Rumoured Signings

[Spot On]

Like for like.

Same sort of cash too.

 

[Spot On]

Why would they need to move players on? They lost Maloney, SBW and RTS, plus Minicello retiring and so on...

Beetson and Freddy as well.

TBH I'm interested from a selfish pov. It may provide another recruit for Newy. I'm all for the Sombrero joke re the Roosters but if they fit Cronk (Tedesco) in something has to give.

Surely.

 

[Cockadoodledoo]

Pearce to Souths is the rumour to fit in Cronk.

 

[AlwaysGreen]

Pearce to Souths is the rumour to fit in Cronk.

Lol, please make this so.

 

[Mr Angry]

Sam Williams confirmed @ Canberra via Twitter

 

[SBD82]

Lol, please make this so.

Oh god. I need this in my life.

 

[POPEYE]

Ryan Hoffman should be free to Melbourne

 

[mozza91]

Ryan Hoffman should be free to Melbourne

A free boat maybe.

 

[Artful Dodger]

Todd Carney met with 2 Intrust Super Cup Coaches last week looking for a possible preseason with their NRL affiliate, one of which isnt based in QLD or NSW...

 

[POPEYE]

Pearce to Souths is the rumour to fit in Cronk.

Maybe Inglis could go back to Melbourne so Souths can fit in Cronk . . . that would be better

 

[Lambretta]

If Souths want to f**k the Roosters all they have to do is offer to take Pearce and pay $1 of his contract freeing up no space in the Roosters cap

The Roosters have re-signed players so they need players to genuinely sign for other clubs and for those clubs to take all of their cap money

I can see Friend going to Newcastle and Pearce playing hooker for Easts
But that would need the Roosters to offload a couple of others to accomodate Cronk surely

Cronk would be a 1 or 2 year signing at best
Unless Pearce can go and all his cap taken elsewhere I don't see how Easts can afford Cronk - Sombrero or not

 

[Spot On]

If Cronk were to agree to 2 years at the Roosters then Pearce would be shown the door in a heartbeat.

Surely.

 

[typicalfan]

Pearce couldn’t handle the 50 tackles a game Jake provides and be any use in attack or anything for that matter.

 

[Captain Apollo]

If Souths want to f**k the Roosters all they have to do is offer to take Pearce and pay $1 of his contract freeing up no space in the Roosters cap

The Roosters have re-signed players so they need players to genuinely sign for other clubs and for those clubs to take all of their cap money

I can see Friend going to Newcastle and Pearce playing hooker for Easts
But that would need the Roosters to offload a couple of others to accomodate Cronk surely

Cronk would be a 1 or 2 year signing at best
Unless Pearce can go and all his cap taken elsewhere I don't see how Easts can afford Cronk - Sombrero or not

Pearce has never played hooker in his career. I cannot see, at age 28, him starting now. He is not a hooker. He would have to put on muscle, and he would need to improve his tackling technique as well as his endurance.

 

[Rhino_NQ]

Pearce sigming for souffs would rake the lols to a level that is yet to exist

 

[RHYTHM AND STEALTH]

Todd Carney met with 2 Intrust Super Cup Coaches last week looking for a possible preseason with their NRL affiliate, one of which isnt based in QLD or NSW...

PNG hunters?????

 

[POPEYE]

Why would they need to move players on? They lost Maloney, SBW and RTS, plus Minicello retiring and so on...

Exactly . . . the only thing in RL a Melbourne supporter is envious of is how well the Roosters handle the salary cap

 

[Rhino_NQ]

PNG hunters?????

Considering the team them self ran 2 players out of the camp in their first preseason for having booze when it was a unanimous ban I would picture toddy ended up tied to a pole slowly rotating over a fire

 

[no name]

Pearce has never played hooker in his career. I cannot see, at age 28, him starting now. He is not a hooker. He would have to put on muscle, and he would need to improve his tackling technique as well as his endurance.

Different players and situations, but Wallace was moved to hooker when he was 30 and he turned out better than everyone thought.
Pearce is a bigger body as well.

 

[AJB1102]

Different players and situations, but Wallace was moved to hooker when he was 30 and he turned out better than everyone thought.
Pearce is a bigger body as well.

Pearce has way more talent but Wallace is smarter and got more mongrel.

Pearce wouldn't need to play hooker. Plenty of Clubs would fall over themselves to get him at halfback, I don't think the Chooks would have any problem offloading him and a significant portion of his salary.

Take Friend's work out of that side and the forwards are even less effective. They'd be cannon fodder up the guts with Mitch at #9.