What some don’t seem to grasp is Gus still has to deal with mistakes of the past. Flanagan and TPJ were both Barrett gets. In cap management he can’t just ‘move players on’ especially those with a larger share of the cap. He’s clearly done what he can when he can ie: Cotric, Allan. Flanagan will be gone end of this year, looking likely Thompson might be too but it’s not as easy as some seem to think to fix roster problems.
Wasn't he around when Barret brought TPJ?
*sarcasm* LordyWhat do you mean by this year is a 'transitioning' year? We've had many rebuilding years, yet the same shit is still being dished out.
Sure there’s a ‘right’. But who said apart from some tabloid scribbler that the club is even considering May? So Gus likely is just shutting out the noise of things that aren’t relevant. I’d suggest that ‘voicing opinions’ should be based on facts not speculation. I’ve no doubt that if the club did sign May plenty of members would express their unhappiness about that outcome. There’s just no evidence at this point it’s true.
He’d not long joined and publicly said ‘I didn’t have anything to do with that’ when punters were patting him on the back for TPJ signing. At the time I thought ‘Well played Gus, you’re making it look like you’re giving others credit when you’re actually saying you don’t agree with it’
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Cirro was watching ch9, heard that and shit himself.
I agree DD its going to take time, but moving TPJ has to be a priority. TPJ is on gus not Barret, he signed off on the deal.
He said it happened after he arrived. Or am I thinking JAC? I remember there were public comments where he clearly didn’t take credit for a player. If he DID sign off on TPJ then I retract and yes, that needs to be fixed. Most likely though with another year to run on his deal that’s not an overnight fix (cap wise). Sigh.
If that happened I reckon the Laundy family would try and buy the club lock stock and barrel. Could be a good thing to be honest.
i could be wrong but Gus was there when tpj was signed ? Definitely his fuck up if so
Gus signed officially 16th July 2021
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TPJ was Pre-Gus from what I understand - the only dud signing on Gus has been Ryan Sutton. Resigning RFM turned out to be a poor decision in hindsight also Vaughan warranted an extension.
Yeah I said above I may have mixed that up with JAC. Gus definitely and publicly distanced himself from a signing but maybe it wasn’t TPJ. Needs to be fixed.
I was pretty sure he distanced himself from the TPJ signing and it was at half time or post game of a televised game where he made the statement as part of a “breaking news” piece
He definitely (and publicly) distanced himself from a signing. Just not sure whether it was TPJ or JAC.
Def TPJ from my recollection.. I don’t recall any commentary from Gus regarding Fox.
