Rd11: Eels v Manly GAME DAY THREAD @ Commbank 20/5/22

[I'm a loser baby...]

You guys are so transparent. It just has to be that he left for low coin, because if he left for $800k, you wouldn’t be able play the blame game.

The dogs haven’t even announced Reed or Kikau officially so all we have is sources. Two sources and one is just as likely to be true or made up as the other.

Except we have many more than two sources. And all of them but one mention four years. Which of course you are desperate to believe because you can use it to defend the club. Come back to planet Earth, it's really not so bad.

 

[Gronk]

Except we have many more than two sources. And all of them but one mention four years. Which of course you are desperate to believe because you can use it to defend the club. Come back to planet Earth, it's really not so bad.

Nice try.

 

[I'm a loser baby...]

Nice try.

Don't believe me? Try to find even one other article that reports three years.

 

[Gronk]

Don't believe me? Try to find even one other article that reports three years.

Better still, I’ll wait for SMH to retract or the NRL to register his contract. Until then, we have to speculative sources.

You see the way it works is that one guy says what he is told or thinks and then the others say he’s “reportedly” signed blah blah. Now it’s been changed to something else. So now he’s reportedly signed for something else. Both are plausible soz.

 

[hindy111]

Is the season over already and Mahoney leaving this week?

You do realise that for 2023 we have already signed Josh Hodgson and we have a young guy on our books called Brendan Hands who is a highly rated young hooker, right?

Out of curiosity why is Hands playing lock forward? If we see him as someone we want in the we future wouldn't he be better to play hooker? It confused me. For some reason it had me wonder if the club doesn't rate him as a hooker. Then I thought perhaps they do and just need to him work on his defense and run game so doing it at lock as his dummy half service is fine already.

 

[hindy111]

Fast hookers are very expensive. They're the ones who tend to run a lot at any team.

What does a fast hooker cost?

 

[I'm a loser baby...]

Better still, I’ll wait for SMH to retract or the NRL to register his contract. Until then, we have to speculative sources.

You see the way it works is that one guy says what he is told or thinks and then the others say he’s “reportedly” signed blah blah. Now it’s been changed to something else. So now he’s reportedly signed for something else. Both are plausible soz.

Let me help you out by telling you the first rule of holes. When you find yourself in one, stop digging.

 

[hindy111]

Or yours is wrong. I’d check on the NRL signings tracker, only they haven’t registered his contract yet.

It's 4yrs you rabbit. I'm in a good mood otherwise I would of thrown in a f**king.

 

[hindy111]

Women’s Weekly.

That thing come in handy during my teenage years.

 

[Leaguenutter]

Once Bea realises that Nigel Matamasinghi is a league God in waiting the better the team will go. It's a no brainer really

 

[Delboy]

Let me help you out by telling you the first rule of holes. When you find yourself in one, stop digging.

Spoke to an Eels sponsor, and the figures and length of contract are pretty accurate ,as he was preparing a TPA when Reed reneged due to the crazy offer made by Gus.

 

[hindy111]

Let me help you out by telling you the first rule of holes. When you find yourself in one, stop digging.

I'm unsure what to say here. I thought it was some sort of sex education class.

 

[Leaguenutter]

Could Matamasinghi go to Manly now that Turbo is out? I hope he doesn't

 

[I'm a loser baby...]

Spoke to an Eels sponsor, and the figures and length of contract are pretty accurate ,as he was preparing a TPA when Reed reneged due to the crazy offer made by Gus.

The length being four years?

 

[hindy111]

Spoke to an Eels sponsor, and the figures and length of contract are pretty accurate ,as he was preparing a TPA when Reed reneged due to the crazy offer made by Gus.

I met a drunk Panthers board member once. He was spilling his beans about Gus. Was telling all about various players they are paying to play elsewhere including 250k a year for RCG for 3yrs. By memory he said they where paying well over half a mill a season for guys to play elsewhere. Hiku, Blake and others.
Gus is good but not a god. Made lots of bad signings.

 

[Gary Gutful]

I met a drunk Panthers board member once. He was spilling his beans about Gus. Was telling all about various players they are paying to play elsewhere including 250k a year for RCG for 3yrs. By memory he said they where paying well over half a mill a season for guys to play elsewhere. Hiku, Blake and others.
Gus is good but not a god. Made lots of bad signings.

His focus in the coming years will be on development more so than recruitment.

 

[yy_cheng]

Out of curiosity why is Hands playing lock forward? If we see him as someone we want in the we future wouldn't he be better to play hooker? It confused me. For some reason it had me wonder if the club doesn't rate him as a hooker. Then I thought perhaps they do and just need to him work on his defense and run game so doing it at lock as his dummy half service is fine already.

Maybe they see him as a 14 next year behind hodgo.

So it will be good to see if he copes with other positions

 

[hindy111]

His focus in the coming years will be on development more so than recruitment.

Sure. Problem is the area. Its just not the same anymore. Less people in those areas play rugby league. Same goes for Parra.
Penrith has so many islanders and rugby league families. To be fair so do the West tigers.

 

[Leaguenutter]

His focus in the coming years will be on development more so than recruitment.

"He's"

 

[King-Gutho94]

I met a drunk Panthers board member once. He was spilling his beans about Gus. Was telling all about various players they are paying to play elsewhere including 250k a year for RCG for 3yrs. By memory he said they where paying well over half a mill a season for guys to play elsewhere. Hiku, Blake and others.
Gus is good but not a god. Made lots of bad signings.

Yeah how many players at Penrith that Gus either signed or were told to leave by Gus actually didn't finish there contracts and were released early.

No such thing as a contract under Gus.

Luke Lewis
Petero Civoenceva
Lachlan Coote
Michael Jennings
Jamie Soward
Trent Merrin
Matt Moylan
Waqa Blake
Reagan Campbell Gillard
Bryce Cartwright
Peter Hiku
Corey Harawira-Naera
Dallin watene-zeleznjak
Temaire Martin