Happy to Let Hoppa walk early?

[GDR]

Did he re-sign or did the club re-negotiate his contract to remove the lazy Sunday rule?
Also, my memory is shithouse, was it before Des got the boot?
If so, I reckon it'll be backended in true Des style. He'd be giving up a fair chunk of change if he chooses to leave early.

Still would rather keep him in the centre. He's the most consistent player we have. He's not flashy, but you can count on him to catch a high ball or actually show some urgency when needed, unlike other shit kickers we currently have.

Yes under Des , yes renegotiate with extension

 

[_G-Dog_]

Weve replaced too many capable experienced players with inferior duds.. dont let players go unless u have better replacements

 

[KiwiDog7]

Last night only Hoppa and Jackson put in

At one point Hoppa had 3 hit ups in one set

Jackson made a trysaving tackle and very next set was expected to make two hit ups in 3 tackles

Fkn embarrassing effort from the others

 

[KiwiDog7]

And by the way

Full freight yes release Hoppa

But full freight ain’t happening

 

[bigstix]

A whole 3 pages because someone heard a whisper...

 

[kaluah8123]

No way

 

[hotdogs]

Hops has been one of our most consistent last 3 years.
He's hasnt got x factor and lacks speed but his numbers are usually pretty dam good and is versatile.
Why throw away a solid rock when can get rid of flakes like Montoya,fuallalo etc to hopefully add x factor around him.
The dogs will have a chance to recruit correctly but I feel people making decisions wont make the right ones and perfect example is paying decent coin for Napa .

 

[Yougra]

If he is going to be on ridiculously high money then let him go. Although he is very solid and his metres gained stats are very good most of them are from dummy half runs. We need strike in our centres and should go for that.

 

[2144superman]

174 metres last night .. made more metres than any other dogs player and is consistently up there every week with our better stats

 

[oldpuppy]

If we do need to replace him I feel better value would be to chase players of the calibre of xerri and cotric. I'm sure combined they'd be on the same money lantrel Mitchell would demand.

 

[coach]

One of our best every week
Then muppets on here will bag his replacement....

 

[Squash the Berries!]

Don’t forget to shut the door on your way out.

 

[Merimbula Man]

Don’t forget to shut the door on your way out.

No leave it open so plenty of others can follow

 

[Robert61]

No, not until we sign a capable replacement.

He cops it one here regularly, with such smart nicknames like "floppa" but the fact remains he's one of our better backs, and consistently one of our best every week

Says a lot for the other backs when Hoppa is the best of a bad bunch. We have nothing in the backs that makes me smile this year.

 

[Robert61]

Who cares. Not like we are gonna be a threat to win anything over the next few years.

Yes chances are we wont win the wooden spoon. Referees will make sure we will win a couple more games this season to keep us from winning the spoon .

 

[bradtalo]

He's average at best. Plays a decent game now and then but so does every first grader otherwise they wouldn't be in first grade. We need quicker more hungry strike players. Hopa would be on decent coin from Des' days. Would only re-sign him if he accepts a downgrade. Worth about 300K a season otherwise happy to see if he can get better elsewhere - seriously doubt it

 

[maltalian_dog]

He can go. Skillful but soo slow and kills our momentum like tolman.. doesn't strike fear in any opponent

 

[Novdoggie]

I would get rid of anyone who wants to leave besides CHN, Jackson,DWZ & Reimis Smith. The rest are just fringe first graders in any other side.

 

[Legend23]

Has been our best on ground multiple times this year. Can cover fullback and wing comfortably, wouldnt even mind seeing him at 5 8th.
Takes better hit ups than most of our forwards of not all of them.
There is no way id let hoppa walk, get rid of the shit that doesn't need to be here cause there is plenty of it and it doesn't include hoppa.

 

[flamebouyant]

For sure. Hoppa has been pretty good but he'd be on 600k or more on a backended deal next year. Hoppa, Jackson, Tolman and Foran should all be shopped heading into the last years of their deals. Some teams will have interest in each as long as partial freight is paid for most of them.

That would still free up over $2 million and replacement players can be signed during this offseason for 2020, despite being under contract for longer. You see huge amounts of movement every offseason.

This would allow Holbrook or whoever else to put their stamp on the team right away.

We are severely lacking in experience and you want to shop our 4 most experienced players?? Yeah nah.