Rumours and Stuff

[Gronk]

You are reading through the Major League Baseball lens

You need your lens cleaned.

 

[oldmancraigy]

You are reading it through the lens of the Josh Hodgson contract MO. Dunster's contract would be a vanilla MO.

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While I would expect that to be the case, none of us can actually know unless we have seen the wording of the MO itself.
It could be that either party has the option to take it up (dumb as that might seem - it does happen [[obviously!!]])

 

[Avenger]

Never had an option this year, was still contracted. Option is for 2026.

Which means he is open to offers on 1 Nov. We allowed him to look around earlier and no club is interested. He consequently told the club that he will not be going anywhere and will/has exercised his option for 2026. Do you want to know the source ? It was him. I asked him at a restaurant I regularly have lunch at.

 

[oldmancraigy]

Guymer may have played on the edge, but don't think his future is there. Not sure he is up to playing on the edge defensively

This is what I'm thinking too.
I hope I'm wrong - it would be interesting to see him on an edge and see what he can produce.

One of my bigger hopes for next year is that he can make it as an edge forward - he has that 'hardness' about him that we've lacked on the edge for a while. It'd be great to see him outside Moses, and the physicality on that side of the field with him and Penisini would be great.

 

[Tiger5150]

U can be good, without being scum

Yeah you wouldnt want to besmirch Parra's stellar history of not signing scum.....

 

[Avenger]

Seems odd considering that his option is for 2026+

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2024 NRL Signings Tracker: Holmes joins Dragons

The Dragons have confirmed the signing of Valentine Holmes from 2025, while Bailey Simonsson is remaining at the Eels until the end of the 2027 season.

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Go f**k yourself Gronk. See above.

 

[Gazzamatta]

I will agree to disagree.

Probably for the best. Just do a Poo and look at the stats. I've also seen them play live a number of times. No contest who the best of the 3 was.

 

[hindy111]

Go f**k yourself Gronk. See above.

Couldn't of said it better myself

Go f**k yourself Gronk

 

[84 Baby]

One of my guys here went to a charity event with Paulo and Joffa. They said they couldn’t wait for this season to end

I get that I’m not a pro sports player and perhaps there was context, but I’d be disappointed if that’s how they feel. Regardless how my team is travelling, I get shitty when training is called off, let alone the depression I get when I don’t get to play on weekend

 

[Joshuatheeel]

Which means he is open to offers on 1 Nov. We allowed him to look around earlier and no club is interested. He consequently told the club that he will not be going anywhere and will/has exercised his option for 2026. Do you want to know the source ? It was him. I asked him at a restaurant I regularly have lunch at.

TBH, I reckon he is telling you crap and don't believe he has taken up his PO.

Why wouId an apparent "tight" ass, take up his PO, which is generally less than what he is currently getting? Well before he has to make a decision?

It's absolutely stupid, and I doubt his manager wouId even suggest it! He probably has a good 6 to 8 months before he has to take it up. He could be playing good footy next year and getting offers of more then 12 months.

Reckon he is telling you shit!

 

[Gronk]

Go f**k yourself Gronk. See above.

I didn't say you were bullshitting. I said it was odd that a merkin would exercise an option for 2026 in 2024.

Couldn't of said it better myself

Go f**k yourself Gronk

 

[84 Baby]

Which means he is open to offers on 1 Nov. We allowed him to look around earlier and no club is interested. He consequently told the club that he will not be going anywhere and will/has exercised his option for 2026. Do you want to know the source ? It was him. I asked him at a restaurant I regularly have lunch at.

Not a dire outcome. He hasn’t been too bad on field. Problem is his impact off field.
I’d be converting him to straight middle rotation player though. His mobility is very poor for someone who once considered himself a 5/8th

 

[Delboy]

TBH, I reckon he is telling you crap and don't believe he has taken up his PO.

Why wouId an apparent "tight" ass, take up his PO, which is generally less than what he is currently getting? Well before he has to make a decision?

It's absolutely stupid, and I doubt his manager wouId even suggest it! He probably has a good 6 to 8 months before he has to take it up. He could be playing good footy next year and getting offers of more then 12 months.

Reckon he is telling you shit!

Anyone that has spoken or conversed with Matto there is one thing that is always apparent, he doesn’t bullshit. Basically he just answers how it is, even at Parra functions ,, he is a very straight talker so would imagine that’s how he answered .

 

[Gronk]

Problem is his impact off field.

What's that exactly ?

 

[Poupou Escobar]

Underwhelming list outside of Guler maybe. The others are slow, over weight with little to no lateral movement and regularly exposed around the ruck by quicker players..... pretty much what we have now.

If the ruck rules/interpretations stay this fast, it will push the big men out of the game. The powers that be didn’t let it happen after 2001. Will they almost 25 years later?

 

[Poupou Escobar]

Whilst I agree, our team has been well short of horrible humans for too long.

The Eels need to borrow LU’s no dickhead policy. #AllDickheadsPolicy

 

[Poupou Escobar]

Yeah but we could get new ineffective middles for probably less than half what we are paying our current ineffective middles.
That's a win.

I suspect this is the plan.

 

[Poupou Escobar]

For Tweedledee and Tweedledum it would be.... it would make their balance sheet look better.

They would still need to spend the cap space somewhere else.

 

[Jake the snake]

Superman lol yay

 

[Poupou Escobar]

A zac cini replacement.

We do have to do a fair bit of re signing, upgrading and recruiting for those back of the 30 spots

And there’s always a lot more merkins on the market for those spots, including upgrading merkins on non-top 30 contracts. Tago has been excellent in reserve grade, which is what you want from your backups. He should be in the top 30, so the upgrade makes sense.