Rumours and Stuff

[Avenger]

I reckon we wont be seeing Bevan in the Blue and Gold again... at least not for the next few years.
Personally I think this is a shame because as far as raw talent goes, I would place him as the best to come through at Parra since Jayne. Unfortunately, he is limited to only really being able to play FB in the modern game and that's not available to him in our current squad and he did his dash with his little hissy fit last year.

Is his contract up this year or next ?

 

[Happy MEel]

Is his contract up this year or next ?

Pretty sure it’s this year.

 

[emjaycee]

Is his contract up this year or next ?

This year although the rumours are getting stronger he may have already started his final month with us.

 

[Avenger]

I’m assuming his brother who was in our system has left?

 

[Avenger]

I’d love to know how much we are paying French. Turned out to be a complete dud at NRL level. Made Luke Burt look like Eric Grothe.

 

[gaffer]

No he didn’t get trampled at all, Manu didn’t make sufficient, contact to hold him up or line speed, if anything Mahoney was helping Manu:


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slater would of been lying on the ground to get under burgess before he reached the try line

 

[IFR33K]

I’d love to know how much we are paying French. Turned out to be a complete dud at NRL level. Made Luke Burt look like Eric Grothe.

His career isn’t over just yet. We may of seen him for the last time in eels colours, but he’s far too talented to not be an asset to another team.

 

[Avenger]

His career isn’t over just yet. We may of seen him for the last time in eels colours, but he’s far too talented to not be an asset to another team.

Absolutely. Good luck to him.

 

[Glenneel]

I was at the game and never did I at any point feel like we would lose the game.
We should have won by more had it not been for some atrocious refereeing decisions.
I don't like to use the refs as an excuse but they were very poor last night.

For some reason all the refs seem to hate us. We're the only team to lose a player to sin bin due to a high tackle AND again to lose a player to sin bin for a slap. High tackles and slaps galore by other teams without sin bins being used. Now we're the only team (most probably) to be penalised for a too quick PTB. Wtf?

 

[IFR33K]

This year although the rumours are getting stronger he may have already started his final month with us.

Mjc any real benefit in releasing him this late to a rival club if we don’t replace him with someone outside the club? Is the plan to promote someone outside the top 30, or extend someone already contacted with Bevs money?

 

[Happy MEel]

Mjc any real benefit in releasing him this late to a rival club if we don’t replace him with someone outside the club? Is the plan to promote someone outside the top 30, or extend someone already contacted with Bevs money?

Our squad effectively increases from July 1 as the development squad players become available, so I doubt it’s an internal promotion.

I’d say we’d be looking to recruit externally. DWZ perhaps?

 

[Glenneel]

I agree but with Mahoney we need someone to complement him. I actually think Kaysa (if he wasn't made of glass) would have been great. Mahoney will be an integral part of this side for a while to come.

We definitely need some mentally tough hard heads though. BA has, to his credit, tried this before with Watmough and Scott and needs to again for next season.

The young Brailey (Sharks) is available for next year, worth a try.

 

[emjaycee]

The young Brailey (Sharks) is available for next year, worth a try.

Is he a step up on Mahoney though?
We need an experienced backup for Mahoney (i.e. an Isaac De Gois) not a replacement rookie with less games than Reed. And besides, we have Schneider coming through hopefully in the next 12 months.

 

[emjaycee]

Mjc any real benefit in releasing him this late to a rival club if we don’t replace him with someone outside the club? Is the plan to promote someone outside the top 30, or extend someone already contacted with Bevs money?

No idea what the clubs plans are, I just seem to think that if he asks for a release they won't say no.

 

[Glenneel]

My only worry with Mahoney is four times this season (I think) now he has been trampled on our line in the act of an opposition try later in the game.

For a guy who allegedly leads our line speed he just does not get off the goal line.

He'll be a very good hooker despite what one old prick on here seems to think, but I'm worried we're relying on him too much and I think we need to identify a few games where McIlwrick is on the bench and gives him a rest.

Mahoney usually tackles low which is no good close to our line. I've identified that also and teams deliberately target him with big boppers near the goal line. We need to support him better and maybe he needs to go high trying to wrap the ball up close to his body to stop a try even if they end up over our goal line.

 

[Glenneel]

Our squad effectively increases from July 1 as the development squad players become available, so I doubt it’s an internal promotion.

I’d say we’d be looking to recruit externally. DWZ perhaps?

I'd like to think BA will use those juniors available after 30 June but he hasn't a strong record with utilising our juniors.

 

[Happy MEel]

I'd like to think BA will use those juniors available after 30 June but he hasn't a strong record with utilising our juniors.

Well this is the first time this has been an option so hard to be too critical.

 

[hindy111]

I’d love to know how much we are paying French. Turned out to be a complete dud at NRL level. Made Luke Burt look like Eric Grothe.

Dud I dont think.
He is a fullback and BA was confused and ruined his career in a way. He can be an NRL player again.

 

[Soto]

Absolutely. Good luck to him.

Ok he had a form slump last year and was clearly playing injured but when he burst onto the scene he had some ridiculous try scoring ratio. I think it was close to a try per game in his first 30 games.
He backed up the middle really well and scored a stack of tries.
The assets he brings when he fully fit is blinding speed when receiving an offload, can force a repeat set or trap a guy in a corner due to his reading of the game and his speed when chasing a kick and from memory when playing fullback was very sound defensively. I know he had some shockers playing on the wing but he is a talent. Which parra player wasn't out of form last year??
Will be a shame to lose him and I'm not close enough to know what's happened with any hissy fits etc but this guy is a footballer.
If league goes the way of reduced interchanges and fatigue becomes a real factor the smaller blokes will become even more valuable.
Not sure why Parra has not been able to bulk him up though. Every other club seems to turn their skinny guys into a ball of muscle.

 

[emjaycee]

I'd like to think BA will use those juniors available after 30 June but he hasn't a strong record with utilising our juniors.

I reckon you are being a little bit harsh on him with regard to juniors.
Before 2018 how many juniors did we actually have that were worth using?

He debuted 3 in his first year here (Pauli Pauli, Moeroa and Faraimo), 2 in 2015 (Alvaro and Folau), just the 1 in 2016 in French but that was a crazy year for team selections, 1 in 2017 (Davis) and then 5 in 2018 and 2 so far this year.