eh i dont like how the club is looking for "marquee players" to "rebuild". We have seen a lot of our current roster has good talent, its just that theyre playing out of position and need better halves actually organising our attack.
We cant just dump 1 mill on 1 guy and call it a "rebuild". Or else we will end up with a toxic "im here for the $$$" culture that the knights have.
Great roster, shit team. Know what I mean? A good roster =/= a good TEAM.
Over the few weeks where we played well, we played like a good TEAM. We just had a bench spot being wasted yes but we all saw the talent, the grit, the desire.
Thats what we want. Not "marquee players".
If we can put in semi instead of meaney on the wing, yes, thats an improvement....but how long term is it? DO we want to be good for 2 years or 5?
I'd say we have a lot of effort, but not enough talent.
Meaney's playing out of position because even with that he's the best option on the Wing. I'm not sure who else you're referring too. Maybe Jackson, but there are benefits of playing him Second Row too. RFM's now in his correct position.
We're going to dump 2m on 2 players and 500k on a young gun (hopefully Harry Grant, because he's the only way I see us fixing our Hooker option). We're a rebuilding club, we're a bottom 4 team that want to be in the finals every year (I think Pay has even said a top 4 team, which is going to be a few years after 2021 if everything goes to plan). It isn't toxic, but players will only come to our club for $, unless we're the only club in for them.
The wasted bench spot isn't as big as you think and if Foran got injured you wouldn't be saying anything. We don't have a forward that is also a utility player. We could run a Second Rower there, but both of our Second Rower's are 80 minute players. Our bench Prop's get no minutes as is.
During our run of games we were winning tight in low scoring games. That isn't sustainable for 25+ rounds. We've also started our last 2 seasons poorly. This is why I believe we need to add explosive marquee players (Latrell and Fifita).
Again with not wanting marquee players, the alternative is overpaying on 4-5 (or even more) average to decent players. It's much better overpaying on fewer players and using them to attract other players to the club without overpaying in the future (that +results in the only way forward and to recruit properly like a top team). Also as you can see average to decent players will reject us if we offer them what there actual value is (Koroisau, Ramien, Ese'ese, etc).
For marquee players to sign, Radradra should be behind Latrell and David Fifita. Regardless if people think we can sign them or not, we have to try, and then reassess our options (either paying even more for them or moving on to the next target).