Rumours and Stuff

[Avenger]

I think the situation is a bit more complicated than that..

we have Hands tied up ( excuse the pin ) for next year with Smith and Lachie Coinakis on a long term deal. I think the club will persist with Hands/Smith and Get Coinakis on a D deal over the off season..it's a gamble but I think it's the logical thing for a club that is hellbent in becoming a pathways and development champion of the NRL, and saves them from having to negotiate and compete with players externally.

I’ve heard Coinakis is quite small and probably won’t make it.

 

[Poupou Escobar]

But in reality it's only been one poor year 2024. And look at the squad turn over between 2024 to 25....

I agree pathways was poor and a big factor in us not being able to replace players we lost in 2022. But is that MON and Co's fault?

It all costs money, and it looks like the club has decided to spend up big in that area now (that's not MON area).

FFS!

 

[Poupou Escobar]

I’ve heard Coinakis is quite small and probably won’t make it.

He’s not small, but also isn’t very quick. Whether he makes it depends on his work rate and footy brain.

 

[Poupou Escobar]

Insert Panthers somewhere. Bigger Juniors area, larger Leagues Club backing, high-profile media personality, etc.

Are the Panthers even a Sydney club?

 

[Poupou Escobar]

Roosters a big club??
Take out their billionaire owner how big are they really?? No juniors, no fans they bring SFA to RL. And the dogs?? Their fair weather fans have only come out of their hovels the last 12 months.


I’d argue we are number 1, considering lack of success the last 40 years it wouldn’t even be close if we weren’t such a clusterf**k.

The Roosters are a massive club and the billionaire is a big reason why. Do you reckon he lost any money during Covid?

 

[Joshuatheeel]

I think the situation is a bit more complicated than that..

we have Hands tied up ( excuse the pin ) for next year with Smith and Lachie Coinakis on a long term deal. I think the club will persist with Hands/Smith and Get Coinakis on a D deal over the off season..it's a gamble but I think it's the logical thing for a club that is hellbent in becoming a pathways and development champion of the NRL, and saves them from having to negotiate and compete with players externally.

CEO has said we are looking for hooker along with Anasta saying Ryles told him we are....

 

[Poupou Escobar]

@emjaycee you obviously have more knowledge than most of us of the inner workings of the club.

Do you know, Who makes the decisions to increase spending on pathway players? Increase the pathway resources? Where does the funding come from?

It was Brad Arthur but now he’s gone, MON is responsible for all that stuff.

 

[Delboy]

In regards to expenditure, I understand that once the NRL football clubs revenues from the NRL grant, sponsorships and memberships basically covered all expenses the Leagues Club board consolidated its business over a year or more.

They then advised the football club that as their charter was to support junior rugby league in the district they were in a position to increase expenditure in that area by multiples. The work done by the League club board shouldn’t be underestimated , and in a sense the new football club board is now filled with professional members that are more focussed on controls and revenue expenditure they saw it as a natural progression.

 

[hineyrulz]

The Roosters are a massive club and the billionaire is a big reason why. Do you reckon he lost any money during Covid?

How big will they be when he carks it??? The merkin is 80. They will come right back to the pack. Big club my arse, plastic club with no fans propped up by a billionaire old fart.

 

[hineyrulz]

Don’t deflect merkin. You talked a bunch of bullshit and got called out for it.

“No matter what the club did the wrong thing”

lol i talked a bunch of Bullshit???

Glass suburbs merkin.

 

[Grigor]

I think the situation is a bit more complicated than that..

we have Hands tied up ( excuse the pin ) for next year with Smith and Lachie Coinakis on a long term deal. I think the club will persist with Hands/Smith and Get Coinakis on a D deal over the off season..it's a gamble but I think it's the logical thing for a club that is hellbent in becoming a pathways and development champion of the NRL, and saves them from having to negotiate and compete with players externally.

Ryles wants a eyes up hooker and neither smith or hands suit his requirements in that regard , Hudson does but he's a few years away , he will sign an external hooker and a desilva is the type he will go for

 

[emjaycee]

Right on cue here comes one of the Pou dags, he shits and like clockwork one of you appear.

Thanks for yet another valuable contribution to the grown ups discussion.

 

[Avenger]

He’s not small, but also isn’t very quick. Whether he makes it depends on his work rate and footy brain.

What do you think is small?

 

[King-Gutho94]

Ryles wants a eyes up hooker and neither smith or hands suit his requirements in that regard , Hudson does but he's a few years away , he will sign an external hooker and a desilva is the type he will go for

Yep were keen on him.

Lets see if MON & R&R find a way to bottle this one up.

$$$ shouldnt be an issue

 

[JokerEel]

Prior to this year we had the worst training facility in Sydney. Securing the funding and building it was something that took time. The Panthers had state of the art facilities in 2016 ffs. Where’d they get the money for that?

Ands that’s just facilities. All the other stuff, including pathways, requires funding too. Now, we might not have had enough prior to the current admin coming on board (our facilities and pathways suggest we didn’t), but maybe we do now. Our facilities and pathways suggest we do. In that case, does current management really deserve criticism?

That’s a weak excuse. They’ve had years and the money yet only now are they catching up. It’s clear they lacked urgency and leadership. Criticism is fully justified.

 

[JokerEel]

Yep were keen on him.

Lets see if MON & R&R find a way to bottle this one up.

$$$ shouldnt be an issue

Who is his manager??

 

[JokerEel]

Whose job is it to build the club culture? Surely that’s the responsibility of the head coach and senior players.

I already replied to this.

 

[King-Gutho94]

Who is his manager??

One of the ones that got banned last week i think haha

Mario Tartek i think he manages JAC

 

[eels_fan]

TDS is great quality and may be a future rep player, but I’m not sure he’s what we need right now. If Smith hadn’t come along in leaps and bounds then we hopefully would have been 100% all in on TDS - but he’ll want to be starting 9, and I’m sure Smith does too - it just doesn’t compute when other clubs are in need of a starting 9.

my guess is an immediate player swap with Newcastle for KPP

 

[King-Gutho94]

TDS is great quality and may be a future rep player, but I’m not sure he’s what we need right now. If Smith hadn’t come along in leaps and bounds then we hopefully would have been 100% all on on TDS - but he’ll want to be starting 9, and I’m sure Smith does too - it just doesn’t compute when other clubs are in need of a starting 9.

my guess is an immediate player swap with Newcastle for KPP

I thought Newcastle had the next best young hooker in NSW going around already.

They shouldn't need TDS unless they have realised what they bought 6 months ago is a dud.