The following Broncos players are off contract, Isaako, Lodge, Pangi Jnr and Su'a. Parra should target all these and you'll never know might jag one, if nothing else it'll push their price up for the Broncos to retain. They have at least another 3 good forwards coming thru so don't have enough room let alone money to retain them all.
Spot on Glenneel. But posters like Pou will say, "how do you know we are not?", bullshit he and other carry on with.
I'll tell you how not, because if Parra were serious about prising a player of that quality from the Broncos, it would be all over the news guaranteed. You can't make a serious offer to one of these blokes or more without that leaking out. No way. And it wouldn't necessarily come from the Eels camp either.
It would probably come from the players management, trying to put public pressure on the Broncos for a better offer. But in reality it would probably come from almost all parties involved giving scoops to their jurno mates as it so often does. Rub my back and I'll rub yours kind of stuff that is always going on.
There virtually are no secrets in RL, especially when it comes to Parra, and the clicks it creates for any good news story. Around 99% of our signings have been in the news way before they actually sign. There has been nothing, I mean nothing of any of these players being connected to us, which I find staggering considering that we are definitely in desperate need of quality upgrades in the forwards still, with either a frontrower or backrower if not both, and here are so many available at one club and we don't seem to be interested in forcing the Broncos hand.
Isn't the old adage, they can't keep them all applicable here?