Rumoured Targets 3

[HarVeeGee]

succession plans we would win the spoon every year for. Two talented English kids who we have done nothing with. Pryce basically lost 18 months of his career here.

Don’t give me the ESL is different BS. look at the kids Ricky brings out. Nicholson is an absolute gun. Smithies old school hardened. And we should have had proper crack at Morgan Knowles. He is hard As nails.

Ricky Stuart may be top three development coaches in the game now. He has proven the long game works. But also has the record at Raiders to back their faith in him.

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Same sort of ladder finishes people want AOB fired for.

Grass is always greener on the other side I guess.

Let's wait and see whether a single young spine player pans out to be elite under him before we call him a great development coach.

Smithies is a spud.

 

[HarVeeGee]

F**** off with your Captain Hindsight bullshit.

Maybe if you had bothered to join this forum back then, you would have seen plenty of people questioning Pearce’s ability to control a game. Was Reynolds ever on the radar, maybe not. Could we have outbid Brisbane, maybe not. But he did become available and we’d already shot our load on a guy who was absolutely outclassed during Blake Green’s 3 game stint, and who was apparently begging for us to sign Kieren Foran prior to that, because he couldn’t do what was needed.

Did we have a succession plan? Probably not. That shows how pathetic we have been in that regard. It should have been worked on day 1 of Pearce’s arrival.

I'm specifically questioning the "if we didn't keep Pearce we could have gotten Reynolds" rationale though.

Saying you didn't like Pearce and wanted him to not be re-signed is fine, whatever. We won more games with him in the team than any other player since Joey pretty much, but you're entitled to your opinion. But the "keeping Pearce was a sign of inept admin" take because it robbed us of our ability to go after Reynolds, THAT'S where hindsight bias comes in.

I've never been dissed for not joining an Internet forum though, that's new lol

 

[SamSepi0l]

Anyway back in the present and reality - what's the feeling here on Dom?

For me we covered his defensive issues with Gags decently and he immediately fixes our metres problem. Having the 1-2 of Young and Marz would be nice.

 

[slotmachine]

I'll drive down to Sydney and bring him back today if he's keen.

 

[Loose Cannon]

I'm specifically questioning the "if we didn't keep Pearce we could have gotten Reynolds" rationale though.

Saying you didn't like Pearce and wanted him to not be re-signed is fine, whatever. We won more games with him in the team than any other player since Joey pretty much, but you're entitled to your opinion. But the "keeping Pearce was a sign of inept admin" take because it robbed us of our ability to go after Reynolds, THAT'S where hindsight bias comes in.

I've never been dissed for not joining an Internet forum though, that's new lol

Yeah, well no one said “if we didn’t keep Pearce we could have got Reynolds”.

More like, “Pearce is not up to it, let’s see if there are options out there which provide better value for money”. Reynolds presented very shortly thereafter. Would have needed a big swing, but we had already made our one and only play. (Basically the equivalent of the short ball to Fitzgibbon).

Those of us who were here at the time did discuss it with various opinions. No hindsight required.

 

[Yosh]

Might make an impact on the field but doubt he'll make any impact on our ladder position. If he wants to come back for the cheap, no loss for us.

 

[Knight Tales]

5th
10th
8th
8th
9th

Same sort of ladder finishes people want AOB fired for.

Grass is always greener on the other side I guess.

Let's wait and see whether a single young spine player pans out to be elite under him before we call him a great development coach.

Smithies is a spud.

He has them on side and they play for him. Can’t say the same for our boy. He also recruits far better than us. Their juniors are all way more grade ready than ours.

 

[macavity]

Feel the dom thing is all media driven. He is getting paid to get laid in Bondi. Living the pommy dream.

 

[IcemanCleary]

Anybody hear the rumour that penrith are looking at buying Tyson Frizell

 

[ryan.a87]

Anybody hear the rumour that penrith are looking at buying Tyson Frizell

Will trade frizell and Cogger for Yeo and Cleary plz

 

[IcemanCleary]

Will trade frizell and Cogger for Yeo and Cleary plz

I will counter that you can have soni Luke and Matt eisenhuth for frizell and cogger

 

[SamSepi0l]

He has them on side and they play for him. Can’t say the same for our boy. He also recruits far better than us. Their juniors are all way more grade ready than ours.

A lot of fluff that has gotten them... Nothing.

 

[AusKnightRKO]

succession plans we would win the spoon every year for. Two talented English kids who we have done nothing with. Pryce basically lost 18 months of his career here.

Don’t give me the ESL is different BS. look at the kids Ricky brings out. Nicholson is an absolute gun. Smithies old school hardened. And we should have had proper crack at Morgan Knowles. He is hard As nails.

Ricky Stuart may be top three development coaches in the game now. He has proven the long game works. But also has the record at Raiders to back their faith in him.

Halves from the ESL are absolutely garbage, there’s a reason average halves from here look like world beaters over there, Ricky gets forwards 90% of the time, they are always likely to pan out better.

 

[Knight Tales]

A lot of fluff that has gotten them... Nothing.

A Grand Final appearance! Underachiever.