Valentine Holmes

[Ronnie Dobbs]

The Dragons got the jump on the field last week, with coach Flanagan making the long trek to Townsville to sit down with his former premiership-winning player at Cronulla.

Credit where due Mr Flanagan.

Jeez I hope we aint paying overs for Val as he is no spring chicken.

Good points Jubbsy.

How old was Gasnier when he came back in 2010?

 

[SAP58]

o Who is this elusive alternative to Holmes that fans seen to think we could/should have signed?

o There are no prizes for not spending 3mil of our cap next year.. it just makes winning (and recruitment) harder.

o Rly happy now that Lomax is gone, hes a hard worker but just not bought into the culture, now that we have a replacement centre and goalkicker.. I feel a lot better about 2025.

o This is a huge win for us getting some respect again in future recruitments.. I know we got Cook, but it felt like we needed another domino to fall our way.. show future players that we are building here, and they dont need to take a leap of faith by signing with us.

o If Val just ends up a fast goal-kicking winger, thats still a huge win for us, but for right now hes our left centre, and if something goes tits up with Sloan (even an injury), we have a Plan B.

o Also bring some acceleration/speed into our backline (along with Sloan).. Lomax again has his strengths but i think that was his peak this year, Val will get plenty more line breaks than Lomax and will finish a try better also.. not as strong in the air but pretty solid in that space regardless. Also a better kicker imo.

Good post, I totally agree with all your points. We dont sign someone we are no good now we sign a current rep player & we are still doing the wrong thing. I for one think it is a good signing brings good culture & still offers a lot including a quality goal kicker. Well done Flanno !