The Amazing Fitz and Unamazing Chad Issue

[roboshark]

How many holes in a straw

 

[webShark]

The huge benefit we have in getting Fitz is he has been at the Rorts for years and there is no other club or coach - in Trent Robbo - who understands better that to hold the trophy aloft on GF day it comes down to the 7.
Robbo punted the SOO halfback because he knew that despite the star studded lineup he had he was winning nothing with Pearce.
So he got Cronk.
After cronk he went for flan2 on a long term deal. After identifying he was winning nothing with him he dropped him, then punted him.
They stole walker from the broncs and the balls now in his court.

Bellamy dropped Croft weeks out from the finals because he knew he was winning nothing with him and moved Hughes from 1 to 7 and won the trophy.

That Chad is a grand final winning 7 is a fallacy. He and Shane Perry share the honour of having a premiership ring because the 6's ran the team and orchestrated the attack.
That would be Lockyer and Maloney.

So fortunately for us not only has Fitzy seen and experienced this philosophy at close hand he has heard it explained in detail by Robbo at length.

Do you reckon hes not watching our halves closely at the moment?

Why did Auckland let SJ go? Because on huge dollars delivering nothing. We are unlikely to get Reynolds IMO.

 

[Tiger Shark]

Why did Auckland let SJ go? Because on huge dollars delivering nothing. We are unlikely to get Reynolds IMO.

And the Warriors are doing such a fine job with out him. Warriors getting rid of SJ is fine in theory if they actually had a play in place but they didn't. It's good to be ambitious, like us going after Fitzgibbon but you need to execute it.

Time will tell how well we've executed our plan.

I think we'd be enticing to Reynolds, stays in Sydney, gets his 3 years. Going to a team that should make the finals. Bennet isn't coach at Souths anymore so that attraction isn't there. Not sure how he feels about Demetriou.

 

[Generalzod]

There is no point in letting him go unless we have a replacement...

 

[Tiger Shark]

There is no point in letting him go unless we have a replacement...

Well we're not "letting him go"

He has an option in his favour, so it's to him if he stays. Obviously leaving this year is a different story.

What we have control in is signing someone else and letting Chad know where he sits as a priority, which if you believe the rumours is what's happened, or maybe Chad has jumped before being pushed. There was no chance he was going to fight it out with another halfback and risk playing for the Jets.