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Joshuatheeel

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By my reckoning with players on the books for next year, their backline, assuming they sign Dufty, could be;

1. Dufty
2. JAC
3. Allen
4. Naden
5. Cotric
6. Burton
7. Averillo/Lewis/Flanagan/

If I were them, I'd be exploring moving a high pricer like Cotric on, save some cash and put cut-price Schoupp in the backline instead....Cotric @ Canterbury just doesn't feel like it's worked out for either party

should be moving Allen, he aren’t a centre. And with Duffy/JAC in the backline they need Cotric to ruck the ball out, those 2 aren’t the best at that.

Anyhow I doubt Schoupp is on much, so they probably have no problems keeping them. Allen probably on overs but. My post is more that Schoupp may want out if he isn’t playing NRL
 
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chiefy1

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should be moving Allen, he aren’t a centre. And with Duffy/JAC in the backline they need Cotric to ruck the ball out, those 2 aren’t the best at that.

Anyhow I doubt Schoupp is on much, so they probably have no problems keeping them. Allen probably on overs but. I post is move that Schoupp may want out if he isn’t playing NRL

I really like Schoupp, not sure if he can play back row but he looked really tough in the centres.
 

lingard

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NRL star Tom Opacic faces more heartbreak after the bizarre death of his brother in an alleged prison love triangle showdown near a Gold Coast jail, with Sydney’s worsening Covid crisis set to see him barred from attending the Queensland funeral next week.
Jake Opacic, 28, was killed in a motorbike crash near Numinbah Correctional Centre last week after going to the jail for the release of his girlfriend and allegedly getting into a verbal stoush with her ex and his friend.

Both men have been charged with Jake’s murder, with police alleging his motorcycle was deliberately struck by their vehicle.

Sources say Tom Opacic, a former Brisbane Bronco and North Queensland Cowboy who now plays for the Parramatta Eels, has applied for NRL and Queensland Health exemptions to attend the funeral next week.

But he faces an uphill battle given Sydney’s Covid catastrophe and concerns over repeated breaches of the NRL’s biosecurity bubble by players.

The Eels are due to play the Gold Coast Titans at Robina’s Cbus Stadium next Friday night but under bubble rules, Opacic would only be allowed to fly in for the game on a charter plane with teammates, catch a bus to the ground and return to Sydney soon after the final whistle.

Sources say the NRL and Queensland Health would be extremely unlikely to grant him an exemption to attend the funeral as Sydney’s Covid outbreak worsens.

The NRL is also conscious of the biosecurity bubble’s fragility after Covid protocols were recklessly flouted by a raft of St George Dragons players and Maroons star Jai Arrow, who was sent packing from the Queensland camp this week after sneaking a woman into his Gold Coast hotel room.

Opacic is set to become the latest in a string of grieving relatives to be refused permission to visit a dying loved one or attend a funeral in Queensland because of hard line Covid restrictions

Oh, man, that's dreadful. Hope Tom's okay.
 

SneakyEel

Juniors
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By my reckoning with players on the books for next year, their backline, assuming they sign Dufty, could be;

1. Dufty
2. JAC
3. Allen
4. Naden
5. Cotric
6. Burton
7. Averillo/Lewis/Flanagan/

If I were them, I'd be exploring moving a high pricer like Cotric on, save some cash and put cut-price Schoupp in the backline instead....Cotric @ Canterbury just doesn't feel like it's worked out for either party
Plenty of speed in that backline
 

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