Rumoured/Confirmed Signings and More Crap XX

[Casper The Ghost]

thank f**king god

Is God BA?

 

[The Elephant In The room]

Richie's clearance is official!

http://www.parraeels.com.au/news/2015/04/02/fa_aoso_receives_lon.html

Even with a run of injuries I still think he is down the list. In the prop rotation he is behind;
Mannah
Paulo (suspended)
Wicks
Lussick
Gower
Probably in front of Terepo, but Peni has game time under his belt and put in a decent performance last weekend.

IMO if Richie gets a run, we are in big trouble.

 

[Casper The Ghost]

Richie to Wenty for a few weeks.

 

[I bleed blue & gold]

I agree. But like i've said before, he is a decent option to have.

 

[Poupou Escobar]

With currently 9 players unavaliable (Pauli, Jnr, Tautai, Taka, champion, pritchard, Semi, Edwards, Fa'aoso) a maximum of 2 players will have played outside the top 25(falou, Faraimo) assuming all those 9 are in the top 25. Now you could argue Tautai, Champion and Fa'aoso are not top 25.

We have used 21 players in first grade so far this year, and other than Folau I'd say all of them would certainly be in the top 25. Maybe Wicks is on a second tier base contract with a large match payments component, as is possibly Beau Champion (though unlikely).

 

[Poupou Escobar]

Surely Wicks wasn't Top 25 to start with

Yeah I wouldn't be surprised if he wasn't, but we must have offered more than other clubs or else why sign with us? A second tier contract costs virtually nothing. Most clubs would have been keen to take a chance on him for zero impact on the cap.

 

[hindy111]

Casper you said post of the year by Caylo. But he mentioned morgan and terepo beeing a waste of money. Morgan has been good.And we are lucky too have him for this year with the dud signing of champion.

 

[hindy111]

As far as prop rotation- I say nothing wrong if there all firing to give guys a week off.
That way we can play with HIGH intensity week in week out.
You take 9 forwards into the game. If all fit and de gois makes way for Jnr Paulo. You will have Fa'asso-Pauli-Terepo ready to go.I dont have an issue with giving them a game every few weeks and resting a guy.
I doubt it will be an issue thou as you always have 1-2 injuries

 

[Eelementary]

Tamou has played Origin and for Australia. He mightn't be the player he was, on form if not ability, but he is far from useless.

At the right price he is a good signing (like anybody).

The right price would be a pie and a Coke every match, as well as paying back every cent he's stolen from the Cowboys over the years.

The guy is softer than my mini-Eele after watching "Two Girls, One Cup"...

 

[half_back]

We have used 21 players in first grade so far this year, and other than Folau I'd say all of them would certainly be in the top 25. Maybe Wicks is on a second tier base contract with a large match payments component, as is possibly Beau Champion (though unlikely).

Wicks is Top 25 as is Champion. Faraimo will be the second after Folau from the second teir.

 

[Poupou Escobar]

Yeah that sounds right.

 

[Noise]

The right price would be a pie and a Coke every match, as well as paying back every cent he's stolen from the Cowboys over the years.

The guy is softer than my mini-Eele after watching "Two Girls, One Cup"...

Shit for a second there I thought mini-eele was ur kid and you showed him 2 girls and a cup!!

 

[Bigfella]

Yeah that sounds right.

It might sound right but it doesn't look right

The I should come before the e

 

[Eelementary]

Shit for a second there I thought mini-eele was ur kid and you showed him 2 girls and a cup!!

:lol: Oh, shit!

 

[Poupou Escobar]

It might sound right but it doesn't look right

The I should come before the e

I wouldn't know. I get my team of assistants to read everyone's posts to me in a variety of funny voices while I stand at my 40th story office window gazing at the streets below.

You sound like Seinfeld, by the way.

 

[caylo]

Casper you said post of the year by Caylo. But he mentioned morgan and terepo beeing a waste of money. Morgan has been good.And we are lucky too have him for this year with the dud signing of champion.

At full strength champion and taka are ahead of Morgan and i think you'd safely assume he was 3rd choice centre. He is a waste of cap space because he is on more then a 3rd choice centre form all reports. He adds value to the team as he is an excellent back up player but at the moment he offers no monetary value because he is over paid.

Originally Posted by Poupou Escobar
We have used 21 players in first grade so far this year, and other than Folau I'd say all of them would certainly be in the top 25. Maybe Wicks is on a second tier base contract with a large match payments component, as is possibly Beau Champion (though unlikely).

Your right we have used 21 players but i assume KE, Pauli, kaysa, kelly and tautai are top 25 and unused so thats atleast 26 players meaning we are using players outside top 25

 

[hineyrulz]

The right price would be a pie and a Coke every match, as well as paying back every cent he's stolen from the Cowboys over the years.

The guy is softer than my mini-Eele after watching "Two Girls, One Cup"...

:lol::lol::lol:

Agreed, Tamou is a massive cat and still living off one good season.

 

[Pazza]

He's coming off a neck injury.

 

[Eelementary]

He's coming off a neck injury.

I've never rated the bloke.

Watch how Fa'aoso plays when he leaves up for us - he's coming back from a neck injury, too.

If Tamou ran like Gallen or Moimoi, and combined it with his footwork and skills, he'd be the best prop in the game.

But he's a cat, and the apparent fact we are keen makes me sad.

 

[Casper The Ghost]

Casper you said post of the year by Caylo. But he mentioned morgan and terepo beeing a waste of money. Morgan has been good.And we are lucky too have him for this year with the dud signing of champion.

I stand corrected Hindy111 or is that healed?

There was an improvement in Morgan's game last Friday but nothing for me to jump up and down about..... yet. I'm not sold on him. I used to think he was a better player a few years ago but he seems to have gone downhill since then. We can do better. Looking forward to see who BA acquires as a centre, winger or fullback before June 30th 2015.

Terepo played his best game for us against Soufs last Friday.
If this standard is maintained over the coming month or so then my doubts about him are removed and I will want him to stay on our books for years to come.