Rumoured and Confirmed Signings - XXV

[hindy111]

All it shows is some people rate him. He wont be the best fullback in the NRL. At under 20's level thou he showed more then Bevan French who some are calling the next superstar. IMO Moss will play first grade prior too Bevan bar injury.

 

[strider]

All it shows is some people rate him. He wont be the best fullback in the NRL. At under 20's level thou he showed more then Bevan French who some are calling the next superstar. IMO Moss will play first grade prior too Bevan bar injury.

Is this Injury fella you talk of any good? who's he currently play for?

 

[Barry O'Speedwagon]

Don't be silly strider. Bar Injury is wot was suffered by John Wayne Bobbit

 

[Twizzle]

Idris ?

Seriously ?

We need to raise the bar

 

[hineyrulz]

Idris ?

Seriously ?

We need to raise the bar

The bar is saggy by the looks.

 

[Twizzle]

nah, that'd be Idris's tits

 

[Poupou Escobar]

All it shows is some people rate him. He wont be the best fullback in the NRL. At under 20's level thou he showed more then Bevan French who some are calling the next superstar. IMO Moss will play first grade prior too Bevan bar injury.

Agreed. If French was even ready to be an NRL backup we wouldn't have signed Moss.

 

[Gazzamatta]

Agreed. If French was even ready to be an NRL backup we wouldn't have signed Moss.

Agree Poo but we havent had much luck signing back up fullbacks in recent years.
Jake Mullaney
Evander Cummins
Justin Hunt
Adam Quinlan.

The last 2 in particular were never really given a chance. I really hope Moss dosent continue this trend. Our last smallish fullback with any success was Brett Hodgson.

 

[Poupou Escobar]

I think all those backups left because they thought they were too good to be backups. Cummins wasn't even signed as a backup IMO. He was just a project player who proved to our staff why no other club wanted him.

 

[hindy111]

Idris ?

Seriously ?

We need to raise the bar

The big tits don't do it for you hey? Maybe try giving it a rub

 

[hindy111]

Some people on here over rate our Juniors.

Albert Kelly - Davis-Tanginoa - Mortimer - Toutai - Loko. All these guys where talked up at some point and have all been busts.

I am not saying French will be but he is as good a chance as the names mentioned above as turning into nothing.....

 

[Joshuatheeel]

Agree Poo but we havent had much luck signing back up fullbacks in recent years.
Jake Mullaney
Evander Cummins
Justin Hunt
Adam Quinlan.

The last 2 in particular were never really given a chance. I really hope Moss dosent continue this trend. Our last smallish fullback with any success was Brett Hodgson.

Cummins, what an idiot!! Making it in the NRL can take some luck, he only had to really put in a massive 13/14 off season with some good footy last year, and the footy gods would have given him a huge chance. But nah, to f**ken lazy!!

 

[Casper The Ghost]

He was quoting posts from the Panthers forum.....

They are all happy clients.

 

[Poupou Escobar]

Cummins, what an idiot!! Making it in the NRL can take some luck, he only had to really put in a massive 13/14 off season with some good footy last year, and the footy gods would have given him a huge chance. But nah, to f**ken lazy!!

Absolute superstar in the juniors

 

[hindy111]

Like Bevan? See milford is only a year and half older then Bevan. He is smaller but was that good was playing first grade 2.5 years ago....

The fact Bevan people say wont be ready in 2016 says he might not be as good as people make out. I hope i'm wrong....

 

[Poupou Escobar]

I wouldn't say Bevan French is even a superstar in the juniors. Not like Evander Cummins was. Of course French was late coming into an NRL club's system.

Milford wasn't smaller than French at all. Shorter maybe, but he has been built like a brick shithouse for years.

 

[yy_cheng]

Some people on here over rate our Juniors.

Albert Kelly - Davis-Tanginoa - Mortimer - Toutai - Loko. All these guys where talked up at some point and have all been busts.

I am not saying French will be but he is as good a chance as the names mentioned above as turning into nothing.....

You forgot about the Witts and the Keatings.

Especially the Witts, they were supposed to bring back glory to the Eels as the 6 and 7

 

[hindy111]

I wouldn't say Bevan French is even a superstar in the juniors. Not like Evander Cummins was. Of course French was late coming into an NRL club's system.

Milford wasn't smaller than French at all. Shorter maybe, but he has been built like a brick shithouse for years.

Thats debatable...Wh Milford first played nrl was quite thin.

Look i am not having a shot at people but if our JNR where that good we would be making finals in under 20's a lot more often. I think its 1/6 years?

Matterson- Goodal are another two who i was lead to believe had the goods. 12 mths later there gone. Funny enough Alvaro and Morgan(love or hate has been better value then Loko/toutai) where never mentioned in the Juniors system as potential first graders.

 

[Poupou Escobar]

It just shows that what's required to stand out in the lower grades (speed and power in attack) is only a small part of what is needed to play first grade.

You see it all the time - fans complaining that the coach won't select this or that big fast youngster who looks dangerous against reserve graders. When you have a look at the guy you see that he is lazy, sluggish or clueless in defence. And defence is what separates first graders from the rest. The state cups are full of good attacking players. Look at Penrith's 'superstar' young backs. All woeful defenders, just like ours.

 

[hindy111]

It just shows that what's required to stand out in the lower grades (speed and power in attack) is only a small part of what is needed to play first grade.

You see it all the time - fans complaining that the coach won't select this or that big fast youngster who looks dangerous against reserve graders. When you have a look at the guy you see that he is lazy, sluggish or clueless in defence. And defence is what separates first graders from the rest. The state cups are full of good attacking players. Look at Penrith's 'superstar' young backs. All woeful defenders, just like ours.

DWZ-Moylan-Mansour -Jennings x 2 -Waqua blake.

Blake didn't start well but slowly showed some promise towards the back end of the year. The others i think all handled themself quite well tbh.

But yes Blake was hailed as the next Inglis and after 6 weeks the fans wanted him gone....