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Burwood

Burwood

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I wouldn't have minded Tilse being picked up by the club either. He may have spent 22 rounds in NSW Cup, but he would have been an old head that provided experience and leadership to the young blokes. No different to Clint Newton's final year with us where we won the reserve grade grand final.
 
Johns Magic

Johns Magic

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21,654
I think Bird is a great footballer and competitor but no idea what his best position actually is? Lock if he bulks up or 6 if he has a controlling 7 to work with I think.

I don't rate him as much at centre and also don't think you can put that much money into a centre. I like him closer to the action.

He has changed his tune from a few weeks ago where he talked about shunning the money on offer from losing teams. Likely his manager got in his ear, I will believe we are a chance when I see it.
 
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Hardcore_Fan

Juniors
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1,489
Toops will be straight into our top 17.

Toops is a better hole runner, has a better offload. All he has to do is make more than 60metres a game and he surpasses sims in every aspect. Sims is a dead set plodder.
 
Mr_Knightside

Mr_Knightside

Juniors
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I don't think Brown is bringing Toupou here to play reserves, I'm pretty confident he'll be in the 17 in come round one.

On value for money I'd say he's an upgrade on Korbin consindering how much Korbin was on and we can assume Toupou is on a pretty minimal amount.
 
Caped Crusader

Caped Crusader

Juniors
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I'm interested in hearing from those guys who think Topps isn't a better option than Sims? What exactly did Sims bring us besides a big hit every 3 games immediately followed up by a stupid penalty?

Topou will be in our 17 imo. He may be older now but he is still a very skillfully, hard working forward
 
T

True blue knights

Juniors
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115
I have to say,we should sit tight on this squad we have now.this year alot of signings could come our way,nathan brown even said we are further under the cap then any other club.when mullen pushed aside we will have plenty of coin.
 
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K-Man

Bench
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I'd like to know what the plan for Wardle is because it impacts a lot of other positions / players.

If Brown sees him as mostly a 2nd rower then surely he's behind Buhrer (left), Sione (right) and Barnett (middle it seems, but could swap with Buhrer). Despite being versatile, Wardle doesn't seem like a bench player because he's not a middle forward and you'd think we would carry three of those (2 props and whoever gives Barnett a spell) plus Randell / Kostjasyn. A wide 2nd rower / centre is a bit of a luxury on the bench we already have Sione to cover the backs if there's an injury.

And if Brown sees Wardle as a defensive left centre then has a big impact on all the other outside backs, of which have plenty. Ross would go to wing and (assuming Phythian is fullback) there would be no place for Pete Mat, Elliot, Gagan, Chanel, Denniss ... which is an awful lot of depth in genuine outside backs to be sitting behind Wardle, who I can only guess is not very fast or creative but is reliable and defensively strong. We need all the help we can get in defence out wide, it's true, but is this the type of player you want inside Ross? Personally I don't want any centre inside Ross because Ross should be the centre.

So while I don't imagine Brown has brought Wardle here as a depth player, I actually can't see how he fits into the top 17 unless he's got skills we haven't heard about. However I try to fit him in, it seems to cause issues fitting in some of our better players in their best positions.

What do others think?

1. Phythian / Pete Mat
2. Sio
3. Gagai
4. Ross
5. Elliot / Gagan / Pete Mat / Chanel Mat
6. Lamb
7. Hodkinson
8. Mataora
9. Levi
10. D Saifiti
11. Sione
12. Buhrer
13. Barnett

14. Randell
15. J Saifiti (I can't see Wardle taking this spot)
16. Starling
17. Tupou / Stockwell / Pauli (when fit) / King
 
Johns Magic

Johns Magic

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K-Man said:
I'd like to know what the plan for Wardle is because it impacts a lot of other positions / players.

If Brown sees him as mostly a 2nd rower then surely he's behind Buhrer (left), Sione (right) and Barnett (middle it seems, but could swap with Buhrer). Despite being versatile, Wardle doesn't seem like a bench player because he's not a middle forward and you'd think we would carry three of those (2 props and whoever gives Barnett a spell) plus Randell / Kostjasyn. A wide 2nd rower / centre is a bit of a luxury on the bench we already have Sione to cover the backs if there's an injury.

And if Brown sees Wardle as a defensive left centre then has a big impact on all the other outside backs, of which have plenty. Ross would go to wing and (assuming Phythian is fullback) there would be no place for Pete Mat, Elliot, Gagan, Chanel, Denniss ... which is an awful lot of depth in genuine outside backs to be sitting behind Wardle, who I can only guess is not very fast or creative but is reliable and defensively strong. We need all the help we can get in defence out wide, it's true, but is this the type of player you want inside Ross? Personally I don't want any centre inside Ross because Ross should be the centre.

So while I don't imagine Brown has brought Wardle here as a depth player, I actually can't see how he fits into the top 17 unless he's got skills we haven't heard about. However I try to fit him in, it seems to cause issues fitting in some of our better players in their best positions.

What do others think?

1. Phythian / Pete Mat
2. Sio
3. Gagai
4. Ross
5. Elliot / Gagan / Pete Mat / Chanel Mat
6. Lamb
7. Hodkinson
8. Mataora
9. Levi
10. D Saifiti
11. Sione
12. Buhrer
13. Barnett

14. Randell
15. J Saifiti (I can't see Wardle taking this spot)
16. Starling
17. Tupou / Stockwell / Pauli (when fit) / King
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I haven't seen the guy play, but a couple of weeks back he said his preference is to play backrow rather than centre, "but happy to play wherever Browny wants". My guess is that means the plan is to play backrow.

One thing that hasn't been floated is the chance of Levi playing 80 mins now that Kostjasyn looks out for a fair while? I don't think he has done it at NRL level yet but he's a year older and apparently injury-free so I guess it's an option. Buhrer as cover if an injury happens mid-game.

In that case you could scratch Randell from your bench for Wardle. It would be a forward-heavy bench but Sharks and Storm both ran with four forwards on the bench most of last year.

A bloke like Starling doesn't have to play many minutes.
 
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