Really? JAC/Kikau/Burton/Crighton/Mahoney and TPJ to certain degree are top shelf signings especially for a cellar dweller.
Yes, really. Fox was a bad signing, big money for wingers like him rarely work. He has been unfit and undisciplined ever since he got here and seems more worried about his brand than his football.
Kikau is a great player and arguably the best strike backrowers in the game but he isn't that out and out destructive ball runner he used to be a few years ago that's going to steamroll through defences. He's definitely one of the few Panthers I actually like however if you fail to address the middle then his signing makes no sense. He's like the icing in a good pack/team.
Burton and Crichton are the same. Two NRL proven centres that have been offered overs to play in key positions they have zero runs on the board in. Complete gambles.
Mahoney..meh. He can be better than what he has shown and I don't think being made captain or playing in our back has done him any favours. Still hugely concerned about his defence though.
Overall I just don't like the way we've gone about our NRL recruitment and the profiles Gus has targeted. Gus at this point is just signing players he likes and backs to be key to us a few years down the track and is hoping his "kids" coming through can start plugging the gaps. Like seriously Salmon? Gus straight up said he's known him since he was a kid and always wanted to sign him lol. Where are our Tamou, Maloney and Wallace type signings? These are the types of signings we need to make.
