Record breaking deal for Merrin.

[Slippery Morris]

Merrin is worth every cent of the 600k. Graham is on about 800-900k (last I heard) and Tony Williams is on 800-850k. Merrin may not be as good as Graham but he is better than Williams. Merrin has not been used properly, he should move back to front row.

I can see Merrin is a future leader of this club.

 

[Hutty1986]

This Kasiano fascination is pretty funny. Deadset slug and about 15kg overweight

 

[BennyV]

This Kasiano fascination is pretty funny. Deadset slug and about 15kg overweight

Probably come from all the times he single handedly tore our forward pack to shreds...

 

[rainman44]

Probably come from all the times he single handedly tore our forward pack to shreds...

Exactly

 

[bottle]

Probably come from all the times he single handedly tore our forward pack to shreds...

Mate you took the words right out of my mouth.
The Mother's Day game this year was just another example of Kas' "15 minutes" eclipsing anything our blokes could offer combined.

In this game you can win an otherwise tight contest with just a few pivotal minutes worth of impact. This bloke has the capacity to provide that.
I understand the concerns over fitness, but it was ever thus. Beetson was lampooned for his early 'half a game' antics, and he was never the most athletic of players. But he had magic in him, and that was what mattered.

These days the big men get more breaks than ever, what with interchange, time of for video ref scrutiny of a host of things, walking to and delaying scrums, time wasting for all sorts of kicks. There's enough extra time wasted to have a sit down feed in between play. The Kas' of the world can get by with a few extra kegs.

 

[BigH]

Sign him.......good foundation to build on and if we do ok next year recruitment might not be a lucky dip in 2016

 

[West coast dragon]

This Kasiano fascination is pretty funny. Deadset slug and about 15kg overweight

yeah I aggree hutty and we want a forward who's good for more than twenty mins a half!

 

[nontime111]

All of these new big forward signings will really mean nothing if we dont keep mighty MERRIN...... who does the finess, the fine ball work standing up defenders unloading at the perfect time to carefully chosen oncoming attacking teamates....
DONT GO TRENTY!!!!!!!
STAY AND BRING IT HOME GO DRAGONS!!!:crazy:

 

[BennyV]

yeah I aggree hutty and we want a forward who's good for more than twenty mins a half!

Merrin. Creagh. DeBelin. Cooper.

Weve got plenty of middle forwards who can rack up big minutes. We need a big bloke who can come on and tear the opposition to shreds for 20 mins.

 

[coast_dragons]

I guess Kasiano saying he isn't going anywhere isn't enough for people to get the hint.

 

[bottle]

I guess Kasiano saying he isn't going anywhere isn't enough for people to get the hint.

BMoz stood next to a placard reading 'As if I'd ever be a Bulldog'
I guess footballers constantly saying one thing and then doing another isn't enough for some people to realise they fib occasionally.
Besides, he mightn't be going anywhere for 2015. So what should we do, give up on him forever?

 

[Elias1983]

BMoz stood next to a placard reading 'As if I'd ever be a Bulldog'
I guess footballers constantly saying one thing and then doing another isn't enough for some people to realise they fib occasionally.
Besides, he mightn't be going anywhere for 2015. So what should we do, give up on him forever?

The way I see it, if we don't snare kasiano now then we won't get him.

It will give the dogs another year to plan/ reshuffle and come back with a better deal next year.

Gives them time to get rid of any deadwood and free up some more cash to keep him.

 

[bottle]

The way I see it, if we don't snare kasiano now then we won't get him.

It will give the dogs another year to plan/ reshuffle and come back with a better deal next year.

Gives them time to get rid of any deadwood and free up some more cash to keep him.

You're probably right. They'll come up with some elusive 'Fourth Party' to tear the Third Party thingo a new arsehole.

 

[Elias1983]

You're probably right. They'll come up with some elusive 'Fourth Party' to tear the Third Party thingo a new arsehole.

Pffft.... 3rd party, 4th party.....like it applies at the bulldogs.

 

[coast_dragons]

Bottle have you considered he would leave just not to the Dragons.

The big red v doesn't have any appeal like it used to and its proven they have to spend overs to get players.

If it was Matulino I would be happier Kasiano is bit yes and has some skills but overall like Merrin would command to much money and not deliever consistantly.

 

[possm]

Merrin. Creagh. DeBelin. Cooper.

Weve got plenty of middle forwards who can rack up big minutes. We need a big bloke who can come on and tear the opposition to shreds for 20 mins.

I'd say we need a big bloke or two who can come on and tear the opposition to shreds for 20 mins.

Pakere and Kasiano along with our other forwards will do the trick!

 

[Heavy D]

agreed

 

[Hutty1986]

Probably come from all the times he single handedly tore our forward pack to shreds...

Mate Nikki Webster would have torn our pack to shreds this year. I can understand the desire for a genuine impact player but he's slow, terrible laterally (being 170kgs doesn't really help) and has dumb errors in his game. If we got him, wouldn't want to be paying crazy money for the bloke.