Rumours and Stuff

[Poupou Escobar]

Moses wasn't a good defended before coming to the Eels..

Is one one the best halves that can defend these days...

Defence can be taught. Just look at Apa's debut because of the situation made a try saving tackle putting his body on the line. Not many fullbacks make that tackle.

Take a hint Pou will chop and change his arguments just to argue with
People..

Only when they’re wrong.

 

[Poupou Escobar]

He’s played what, six New South Wales cup games in his career? Not even a sample size to see if you might be a half decent cup player.

Nah he played most of the season last year at fullback and he was pretty good. But not even close to Iongi who is only a year older. In fact he wasn’t even as good as Papali’i who is the same age. That’s why he got the NRL opportunities and Twidle didn’t. Ryles is no mug.

If he hadn’t of got a 20 minute spell due to us having 10 injuries, and scored two tries against a 12 man outfit where his opposing winger was off the field - no one would give a crap

Agreed

 

[Poupou Escobar]

But no one would care about Apa if he hadn't played first grade.

In this case you would, obviously

 

[Poupou Escobar]

If they didn't think they could fix his defense then he doesnt get signed. It's why him and C.Mclean where dropped last season. Both have improved but neither are great defenders YET. The raw talent however is untapped.
Twiddle might be in the same boat. We will find out at the Bears.

How many youngsters can we afford to take a risk on? You need some experience in your squad and we have a lot of it off contract.

 

[JokerEel]

The experts (and me) knew in 2023 that Talagi had more potential than Twidle. Blaize Talagi was no big secret to anyone with an interest in junior development. Why do you think he kept knocking back our offers to extend?

He may have more potential you gimp and your sock puppet. But we needed a replacement for Gutho and everyone apart from you could see Blaize wasn't a fullback...

 

[JokerEel]

Only when they’re wrong.

Your arguments seem to be always wrong.

 

[Twizzle]

That's f**king unbelievable.

Nah, it's believable

 

[Twizzle]

When did Apa become a cult here, and who the f**k is League Scene ?

 

[jason taylor]

All young players start out as backups. Whether they stay backups or get more responsibility depends on a lot of factors including opportunities in the first team.

Pezet is at worst a depth player (higher than a backup); his long contract with the a Broncos proves that. And whatever we’re paying him this year is a lot more than Twidle deserves. Whatever we offered Twidle for next year has nothing to do with Pezet because he won’t be on our books.

Losing Drown and Lomax was a debacle. This is normal movement of a fringe player looking for opportunity.

So Twidle is now a depth player at worse, not a backup, because the Bears signed him to a three year deal?

 

[Stevie]

Maybe Tuivaiti wants to be one of those $800k players?

Have we re-signed that merkin yet? FFS get it done I don’t give a f**k anymore I want answers.

 

[hineyrulz]

Have we re-signed that merkin yet? FFS get it done I don’t give a f**k anymore I want answers.

MON signed someone last week ffs!! He's having a month off to celebrate.

 

[Twizzle]

Api aint a winger

 

[hindy111]

The f**k up was signing Pezet. He is gash and would cost 600k. They could of thrown Twiddle in and given him a shot. If he failed they had Volkman as insurance. His cash could of been used to retain both.
In the end you may lose all 3.But perhaps the club is ok with that.

 

[Parrapat]

The f**k up was signing Pezet. He is gash and would cost 600k. They could of thrown Twiddle in and given him a shot. If he failed they had Volkman. His cash could of been used to retain both.
In the end you may lose all 3.

Ex f**king xactly!

Rissole Pezet, pay over for Twidle!

We're still in the cooling off period, make it happen MON

 

[hindy111]

Ex f**king xactly!

Rissole Pezet, pay over for Twidle!

We're still in the cooling off period, make it happen MON

To late. The moneys been wasted now. Pezet signing was always f**king silly

 

[Parrapat]

So Twidle is now a depth player at worse, not a backup, because the Bears signed him to a three year deal?

Pou logic has more bends than a pretzel put through a Klein bottle

 

[Parrapat]

To late. The moneys been wasted now. Pezet signing was always f**king silly

I was all trust the board, trust the management, trust the plan after we got rid of BA and was 100% on the Ryles bus.

I even tabulated my misgivings in an excel workbook comparing 2025 to 1st year Ciraldo for comparison, just to get some basic benchmarking on my expectations.

The signing of Pezet after we threw away space cadet Brown I never understood but took it in my stride thinking the club was just biding time till our juniors found terra firma in the big time without throwing them in at the deep end.

Now I find we refused to pay said junior who we were protecting with the singing of Pezet a measly 80K per annum!

190cm speedster who would have miraculously won us a home game against all odds if our high priced halfback would kick a f**king conversion ffs.

80 f**king kay. We had to beat 80k.

Speechless.

 

[Parrapat]

Api aint a winger

What's the backstory on Mikołaj Olędzki?

 

[85 Baby]

If he got the chance to play more then 20 minutes on the wing against 12 men, merkins would probably f**king hate Twidle.

Merkins already do!
f**ken @Twizzle