Off Season 2024/25

[Beavers Headgear]

lol absolutely hilarious, another club has been stupid enough to take a punt on Lodge, Dragons have him on a train and trial deal. Slight chance in stance from turning down a new contract because he was worth more than what was on offer

 

[JJ]

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I was well on board until #17 bahaha… I’d be looking more for a big middle, Seuseu perhaps, maybe even Barnett…. Or if you want errors and aggression I think I’d probably take Jazz over Monty…. Luck, Guttenbeil, even Platt, Vagana, Villisanti etc…. Guess I never got Monty….


9 is interesting too, Marsh perhaps?

 

[Wheeled Warrior]

TMM is a funny one for me because while I wasn't overly impressed by him last season, there's no denying that the team as a whole was more successful when he was at 7. Some aspects of his game are pretty clunky (and I still worry about the lack of a proper long kicking game) but somehow his presence seems to lead to points. In particular, he seemed to have the knack of taking the right options when we were attacking inside the 20 (which stood out like a sore thumb given SJ was having an all-time bad season in terms of setting up tries in "good ball" situations).

I struggle to see us being a top 8 team with the halves options we have but I can't really go past TMM as the first choice at 7.

I also hope that these journo-named teams omitting Halasima are wrong. If I pretend to be optimistic for a moment, one thing that could improve us this year is big seasons for some of our youngsters, who hopefully add more attacking threat on the edges - I'm particularly thinking about Leiataua and Halasima here.

Whilst TMM does have some good option taking I would say Dylan Walker had a big part of making it look better on our attack when he played at lock. I like TMM but still unsure on whether he is the guy. The club are thinking the same too as they still haven't offered him a new deal yet. Who knows perhaps Boyd (Shudders) may become that guy we need under Webby. A big if though.

You are dead on with Halasima and Leiataua being a big part of scoring some points with our average halves options we got currently.