Rumours and Stuff

[Poupou Escobar]

By getting a guy worth 500k signed up for 400k?

After a hot debut he wouldn’t have been in a hurry to re-sign cheaply. Player managers know when clubs are trying to lowball them.

 

[Cloeel]

Is it me or is there some people on here that are so unrealistic they feel the clubs never made one poor choice or wrong decision. Like WAQA for example. And Papali'i. I mean I've heard and it could be false but I heard he wanted to extend after about 10 games for a lot less then what the Tigers signed him for and we wanted to wait till end of the year.
We are doing good things as a club. But we also have made f**k ups. Some fans don't want to acknowledge the reality of it all.

No club is ever going to have a 100% perfect hit rate with decision making. As long as the majority of decisions they make are pushing us in the right direction. There is always room for improvement.

Recently we have been making far more good decisions than bad.

 

[Poupou Escobar]

Is it me or is there some people on here that are so unrealistic they feel the clubs never made one poor choice or wrong decision. Like WAQA for example. And Papali'i. I mean I've heard and it could be false but I heard he wanted to extend after about 10 games for a lot less then what the Tigers signed him for and we wanted to wait till end of the year.
We are doing good things as a club. But we also have made f**k ups. Some fans don't want to acknowledge the reality of it all.

The reality is that smart clubs play the percentages, so there will always be outliers. The point is to recognise them as outliers and not ‘f**k ups’. It’s a negative way to look at the world. If you throw huge money at everyone with potential you’ll end up like the Broncos of the past five years. Some will pay off but most will ruin your cap. Better to lose the few than overpay for the many.

 

[Soren Lorenson]

Losing Papa and Rheed will only be a f**k up if the players we replace them with are duds. We won't know that until September. It's obvious we prioritised our halves. It would have been a major mistake if we lost those players and still couldn't re-sign the ones we wanted to.

 

[T.S Quint]

Just because something seems wrong in hindsight does not mean it was a bad decision at the time.

 

[hindy111]

Losing Papa and Rheed will only be a f**k up if the players we replace them with are duds. We won't know that until September. It's obvious we prioritised our halves. It would have been a major mistake if we lost those players and still couldn't re-sign the ones we wanted to.

Do we have any good juniors in the forward coming thru?
There is Matalele and Larry who I heard have wraps on. Unsure who else and how far off.

I was told 2024 but more like 2025 we will see a few good kids come into the side. But not to expect much this year.

 

[84 Baby]

By getting a guy worth 500k signed up for 400k?

A guy with 2-3 good games under his belt is worth $500k?

 

[Soren Lorenson]

Do we have any good juniors in the forward coming thru?
There is Matalele and Larry who I heard have wraps on. Unsure who else and how far off.

I was told 2024 but more like 2025 we will see a few good kids come into the side. But not to expect much this year.

We don't need them this year. We have one of the the best middle rotations in the comp.

 

[TheParraboy]

A guy with 2-3 good games under his belt is worth $500k?

only if from the bench, like Payne Haas

 

[Poupou Escobar]

A guy with 2-3 good games under his belt is worth $500k?

Only in hindsight

 

[Poupou Escobar]

Do we have any good juniors in the forward coming thru?
There is Matalele and Larry who I heard have wraps on. Unsure who else and how far off.

I was told 2024 but more like 2025 we will see a few good kids come into the side. But not to expect much this year.

Well that’s good because we already have an entire pack contracted for this year. At this stage we could have Nrown and Matterson coming off the bench ffs

 

[the phantom menace]

The reality is that smart clubs play the percentages, so there will always be outliers. The point is to recognise them as outliers and not ‘f**k ups’. It’s a negative way to look at the world.

Well said, outlier.

 

[the phantom menace]

Is it me or is there some people on here that are so unrealistic they feel the clubs never made one poor choice or wrong decision. Like WAQA for example. And Papali'i. I mean I've heard and it could be false but I heard he wanted to extend after about 10 games for a lot less then what the Tigers signed him for and we wanted to wait till end of the year.
We are doing good things as a club. But we also have made f**k ups. Some fans don't want to acknowledge the reality of it all.

Yes - there's supporting the team, and then there's looking every choice the club makes through rose coloured glasses (or the circular logic of blindly accepting that people in roles must be expert/infallible at at what they do, just because they're in the role).

 

[Poupou Escobar]

People don’t need to be infallible for know-it-alls like yourself to abstain from criticising things you don’t know about.

 

[Gronk]

We had our eye on him ?

Extended 1 year to end 2024.

 

[84 Baby]

Code for he thinks he’s worth a shit ton more than he was offered

 

[Poupou Escobar]

Try again next November Martin you overrated passenger.

Not you Gronk

 

[King-Gutho94]

Martin is a cat.

Proved it in origin

 

[hineyrulz]

Steve Martin>>>>>>>>> Liam Martin.

 

[84 Baby]

Liam Martin spelt backwards is Nitram Mail. True story