emjaycee
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He did miss some tackles though.
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He did miss some tackles though.
Every signing is a risk and everyone knows it.
An ACL injury certainly isn't good luck.
He has upped his defensive effort in recent weeks though, so some reduced effctiveness should be expected.
I was referring to Hands who I think missed 4 and made 15.
Yup. Wasnt Robinson Crusoe on that score buddy.
Yeah me too. Hands is attempting more tackles per minute which is why he is missing more. The price of chasing the collision.
The best he can do is to mentor Hands and play 20-25 minutes.
It's fair to have lower defensive expectations of your attacking players (such as Paulo). In the case of dummy halves like Hodgson and Hands, they are also attacking players, in the team for their running game or decision making in attack. That is poor from Paulo though. He is tackling at 92% for the year. Payne Haas has a 99% effectiveness. No wonder Kevin Walters is a coaching genius.
Whatever Mahoney is costing, it wouldn't be just for this year and next. It would impact our recruitment until the end of 2026. We wouldn't be able to sign an x factor even if one was available, unless we cut another expensive player. Davey and Hodgson are only stopping us recruiting players at their salary level, whatever it is.
Research merkin. It’s been posted at least 10 times what happens if WE don’t exercise our option and then HE exercises his option.
Nothing has ever been posted officially. I reckon he gets only slightly less if he takes up his option as opposed to us taking it up.
There is a quote from Hodgson himself. Any ‘slightly’ less makes a mockery of the option process, if you know their purpose.
Yea he said there is both a player option and a club option and that he will def be here next year. No details about what those options entail. The fact that he said he would def be here next year before the season kicked off indicates to me his player option is still pretty juicy.
The player option would be less than the club option, which surely wouldn't be more than he's on now. I doubt it's much. Why would it be?
Neither do you. You don't know what Mahoney is on either so why complain? Just assume they are not like-for-like in salary and get on with your life.
Well this year the club has Hodgson, Rein and Hands on the books. Next year it's just Hodgson and Hands. We only need a mid range hooker, like the Roosters had when they were more successful. That's the model we've chosen, and we can use Rein's money to sign one. These merkins are all available, including plenty of young blokes. Any one of them could be the next Brendan Hands:
