Rumours and Stuff

[Gary Gutful]

Forty_20 is a legend, Sixties is a legend.
The main tweeter is an absolute peanut.

Peanut-50s

 

[lucablight]

So where in the pecking order for a weak Origin team do you put Reed Mahoney?

He would have been above Ben Hunt before game 3. Hunt played out of his skin though so he’ll probably be above him now. The difference is Hunt is going on 32 next season while Mahoney will be 24 and likely battling it out with Harry Grant for the QLD hooker role over the next few seasons. In saying that Mahoney might never get a game if Grant doesn’t get injured so who knows a bit like Moses with Cleary.

 

[Gary Gutful]

In a way, I'm excited to see mahoneys style and involvement at the dogs. I'm sure the dopey bush coach has him stifled in attack.

Realising and accepting that we are stuck with bushy for life, I wish all the players leave eels for the dolphins so I can start supporting them.

I already bought some dolphins undies.

 

[lucablight]

Well why else would he choose the Dogs? To learn from Trent Barrett? Who do you think Kikau went there? Or JAC?

Melbourne and Penrith are successful premiership winning teams who couldn’t keep all of their stars. The Eels couldn’t keep their rising star despite nothing to show but a couple of week 2 exits. Do you really think the Eels expected to lose Mahoney?

 

[Gary Gutful]

F**k the little midget. He'll be yesterday's news soon enough.

 

[Hindmarshisgod2]

I already bought some dolphins undies.

Glad your back Gary


I still love you

 

[Poupou Escobar]

How do you know that?

How do you know otherwise? It's not about what we know, it's about what is most likely. You assume we gave him a take-it-or-leave-it offer and then were blindsided by a more desperate club offering more money. Actually, you think they offered the same (or less) but he left for the chance to be coached by Ternt Barnet. You're pissing your knickers over all this without a shred of proof but you're demanding proof from others?

 

[Gary Gutful]

Melbourne and Penrith are successful premiership winning teams who couldn’t keep all of their stars. The Eels couldn’t keep their rising star despite nothing to show but a couple of week 2 exits. Do you really think the Eels expected to lose Mahoney?

Do you really think we should get into a bidding war with desperate clubs?

Most merkins on here have shit canned the club for paying overs in the past.

I would have loved to have kept him but not at the expense of the entire squad.

 

[Gary Gutful]

Glad your back Gary


I still love you

I haven't gone anywhere. You're the weirdo that only turns up after a loss or some bad news.

 

[Poupou Escobar]

I gotta give you some credit you are the eternal optimist in this forum. We could lose our best 25 players in one off season and you would still be positive

The Storm lose top 17 players every year. Sometimes a bunch of them. They always find replacements.

 

[hindy111]

Peanut-50s

 

[Gary Gutful]

Those are some quality peanuts @hindy111

 

[hindy111]

Hooker is a position in demand. How many clubs where linked with Rheed? If he was such hot property plenty of others would of been knocking the door down to get him.

 

[hindy111]

Those are some quality peanuts @hindy111

There beer nuts still in the shell. Some call them Christmas nuts.

 

[Eelogical]

I already bought some dolphins undies.

I'm thinking about trying out as the Dolphins mascot. I hope the costume fits me. They'll call me Flipper.

 

[Gary Gutful]

There beer nuts still in the shell. Some call them Christmas nuts.

I have a peanut story.

I used to live on a train line in Brisbane. On the way home I could go to a bar called The Scratch. They specialise in Craft Beer and have a stash of unshelled peanuts. A couple of times I went overboard and ended up with crunchy peanut butter pants.

 

[lucablight]

How do you know otherwise? It's not about what we know, it's about what is most likely. You assume we gave him a take-it-or-leave-it offer and then were blindsided by a more desperate club offering more money. Actually, you think they offered the same (or less) but he left for the chance to be coached by Ternt Barnet. You're pissing your knickers over all this without a shred of proof but you're demanding proof from others?

Very disingenuous of you to say I’m coming to this conclusion without a shred of proof. There are multiple news stories that are reporting how much Mahoney was offered and the amounts are not unreasonable at all. I’m assuming you believe the reports of Papali’i and Leilua getting their 600k and 700k contracts so why are you using a different standard here?
There’s also an independent source in the tweet from TCT guy who said we expected him to stay until today.
I also heard the former CEO in an interview talk about how the Eels were very confident in keeping the players they’d want to keep because Parramatta is seen as an attractive destination. Clubs generally don’t lose their star players on the rise unless they’re a poorly run club or they get squeezed out due to cap pressure.
So what’s more likely? That the Eels got blown out of the water by Canterburys offer but thought he was going to stay until today? Or that they lowballed Mahoney and he signed with the Bulldogs?
I’m saying the Bulldogs probably did offer more but they offered him closer to what he is worth rather than our offer.

 

[T-Boon]

Good luck Greed Mahoney!

Money Mahoney

 

[the phantom menace]

Speaking of the Storm, is Grant or Smith off contract for 2023? Now we know Mahoney's f**king off, let's get involved in the offers for one of those guys... and serious offers, assumimg we're expecting a 2023 hooker to play more than 60 mins.

 

[Gary Gutful]

By that I mean I shit myself...