Player succession plan.
We need to start to rebuild this roster as well as pissing off our well and truly cooked coach and his team of no body assistants. The only assistant I would keep is Ennis and only because he gives us media cred.
Back to my main point.
We need to rejig the roster and I don't care who we let go other then our 6 and 7 and 8 and 10 and probably in that order.
I would make a massive play and I mean massive for the next superstar in waiting Joseph Suaalii. Around $1.2m+ and TPA's it could go as high as $1.4m
I think if we did that it would be very hard for the Roosters to compete money wise considering all the other stars they have in there lineup and need to look after.
He is only 19 years old and already in the top 10 players in the NRL. If he continues in the same vain(trajectory)and I can't see why he shouldn't baring injury, he will probably be the number 1 player in the NRL by the time he is 22-23 years old. All the other current super stars will be getting older too so he will be coming of age around then and killing it like no one else. Think of how Inglis, Hayne, Turbo or Latrell were at 18-19 and how much they improved by the time they were in their early 20's. He is a born leader too. You just see it in his temperament.
Pros that may get him here are he is best mates with Penisini and he comes from the West so is not adverse to the area and it doesn't hold a stigma to him like it might do for other Rooster types. His whole family still live out west.
Cons that may stop him from coming here. We are Parra and we don't think like winners, so we wouldn't even consider such an audacious signing. We are Parra.
I would make this offer right now seeing that he has a player option in his favour for both 2023 and 2024. If we did by some miracle sign him, I would tell Gutho to find another club immediately unless he wants to play NSW Cup all next season. There is no place for him here anymore and any other players that need to be speared to fit him in.
This is the way you restructure your roster and bring in superstar players whenever they are available, in positions that you need a superstar player in. Otherwise we will be stuck with a mediocre team that has no X factor player or genuine game breaker when the chips are down that we can consistently rely on. Suaalii is such a player and as he matures will become one of the best leaders in the NRL too. You can see it in his temperament.
We need to seriously take this approach and make it happen no matter who we upset or lose frankly. He is the player that we need to build this club on for the next 10+ years. If we don't we will struggle, guaranteed for the next 5 -10 years to find a star of his note. A Turbo, Latrell, Teddy type of player. He is the next off the rank. The only reason he isn't already signed up and unavailable is because of the funny circumstances he left the Rabbits and frankly it is an embarrassment that we didn't make a huge play for him then. Not saying we would have gotten him back then, but we should at the very least made a very competitive offer to at least be in the picture, but nothing at all that I can see.
Speak to his manager and see what type of offer would persuade him to leave the Roosters and come over to the Eels. Everyone has a price. The question is can we afford to not find his?
We need to start behaving like a winner. The road to failure is littered with excuses.
No excuses!!!!!!!!!
