I love you too and all our Manly brothers and sisters feathered friend
Schuster and young Turbo are signings as well . They are not playing next year for free feathered friend
That's one signing, Foz. The other 2 Des already had at his disposal all year but decided against using them. I'm a huge Hasler fan BTW, just saying.
Bro ... I started off positive at the start of this year, I predicted us to make the eight ! And where did we finish!!.. being positive does work !I love you too and all our Manly brothers and sisters feathered friend
We all have inbred negativity within our human nature
The positive people are the ones that learn how to control and overcome their negative instinct and focus on the positives.
The glass is either half empty or also half full . The toast is totally up to each one of us
Cheers to the Mighty Sea eagles !!!
I don't know, Sean - I'm excited that we haven't announced the signing of Tolman. So far, anyway.
I think JAC for 800K would be short term thinking that would give us a small premiership window. If those years are unsuccessful (especially knowing our luck with injuries) then we would have a half on 1.3 million, a winger on nearly a million, a lock on nearly a million, a fullback on around a million, Taupau on around 650K, and a lot of young talent with contracts that are bound to increase a lot (Shuster, Fainu if he gets off, Olakautau, Harper maybe). We'd be ****ed imo.
Lol so extending a player that is already contracted is a "new" signing? 2020 just keeps on giving maybe we just extend all our squad for another year that our non existent recruiting department can keep sitting on their ass doing nothing.Schuster and young Turbo are signings as well . They are not playing next year for free feathered friend
I'm with you. And I will be cowering in the corner in the foetal position if we go anywhere near James Roberts and Matt Lodge who are both apparently on the outer at Souths and Brisbane.
Could be worse... could be tolman. Hopefully not Welch either
Yeah I don't get the love affair with Welch he's just a young version of Tolman
I think we do.. paseka, taupau, keppie, boyle and sipley possibly sione fainu.. id say we are really thin in that area and lack alot of experience. I'm not overly sold on keppie yet either. I think we will be in trouble if we don't recruit another quality prop
Possibly Titmuss, Saddler, and Tuitavake. Plus let's not forget Jake! I count 10 middles in a 34-36 man roster. Realistically, that should be enough. If I tried to count our edge forwards stocks... a little concerning. I would love des to trial Paseka on an edge. Really athletic, got his aggro back as the season went on, loads of potential- even nfl were interested apparently. Could be an absolute weapon on an edge.
If paseka and taupau are starting that leaves keppie and boyle/ sipley as our rotation. I think haumole is better suited to an edge imo and wasted in the middle. All these other players mentioned have no NRL experience and are all very young. It takes most props at least til mid twenties to really come of age in that position. Also there is no guarantee any of them will be in the 30 just yet. Maybe one or two but in doubt all of them. We need more quality.The drop off will be massive when our starters come for a rest not to mention if one of them gets injured.. God forbid, we don't really have the cattle imo if this occurs. Especially if its an injury that will have one sidelined for a while.
Fair point. I think however that Jake and Marty should be our starting props, and Sirro at 13. Jake can play big minutes. But point taken, we really are relying on potential here. I think you could say that about all positions unfortunately...
I agree in the fact that Jake should play around the 60 min mark as a prop allowing paseka to drop back to the pine for impact. Our prop rotation is sorted if that were to happen imo and probably wouldn't really need to look externally more than maybe a fringe type. Siro to lock is an interesting theory, I think it could be worth a shot, but the flipside means we'd need two quality backrowers to fill the void. Haumole for mine could be one, but I think like kikau would be better suited not playing the full 80 then someone like davey or garner can cover on the bench. Have someone like sitili on the other edge
Based on this Ryan - my educated guess is that a couple of the signings will be from teams still alive in the finals ie "signings will be announced when they are able to". They are only "unable" to announce the signing if the player was under contract to another club and a buyout was being negotiated or the club was still alive in the finals and that club would not want a media release upsetting their prospects. I am sure the club would not be now be rushing to work out who they will sign with preseason training starting in November. They would have been working on this for months. So I certainly expect some decent signings over the next few weeks.
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