Rumoured/Confirmed Signings and General Drivel XV

[Casper The Ghost]

The assumption by lots on here is that Loko is definitely moving into the pack and I don't think this will happen for a while yet. When he comes back I am hearing that he will displace Tonga.

You need to increase your medication, well at least top it up.
Seems there is not a strong, sufficient force-field in place to stop naughty spirits projecting Willie Tonga displacement dreams into your deep deep sleeps.

 

[The Elephant In The room]

He was at our game on the weekend....

My brothers, neighbour (who is a real estate agent), showed him a couple houses int the area before hand. Done deal :sarcasm:

 

[hindy111]

What I find funny about Hayne is even when he is quiet he still is good.

Its getting to a stage where very game he plays he plays a big role. Ive followed footy for the last 22 yrs.Hayne would be the best ive seen at the club.We have had guys who had as good years .Hodgson at his peak was great but that was only for a year or two.And he wasn't any where near Haynes class.

The only guy I can think of is Jamie Lyon who left.I reckon it would be hard to split the two. Hayne is more naturaly gifted but Lyon is the smarter player.

Actually its sad that since sterling era we haven't created a great 1,6,7 or 9. (other than Hayne)

When was the last good home grown hooker? Pj Marsh?

 

[Casper The Ghost]

The key thing there is it will be a LONG time before he's on the field, was told last week that round 10 is possible but was updated to a lot longer than that over the weekend...

Seriously, he should be given this year off from playing and focus everything on Loko coming back next year. It ain't worth messing with the clock in hope we get his return to playing right. Lets give his body the chance to heal fully and properly before he reenters the stadium as a NRL gladiator.

 

[emjaycee]

You need to increase your medication, well at least top it up.
Seems there is not a strong, sufficient force-field in place to stop naughty spirits projecting Willie Tonga displacement dreams into your deep deep sleeps.

Sorry Casper... you lost me but then again you don't use la-bels, wo-rds and lang-uage like the rest of us so maybe it's just me.

WTF were you actually trying to say?

 

[hindy111]

Anyone watching embarrassing bodies? Some guy lost his penis. How do you loose your penis is beyond me but maybe Casper's post has something to do with that?

 

[yy_cheng]

I think the sharks offered him like 50k less

 

[Casper The Ghost]

Buhrer has played four games this year paying 3 off the bench (33 , 27 and 42min) and started one game posting 65 when Stewart was out.
Horo has started all 4 matches and has only missed 9min of footy in those 4 mmatches. Look at the last 3 years both Harrison and horo have started over him and played more minutes over the last 3 years, he has notdevelop his game to forforce himself into the starting line up, he is not an impact type player he is simply a bits a pieces type player. We would sign him as a fringe first grader because that's what he is

Coming off the bench as a utility, Buhrer IS an impact player covering injuries to 3, 4, 6, 7, 9 and as part of a forward rotation for 11, 12, 13 if there are no injuries to the backs. If he is playing in the starting pack and an injury occurs to a 7 or 6, etc, unless the injury occurs early in the game, Buhrer will be buggered and unable to do a decent job for the rest of the game...... The intention/plan for Buhrer as Manly's utility is to help WIN the game if injuries occur AND not to lose it because of an injury. Since 2010, I think Toovey & Hasler have done a great job using Buhrer as a utility.

 

[Daneel]

I think the sharks offered him like 50k less

Who the bloke missing his penis? You'd reckon a penis would be worth more than 50k

 

[spiderdan]

Sorry Casper... you lost me but then again you don't use la-bels, wo-rds and lang-uage like the rest of us so maybe it's just me.

WTF were you actually trying to say?

do you really think you or anyone bar Casper would understand his explanation completely?

 

[Casper The Ghost]

After reading Fifita's comments, I understand why the Bulldogs tore up his contract.



sememem??? Can anyone enlighten me?

All the wankers jerking off and spaying their sperm Fifita's way.
Maybe this is more politically correct than portraying the image of a stockpile of saliva and spitting lots of Mediterranean_Descendant at Fifita. :sarcasm:

 

[Casper The Ghost]

He's Ememem's brother.

Emenem's brother IS his penis!

 

[Casper The Ghost]

No I blocked her after she wrote bad stuff about the Anzacs.

Well at least she didn't say anything bad about Scotch Fingers or Tim Tams.

 

[Casper The Ghost]

outside of Buhrer one game he started in the centres when he made 111meters and 42 tackles he has done nothing. So he made 41% of his meters and 45% of his tackle in one match, that is called a statistical anomaly and would be removed from any statistical analysis. You should know that pou

Irrespective of where Buhrer plays, Harrison was picked ahead of him on the right edge in 2012 when stewart was injured and considering Watmough played on the left edge as much as he played through the middle Buhrer could have always been picked in the middle ad Horo on the bench. Both Hasler and Toovey have continually picked him on the bench and play him generally around 30min which is similar to the minutes Kelepi and Pauli have been given to give them experience. So Buhrer is getting pitty minutes essentially and Horo is playing full 80min, i.e Horo>>Buhrer

Refer to my previous post in this thread about Buhrer - Toovey/Hasler have made sure Buhrer has got plenty of petrol in the tank to cover injuries to 6, 7, etc. In the meantime he is used in small bursts to give the backrowers a break. Awesome coaching tactics I think....... ;-)

 

[Casper The Ghost]

Ken Thornett never won a premiership. I think more than Hayne not winning a premiership (which he may never do) is the competition he is up against for best ever Parra player. Guys like Thornett and Sterling and Price (in particular) and Mick Cronin, would all give Hayne a run for his money.

Cronulla and North Queenland are in the unenviable position of never winning a premiership.

We had fantastic players, two or three that I rate in front of Hayne, that won premierships. I think a premiership/s certainly come into the equation when trying to decide a clubs greatest player.

It's going to take at least another 4 to 7 years before Hayne could surpass Ray Price and even then Jarryd will have had to continue the extraordinary which may require the winning of a few premierships too.

The Perpetual Motion of Ray Price and what he achieved during his long career demonstrated his toughness, never say die attitude AND his brilliant footy brain. Peter Sterling & Brett Kenny may not have gone as far as they did, particularly during their early years in top grade, without Ray Price (and Mick Cronin to a tiny tiny lesser degree) looking over their shoulders.

The retirement of Ray Price (and Mick Cronin) was the door closing on our once great club. We've NEVER achieved ANYTHING like the days of Ray Price when we got into 7 Grand Finals between 1976 to 1986 (11 years). Some 27 seasons later our trophy cabinet is empty and ONLY two great Eels players have appeared since... Nathan Hindmarsh & Jarryd Hayne (posthumous notion for Jamie Lyon). Can you comprehend what heights these two players would have achieved if they had Ray Price playing at his best with them at lock????? Enter the greatness of Peter Sterling, Brett Kenny, etc... thanks to Ray Price, the KING of PARRA present amongst them.

So good was Ray Price that he must become an immortal in the near future. Suggesting Jarryd Hayne is the best Eel ever will still be construed by many Eels fans to be a massive insult to Ray Price and to the millions of Eels fans who supported Ray and the Eels between 1976 and 1986.

f**k, if Ray Price played part time like Wally Lewis did in Qld until he joined the Broncos, Ray would have been the King of Origin.... but poor ole Ray was playing mostly nine months per year of top grade wear and tear Rugby League for many years prior the emergence of Wally Lewis and for many many years after Wally appeared and continued as a part timer.

The ONLY other player that comes near to Ray Price or to his equal is Johnny Raper. Even the playing career of Ken Thornett (who I've seen play many many times) does not come anywhere near the high standards and class of Ray Price.

Wally Lewis, Bob Fulton, Reg Gasnier, Andrew Johns, etc, are no doubt immortals of our game but f**k, none of them can match what Ray Price achieved, even with a battered body brutalized by nasty nasty opponents.

 

[Poupou Escobar]

Who the bloke missing his penis? You'd reckon a penis would be worth more than 50k

Well according to this policy, there is a price for every missing body bit except todgers. Maybe it counts as a limb? Then you're entitled to up to a quarter of a million, depending on level of cover.

 

[yy_cheng]

I think Peats could be our next ray price

 

[Poupou Escobar]

I hope he's got just as much to say when his career's over.

 

[Casper The Ghost]

I think we should be going after Tedesco with a red hot cheque book. Getting Tedesco now will cover the loss of Tonga & possibly Hoppa by the end of our 2015 season. Tedesco, Hayne & Norman can cover 1, 3, 4, 6. Over the next 5 seasons or so these options are awesome for us. f**k the Bulldogs... its payback time. Get Tedesco.

1. Tedesco
2. Sio (or another of our emerging juniors coming through or Faraimo)
3. Hoppa or Hayne
4. Tonga or Hayne
5 Semi
6. Hayne or Norman
7. Sandow

Norman on the bench as another utility to cover 1, 3, 4, 6, 7, 11, 12, 13.

We ALREADY HAVE a young powerful emerging pack of forwards that at worst ONLY needs to contain their opposition pack and our back line will blast all other teams out of the water. Sure, we could do with buying another bookend BUT have hopes for Lasalo coming through by next year.

Ualesi
Santi
Junior Paulo
Maero (coming through in a few years)
Tanginoa
Edwards
Mau
Peats
possibly Buhrer (utility)
Mannah
Lussick
Terepo
Loko
Mossop
Allgood
Santi
Ma'afu
Gower
Pauli Pauli
Vai Toutai (I reckon he will become another explosive destructive backrower in a few years time)

Pritchard
ZDC

Rest in peace Ben Smith, Fui Fui Moi Moi & Joseph Paulo unless Paulo pulls his crab-shit together and becomes another TOUGH motherf**king backrower with silky skills used wisely like Watmough and Glen Stewart do most of the "time".

Then we have other backs coming through including Pritchard and ZDC...

Hunt
Morgan
Pewhairangi
Faraimo
Falou
Vai Toutai (in the backs for a few more years before shifting permanently to the forwards)

Rest in peace Luke Kelly

One of the major issues in all of this is the utility players in Norman, Hunt and Buhrer if we purchase him.

Along the way we will have to let go of a few players but we have the nucleus of a top 4 squad peaking many times over the next 4 to 8 years.

To cover the possible loss of Sandow, Morgan, Toutai, Sio by end of 2015 we have...
Joey Lussick
Corey Makelim
Fabian Goodall
Erick Aukofolau
Nathan Davis
Bevan French
etc
etc
coming through ..........

 

[yy_cheng]

I would go for Fifita

8. Junior Paulo
9. Peats
10. Fifita
11. Edwards
12. Mau
13. Lussick

14. Pauli/Uasele
15. Peni
16. Mossop
17. Tanginoa

That would be a nice pack.

I would be happy to let Mannah go for Fifita.

WOuld love JWH as well.