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The Eel

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hineyrulz said:
Well if the club thought that re-signing the coach would mean they would be able to lowball players and get them to sign anyway it’s been an absolute fail on their part.


And has Madge won a spoon or not made the 3rd week of the finals?? No that’s the potato we quadrupled down on for whatever reason I have no idea because if it was to keep the players happy that’s a massive lol. Even his favourite son Gutho is holding out.
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I am SO glad the plaayers want to play for BA
 
parra-matters

parra-matters

Coach
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The delay on Gutho makes me wonder now that we have lost a couple and have some cash to splash if we won't at least talk to Ponga's manager and see if there is any interest there.
Could let Gutho walk if Ponga was keen.
Long as we keep Reed, Dylan and Moses, with RCG staying and some good juniors on the rise like Penisni we can build a good team around them, it's what melbourne and the roosters do.
 
Avenger

Avenger

Immortal
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parra-matters said:
The delay on Gutho makes me wonder now that we have lost a couple and have some cash to splash if we won't at least talk to Ponga's manager and see if there is any interest there.
Could let Gutho walk if Ponga was keen.
Long as we keep Reed, Dylan and Moses, with RCG staying and some good juniors on the rise like Penisni we can build a good team around them, it's what melbourne and the roosters do.
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Wouldn’t you rather Papenhuyzen?
 
King-Gutho94

King-Gutho94

Coach
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Avenger said:
Wouldn’t you rather Papenhuyzen?
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I would he is a Kellyville junior he parents basically live 5-10 mins away from our training ground. I saw him the other night at Castle Hill with his mates so he doesn't mind coming back to the area and hanging out around here.

His dad Neil is a Parramatta supporter as well.

Should have got him back in 2019 when Melbourne offered him up to every club on the cheap and no one wanted him.
 
Delboy

Delboy

First Grade
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As the Retention Committee continue to throw darts at the board to come up with offers, the song playing on loop in the background is “Pressure” by Queen.

Although Pou will argue , as he does to every comment, allowing the contracts to expire at the same time and then seemingly doing little to extend them in the season , falls back on the hierarchy. Can’t blame the coach for this one, hello HOF.
 
Glenneel

Glenneel

Bench
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The Rosco said:
No time to dream, avenger. Having plenty of fun reading how you guys don't care about losing IP, how we've overpaid, and how he is destined to be a second year plodder . . . Mind you, every forum is filled with bitter jealousies in these situations.
Like I said, fun to read.
Also, there's a lot to be said for accepting the reality of your footy team. You guys had more joy than us watching parra winning lately, but that was once again cruelled by the shattering repeat of semi finals failure. I watched some mates nearly crying after you lost. I found that quite rude, it's hard to repeatedly say " I told you so . . . what did you expect?" to a grown man sobbing like a lil baby.

I think good on the Tigers. They need to take risks.
And the way we snatched Moses and Matterson was dirty. Its a victory to them imo and a deserved one.
Well said, Hindy.
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Better to cry after loosing a finals game than to cry after almost every game throughout the season.
 
Eelementary

Eelementary

Post Whore
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lucablight said:
There’s no point in getting into semantics over who the best forward was. Even if RCG was better (which I would dispute and nothing against him because he was freaking awesome) the point is that Papali’i was in the Dally M team of the season and dominated the stats board most weeks.
I don’t know if we will uncover another Papali’i but to assume that it’s likely is wishful thinking and we’re going to look very silly if we let him go and it was for no purpose. I think it was very short sighted of the club to sit back and watch him dominate week after week and not upgrade him during the season before his value got up so high. It’s incredibly rare for a club that is meant to be on the way up to unearth a star like this and let them walk away yet we somehow managed to do it.
If we can’t get close to a grand final with our current roster then how will we do it with an inferior one unless all of our competitors also become significantly weaker?
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But we didn't "let him go" - we refused to match the crazy money that the Tigers offered, which is sensible cap management.

On that deal, he is being paid more than current NSW prop Payne Haas - that is crazy to me.

I'm not a huge fan of Brad Arthur, but one thing he has shown time, and time again, is he has an ability to extract the best out of his forwards.

Nathan Brown played for NSW under BA's watch, as did Paulo.

RCG became one of the from props of the NRL under BA.

Why wouldn't I believe that he can unearth another diamond in the rough? He certainly has the runs on the board.

And given how money-driven Papali'i had proven to be, this idea that we didn't extend him early in the season makes little sense to me - it seems logical, given Papali'i's desire to chase the cash, that he would have knocked back any offers, to test his worth on the market to get top dollar.

My only complaint is that Papali'i's exit - at this stage - perhaps robbed us of a chance to keep Niukore.
 
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