The Rumours Thread

[Coffs dragon]

There is a post over at Facebook with a copy from some newspaper. This is what was said.
The Dragons are on the verge of landing Canberra's Fijian winger Mikaele Ravalawa.
The 20 year old featured for the Raider's feeder side Mounties this year after being part of Fiji's world cup squad last year.
Does anyone know anything about him

As long as he's young and got a load of speed rather than a load of hotel bags like Eto the porter, then sounds good!! Has to be an improvement on the current tortoises.

 

[Saint_JimmyG]

There is a post over at Facebook with a copy from some newspaper. This is what was said.
The Dragons are on the verge of landing Canberra's Fijian winger Mikaele Ravalawa.
The 20 year old featured for the Raider's feeder side Mounties this year after being part of Fiji's world cup squad last year.
Does anyone know anything about him

Yeah!

He’s a reserve grader who currently plays for the Dragons’ feeder club.

Whoop de do!

Another success story brought to you by I. Millward (sponsored by Mediocrity Express).

 

[Gareth67]

Ricky refusing to blood his juniors.

Good Lord - yet another coach who will not blood his juniors ? ?

 

[Saint_JimmyG]

F**king hell. I wanted him back here. The only plus is that the Dogs are gone for years,

Looks like a done deal Jimmy. Reported a couple of hours ago.

I’d like to know what the hell has happened here! How does one go from agreeing to join one particular club, then linking up with another in just over a fortnight?

Comedy capers brought to you by an inept recruiting/retention officer named Millward.

 

[Bests Golden Boots]

There is a post over at Facebook with a copy from some newspaper. This is what was said.
The Dragons are on the verge of landing Canberra's Fijian winger Mikaele Ravalawa.
The 20 year old featured for the Raider's feeder side Mounties this year after being part of Fiji's world cup squad last year.
Does anyone know anything about him

Excellent, another young kid that gets to spend the year looking longingly at the cut and paste first grade side.

 

[Bests Golden Boots]

I’d like to know what the hell has happened here! How does one go from agreeing to join one particular club, then linking up with another in just over a fortnight?

Comedy capers brought to you by an inept recruiting/retention officer named Millward.

You'll find it was buckets and buckets of uncle Nicks cash that made the difference.

 

[dragonssamy61]

There is a post over at Facebook with a copy from some newspaper. This is what was said.
The Dragons are on the verge of landing Canberra's Fijian winger Mikaele Ravalawa.
The 20 year old featured for the Raider's feeder side Mounties this year after being part of Fiji's world cup squad last year.
Does anyone know anything about him

Mate he is super quick.
190cm 94kg

Scored 12t in 2017
scored 8 this year.
Won under 20s player of year last year.
Was named in the figi squad for the world cup.
He has size and pace is playing for the mounties in the isp

 

[dragonssamy61]

As long as he's young and got a load of speed rather than a load of hotel bags like Eto the porter, then sounds good!! Has to be an improvement on the current tortoises.

He's quick very quick

 

[dragonssamy61]

I’d like to know what the hell has happened here! How does one go from agreeing to join one particular club, then linking up with another in just over a fortnight?

Comedy capers brought to you by an inept recruiting/retention officer named Millward.

Jimmy
He was offered a 1 year contract with us and a 2nd year in our favour.
The roosters have a better offer for him so he gone to them.
It's his last contract so you take the best one.
I would do the same.

 

[Drag Queen]

I’d like to know what the hell has happened here! How does one go from agreeing to join one particular club, then linking up with another in just over a fortnight?

Comedy capers brought to you by an inept recruiting/retention officer named Millward.

You're on the money. I'm sick of people blowing smoke up this guy's arse tbh. Excluding Vaughan, who has he signed of any significance? Many on here will say Hunt, and he has retained numerous youngsters that will never see the light of day. Great work Millward.

 

[Saint_JimmyG]

Jimmy
He was offered a 1 year contract with us and a 2nd year in our favour.
The roosters have a better offer for him so he gone to them.
It's his last contract so you take the best one.
I would do the same.

Source?

If the club only offered those alleged terms, it makes you wonder he (allegedly) agreed to them in the first place.

 

[Saint_JimmyG]

You're on the money. I'm sick of people blowing smoke up this guy's arse tbh. Excluding Vaughan, who has he signed of any significance? Many on here will say Hunt, and he has retained numerous youngsters that will never see the light of day. Great work Millward.

Don’t forget the fawning of Dufty at the expense of the more experienced Dugan not the loss of Packer against the short term solution, Graham.

Millward receives far too much adulation.

 

[Drag Queen]

Jimmy
He was offered a 1 year contract with us and a 2nd year in our favour.
The roosters have a better offer for him so he gone to them.
It's his last contract so you take the best one.
I would do the same.

I could bag the Roosters out all I want but at least they aren't as myopic as our recruitment team. Bmoz has been the stand out player for the Dogs this year. Ageism is rearing it's ugly head Samy. Bloody shame that they picked him up and we didn't. I still wish him well.

 

[West coast dragon]

I could bag the Roosters out all I want but at least they aren't as myopic as our recruitment team. Bmoz has been the stand out player for the Dogs this year. Ageism is rearing it's ugly head Samy. Bloody shame that they picked him up and we didn't. I still wish him well.

Rhys Martin has been their Standout player this year not Morris

 

[Drag Queen]

Don’t forget the fawning of Dufty at the expense of the more experienced Dugan not the loss of Packer against the short term solution, Graham.

Millward receives far too much adulation.

I can't discuss Dufty mate because he's a superstar.......

 

[RufusRex]

The standout player in a team coming equal last ... epic performance ... He is done ... better than nighty granted but done ...

 

[TomRedVRiver]

Yeah!

He’s a reserve grader who currently plays for the Dragons’ feeder club.

Whoop de do!

Another success story brought to you by I. Millward (sponsored by Mediocrity Express).

You're on the money. I'm sick of people blowing smoke up this guy's arse tbh. Excluding Vaughan, who has he signed of any significance? Many on here will say Hunt, and he has retained numerous youngsters that will never see the light of day. Great work Millward.

With all due respect, you both genuinely have no f**king clue. Absolutely no idea.

I feel like i'm wasting my time even responding to you both about this, because you're either trolling or are just that daft. If you call retaining Frizell, De Belin, Widdop, Aitken, Dufty, Mann, Robson, Host etc while recruiting Vaughan, Graham, Tariq and Hunt (amongst others) and getting rid of deadwood like Marketo and McCrone a failure, then I suggest you need to wake up. Stop nit-picking at things to fit your agenda and refusing to acknowledge the positives, of which there are a great number.

And StJimmy, you can't call Ravalawa a reserve grader because he is f**king 20 years old. A kid. Say we recruited Lomax from another club, would you call him a reserve grader and dismiss him immediately? You've never seen the kid play and you're already on his back.

 

[The Damo]

Don’t forget the fawning of Dufty at the expense of the more experienced Dugan not the loss of Packer against the short term solution, Graham.

Millward receives far too much adulation.

Graham has played 4 more games than Packer, averages about 30 metres more per game, has 3 times the tackle breaks, over double the offloads, made 100 more tackles, and missed 14 less than Packer has this year. And if reports on salary are right graham is costing us about 1/3 of what the tigers are paying Packer. Really hard to see how that’s not an excellent outcome?

 

[Brutalitops]

What's the point of labelling someone aged 20 a ''reserve grader".

Literally every single NRL player has been a reserve grader

 

[Drag Queen]

With all due respect, you both genuinely have no f**king clue. Absolutely no idea.

I feel like i'm wasting my time even responding to you both about this, because you're either trolling or are just that daft. If you call retaining Frizell, De Belin, Widdop, Aitken, Dufty, Mann, Robson, Host etc while recruiting Vaughan, Graham, Tariq and Hunt (amongst others) and getting rid of deadwood like Marketo and McCrone a failure, then I suggest you need to wake up. Stop nit-picking at things to fit your agenda and refusing to acknowledge the positives, of which there are a great number.

And StJimmy, you can't call Ravalawa a reserve grader because he is f**king 20 years old. A kid. Say we recruited Lomax from another club, would you call him a reserve grader and dismiss him immediately? You've never seen the kid play and you're already on his back.

Jeezus you're a cranky bastard. Lomax has an injury that is extremely hard to heal. Resigning a number of our guys was fairly easy tbh because I don't believe any club has been bashing our door down to sign any of them. Correct me if I'm wrong because I often am. PS. I do like Marketo as a person but not necessarily as a player. Cheers.