Riki is likely to sign with the Dolphins, I'm told. Not certainty by any means, but they are monitoring for depth coverage.
Geyer will get his chance next year but needs to work on a few things so still pretty raw.
The others way too raw.
At the moment we've got Salmon running around moonlighting as a backrower. Now he's done...ok...against meh teams but against good teams - not having that competent edge off the bench will hurt.
Garner may be defensively deficient when he's asked to defend at centre, but as a backrower he's had his moments in his career and has a good line run in him. In our system, I think he'd be a different kind of player. He is not a Kikau replacement, he's a Capewell one.
Now I don't think we can adequately replace Kikau. Not unless TPJ miraculously hits the market and decides to play here for half price. But what we can maybe do is get two players to have the same energy and through a full 80 minutes to replicate it maybe.
So maybe they are trying the moneyball strat...I dunno. But I don't think there's too many like for like's for Kik's that are going to be willing to accept the money that Penrith can offer.
Not unless, we do like Kikau and find one in lower grades/juniors at another club - and develop them like Kikau - but again....need a stop-gap.
