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Squad succession

eels_fan

eels_fan

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Next years squad being at 23 just means the incoming coach already has a preloaded excuse that the team isn’t his and failures not on his shoulders.

write of 2025 now unless we can move on 3-4 players to trigger mini rebuild - not that there is much around to buy.

going into 26 I’d be happy to only have Moses, Lomax, Penisini, Matt Arthur, Guymer, Blaize, Hopgood and Moretti on the books from our current squad - plus Gutho if he gets through 2025 fine. 21 places in our squad to fill.
 
hineyrulz

hineyrulz

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23 already signed?? So going by the way this club does things we can expect only another 3 signings???
 
Delboy

Delboy

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Twizzle said:
more likely they are waiting to appoint the coach before making decisions on players' futures as the new coach would be part of the decision making process
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True but our normal cautious and extremely slow processes across every decision see players already moving , limiting choices going forward.

Not surprising given our history particularly with the current admin, but disappointing thing we still wait for a decision what a month after moving the coach on.
 
Avenger

Avenger

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JokerEel said:
NRL.com has only 23 players signed up for 2025 Interested to see what signings happens over the next 5 months....

Bit worried that Guymer and Brazel haven't been locked up for another year or 2

Name20242025202620272028
Bailey Simonsson2024
Blaize Talagi2024
Brendan Hands20242025
Bryce Cartwright20242025
Clint Gutherson20242025
Daejarn Asi2024
Dylan Brown20242025PO until 2031POPO
Haze Dunster2024MO
J’maine Hopgood20242025
Joey Lussick20242025
Joe Ofahengaue20242025
Junior Paulo202420252026
Kelma Tuilagi20242025
Maika Sivo20242025MOCO
Makahesi Makatoa2024
Matt Doorey20242025
Mitchell Moses202420252026POPO
Morgan Harper2024
Ofahiki Ogden2024
Reagan Campbell-Gillard20242025
Ryan Matterson20242025PO
Sean Russell20242025
Shaun Lane20242025MO
Toni Mataele20242025
Will Penisini20242025PO
Wiremu Greig20242025
Zac Cini2024
Zac Lomax*
2025​
2026​
2027​
2028​
Charlie Guymer2024 dev
Ethan Sanders2024 dev
Jock Brazel2024 dev
Luca Moretti2024 dev2025
Sam Tuivaiti2024 dev2025
Total3223843
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Still plenty of players that need to be tapped on the shoulder for 2025.
 
King-Gutho94

King-Gutho94

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emjaycee said:
How long should the recruitment process for a change of this magnitude take I wonder.

Is 2 weeks too quick and a rushed decision? What about 3 weeks?

Maybe 5 weeks is right if proper due diligence is to be done, or maybe longer?

I wonder.
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Do you count the 3 weeks they spent luring Bennett and not having a fair idea of a plan B in that period.

As they are quoted saying they unofficially sacked BA on May 2. Just wasn't official until the May 20.

5 weeks from May 20 would take us end of June.

I reckon that's long enough if we haven't named out coach by end of June then clearly the ones making the decision don't trust themselves to make the right decision or they NFI.
 
emjaycee

emjaycee

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King-Gutho94 said:
Do you count the 3 weeks they spent luring Bennett and not having a fair idea of a plan B in that period.

As they are quoted saying they unofficially sacked BA on May 2. Just wasn't official until the May 20.

5 weeks from May 20 would take us end of June.

I reckon that's long enough if we haven't named out coach by end of June then clearly the ones making the decision don't trust themselves to make the right decision or they NFI.
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I don't and I don't and I reckon they do.
 
Poupou Escobar

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King-Gutho94 said:
Do you count the 3 weeks they spent luring Bennett and not having a fair idea of a plan B in that period.

As they are quoted saying they unofficially sacked BA on May 2. Just wasn't official until the May 20.

5 weeks from May 20 would take us end of June.

I reckon that's long enough if we haven't named out coach by end of June then clearly the ones making the decision don't trust themselves to make the right decision or they NFI.
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It means there's no good options.
 
emjaycee

emjaycee

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King-Gutho94 said:
Bennett was sitting there uncontracted since October 31 for 2025.

Its not like it was breaking news in May that Bennett was all of sudden available for 2025.
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And our Board and Management decided in Oct 2023 to give BA until a point in 2024 before deciding on his future.
By the time that decision was made, Bennett had been linked with Souths and was always likely to go and resolve his "unfinished business". In fact there were reports linking Bennett to Souths for 2025 as early as April 11th.
 
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Cloeel

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emjaycee said:
And our Board and Management decided in Oct 2023 to give BA until a point in 2024 before deciding on his future.
By the time that decision was made, Bennett had been linked with Souths and was always likely to go and resolve his "unfinished business". In fact there were reports linking Bennett to Souths for 2025 as early as April 11th.
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To believe that after Souths 2023 season there was no dialogue between Souths and Bennett/Bennett camp prior to season 2024, would be naive to think.

Would not at all surprise me if they were communicating during the 2023 season.
 
Avenger

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emjaycee said:
And our Board and Management decided in Oct 2023 to give BA until a point in 2024 before deciding on his future.
By the time that decision was made, Bennett had been linked with Souths and was always likely to go and resolve his "unfinished business". In fact there were reports linking Bennett to Souths for 2025 as early as April 11th.
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I'm with MJC here. I don't blame the board for giving BA this year. He did get us to the GF in 2022 and if we sacked him in 2023 we would have been as bad as what we did to Daniel Anderson in 2010 when we sacked him after getting to the GF the previous year.

We gave Bennett a proper crack and he turned us down.
 
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