Jason Ryles - Head coach of Parramatta from 2025

[Poupou Escobar]

Yeah I doubt we are moving Merkins on if the coach didn't have a say.

But play on..

Nobody said the coach doesn't have a say, especially retention (or not) of existing players. The list management group would want to avoid giving him players he doesn't want. But as I've said before, if the coach keeps turning his nose up at signings/retentions because they aren't good enough, he could find himself with only half a squad. If you've got cap space and no stars to spend it on, you need to bring in the likes of Hodgson, Harper and Ofahengaue. You might never get a Moses or Lomax for a price you can afford.

 

[Delboy]

The list management group

Wouldn’t rust our list management group to even make a list. You can faff over them as much as you want, they have failed for 4 years and should be on a very short leash , if on one at all.

 

[Poupou Escobar]

Wouldn’t rust our list management group to even make a list. You can faff over them as much as you want, they have failed for 4 years and should be on a very short leash , if on one at all.

They re-signed some high performers who stopped performing. Lane and Matterson, for example, are only 30 years old. Paulo is 31.

 

[Gary Gutful]

You might never get a Moses or Lomax for a price you can afford.

You could probably get one of their relatives.

 

[Poupou Escobar]

Moses Suli?

 

[the phantom menace]

If you've got cap space and no stars to spend it on, you need to bring in the likes of Hodgson, Harper and Ofahengaue.

Hodgson, the one whose signing you were talking up and still justifying as great...?

 

[Poupou Escobar]

Here's what I said about Hodgson:

25-Oct-21:

He's good when the Raiders are good and bad when they're not.

10-Dec-21:

Signing Hodgson is a risk given his age, in that he might be unavailable too often to provide value for his price.

Hardly justifying the signing as 'great'. Instead I was justifying it as an option, both before and after he was announced. It just made sense. There was some risk there, as there is with most signings. But there was also the potential to get a smart, experienced dummy half at a decent price.