The Rumours Thread

[Ghostrider22]

Yes I saw this and thought wow! Lachlan Lewis has had a brain fart. What the hell did he think he was doing and did he ever think that he would get away with it? No, he got 10 in the bin and he well and truly deserved to be binned. If he is on our radar, heaven forbid.

Dragon Dave, what did Walker say or imply for Lewis to react. You don’t do that over nothing.

 

[Ghostrider22]

No. I've always said get someone like Hynes - a ready made proven star - and let the juniors fight it out for a spot in the NRL.

Making one good signing to replace either Dufty or Norman is not beyond the realms of possibility. Especially when they are all quite versatile

We are so scared of having it all at this club that even the supporters are resigned to the one or the other mentality. That's what gets us nowhere. Bennett came in and said "I'll have this, I'll have that and give me this." And shock horror we were a better team.

Given we've signed no body to replace our 1 and 6, yes, let's blood these boys and see what we are working with. Let's not be scared of having too much talent. Best teams have depth.

Yes because Coach ran everything and they were scared of him. Doust did not interfere at all except for Mark Gasnier.

 

[Overseas dragon]

Anybody got a theory on The duff man and Canterbury seems to me Addo Carr was going to be their fullback,so where is the Duff ,hooker,wing,any other theories boys

 

[Adolf_Spritzer]

No. I've always said get someone like Hynes - a ready made proven star - and let the juniors fight it out for a spot in the NRL.

Making one good signing to replace either Dufty or Norman is not beyond the realms of possibility. Especially when they are all quite versatile

We are so scared of having it all at this club that even the supporters are resigned to the one or the other mentality. That's what gets us nowhere. Bennett came in and said "I'll have this, I'll have that and give me this." And shock horror we were a better team.

Given we've signed no body to replace our 1 and 6, yes, let's blood these boys and see what we are working with. Let's not be scared of having too much talent. Best teams have depth.

Got us a premiership but absolutely rooted our squad with back ended deals and recruiting for the now instead of the future. Would have been nice to have some longevity of dominance instead of the two and a half at the top.

Still.. take me back

 

[Adolf_Spritzer]

Anybody got a theory on The duff man and Canterbury seems to me Addo Carr was going to be their fullback,so where is the Duff ,hooker,wing,any other theories boys

Got Duff for winger money and JAC for fullback money, but will most likely be playing their respective positions

 

[I'm Hornby]

No. I've always said get someone like Hynes - a ready made proven star - and let the juniors fight it out for a spot in the NRL.

Making one good signing to replace either Dufty or Norman is not beyond the realms of possibility. Especially when they are all quite versatile

We are so scared of having it all at this club that even the supporters are resigned to the one or the other mentality. That's what gets us nowhere. Bennett came in and said "I'll have this, I'll have that and give me this." And shock horror we were a better team.

Given we've signed no body to replace our 1 and 6, yes, let's blood these boys and see what we are working with. Let's not be scared of having too much talent. Best teams have depth.

Again sounds great in theory but what about the salary cap? If we sign someone external and then have a range of juniors on the books

No. I've always said get someone like Hynes - a ready made proven star - and let the juniors fight it out for a spot in the NRL.

Making one good signing to replace either Dufty or Norman is not beyond the realms of possibility. Especially when they are all quite versatile

We are so scared of having it all at this club that even the supporters are resigned to the one or the other mentality. That's what gets us nowhere. Bennett came in and said "I'll have this, I'll have that and give me this." And shock horror we were a better team.

Given we've signed no body to replace our 1 and 6, yes, let's blood these boys and see what we are working with. Let's not be scared of having too much talent. Best teams have depth.

Whether you've said it before or not doesn't change the fact that the choice we face is either promote youth or sign exeternal talent for players in the same positions.

Do you really think Sloane, Amone and Sullivan, all of whom are being blooded to first grade, would be happy to play ressies hoping that Hynes gets an injury so they get a chance? They would go looking for opportunities elsewhere and who could blame them?

The way to build depth is to have a mixture of youth/experience and youngsters/external talent. At the end of the day there is also a salary cup and having 3 blokes who can all cover one position (2 of them in ressies) is arguably not an example of good cap management.

On Bennett, there was no long term plan and he inherited a side of experienced players who had come through our system under the previous coach and had turned in to superstars. He got the best out of the playing group but the work had largely been done and our premiership window was open, the current situation is not at all comparable with 2008/2009/2010/2011.

 

[BIG RIG]

So when in the hell are we gonna get an announcement on Su’a and Burgess

 

[JubileeJeffro]

When/If they actually sign I presume. Everything to date seems to be just speculation

 

[BIG RIG]

Buzz Rothfield has stated that we came very close to signing Anthony Milford for the remainder of this year just before bbqgate but pulled out at the last minute

 

[Dragon David]

Dragon Dave, what did Walker say or imply for Lewis to react. You don’t do that over nothing.

I'm not sure. Walker was probably niggling him during the match and when the half time hooter went Lewis was talking to Walker as they walked off and then had a brain explosion and brought Walker to the ground which shocked everyone and then most of the players came in to unravel them. Going from reports so far, Walker has not said what it was over only saying "what happens on the field, stays o the field".

 

[Dragon David]

Anybody got a theory on The duff man and Canterbury seems to me Addo Carr was going to be their fullback,so where is the Duff ,hooker,wing,any other theories boys

I think Duff the Magic (Bulldog) will start at 1 and JA-C at 2. These are their positions normally so I'm sure Barrett will keep to this. Burton and Averillo their halves is my thinking.

 

[Mjab]

Got Duff for winger money and JAC for fullback money, but will most likely be playing their respective positions

I think they just bought Duff for 1 year to show JAC the finer points of fullback defensive play

 

[SGMax]

JAC wanted fullback money more than actually being a fullback.
Dufty is there as backup for when JAC realises its much harder than he remembers from his junior years.
I think it will take 3 to 4 weeks for JAC to settle back on the wing if he even plays FB at all.

 

[Ghostrider22]

Got us a premiership but absolutely rooted our squad with back ended deals and recruiting for the now instead of the future. Would have been nice to have some longevity of dominance instead of the two and a half at the top.

Still.. take me back

Agree with everything you have stated, Coach was given only 3 years to produce, which he and the team did, well the rest of the story is history. I have always thought that they should had won 3 premierships and Club Champs, but neither team or coaching staff at the believed enough to do this.
First season no belief
Second season belief and more
Third season broken hearted the loss of a great mentor and man manager., never recovered since then.

 

[BLM01]

Buzz Rothfield has stated that we came very close to signing Anthony Milford for the remainder of this year just before bbqgate but pulled out at the last minute

Close as.. made inquiries perhaps

 

[BLM01]

Anybody got a theory on The duff man and Canterbury seems to me Addo Carr was going to be their fullback,so where is the Duff ,hooker,wing,any other theories boys

Trial basis
no other reason to take a punt on a spine position for one year
If he doesn’t get up to shape next year NRL career will be over

 

[Mjab]

Close as.. made inquiries perhaps

bullet dodged , but he is better than Norman and would have been happy for a swap for the year

I dont think Milford can ever come back and play decent footy after the last few years except if he went somewhere like storm or a really strong club where he could just be icing on a cake rather than a main man

I do hope we dont sign him long term here

 

[BLM01]

bullet dodged , but he is better than Norman and would have been happy for a swap for the year

I dont think Milford can ever come back and play decent footy after the last few years except if he went somewhere like storm or a really strong club where he could just be icing on a cake rather than a main man

I do hope we dont sign him long term here

Parra May sign him

 

[Mjab]

Parra May sign him

as a 14 ??? or do u think they are unhappy with Brown , rest of there spine pretty settled

 

[BLM01]

as a 14 ??? or do u think they are unhappy with Brown , rest of there spine pretty settled

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