Recruitment & Retention 2027

RufusRex

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I suspect the early signing may set the wheels in motion for an early release.

I mean Sami is better than anyone we have in the 3/4 line bar Holmes .. just hoped we aimed higher.

Early release would work and help us, wonder if we can sweaten it sending someone the other way.
 

RufusRex

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i am not hating Suli this season so far - and also expect he will be in the bears sights ...

If Bucky plays well tomorrow i could cope with a 3/4 line of Holmes (lw) bucky (lc) suli (rc) sami (rw) very easily.
 

GCRV

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i am not hating Suli this season so far - and also expect he will be in the bears sights ...

If Bucky plays well tomorrow i could cope with a 3/4 line of Holmes (lw) bucky (lc) suli (rc) sami (rw) very easily.
That's not too bad actually. But Holmes with his skills would probably be wasted a bit on the wing.
 

RufusRex

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That's not too bad actually. But Holmes with his skills would probably be wasted a bit on the wing.

I get that .. do those skills include no look lomax flick passes to a wingers feet when we have a 1 man overlap?

He does have skills no doubt, his skill at wing though may be better for us than the likes of Tui/Tu.
 

RufusRex

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For any other club this is a good depth expirence signing, but for us it's a marquee FG signing, we are moving further behind not forward.

At this stage our backline for next year is,

Gutho 32
CT 26 the baby of the backs
Val 31
Suli 28
Sami 29

To answer the question Flanno has last say on recruitment, it's his team.

I have heard that in a few places over the last month and it was touched on in the other joint over the last few weeks .. to hear it confirmed by you here just makes me sad ...
 

Frank Facer

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For any other club this is a good depth expirence signing, but for us it's a marquee FG signing, we are moving further behind not forward.

At this stage our backline for next year is,

Gutho 32
CT 26 the baby of the backs
Val 31
Suli 28
Sami 29

To answer the question Flanno has last say on recruitment, it's his team.
Any idea why we didn't or haven't tried to sign Jenkins instead of Sami?
 

Frank Facer

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Instead of Not Happy Jan
Not Happy Sam

Hannay won't even pick him for the Gold Coast. That is how highly Hannay rates him.

And why sign him for 3 years? What is wrong with our recruitment team? Why did Anderson and Watsford rubber stamp the deal? Both of them should have said, no way to 3 years. Are we that desperate? I consider this up there with signing Lawrie for 3 years on a reported 600K a year or even more.
 
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Frank Facer

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For any other club this is a good depth expirence signing, but for us it's a marquee FG signing, we are moving further behind not forward.

At this stage our backline for next year is,

Gutho 32
CT 26 the baby of the backs
Val 31
Suli 28
Sami 29

To answer the question Flanno has last say on recruitment, it's his team.
The original Supecoach Jack Gibson said the best coach is the best recruiter. Flanno isn't looking good now. His recruitment was much better at Cronulla. Is it because that is all he can get or is that who he really wanted?

The 10 day cooling off period doesn't give the club a chance to change their mind, does it?

Ryles didn't want Gutho. I don't think there were any other clubs interested in signing Gutho. We did Parra a favor taking him off their salary cap.
Manly were happy to let Suli go. He didn't even want to come to us. I didn't hear of any other clubs wanting him.
Nth Qld were happy to let Holmes leave with a year left on his contract.
I didn't hear of any other clubs wanting Sami either.
They are basically all offcuts
We certainly aren't John West.
 
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