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If we sign him away from his current club then I'm certain he will walk straight into our top 17 since he will be in the top 17 salaries. In fact our recruitment (as at any club) will include a focus on not making well paid players redundant.
How about playing him for 15 minutes, giving him a rest for 15, playing him for 10, resting for the duration of halftime and then bringing him off when he starts to drag arse in defence (probably at about the 50 minute mark). That's 35 minutes of game time for three interchanges. Then he can go back on later if game conditions require.
I don't need stats to see that we obviously miss his defence while he's off. Because of that it's impossible to quantify how much of our reduced performance is down to his missing leadership as well.
I don't recall him saying that. I remember him saying he just wanted to go home when he finished training. In my experience plenty of leaders keep some distance from the people they lead.
I thought Scott would provide good leadership too. Now he's team captain.
Well I'm not, because I have the facts of Arthur gunning to sign Foran and then making him captain.
I don't think he made an error of judgement at all. He knew Foran as a strong leader at Manly and signed him to provide leadership here (as well as the profile to represent the team as captain). Good judgement. Then when new information came to light that Foran was not committed to the club and was also likely to hurt the club's image he dumped him. More good judgement.
I'd say for all his faults, Arthur knows Foran better than either of us, and he saw Foran's leadership before he signed him. Otherwise why would he make him captain?
Agreed. His credibility is now seriously compromised, which will hurt his ability to influence other players.
I now some will laugh and disagree but if we got Marshall for one year on a cheap contract ( around $200k), it wouldn't be a bad option.
Given how valuable halves are, there wouldn't be a top 17 (top 13 obviously) half in the game on less than about $400k next year. We might get Marshall cheaper than that on a multi-year deal, but given his next contract could be the last one he ever signs he won't be in a hurry to sign a one year deal on the cheap.
Yeah even $300k would be decent value. But he may not have many options very soon, also I think he pretty much can't / won't leave Sydney due to his wife's career / preference which further limits his options.
