Rumours and Stuff

[84 Baby]

Can fill in at hooker if needed

Vave also could fill in at hooker. Doesn't mean he should

 

[Glenneel]

Defense has gone from
1. bad reads and rushing up with misses.
2.Good reads and less misses but not hitting hard.
3.Hitting hard and dominating in tackles and rarely missing.

Attack only this year has started to improve in last month.

Maybe if they left their wives off the park altogether they will improve.

 

[Glenneel]

I think we are reaching a critical mass of sarcasm at this point. We are now seeing looping comment chains going over the heads of people.

What....sorry........missed that!

 

[Incorrect]

You could be right but why wait until the 11th hour?

Beavis is probably working around the clock to see if any other offers are even a remote possibility of coming through up until the deadline... An unlikely scenario perhaps but I'm sure they're sounding out all potential suitors - especially if Hayne is as unhappy at the GC as has been reported in the past couple of months...

 

[Poupou Escobar]

You could be right but why wait until the 11th hour?

It might've already been decided but won't be announced until after Origin.

 

[T.S Quint]

Since back from injury French has been very poor and I think he is worried about his knee. Once he gets confidence back in it he will improve but currently he is making little difference in our attack. A few weeks in Wenty might be all he needs and it won't hurt him.

"Very poor"?
You're definition of "very poor" must differ to mine. Sure, he hasn't been his normal dynamic self, but he's been safe and hasn't made any real mistakes. I'd say he's been solid - not bad but far from being a stand-out.

Justin Hunt was "very poor" for us in his one game in the top grade. Bevan hasn't been anywhere near that bad.

 

[Joshuatheeel]

I'll throw a curve ball at you. Paul Carter. A Grade Merkin but the kid can play. Very decent hooker signing if he could avoid being a knob.

Roosters are off him, even with Origin he will be playing for Wyong and remains un signed for 2018.

Worth throwing him a training/attitude based contract and see what BA can do with him?

Good talented player, but is a goose!!

However I reckon he is the style of player we need, someone that can play hooker and backrow.

Pritchard obviously benefits from not playing 80 minutes but it is also a waste having a specialist hooker on the bench to play 15 or so minutes.

Can't see it happening however, he has probably blown his NRL career!!

 

[hindy111]

Good talented player, but is a goose!!

However I reckon he is the style of player we need, someone that can play hooker and backrow.

Pritchard obviously benefits from not playing 80 minutes but it is also a waste having a specialist hooker on the bench to play 15 or so minutes.

Can't see it happening however, he has probably blown his NRL career!!

Can Kasya fitness improve or that is as best as will ever be?

 

[Joshuatheeel]

Can Kasya fitness improve or that is as best as will ever be?

Don't think it's purely a fitness issue - he is one of the fittest in the club. I say it's more his game management and style of play, he wants to play as "hard"
as he can,rather than "pacing" himself.

It will improve with experience.

 

[T.S Quint]

Little blokes tend to get pretty tired tackling big blokes.

 

[Stevie]

Good talented player, but is a goose!!

However I reckon he is the style of player we need, someone that can play hooker and backrow.

Pritchard obviously benefits from not playing 80 minutes but it is also a waste having a specialist hooker on the bench to play 15 or so minutes.

Can't see it happening however, he has probably blown his NRL career!!

Exactly my point. Is a hooker/backrower and the bloke CAN play.

He was on his last chance at Roosters but clearly not in their plans so no issues playing NRL contract wise.

Anyway, my point is... Low value contract, good talent and tough, backup for Kaysa, we need someone there...

 

[Stevie]

Little blokes tend to get pretty tired tackling big blokes.

Yeah, but plenty do it.

 

[hineyrulz]

I know exactly what BA would do with him.

BA will sort him out.

 

[El Diablo]

I know exactly what BA would do with him.

does it involve sodomy and a Chihuahua?

 

[natheel]

Vave also could fill in at hooker. Doesn't mean he should

Well Carter at GC was their utility hooker off the bench and started his 3 games at roosters this year at hooker. Does well there but is more a backrowers body these days

 

[miatch]

Shameless plug for The Cumberland Throw, but more so for my boy Forty20. Check his outstanding video analysis post on Tepai Moeroa's role, and the potential impact of Mitch Moses on his game.

http://thecumberlandthrow.com/2017/05/30/the-film-room-episode-2-understanding-tepai-moeroas-role/

 

[Incorrect]

Shameless plug for The Cumberland Throw, but more so for my boy Forty20. Check his outstanding video analysis post on Tepai Moeroa's role, and the potential impact of Mitch Moses on his game.

http://thecumberlandthrow.com/2017/05/30/the-film-room-episode-2-understanding-tepai-moeroas-role/

I stopped reading when I saw it said he was 22 years old......

 

[Forty20]

Oi, I rounded up! If you kept reading until the end you would also see that I noted he is actually 21 until later in the year.

 

[Incorrect]

Oi, I rounded up! If you kept reading until the end you would also see that I noted he is actually 21 until later in the year.

I know Forty - I read the whole thing, and it is a fantastic piece. Well done....

I was just being facetious after all yesterday's posts around here about how he is "only 21"

 

[Forty20]

Haha, all good! It was actually jarring writing down his age in the blog. Tepai has been in first grade so long now that you easily forget how young he is.