Rumours and Stuff

[T.S Quint]

Can we sign some f**king decent players for 2019 please!!!!

We've signed three already!
Ferguson, Paulo and Lane are great signings.

 

[hindy111]

We've signed three already!
Ferguson, Paulo and Lane are great signings.

And unless we release guys there isnt any room for more.
Heck I dont see spots for Hoffman,Taka or Bevan already.

 

[Stevie]

And unless we release guys there isnt any room for more.
Heck I dont see spots for Hoffman,Taka or Bevan already.

Would you care to list our team then Hindy as you see it barring injuries?

 

[Poupou Escobar]

Source????

Source for what? That we were desperate to pay merkins outside the cap? The source is the fact we cheated. Source for other clubs paying players outside the cap? Look at the same teams finishing top four most years.

 

[Bolgeel]

The Black Citrus, etc was run by the son by the disgraced ex NSW pollie Obied which was my mail.

Yes the Thoroughbreds are 'independent' of the Broncos but somehow always seem to know when they need a TPA. Strange about that!

Or were Sharp & co worried about their jobs? Leadership like Politis shows that a poor club can become a successful club.

Something needs to change, we have little TPAs and are/were under-resourced and funded but continued to lose $10-12m per year. How is that even possible? And our on field results have been deplorable for the majority of the time. Over the last 10 years Parra have won 3 spoons and been to 1 grand final and almost no other finals matches. Not a good result for spending over $20m a year is it?

Just a question....isn’t the main objective of the leagues club to support the football club (of which it owns the nrl license)?? Is the whole 10 mill loss etc comparative to other clubs with a leagues club ownership model..obviously excluding the fact that we have been ultra uncompetitive for decades really.

Excuse my ignorance I’m just asking to understand our financial position v on field success as compared to the likes of the rorters and broncos etc

I think the lack of tpa’s is largely a result of poor cheating and the resulting salary cap scandal in 2016 which has added enormous scrutiny to an already much scrutinized organization

 

[Bolgeel]

My mistake, he was a great signing.

Cost the club around 3 million for half a season played. What a steal.

Terrible signing considering what BA should have known about his injury history

 

[emjaycee]

Terrible signing considering what BA should have known about his injury history

FFS, in the 12 years before he joined us, Watmough played on average no less than 23.1 games PER SEASON. What f**king injury history do people keep referring to that BA should have known about?

Jared W-H and Aaron Woods have averaged only 21 per season but you would all sign them tomorrow.
S Burgess averages just over 20, do we not sign him because he is injury prone? Even the great Cam365847 averages only 23.8, including his many finals appearances.

 

[Poupou Escobar]

Terrible signing considering what BA should have known about his injury history

His injury history? Watmough played 20+ games nine years straight before playing for us. If he was injured it never stopped him playing and at a high level. In his final six games for us before getting season ending surgery he ran for a hundred metres five times.

 

[Poupou Escobar]

FFS, in the 12 years before he joined us, Watmough played on average no less than 23.1 games PER SEASON. What f**king injury history do people keep referring to that BA should have known about?

Jared W-H and Aaron Woods have averaged only 21 per season but you would all sign them tomorrow.
S Burgess averages just over 20, do we not sign him because he is injury prone? Even the great Cam365847 averages only 23.8, including his many finals appearances.

ffs beat me to it

 

[Bolgeel]

His injury history? Watmough played 20+ games nine years straight before playing for us. If he was injured it never stopped him playing and at a high level. In his final six games for us before getting season ending surgery he ran for a hundred metres five times.

Settle down champs...the insurers didn’t pay out because it was a pre-existing injury..correct me if I’m wrong but that is something the former manly assistant would have had an inkling about?? Anyway end result was it was a bad signing imo due to the input he ended up having at the club re games played

 

[chiefy1]

FFS, in the 12 years before he joined us, Watmough played on average no less than 23.1 games PER SEASON. What f**king injury history do people keep referring to that BA should have known about?

Jared W-H and Aaron Woods have averaged only 21 per season but you would all sign them tomorrow.
S Burgess averages just over 20, do we not sign him because he is injury prone? Even the great Cam365847 averages only 23.8, including his many finals appearances.

Watmough was a disastrous signing. A player turning 32 in his first year of a four year deal. That's disgraceful as Parramatta were at the beginning of a rebuilding phase, Watmough was the last player we needed.

It was a selfish signing made by brad to look after his own short term interests and not the long term future of the club. He and other similar signings , are the reason why the club is in need for another major rebuild.

Think of the Bulldogs current rebuild and them offering Aiden Guerra a 4 year contract for example, that would be equivalent to the f-up ba made

 

[Poupou Escobar]

Settle down champs...the insurers didn’t pay out because it was a pre-existing injury..correct me if I’m wrong but that is something the former manly assistant would have had an inkling about?? Anyway end result was it was a bad signing imo due to the input he ended up having at the club re games played

We only let him go because of the cap investigation and the need to get his TPAs off our cap. Likewise Foran. Watmough would've played out his four years if he needed to but because it didn't count against our cap we were happy to let him go.

 

[Poupou Escobar]

Watmough was a disastrous signing. A player turning 32 in his first year of a four year deal. That's disgraceful as Parramatta were at the beginning of a rebuilding phase, Watmough was the last player we needed.

With a bunch of young blokes coming into the team Watmough and Scott were exactly what we needed.

It was a selfish signing made by brad to look after his own short term interests and not the long term future of the club. He and other similar signings , are the reason why the club is in need for another major rebuild.

'Major rebuild'? Like the Roosters when they won six games in 2016? Rebuilds can happen very quickly.

Think of the Bulldogs current rebuild and them offering Aiden Guerra a 4 year contract for example, that would be equivalent to the f-up ba made

Or the Roosters signing a 34 year old Cooper Cronk for one year. Watmough was our best forward while he played with us. Was also our toughest, most experienced, most aggressive and quickest.

 

[chiefy1]

With a bunch of young blokes coming into the team Watmough and Scott were exactly what we needed.

'Major rebuild'? Like the Roosters when they won six games in 2016? Rebuilds can happen very quickly.

Or the Roosters signing a 34 year old Cooper Cronk for one year. Watmough was our best forward while he played with us. Was also our toughest, most experienced, most aggressive and quickest.

Cooper Cronk was the icing on the cake and that extra gear needed for an already top 2 team

We needed to build from the ground up - that's how much you understand pau. F - all

Tell us all the young players who've benifited from the Watmough signing - it really helped in 2018 lol. Fmd pau take a break

 

[emjaycee]

Watmough was a disastrous signing. A player turning 32 in his first year of a four year deal. That's disgraceful as Parramatta were at the beginning of a rebuilding phase, Watmough was the last player we needed.

It was a selfish signing made by brad to look after his own short term interests and not the long term future of the club. He and other similar signings , are the reason why the club is in need for another major rebuild.

Think of the Bulldogs current rebuild and them offering Aiden Guerra a 4 year contract for example, that would be equivalent to the f-up ba made

Geez you are hard work.
You are like a broken record that keep playing the same shit over and over again.

 

[Poupou Escobar]

Cooper Cronk was the icing on the cake and that extra gear needed for an already top 2 team

We needed to build from the ground up - that's how much you understand pau. F - all

No club rebuilds from the ground up. Every year only a portion of their contracts expire. The fact is every team needs experience and aggression, and Watmough provided it when few others in our squad did.

Tell us all the young players who've benifited from the Watmough signing - it really helped in 2018 lol. Fmd pau take a break

Well in 2016 and 2017 they won 29 games. By 2018 Watmough's influence is long gone. Scott only played seven games this year as well.

2018's failure is hardly Watmough's fault. But if he was still at the club maybe everyone wouldn't have gone backwards.

 

[emjaycee]

Cooper Cronk was the icing on the cake and that extra gear needed for an already top 2 team

We needed to build from the ground up - that's how much you understand pau. F - all

Tell us all the young players who've benifited from the Watmough signing - it really helped in 2018 lol. Fmd pau take a break

You may not remember this because of your issue with short-term memory, but do you recall a certain salary cap issue that occurred between signing Watmough and 2018? I reckon that may have had more to do with why our 2018 performance was as shit as it was than the signing of Watmough in 2015.

And for the record, only 4 forwards have made NRL debuts at our club since we signed Watmough and 3 of them were this year. The other one was Daniel Alvaro and I reckon he benefited more from debuting in a team with Watmough than he would of without.

 

[I'm a loser baby...]

Good to see we're all on the same page for once.

 

[chiefy1]

You may not remember this because of your issue with short-term memory, but do you recall a certain salary cap issue that occurred between signing Watmough and 2018? I reckon that may have had more to do with why our 2018 performance was as shit as it was than the signing of Watmough in 2015.

And for the record, only 4 forwards have made NRL debuts at our club since we signed Watmough and 3 of them were this year. The other one was Daniel Alvaro and I reckon he benefited more from debuting in a team with Watmough than he would of without.

You’re delusional

 

[hindy111]

Would you care to list our team then Hindy as you see it barring injuries?

1 Hayne
2 Fergo
3 Guth
4 MJ
5 RJ
6 Norman
7 Moses
8 Alvaro
9 Kaysa/Mahoney
10 Tepai
11 Manu
12 Lane
13 Brown

14 Jnr
15 Terepo
16 Mannah
17 Kafusi