Well they're under contract. If we start winning more games than not, players will hopefully buy in and cover injuries.
Our rebuild of a new culture and club will be three years imo.
In this first year Benji needs to select in form players so as to keep his promises. That is also those who are training well.
We have to have it all sorted by the time Luai gets here. If you watch Luai play, he gets involved when Penrith are on the move. If Penrith are stalling he goes quiet. That's my observation of watching his old game highlights. If we play like last night, organized and up tempo then Luai will play well.
I say 3 three years because our big signing fwds are off contract or about to.
It will be 2026 imo when we are stable and if we resign/retain the best and maybe a couple of top ups.
I think Benji needs a top prop, I'm unsure if Miller is going to be our man to partner Stef....see how he develops over the next 2 seasons but I have doubts.
Re a top prop. I am still surprised we stopped negotiations with AFB? Imo, we just need a hard head, no nonsense one now.
Re the halves, they are in high demand, there managers will want the cash (I don’t blame them), we just need to pick the right ones and keep the nursery working.
Re Luia, I hope it’s because there whole game revolves around Ivan jnr, Benji’s job is to get him out of that mindset, I believe he does want that?
But I think we are in a pretty reasonable position to go forward for the next few years.
