[Resurrected] Sitili Tupouniua

[Mark from Brisbane]

Great player but does he just add to our injury prone roster ???

 

[maxta]

I feel the old version well worth the investment, but Tupouniua has lost most of his thrust and that awkward running style seems only a shadow of what it was.
Not much of an upgrad and if looking for a worthwhile signing with a decent outlay, not the best option, though I like the idea of looking for another menacing forward who can create problems on that left edge

 

[Dion Johnson]

Ethan Roberts from the Rorters, I think has more upside in his game, off contract and was tried as a middle due to the wealth of backrow talent the Rorters have, a gamble as not proven like Tupouniua in first grade…

 

[skull61]

Who is his manager

 

[Pepi]

Siua Wong played another game in reserve grade today.
Surely he can't be happy sitting behind the glut of backrowers the Rorters have. We should be talking to his manager about a starting spot.

 

[Nappa]

Michael Chammas on 100% Footy saying Manly, Dolphins and Dogs have all expressed an interest in Tupouniua. Although he's contracted for another 3 years, the Roosters apparently gave him permission to look around due to cap issues, but conditionally on them re-signing Angus Crichton.

Hopefully all the other nrl clubs make the roosters pay a decent amount of his contract for the next 3 seasons, and the club that does signs him at a very reduced cost.

At reduced cost he would be worth the risk of signing him due to his recent run with injuries.

 

[Adz]

Kleese Haas is off contract with the Titans,they have Fifita and Fermor and a handful of young talent.
Haas is coming into his prime,Sitili is injury prone and not the player he was.
I am ok if we sign him,but not for a lot of cap room.

 

[ManlyGM]

Kleese Haas is off contract with the Titans,they have Fifita and Fermor and a handful of young talent.
Haas is coming into his prime,Sitili is injury prone and not the player he was.
I am ok if we sign him,but not for a lot of cap room.

Pretty sure Haas just got re-signed to an extension with the Titans.

I could be living under a rock but not many second rowers that the club could target at the moment outside of Stili.

Obvious concerns with injuries as well as form but he’s an upgrade over our current second row depth (Waddell, Condon? etc).

 

[Adz]

Pretty sure Haas just got re-signed to an extension with the Titans.

I could be living under a rock but not many second rowers that the club could target at the moment outside of Stili.

Obvious concerns with injuries as well as form but he’s an upgrade over our current second row depth (Waddell, Condon? etc).

Nothing has been announced,they have cap pressure actually.
How much do you think the club should fork out for Sitili?

 

[ManlyGM]

Nothing has been announced,they have cap pressure actually.
How much do you think the club should fork out for Sitili?

Oh considering the injuries and his not so good form wouldn’t want the club to be spending over 500ish thousand a year for him.

 

[KNUCKLES]

Oh considering the injuries and his not so good form wouldn’t want the club to be spending over 500ish thousand a year for him.

I'd say 400,000 for two years personally.

 

[lsz]

Is he not on contract for a number of years still? Even our management would be able to get a clip for signing him

 

[Marto1970]

Is he not on contract for a number of years still? Even our management would be able to get a clip for signing him

Contracted to 27 , saying around $600 a season is what he is on

 

[LeonardCohen]

I wouldn’t go after Sitili if I were Manly. Ben looks the goods and is only going to get better. It’s props we should be chasing. Throw a mil at Stefano and move Lodge on. That’s the smart money. Edge forwards are primarily your attack on the fringes, whereas we need leg speed and power in the middle to compete with some of the quicker teams.

 

[Ron E. Gibbs]

I'm not really fussed either way, but other clubs are interested, so that rules us out. We generally only end up with players nobody else wants. Press is now reporting his likely destination is the Bulldogs.

 

[Dion Johnson]

Signed with the Dogs for 4 years, no loss for me.

 

[bob dylan]

Signed with the Dogs for 4 years, no loss for me.

Good.

 

[The Indian]

Signed with the Dogs for 4 years, no loss for me.

Oh well doesn't matter now - I think he's a decent player and love his versatility and wouldn't have minded seeing him here...but he could find an injury. It would have seemed strange to me that we let a promising backrower like Samuela Fainu go who is just hitting his straps only to sign this bloke anyway in a quasi swap.

Wonder who's next on the list and wonder which club he will hail from ??

 

[double hoops]

4 years. Dogs are happy to play the long game. Sitili seems a little bit of an unknown risk. Not sure id be wanting to go 4 or 5 years for him. Seems like the player held the aces here.

 

[Disco]

Yeah 4 years def a no go.

He could come could and may rue it but I'm happy enough missing out.