Rumoured / Confirmed Signings

[Ozzi_78]

With the buy this week I’m expecting a number of players to sort out their future.

Perfect timing as it’s given us enough time to see where things are at.

If they need some help I can offer them some guidance

 

[Ozzi_78]

The dragons going for Drinkwater at 1M?????

I’d be furious if we signed him for 600k. He is absolute dog shit. 1M fmd. No way.

 

[glenmoresharkie]

At least we don’t offer ridiculous money to completely overrated players in key positions….

 

[Since 73]

Player wages are a false currency.
1M for drinkwater is like $12 for a loaf of bread.
Nobody would pay that but if its the last loaf on the shelf then its worth what someone will pay for it.

It will only get worse.
More teams means more games on Fox each weekend.
Which means a bigger tv deal.

So we will have 20 teams soon. Perth. PNG. Outer Mongolia.
Teams in remote places where the best players will never move to, and these franchises will never win a comp.
Never.
Ever.

Drinkwater has to be offered a Mill to get him to even think of going to that shitshow called The Dargons.
Its not about what he's worth.
Perth would have to offer him more.

Perth are putting together a team of bench players like Wishart and Sifa.
This in turn weakens the benches and depth of the teams they're currently at.

Imagine how good the comp would be with 10 teams. The 10 best fullbacks vying for spots.

But you can't only have 5 games a weekend.

 

[PJ]

At least we don’t offer ridiculous money to completely overrated players in key positions….

Yet

 

[PJ]

Player wages are a false currency.
1M for drinkwater is like $12 for a loaf of bread.
Nobody would pay that but if its the last loaf on the shelf then its worth what someone will pay for it.

It will only get worse.
More teams means more games on Fox each weekend.
Which means a bigger tv deal.

So we will have 20 teams soon. Perth. PNG. Outer Mongolia.
Teams in remote places where the best players will never move to, and these franchises will never win a comp.
Never.
Ever.

Drinkwater has to be offered a Mill to get him to even think of going to that shitshow called The Dargons.
Its not about what he's worth.
Perth would have to offer him more.

Perth are putting together a team of bench players like Wishart and Sifa.
This in turn weakens the benches and depth of the teams they're currently at.

Imagine how good the comp would be with 10 teams. The 10 best fullbacks vying for spots.

But you can't only have 5 games a weekend.

14 teams, each playing each other twice.

RL is getting near unwatchable for me and I agree completely it will just get worse with 2 whole new squads coming in.

 

[glenmoresharkie]

Yet

I was talking about Hynes haha

 

[Since 73]

14 teams, each playing each other twice.

RL is getting near unwatchable for me and I agree completely it will just get worse with 2 whole new squads coming in.

There are guys playing first grade who are not first grade level.

Come back in 25 years when there's 40 teams.
2 Conferences.
A game every night.

Ramien will be 45 and Captain of Manila on 3M a season

 

[Inferno]

It is curious Drinkwater has knocked back the Dargons initial offer.

Haven't the Cows made it clear they're not going to retain him? I wouldn't have thought he was likely to be flush with offers.

 

[Go Nulla]

It is curious Drinkwater has knocked back the Dargons initial offer.

Haven't the Cows made it clear they're not going to retain him? I wouldn't have thought he was likely to be flush with offers.

I wouldn’t play at the Dargons for $2M ….. $3M maybe.

 

[Craigshark]

Drinkwater is good in a side that is going well. He’d be shocking at the dragons. His defence is also non existent.

 

[Since 73]

The 6 again helps some players more than others.
It helps drinkwater.

It helps running players who can target tired defenders.

On that point Hynes should be running 300m a game.

Thats how bad he's going at the moment.

 

[Chimp]

Drinkwater is good in a side that is going well. He’d be shocking at the dragons. His defence is also non existent.

Weird isn’t it - especially when they’ve got the arse with Sloan over his defensive weakness. If you’re going to pay a squillion for Drinky, you might aswell have gone all out on Sloan and given him free reign to play as though it’s touch.

The 6 again helps some players more than others.
It helps drinkwater.

It helps running players who can target tired defenders.

On that point Hynes should be running 300m a game.

Thats how bad he's going at the moment.

Agree 100%. He looks so fragile when running the ball. Compare and contrast with Adam Douhie, a bloke who really could be forgiven for being worried about getting injured again.

 

[Quigs]

It's all happening Reg !

The guillotine is being sharpened and the scaffold platform is being erected.

 

[Go Nulla]

Let’s the bastards bleed.

 

[Special K]

Flanno went for a sugar hit with his purchases. It makes sense to go for high character guys like gutherson, cook etc but the reality is they were cooked before they rocked up. They can only train so hard off the field but it hasn't helped them on it.

Flanno did the same shit when he bought Woods, Dugan, SJ etc here. Players on paper who have a profile and you could I guess make a story to sign but they did not fit or club or culture.

Probably it for him now.

 

[DJDL]

Sadly for him, he seems unemployable in this space.