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Zoso

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Delboy said:
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Option madness: Why Eels have hamstrung themselves on 2026 transfer market

The Eels recruitment policies are hurting them again.
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interesting take on our moves on contracts and recruitment, understandably Pou will circularly argue it’s a good problem and the R&R team did them for a very good reason. There are reportedly moves to see if 5hey can be removed for the good of the club go8ng forward, doesn’t seem they were favourable to the club from the get go.

Hopefully we come out the other side without getting bitten in the rear
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He mentions five players;
Lane - re-signed the other day, yeah?
Matterson - we shopped him earlier without success, didn’t we?
Penisini - called him one of the best centres in the game. Big call, atm I’d call him ‘slightly above average with plenty of upside potential’. Might become one of the best, this year I think we’ll see how he goes with different setup and specific centre training from Gas.
Brown - has shown what he can do but isn’t a consistent game breaker, yet. I’m almost, kinda with Avenger on this guy…replaceable as he is but a must keep if he played near or at his best consistently.
Pryke - yet to prove anything

A few fair points but hardly like we have a lot to worry about there. That said, I’d like Mitch stitched up.
Edit: Matterson took up his option, yeah?
 
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Zoso said:
Penisini - called him one of the best centres in the game. Big call, atm I’d call him ‘slightly above average with plenty of upside potential’. Might become one of the best, this year I think we’ll see how he goes with different setup and specific centre training from Gas.
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I'm not convinced about Penisini, not yet anyway, I don't know why he would be highly rated.

He could be one day but he regressed last season for mine.
 
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Zoso

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hineyrulz said:
I will maintain if Andrew Ryan scores that try at 18-0 we go onto to win that game.

18-6 instead of 24 nil they scored almost straight after and it’s a total different ball game. Newcastle front loaded their efforts areas that game and didn’t have a lot left in the tank that second half.
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“Newcastle front loaded their efforts areas…”
Did they chase the collision too Hiney??
 
Obscene Assassin

Obscene Assassin

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Stevie said:
So we have now signed Jack Hudson? he is 19 years old and a couple years off?

That means we now have 4 rakes on the books? Lussick, Hands, Smith and Hudson?

It seems we have opted against an experienced 9. How does all that work out...
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At best I'd say he'd be D6 in 2026, more than likely a train and trial contract.
 
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Gherkin

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I think Penisini will have a big year. His fundamentals with defensive positioning and knocking on every time there was a loose ball on the ground let him down.
I'll reserve judgement on all our returning players until a few games in because I expect we'll see some big improvements with the change in coaching.
 
Pazza

Pazza

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T.S Quint said:
The 2022 GF can possibly show us that the options are a good thing because we were able to put together a GF side by using them. Would we have been able to put together such a side withouth them?
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The grand final squad was already put together before optioned contracts were signed by matto, lane, sivo, brown, moses and penisini.

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How does our current roster state have us view these options? Have we missed out on signing any players due to these options?
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We're in that process now, like the article states we have 2 mil in cap space in limbo until options are taken up or rejected. It's all be spoken about here ad nauseas. Going to be an interesting off season.
 
Pazza

Pazza

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Zoso said:
He mentions five players;
Lane - re-signed the other day, yeah?
Matterson - we shopped him earlier without success, didn’t we?
Penisini - called him one of the best centres in the game. Big call, atm I’d call him ‘slightly above average with plenty of upside potential’. Might become one of the best, this year I think we’ll see how he goes with different setup and specific centre training from Gas.
Brown - has shown what he can do but isn’t a consistent game breaker, yet. I’m almost, kinda with Avenger on this guy…replaceable as he is but a must keep if he played near or at his best consistently.
Pryke - yet to prove anything

A few fair points but hardly like we have a lot to worry about there. That said, I’d like Mitch stitched up.
Edit: Matterson took up his option, yeah?
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Sounds lIke you don't rate many of these guys, if you were Ryles, would you wanna move some of them on. Go to the market and look for a replacement?
 
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oldmancraigy

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Poupou Escobar said:
The pool of people willing and able to make decisions at the very top of the organisation, and their relationships, is a significant resource.
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Sure - but in common parlance (ie around here, in the papers, in most instances in general footy conversation) people who use the word resources use it to talk of stuff and not people.
Surely you can see that?


Thus has all been done before.
#dejavu
 
King-Gutho94

King-Gutho94

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Great to see Brendan Hands extend i think he has been developing nicely despite being shunted to reggies to play 5/8 at one point.

He never complained and got on with the job.

Seems like a hard worker and a good club man.

Wouldn't cost an arm or a leg either and with some different coaching coming in has the potential to kick on.
 
Poupou Escobar

Poupou Escobar

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hineyrulz said:
The excuse that lack of resources is hilarious, the Donkey’s the club with the most resources and TPA’s hasn’t won shit in almost 20 years and has won a spoon since us.
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Infighting amongst high profile Broncos stakeholders is having a negative impact on the club. Those big names should be a positive resource but they are a negative. There might be plenty of scapegoats but the question is who is able to fix it?
You could have all the resources in the world and if you use them badly or make plenty of wrong decisions you are screwed.
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Who do you mean by ‘you’ in this truism? The club? Who is the club? Is it just the sum of its dumb fans and self interested high level stakeholders? Can a club just hire a better CEO or coach to overcome all this bullshit? You need to examine your assumptions here. You’re like the typical whinger who is all problem, no solution.
But people on here could never admit the club makes any mistakes so easier to go “We don’t have Da Resources or money to compete against Da bigger clubs”

Ryles has shown in a short space of time we aren’t short of money and it’s amazing how quickly we added some quality staff to the Club and even spending a lot more in the junior ranks. It’s amazing what can happen when you don’t have a dopey insecure child running the club who’s main worry is setting up his two untalented sprogs while promoting his junior club above all others in the district.
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I don’t think Ryles has anything to do with us suddenly spending more money. We also have a stack of full time staff running the pathways for the first time ever. The increased spending is no doubt related to the end of our contribution to building the $50M facility in Kellyville.
 
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