Rumours and Stuff

[I'm a loser baby...]

Is it fair to say that about half the Dolphins' squad are back flippers?

 

[Angry_eel]

I seriously believe the people in charge couldn't give a shit if we win a GF, as long as we are competitive and they sell enough memberships to a loyal fanbase that makes the club profitable. They are not willing to do what it takes to get us to the next level. Otherwise a bum like Murphy would not be here.

I agree but every time we've gone after a Premiership in the last 25 years, it's been a disaster.

 

[84 Baby]

Yeah. Smiths games at hooker were almost as bad as stone’s in that semi…. Almost

Were Smith’s games at hooker as good as Stone’s versus Knights?

 

[Joshuatheeel]

has he played like a 770k player this season? His form has been questionable.

Yes he has!

 

[Joshuatheeel]

Not sure on Edwards form, but if he is still going ok, wouId be a pretty decent signing for a year to cover edge. He was always a threat on the edge.

and there is probably going to be more options available for 2024 with no new club coming in.

 

[eels_fan]

$770k for a top line fullback, and club captain, is not overs in my opinion.

He'd be the 5th or 6th highest paid fullback in the game, and thats where he sits probably in the rankings, although i'd rank him first defensively. He's had a couple of howler moments this year that have led to tries, but he's also saved a bunch with 1 on 1 defense too that others would have let in.

It we were paying him $900k then i'd say we'd probably been milked by his manager, but $770k is reasonable for mine.

 

[TheRam]

Not a bad starting pack:

8. Kaufusi
9. Mahoney
10. Matterson
11. Niukore
12. Papalii
13. Stone

They'd get smashed up front and very little creativity in the back three.

 

[TheRam]

Or another way to look at it is to start by making sure that you are always competitive and build from there. You don't win many premierships if you are not regularly competitive. Do you really think that the 'people in charge' don't care whether we win a premiership or not? Granted, they may not think that it is the only thing that matters, but the idea that they don't care whether we win or not defies logic.....do you reckon that overseeing a premiership winning club wouldn't help their own worth on the labour market?

The best thing about winning a premiership would be to see what you lot would find to whinge about. I guess it would then be that the club put all their chips into winning in year X and didn't set us up for a 35 year dynasty.

It's more that they don't seem to care enough. As long as we are there abouts keeps the wolf from the door so to speak. If we happen to jag one along the way, 'you beaut', otherwise as long as the semis are a regular thing then most members and fans will keep turning up and no major drama or upheaval will transpire.

 

[Poupou Escobar]

No we caved and gave them overs,

So we gave overs to the ones we kept but refused to make reasonable offers to the ones who left? Is that your logic?

 

[Angry_eel]

It's more that they don't seem to care enough. As long as we are there abouts keeps the wolf from the door so to speak. If we happen to jag one along the way, 'you beaut', otherwise as long as the semis are a regular thing then most members and fans will keep turning up and no major drama or upheaval will transpire.

To be honest, it's not a bad idea. Roosters don't seem to win every year but they are around til the end.

In a league as close as NRL, I don't think it's the wrong approach but there needs to be some time limit to it.

 

[Poupou Escobar]

2 finals wins in 9 years is where it’s at mate, you should be happy with that and not expect anything else.

It’s more than the Tigers have won, and they signed premiership winner Maguire plus supercoach Cleary. Maybe they had the wrong idea about how to be successful, and coaching isn’t the answer?

 

[TheRam]

Lol. I wasn't having a crack at you or your post. Not sure what the point of your reply to my post really is. Let that one go straight through to the keeper.
At the end of the day being competitive with little or nothing to show for it means sweet FA

It reminds me a little of back in the 80's when the Tigers were always the almost good enough team in so many finals campaigns but eventually got nothing but a duck egg and then the ultimate insult needed to merge to finally win one.

Lets all hope it doesn't take that for us to finally get our next Premiership, because if that were ever to be the case then that mean Parra never ever win another title.

But obviously I don't expect a merger is ever in our future really unless something goes way way drastically wrong.

 

[JokerEel]

Not sure on Edwards form, but if he is still going ok, wouId be a pretty decent signing for a year to cover edge. He was always a threat on the edge.

and there is probably going to be more options available for 2024 with no new club coming in.

If he came back for around 200k a season he would be a handy pickup.

 

[TheRam]

Apparent Gutho deal:

The Daily Telegraph reports Gutherson agreed to a $2.3 million extension, equating to around $770,000 a season.

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gee that’s hardly an unreasonable contract for our captain and a pretty bloody good player!!

Pretty fair deal I reckon for eels!!

If that is indeed what he is on then I think it is probably $70 to much from what his upper most value is, but then again he is the captain so I suppose that is what that is for.

 

[Poupou Escobar]

No wonder we moved heaven and earth to re-sign Rein.

We definitely paid him overs.

 

[Poupou Escobar]

yeah nah. I never said we shouldn’t of signed him.

we stood firm in negotiations with rheed and ice. we buckled in to gutho’s demands.

Or did Gutherson buckle to our offer?

 

[Poupou Escobar]

Fmd you are stupid. No offense. We made an offer and kept upping our offer till Gutho got what he wanted. That’s what buckling into their demands means.

Or did we start with a low offer and up it until we arrived at a value that suited both parties? It’s called negotiation ffs. Or do you think we should’ve started by making our highest offer to every merkin?

 

[Poupou Escobar]

Gutho’s management absolutely raped us. Not sure one eels fan won’t admit that.

imagine had we signed him for a little less? Don’t think there was much interest in him tbh. Had we signed him for less, we wouldn’t be in this predicament. We may of had enough to sign one of the players that are leaving.

But keep defending.

We didn’t lose these players due to lack of cap space, we refused to match the valuation of desperate clubs.

 

[Poupou Escobar]

how many teams were chasing Hodgson?

Lack of demand would be good for his price.

 

[Poupou Escobar]

Watched him a bit over the last few years abroad and he has been playing very well - especially recently.

If he has grown up Id happily throw 200k at him on a year by year agreement.

He’s 34 next year so you’d hope he’s grown up. It’s a bit too old for a bloke who is neither a leader nor a decision maker in the spine.