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Pretty much agree with this accept I'd have Foran at halfback and Norman as a running five eight.
Could Foran run sometimes too?
Pretty much agree with this accept I'd have Foran at halfback and Norman as a running five eight.
Could Foran run sometimes too?
So maybe they can both be running five-eighths, one on either side of the field? Do we even need a halfback?
Did you miss the Gutherson signing, Ram?
Yes. I don't think he is worth the risk. I highly doubt we would be picking him up at anywhere near minimum wage for a start. I think there are NYC players with more commitment that would be IMO much better, particularly in terms of attitude. Sure, pick him up cheap and if he doesn't work out we play him in Wenty. I just think that has been an attitude that has had us in trouble in the past. He obviously has nothing to prove unlike the likes of Wicks and Ma'u.
Spoke to a mate today who is a life long Manly fan. Knows the Trbojevic family, lives in the area et al. He is so cut with losing Gutherson. Reckons he has the ball skills to play 6. He reckons that it was not a choice between Trbojevic or him but that Gutherson was on decent coin for the next few years and we have taken over the contract in full. Lyon staying for another year pushed him out and the preference that the club has with Hiku over Gutherson.
I reckon Idris is worth the risk, but on a few conditions. As long as with arent paying his full contract price and we have a clause that he can be sacked if he f**ks up. Plus it's a 1 year contract with a second year option in our flavour ( gives us 2 years of value).
He won't affect our culture as we can just drop him to NSW cup if he isn't putting in at training - and no more training with the NRL squad. All we would lose is one years salary. But if he performs to his ability we gain a rep quality player at unders.
And as opposed to Sandow, we could easily drop him as we have other centres in squad to replace him ( we had no other top 25 halfback to replace Sandow ).
Sometimes to build a premiership winning squad you need to take some risks on players to beat the cap. Plus plenty of other f**kwits have given good value after being dicks at their previous side - Roberts, Carney, fifita, Ferguson, Dugan....
So maybe they can both be running five-eighths, one on either side of the field? Do we even need a halfback?
Off field incident in coming.
Off field incident in coming.
No, but I expect Gordon to miss at least a quarter to half the season through injury. Sorry I know that is very negative, but I just see it coming, he has a history of it.
We can always slot in our specialist middle half