Phone conversation with Sludge

[Alan Shore]

A recommended read: http://sharks.rleague.com/news.php?id=12477

Some interesting quotes I have picked out.

There certainly are performance based clauses in the contract. And all of that will be reviewed by my board at the end of the year. This year HAS been a bad year. We thought a lot of the younger guys would come through and they didn’t. Now I didn’t necessarily support all of the decisions made this year in regard to players being moved and released, but as for now he’s the coach.

So much for Steve Rogers just going along with Anderson folks. It's just a media ploy - he has to.

But in Chris’ case he came to me asking for a ridiculous sum of money that I wasn’t prepared to pay. I’m not going to quote figures to you, but it was around $60,000 more than what I felt he was worth. So I told him he could talk to other clubs, purely because I wanted him to see what was out there. That’s a process most players go through, just to see what they’re worth. So I told Chris he could talk to other clubs, and I told him that one of us is going to be very surprised. And it’s not going to be me. More recently Chris has come back with a much revised figure. But he could still move on.

Beattie has been underperforming this year, and everyone knows it. We should re-sign him since not alot of other clubs are giving him the offers he want.

We’ve had talks with Glenn as well as another well known prop forward. We’re still talking. There’s going to be a lot of very interesting announcements
made soon. It’s just unfortunate that we can’t make them yet. But we’re going to have a great team in 2004

By logical deduction that well known prop forward is Luke Davico.

Vagana’s a strong possibility for 2004. He’d be great as a Shark

Looks definite to me.

We discussed Josh Hannay, but in the end what he was asking was too high. It gets back to the same thing. We’re not going to sign someone just because they can kick

Bugger. But we *need* a kicker! Although Sludge sums it up in an earlier quote.

But we’re not going to buy a guy just because he can kick. He has to be able to play footy as well. I mean if I really wanted a kicker, I could buy Joel Caine right now from the Wests Tigers

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[millersnose]

great stuff tama :lol:

i think recruitment is the only hope for the sharks 2004

 

[legend]

Well Vagana, Glen Hall and Luke Davico would make a big difference. Franze will be back but I still think the Sharks look thin out wide.

 

[legend]

BTW, I'm thinking your prop signing will be Josh Perry instead of Luke Davico.

 

[Alan Shore]

BTW, I'm thinking your prop signing will be Josh Perry instead of Luke Davico.

It bloody better well not be. I don't want this overrated useless thug donning a Sharks jersey. I'll never accept it.

 

[NRH]

mah name is nrh

me is stupid gay newby

me and sodimitri are bestest friends

 

[cheese]

that aint griefy .........i'll bet my house on it!

 

[Alan Shore]

that aint griefy .........i'll bet my house on it!

Quite obviously, it's NRH or one of his fellow cronies.

 

[Frenzy]

Give me the IP and I'll tell you Tama

 

[Aries]

Same old faces, same old sh!t hey ;-)

Thought I better register before someone pinched my name, or they shut down the Sharks forum too