Rumours and Stuff

[Twizzle]

Problem with Musgrove is that he isn't already a SoO player so half the posters on here won't give him a go and will find a way to write him off as a shit signing before he even arrives (if rumour is true).

well hopefully BA has spoken to him

 

[Joshuatheeel]

Problem with Musgrove is that he isn't already a SoO player so half the posters on here won't give him a go and will find a way to write him off as a shit signing before he even arrives (if rumour is true).

Hasn’t played NRL this year as it looks like he has been injured a fair bit.

Considering 2017 was his first year of NRL, his stats look ok averaging 100 or so metres and 21 tackles a game (at 94% success rate). Pretty good and props don’t mature until mid 20’s.

Looks like a smart signing if correct (obviously dependant on cost)

 

[84 Baby]

All Musgrove has to do is display more effort than Vave and he’ll be an upgrade on pretty much anyone.

Vave ffs! Just.... I’d be embarrassed. I’d really take a hard look at how that happens

 

[hineyrulz]

Problem with Musgrove is that he isn't already a SoO player so half the posters on here won't give him a go and will find a way to write him off as a shit signing before he even arrives (if rumour is true).

And he doesn’t look fat enough.

 

[Glenneel]

Exactly. We are badly out of form, with most of our team a long way from their best. Something is wrong in the club, and it might be the coach, or it might be his problem to fix. He has a year left on contract. It’s very exciting.

What's very exciting? The fact we are running dead last? Or that the players are busting their guts and stupid errors are losing us games? Or that its obvious a BA instruction that we not kick for goals from penalties? That alone has cost us 2-3 games so far. Or that there are genuine quality players out there signing with every club bar us? Sorry this year is anything but exciting, like Thursdays nites game where we the best team for 75 mins yet still lost which rips your guts out.

Our review should look at us changing our name to Parramatta Bears and have the motto 'Snatching defeat from the jaws of victory', sorry NS Bears.

 

[Gronk]

What's very exciting? The fact we are running dead last? Or that the players are busting their guts and stupid errors are losing us games? Or that its obvious a BA instruction that we not kick for goals from penalties? That alone has cost us 2-3 games so far. Or that there are genuine quality players out there signing with every club bar us? Sorry this year is anything but exciting, like Thursdays nites game where we the best team for 75 mins yet still lost which rips your guts out.

Our review should look at us changing our name to Parramatta Bears and have the motto 'Snatching defeat from the jaws of victory', sorry NS Bears.

I think you need a break mate.

 

[Glenneel]

Fits the “bigger body” criteria - around 192cm / 110kg

Good player if true but not the quality we should be buying tho. Looks like we're going thru the bargain basement bin again looking for players. There's always this bald dishevelled bloke looking in it every day according to my sources.

 

[Barry O'Speedwagon]

What's very exciting? The fact we are running dead last? Or that the players are busting their guts and stupid errors are losing us games? Or that its obvious a BA instruction that we not kick for goals from penalties? That alone has cost us 2-3 games so far. Or that there are genuine quality players out there signing with every club bar us? Sorry this year is anything but exciting, like Thursdays nites game where we the best team for 75 mins yet still lost which rips your guts out.

Our review should look at us changing our name to Parramatta Bears and have the motto 'Snatching defeat from the jaws of victory', sorry NS Bears.

Irony is just something you use to take the creases out of your shirty, hey?

It's very exciting.

 

[Soren Lorenson]

Good player if true but not the quality we should be buying tho

What do you even mean by this?

 

[Poupou Escobar]

Good player if true but not the quality we should be buying tho. Looks like we're going thru the bargain basement bin again looking for players. There's always this bald dishevelled bloke looking in it every day according to my sources.

Do you reckon the club thinks cheap players are just as good as expensive ones, or is it possible there's a reason we only seem to be looking at cheap forwards now?

These blokes are definitely contracted for next year:

Alvaro
Brown
Evans
Mannah
Ma'u
Moeroa
Paulo
Takairangi

Two questions for you, Glenneel, and I don't want to hear any whinging about which of them shouldn't be contracted at all, because the fact is they are. The two questions are:

1. How many of those eight forwards would be on top 17-sized contracts?

2. How many of your contracted forwards should be on top 17-sized contracts?

For what it's worth, some/all of these merkins are possibly in next year's top 30 as well:

Faingaa
Kaufusi
Lane
Niukore
Stone
Williams

 

[Poupou Escobar]

What do you even mean by this?

He means there's only room under our salary cap for players worth $500k+

 

[Bazal]

Do you reckon the club thinks cheap players are just as good as expensive ones, or is it possible there's a reason we only seem to be looking at cheap forwards now?

These blokes are definitely contracted for next year:

Alvaro
Brown
Evans
Mannah
Ma'u
Moeroa
Paulo
Takairangi

These possibly are (in the top 30):

Faingaa
Kaufusi
Lane
Niukore
Stone

Two questions for you, Glenneel, and I don't want to hear any whinging about which of them shouldn't be contracted at all, because the fact is they are. The two questions are:

1. How many of those eight forwards would be on top 17-sized contracts?

2. How many of your contracted forwards should be on top 17-sized contracts?

EVEN YOUR BACK UPS SHOULD BE F**KEN STATE OF ORIGIN PLAYERS F**KEN!!!

Seriously, the bloke and a couple of others have deadset said that our off contract fringe players shouldn't be replaced with other fringe players. They've got no f**ken idea

 

[Poupou Escobar]

Is Zane Musgrove related to Shane Muspratt?

 

[Poupou Escobar]

#ZshaneMusgratt

 

[Eelementary]

Good player if true but not the quality we should be buying tho. Looks like we're going thru the bargain basement bin again looking for players. There's always this bald dishevelled bloke looking in it every day according to my sources.

Dishevelled?

I'd wager that BA is fitter than a lot of First Grade rugby league players, tbh.

 

[Noise]

I'd wager that BA is fitter than a lot of First Grade rugby league players, tbh.

I’m guessing you mean straight cardiovascular fitness. Because he wouldn’t even be in the ball park when it comes to rugby league match fitness as well as things like speed, power and strength.

 

[Eelementary]

I’m guessing you mean straight cardiovascular fitness. Because he wouldn’t even be in the ball park when it comes to rugby league match fitness as well as things like speed, power and strength.

Of course not.

But then, he doesn't even appear to be in the same ballpark as disheveled, either.

 

[Bazal]

To be fair, dishevelled doesn't mean unfit. It means unkempt...which, you know, BA is a ruggedly handsome man so...

 

[84 Baby]

EVEN YOUR BACK UPS SHOULD BE F**KEN STATE OF ORIGIN PLAYERS F**KEN!!!

Seriously, the bloke and a couple of others have deadset said that our off contract fringe players shouldn't be replaced with other fringe players. They've got no f**ken idea

I get what they want, focussing on top end improvement, but that’s assuming the club can’t multitask recruitment (the regulars will of course make unfounded remarks that they can’t) and after signing superstars, they’ll whinge about depth

 

[Bazal]

I get what they want, focussing on top end improvement, but that’s assuming the club can’t multitask recruitment (the regulars will of course make unfounded remarks that they can’t) and after signing superstars, they’ll whinge about depth

I think you're giving them too much credit mate.

I reckon they just want to whinge so they can say how right they were when the blokes we sign as fringe first graders are playing reserve grade.