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Raiders snare Shillington

Mullins_y2k

Juniors
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Cool hopefulyl we get Shackelton next year too hes really close to shillington and plum so maybe poor guys been injured all season tho...
 

nickraider

Juniors
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Great signing. At least now we'll have a forward who makes yards on a regular basis. Can'tr wait for next year ;-)
 

Brimmer

Juniors
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I was sussing out his stats from this year and last. Talk about meter eater. In most games he played under 40 minutes and still made 100m+ per game. Very low missed tackle count. Dunno where they got his offload ability though. His stats wouldn't suggest it. Great signing.
 

edabomb

First Grade
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He'll be the best prop on our books since Davico IMO. Could go past Davico rather quickly if he fulfills his potential too.
 

Macko8

Juniors
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good,hopefully this is best's last year with us and hopefully management go after a good centre/winger early or mid 20's
 

Chachi

Bench
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Purtell....and Graham.

I'd prefer Best at centre with Phil on the wing but it looks likely Best wont be resigned.
Yep, Graham was one of the wingers on my "keepers" list, but I'm certainly not sold on Purts nor am I keen on Kelly for the other wing spot. Milne is a genuine winger who just needs a bit of confidence, but jeez we're been lacking defensively out wide for years.

Is your info on Best with some inside knowledge dubs, or just a theory based on the fact there's been no talk about him? It wouldn't surprise me to see him go (although he's been one of our more consistent players over the last 12 months) but if we're to get guys like Justin Carney and Josh Dugan in First Grade I guess some of the oldies have to be cut loose.

Just on the U20's I have to say Brophy's been disappointing this season.

Anyway, that's all completely off topic.

Shillington's a Raider. Yay team!
 

Timbo

Moderator
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If we re-sign Kelly and cut Best loose that's a massive concern IMO.

Best is finally starting to show the goods for us and Kelly is the current incarnation of Greg Wolfgramm.
 

Macko8

Juniors
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1,369
get rid of both,both can be hot and cold, and when there cold,there fn cold.

we need to sign another couple of forwards and a couple of backs in case they do leave.
 

matt

Juniors
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If we re-sign Kelly and cut Best loose that's a massive concern IMO.

Best is finally starting to show the goods for us and Kelly is the current incarnation of Greg Wolfgramm.

bahaaahhaaa...best is a passenger.

concern for you ..ha

best WILL not be re-signed but will be resigned.


that is all.

keep up the good work Timbo.:)
 

Bay56

First Grade
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2KY BSB reported this morning that it cost us $350K to "snare" Shillos.

I'm one for paying overs but $350K seems like overs on overs.

Hopefully we'll get full value for a change.

Peter "Zorba" Peters did his best to draw a picture of a cold boring Canberra that no player would want to go to unless given that sort of money.
 

Lime_Green

Juniors
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$350K....that's even worse than I thought.

A lot for a prop IMO. The Panthers got Petero on $400K after all, and he's in a different league.
 

Raider_69

Post Whore
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Well if 2KY reported thats his contract, it simply must be true!!
So that means we're paying shillington 350k, Flannagan 250k and Smith 240k
Sounds accurate to me


:lol: you f**king idiots :lol:
 

GC_Gladiator

Juniors
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Lol... i know what your saying raider... but the forms on the board.

I think Howell was a decent example of that.

Was the Salary cap breach from last year just from second tier or was it for the top 25. If it was the latter you'd have to think that there would be a couple of examples of overs on overs.

Anyway, I hope that Flanagan and Shillington give value to the club.
 

Raider_69

Post Whore
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Lol... i know what your saying raider... but the forms on the board.

I think Howell was a decent example of that.

Was the Salary cap breach from last year just from second tier or was it for the top 25. If it was the latter you'd have to think that there would be a couple of examples of overs on overs.

Anyway, I hope that Flanagan and Shillington give value to the club.

lol im just doing the math
it amazes me that people are soo eager to believe these gossip columns and programmes. Wielder, Wilson, 2KY, 2UE, 2GB... they are all trading on gutter journalism and here we have people so keen to stick a boot into Don Furner and co they take their word as gospel... a word that would be lucky to have 40% strike rate

so by my count... and excuse me if i do abit wielder reporting myself here

flannagan 250k
shillington 350k
smith 240k
carney 350k
thats nearly 1.2 a year of a 4 mil cap on 4 players... and you blokes are actually buying into this? :lol: seriously, grow a clue!

and now i put my weilder cap on, add to that figure:
purtell 240k
goodwin 250k

thats nearly half our cap on 6, potentially very good players but at this stage largely inconsistant... thats not even including costigan, tongue graham or monaghan :lol: what are paying the rest? slim pickings? but apparantly, or so ive read on these forums, our club spreads the cap too evenly. So which is it? are we paying dollars for 6-10 odd blokes as being suggested by these gossip colums or are we speading it evenly. As ive just shown, we cant be doing both :lol:

seriously, you blokes crack me up:lol::lol:
the funniest thing is this figure for shillo has been reported 'exclusively' by zorba.... hahahahahahah
 

Lime_Green

Juniors
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459
So the Panthers didn't pay $400K for Petro R69?

Or does your sceptism about reported contracts only extend to those relating to Raiders signings.

Look at it logically - sought after Sydney-based future rep star signs 4 (!) year deal with Canberra. Do you honestly think he's come for less than $300K p/a?
 

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