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The most Important part of the article is : “options including Toby Sexton, Drew Hutchison, Kurt Mann, Jaeman Salmon and Blake Taaffe.”

I think an RFM swap makes us favourable for the warriors

lol. Gus can’t talk to any other player position until we have announce prop signings. He can only work on one position at a time, and only after it’s announced to fans. Fu&@en Turnips

So we assume he’s not talking to props because there wasn’t a secret photo of him talking to one? [emoji53]

Brooks defiantly improve us and let’s Burton develop properly. We aren’t winning any comp in the next 3 years so improvement is all I can hope for

Be careful what you wish for turnips. Imagine Gus resigned today, saying that he would not be able accomplish success at our club, and we are left with a rookie coach, John Koury , super board members Joe Thomas and Anthony Elias. Laundy follows soon after…just be very fu#%en careful

Love? Take it fckn easy

Yea, a placeholder 7 forms few years until a young one becomes available. Will take pressure Burton

So true. It felt like we kicked after every line break today

Perham and Alamoti must go to nsw cup asp. Burns and Wilson/Skelton in. Kikau and Thompson come straight in for Waddell and Morrin when they’re fit

Fox cost us 2 tries. Hard to give him 2. He was going for intercept first try and what was he thinking for last try

Behind benji, He’s probably in the discussion of one of the best 22 year old 6s in decades. . Fittler, Daley and Locky all stated as centres or fullback

He’s a 6 you turnip! But for now he’s the best 7. Watch him go when he’s next to a 7 that can actually contribute. Karl will be lock

Hasler had control of the entire football dept m, it was a condition for him to leave manly. Its on him but also on Dib and castle. Would have probably been wort it if we had won one of the 2

Captain average

Ryan Anderson Folkes Gould Glossop Des erased all his good work. He will go down as probably our worst. He’s to blame for yen last 6 years

Illegal lol. We were the ones to get caught for what everyone did. all but 4 of our GF players played their first game for the dogs. Look at the knights, broncos,roosters and dragons squads from that time. They all had more rep players than us

Yep he can go. Holding Horsboroughs hand in that first set. And the strip which he obviously wanted to give a penalty away. He’s not for us

Reynolds gave him a horrible pass for his first run too. Did well to catch it

Reynolds is horrendous.

Mahney Burton Karl Critter Pretty sure Gus and Ciro will be happy with this spine for at least the next year or 2

Tigers Fijian in to top 30. Plus we are resigning Waddell. Which we probably didn’t expect to in the pre season. We have many back rowers Topine etc, No need for Davey

None were 5/8’s at 22. Not even Laurie Daley was

Captain average

Reed was an abomination yday. He made it all about him. I don’t think we will see that gain. In saying that he is definitely over plying his hand this year. He is definitely being asked to cause we have no creativity from 7 or 1

He can do that at training. You can’t use games for practice

His 40/20 attempt (towards the end) went 20 metres and down the centre of the field.

Its insane that you’re probably right. A half back in his 4th year??? FFS

Waddell and read by far our best. Burton was bad in 1st half but brilliant in 2nd half, but ffs he needs help from 7

It’s not a hip drop, it’s 2 feet in the air now. That’s what they’re sending people to the bin now. PV is fc king kidding himself.

Disgraceful

No, not for a Neanderthal

Alamoti would have scored it too but it would have been out wide. Pretty special of him to give up his first nrl try to get it closer to the posts.

Agree. It wasn’t just pass and prey. It was structured ambitious attack.

This is why Laundy is all over us. We’re set either way but this will set us up forever. The stadium is the final piece of the puzzle

In our team he would be horrible at centre. You put him in the roosters team and he’a Daly M 5/8 It’s not him being good at centre, he’s good everywhere in a good team. tit’s him being bad at Canterbury

They werent missing 3 first team props man. Plus the Roosters went down to 12.

He was not a good centre but can play centre in great teams. He just fell over the line with most of his tries at Penrith. He is a 6 and always will be. Whether in FG or NSW cup. Probably never a rep 6., which will be a fckn disaster since we are building around him

It’s not about winning. It’s about a few young guns improving and making the first team.

Oluapou , Paoalii, Skelton. Future!

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I hope that’s not all is he planning on doing this year. We hardly ever got a positive result off one last year

Even before injuries. Why didnt we re-sign Vaughn? The only dependable props we have are Thompson and King. It’s not like we have young great props waiting to step cup? Sutton isn’t a meter eater and Pele will get roasted around the ruck in defense. We can’t count on TPJ or Patolo

Penrith won every single grade last year except Matts, and they were Matts minor premiers lol. Cleary has nothing to do with that

Josh isn’t an option imo. He will get injured. On the bench is his best position

We didn’t really have a prop on first team bench. They replaced TPJ with Brown. No wonder our go forward stopped after 20. Patolo was injured too. If Patolo and Pele step up then we will be ok this year.

For me Burton’s issue was that he wasnt involved. Mahney either went short in good attacking positions, or Burton touched it 2 passes wide with the def right in his face. The concern yesterday was that the play wasn’t structured around Burton at all. That’s the huge concern. Seriously you...

We don’t have a top 8 roster. If we make the 8 it’s a massive massive achievement. We’ll win 10-12 games imo

They were about to go bankrupt when they recruited him. His first action was getting an unsecured loan from packer to keep them afloat. If he did nothing else he saved the club from bankruptcy

We will fill the c@nt out once we get on a groove and start winning again. That will help ;)

Don’t you think that he was outperformed at fullback in the pre season? I doubt Ciro picked Perham off a hunch.

Yes but right side centre is much harder defensively.

I noticed we played in the middle and short quite a lot yesterday. We only went wide after a quick play the ball and momentum. No aimless plays out wide. I like that

Last few years I’ve been canceling it by round 10

That’s one of the most uninspiring line-ups , but i get it.

The courier mail said that we paid it. This is after we announced it. I would never go off Rothfield article. I have no issues paying a release clause.I think it does go on cap but spread over the term of contract. Not sore though

We are one of the great destination clubs for young players agin. That’s a huge step back to ongoing success for the club

And we didn’t pay him 500k to join us, he wanted to join us. We paid 500k to broncos to release him.

Wooha! https://7news.com.au/video/sport/karl-oloapus-freakish-highlights-bc-6315350178112

It’s 650k old cap. That’s reasonable.

Again this is all based on what I saw last year. Who knows what’s going on now under ciraldo

Skelton definitely has the higher ceiling, but Alamoti seems to be the safer option this year.

For 2 years he was as good as a centre could be imo

Burton is on 700-800k with performance. Critter will be on the same. Gus will upgrade guns mid contract if they perform above expectation, so long as they also extend

No chance were paying him more than Burton. It will be 700kish, Gould will upgrade and extend him mid contract if he lights it up. Panthers barely made him an offer and he’s on 400k now. If he doesn’t work at fullback then at least we have a gun centre. It’s worth the risk. Whatever you do...

Gus said this article was [emoji817] bullshite. The part about is trying to sign him

He’ll go to rugby for a few years whilst being paid by nick the whole time. Then comeback to the roosters when he’s 26 on 700k per year, even though nick was paying him hundreds per year whilst he was at the wallabies. That’s (I know as fact) what happened to sbw.

Don’t want to go against grown adults with responsibilities positing on forums, but I think Gus and Ciraldo would have a good educated opinion on what Creoghton is capable of.

he was on 400k this year (and next If opt in) so the 750k is a good upgrade, we have the advantage cause we can upgrade his current contract too. There would be a ratchet clause for any further cap increases but that’s fine. If he becomes a million dollar player within the contract then Gus...

Grow up you fckrs. This is Gus’ thread!

I’ve seen him waking the dog around Sans Souci lately. Not far from Belmore but I reckon he’ll be a shark,

Penrith had a premiership to win so couldn’t waste time or points for Crighton to adapt. They went with the safer and cheaper option,But Creightons ceiling is much much higher imo . Plus if he fails we have an elite centre. If GUS and CC are ok with it then so should all of us hacks too

Just trust Gus FFS. Look what our club has become since he arrived, the team and overall squad will get better and better every year.

You can start by never ever ever fckn turning your back on the ball mid air when attempting to catch a bomb

Woods told a few of us at a bulldogs corporate event

No, and this is a fact. Tedesco , woods and Moses all wanted to come to us as. A package but Hasler wanted Foran so said no. We ended up with just woods

We’re not good at all. Not one of those is a guaranteed career first grader

He’s a very good controlling 7 with a great kicking game. Parra don’t have the best team and pretty much finish up where they belong. If we buy him it isn’t a commitment to our future l, but a placeholder that keeps us in the 8 until our juniors come through under Gus, but we will challenge for...

Exactly. 1 million percent. If there’s a better available half then fair enough. There isn’t even a better value for money half. That geezer from the UK isn’t.

Lol. You’d rather Flanagan than Moses? I’m happy to have Moses for a few years until we can un-earth our own 7. With Moses we are guaranteed top 8 for next few year, and who knows what happens if Burton and a few others explode, I’m happy to rebuild from the top 8. If Gus does the deal then I’m...

After tax it’s 100k extra per year l

Politis probably a guarantor on loan too

Yep, according to Rothfoled

We signed Xerri

Suaalii is on 650k already. That’s on the cap. He just bought a house in double bay

It’s he Kikau tax mate, which doesn’t apply to us now ;)

I would pick Skelton over Alamoti any day

I would pick Skelton over Alamoti any day

He may as well stay on the gear until 6 months before. Roids will give you an increased base for life, especially if you stay fit and keep training

Reynolds(not now) and Hughes? Nope. The others fair enough

TBH he’s becoming less and less impressive with each day that passes. He has copped a fair few injuries though. I’m more excited about Skinner

We only play roosters, panthers and storm once. Good draw

All this talking. Let’s see by rd 4

He only did that for a few games tbh. He’s just so slow that everyone backs off and preempts that he will pass. You can’t be a modern half without being able to take on the line imo In saying that, he’s better than Kyle but only on a short term deal whilst we develop or look for a longer term...

A Motor bike accident messed him up a bit and he never really bounced back

We’re 2+ years from challenging for a title. Nothing wrong getting George and some top 8 finishes in that time while we build from within

Only difference is that Gus hired him. We got the best available coach at the time. That’s all you can ask for

If only he was that assertive taking on the line and leading the attack