we had the chance. smh. Would have been at half the value.

YES. f**k me dead. While we were off courting the ploddiest NSW halfback that has ever plodded, Myler was over in England wanting a crack at the NRL. Probably would have done so for peanuts. If Brown was in charge at that point, we may have even been a shot.

 

[Swarzey]

Absolutely. No doubt Brown would have made him his first signing.

I guess the argument can be made that even Gidley and Sandow are succeeding in the ESL but there's a nice, solid list of quality players coming to the NRL on the cheap and succeeding; there's such little risk but a massive reward. I've always argued against the "get rid of Mullen" talk with there being nobody to really replace him who would either put the club in a better position for their value or would deliver more for minimal cost; Myler is that player.

 

[Burns]

You would not resign Brock Lamb, Joel? Isn't he being billed as the messiah?

 

[NoSchitSherlock]

Uate has worked on a lot of his shortcomings.
He isn't given much opportunity in attack. He has to keep coming in to get the ball and does well with metres. He gets up to speed quickly.
To get the best from him in attack we need to set him up out wide with some room
I'll give him credit for working on his game and showing some guts to put an effort in.

 

[Whats Doing]

Uate has worked on a lot of his shortcomings.
He isn't given much opportunity in attack. He has to keep coming in to get the ball and does well with metres. He gets up to speed quickly.
To get the best from him in attack we need to set him up out wide with some room
I'll give him credit for working on his game and showing some guts to put an effort in.

For $500k per season, he hasn't improved to be paid such an amount and he can p!ss off. There are plenty of wingers on half as much as Aku who are performing better.

 

[Hello, I'm The Doctor]

YES. f**k me dead. While we were off courting the ploddiest NSW halfback that has ever plodded, Myler was over in England wanting a crack at the NRL. Probably would have done so for peanuts. If Brown was in charge at that point, we may have even been a shot.

Now seems the time to be moving Mullen on. Id much have him pared with Hodko than the Newcastle plodder...

 

[Misanthrope]

There are definitely players from the UK who Brown would have a lot of insight on and sway with. It's just a matter of us having the cash and the salary cap space to lure them over.

 

[Pete Cash]

Brown tipped off stuart about josh hodgson. Hopefully he has a great signing lined up for you guys. The original josh hodgson thread gets bumped at the gh all the time because when he was announced some posteds were like pfft this guys going to be a pommy plodder so its not like he was some superstar over there.

 

[Caped Crusader]

Absolutely. No doubt Brown would have made him his first signing.

I guess the argument can be made that even Gidley and Sandow are succeeding in the ESL but there's a nice, solid list of quality players coming to the NRL on the cheap and succeeding; there's such little risk but a massive reward. I've always argued against the "get rid of Mullen" talk with there being nobody to really replace him who would either put the club in a better position for their value or would deliver more for minimal cost; Myler is that player.

No halves and very few backs make the transition from ESL to NRL. They just don't seem to cope well with the defensive structures and workloads unfortunately

I'm not convinced Myler would be any different