Josh Aloiai

[mickqld]

We need to STOP signing tiger players. Woods, Kapow, Suli, Aloia, Tuilagi and coming next year Talau.
Look at the dolphins where Wayne has built a team by recruiting experienced Storm players that know and understand a winning culture.

Wayne wasn't hampered by $4 mil tied up in a broken fullback $1.1 mil , an MIA 5/8th $600K , a polarising halfback $1.3 mil , and a willing prop but not for $900K.

 

[Saabnaldo]

I know it reeks of hindsight, but I would have thrown everything bar the kitchen sink to have kept AFB. Him and Manase used to take a lot of the workload off Turbo and DCE.

Manase faniu , what could have been. Honestly think if he didn’t f*ck up he would be the 9 for NSW by now. He was so good people don’t realize how much of a big loss he’s been

 

[Brooke]

I am stunned at how poor a player Tuilagi is. He would not get a run at the Avalon Bulldogs I don’t think.

If this is the super human recruiting skills of Scott Fulton bringing Tuilagi and Josh Aloai to the club then we should be thrilled he has left.

Not to mention he let Jacob Preston a local lad leave and is going great at the Dogs.

 

[TheSoaringEagle2023]

Manase faniu , what could have been. Honestly think if he didn’t f*ck up he would be the 9 for NSW by now. He was so good people don’t realize how much of a big loss he’s been

Yeh its a shame. Imagine if we also kept Fonua Blake instead of Tapau, and had him playing alongside Haumole.

 

[TheSoaringEagle2023]

Not to mention he let Jacob Preston a local lad leave and is going great at the Dogs.

Go far and wide to hit rocks, all while theres a diamond under your nose.

 

[Brooke]

Go far and wide to hit rocks, all while theres a diamond under your nose.

Absolutely. Scott Fulton must have been too busy looking in the wrong places to notice Preston..

 

[JenEagle]

Not to mention he let Jacob Preston a local lad leave and is going great at the Dogs.

Exactly right. Preston is ten times the player Tuilagi is based on what I have seen so far this year.

 

[XV-1]

Wow. Lots of angry people on line tonight

I hope you all feel better now after ranting

 

[Remy]

Bench him, we are low on middles so we still need him, can't drop him. Bench him and let him know he has to earn his spot again, light a real fire in his belly, because dropping that lost it to the rabbitohs hasn't been enough, he needs to be demoted to the bench. Bully to lock.

 

[Hibyemama]

Yeah I don’t get it. Why on earth are we looking for players coming from a perpetually losing club!!?

salary cap

 

[bob dylan]

Wayne wasn't hampered by $4 mil tied up in a broken fullback $1.1 mil , an MIA 5/8th $600K , a polarising halfback $1.3 mil , and a willing prop but not for $900K.

he also doesn't have the luxury of 3 of the best players in the game over the last 5 years. He hasn't got a young forward as good as Haumole. And the big one for or the CROKER haters take a look at their hookers, Ray Stone and JMK.

 

[Tomay]

he also doesn't have the luxury of 3 of the best players in the game over the last 5 years. He hasn't got a young forward as good as Haumole. And the big one for or the CROKER haters take a look at their hookers, Ray Stone and JMK.

They also have a lot of cap space because they couldn’t find those marquee players. Just better recruitment and coaching. Picking players with the right character to create culture is much overlooked and often what separates the terrible front offices who just look for talent and the good ones who win premierships.

 

[Waz13]

he also doesn't have the luxury of 3 of the best players in the game over the last 5 years. He hasn't got a young forward as good as Haumole. And the big one for or the CROKER haters take a look at their hookers, Ray Stone and JMK.

JMK is a very underrated 9.

 

[nightster]

Yeh its a shame. Imagine if we also kept Fonua Blake instead of Tapau, and had him playing alongside Haumole.

and Paseka

 

[SeaEagleRock8]

We need to STOP signing tiger players. Woods, Kapow, Suli, Aloia, Tuilagi and coming next year Talau.
Look at the dolphins where Wayne has built a team by recruiting experienced Storm players that know and understand a winning culture.

Then why do Storm have a history of signing players from the Tigers?
Why do Roosters sign players from the Tigers?

Sure the experience of the Bromwich's and Kaufusi is great for the Dolphins - this year - but did they want to come to Manly? Would we have offered as much?

In each case you try to sign a player that will add something to your squad, if they want to live in Sydney that is pretty important too, let alone if they actually want to come to your club and we can afford them.

Tigers still produce a lot of talent so they will always be looked at for recruitment.

PS Taupau started at Dogs and Tuilagi at Storm. We got Woods from Saints, Suli from Dogs. Oh yeah, also we have recruited from Storm and Roosters - and those players get criticised here just as much as the ex-Wests guys when we lose.

 

[joeboy]

Jeremy Marshall king is streets ahead of croker, for all the croker admirers out there, Watch his dummy half passing compared to every other hooker. It is woeful, and a big part of the reason why we look so pedestrian in attack.

He may be tough and gritty, but a hooker needs to be able to pass first and foremost

 

[TheSoaringEagle2023]

Jeremy Marshall king is streets ahead of croker, for all the croker admirers out there, Watch his dummy half passing compared to every other hooker. It is woeful, and a big part of the reason why we look so pedestrian in attack.

He may be tough and gritty, but a hooker needs to be able to pass first and foremost

Big reason why we can't get over the advantage line. Slow service and average decision making from the 9. He can tackle and aim up, but thats where it ends.

 

[bob dylan]

They also have a lot of cap space because they couldn’t find those marquee players. Just better recruitment and coaching. Picking players with the right character to create culture is much overlooked and often what separates the terrible front offices who just look for talent and the good ones who win premierships.

They dont have much cap space because every club has to spend 95% of its cap every year. That is why players like Luke Brooks earn the same as DCE.

 

[bob dylan]

Jeremy Marshall king is streets ahead of croker, for all the croker admirers out there, Watch his dummy half passing compared to every other hooker. It is woeful, and a big part of the reason why we look so pedestrian in attack.

He may be tough and gritty, but a hooker needs to be able to pass first and foremost

On form this season yes no doubt, but his form at the lowly Dogs for a series of wooden spoons didnt have people begging for his signature on these boards. Wayne spotted him and got his man.

I agree 100% Croker isnt the man but as I said in another post we dodged a bullett with the likes of Verrills The Cheese, Api, Hodgson and even the wonder boy at the Dogs is very ordinary most of the time and the eels werent too stressed about him going. South fans dislike (at times) Cooke for being hot & cold.

The solution might be at the Raiders imo. Starling or Woolford remembering Dani Levi had the jump on them to start the season.

 

[Sheikheagle]

JMK is a very underrated 9.

Super footballer.