Alamoti to the Panthers

[The__GM]

I wish him well. Clearly something wasn’t right for him to get all the preseason hype, then fall off completely. I would prefer Skelton and Crichton in the centres anyway.

He obviously needs to fix his pace and contact in D. Everything else about his game is a great foundation to build upon. I do wonder how he’s going to take to actually training hard with a premiership/ dynasty level side if our 8am - 5pm sessions were killing him.

 

[Kung fu man]

You can't keep them all if he was kept in lower grades he would have got an offer off some other team to play firsts and left anyway!

 

[Nate DAWG]

I would have liked to keep him. I don’t think it would have cost much. I reckon we regret losing him

 

[D.O.W.]

Wow! Despite the hate he cops on here, I for one am very disapointed that we have let him go!!

People forget he’s only 18/19yo and expect him to be Greg Inglis - in saying that, did lack a bit of speed but maybe that comes when he’s fully developed into an adult body.

 

[battered sav]

People keep mentioning how young he is but I find it hard to believe he will get faster with age. The other issue or maybe issue, is if he was one of the so called players struggling with the training then going to Penrith won't be any easier.
Not sure how I feel about this. My biggest concern is that he is a local junior and probably deserved move time. I don't feel like it's another Thurston situation but if he succeeds over there then good luck young fella!

 

[Berries]

Maybe he is a shit and lazy trainer? Why isn’t he copping it over this?

 

[ElMagicElMasri]

Surprised penrith only gave him a 1 year deal

 

[Silverdale phantom]

Panthers are deep in the backs next season.

Starting Back 5:

Dylan Edwards
Taylan May
Izack Tago
Sunia Turuva
Brian To’o

Backup Back 5:

Daine Laurie
Jesse McLean
Paul Alamoti
Tyrone Peachey
Thomas Jenkins

Think Jenkins is going to the Knights?
Laurie might be the halves depth? They have the impressive Iongi at FB.

 

[bowleggedwog]

I have no idea. Could be....

I doubt they didn't try to re-sign him if it was based purely on performance being so young and exposed to NRL with this team . I think it's all an attitude and work ethic thing.

 

[dogsballs]

I’m disappointed, i think he would make a good forward

 

[silva]

Whatever happened to Willie Talau..now that’s a quality centre

 

[SPEARTAKVIDREFS]

Another junior gone.
Why did he go backwards this year?
Is it too much to ask our Club to develop, train, coach and manage just one A grade NRL player?

 

[kmr07]

All the best Allanflopti

Grow up

 

[albatross]

Still young enough to play Flegg in 24 and 25 - yet people are prepared to judge him based on his NRL performances this year in our shit show of a team!
Poorly handled imo - should have been given more time to develop.
If he played Flegg this year he would have slaughtered the opposition and he still was eligible for SG. Ball

Exactly. He will get much better and I'm sorry to see him leave. I doubt we lose much on-field in the short term, but I reckon his ceiling is much higher than he looked this year.

 

[Chris Harding]

Good luck to the young man be interesting to see how he develops under a decent coach, quality team and proven system.

I think he'll go well there.

 

[S.B.W_Jnr]

I would prefer keep skelton over him to be honest. Not a loss and certainly a position easy to fill.

Panthers have also signed Laurie and Schneider not bad pick ups.

 

[Nasheed]

Nasheed here,
I told you all he was leaving

 

[ILiveForDib]

Signing makes sense physically he’s up the standard rarely recall him being dominated at contact and he certainly has a good build. At 19 years old in the Penrith system he will thrive and his defensive woes will become less obvious. Solid signing for them, crap signing elsewhere. For his personal career there is no better option.

 

[OldDogFan]

It’s also largely due to what’s happening during the week.

Are you aware of something that we are not?

 

[Nasheed]

But I have to say,
If Ciraldo is just copying the panthers system ‘because he knows success’ and Alamoti is a lazy trainer, why did Alamoti go to the panthers?
Why did Cleary want him!
This is another clue that the ‘players don’t want to train hard’ idea is Bs and it is a culture thing like Davey said.