Official Dallin Watene-Zelezniak signs with New Zealand Warriors

[Grunthos]

No great loss, with the exception of only a handful of games, his performance has been underwhelming to say the least.

 

[MichaelM]

Had to be done or we faced the prospect of having a $550k (or 800K) winger on the books for depth!!!

Lots of ways to look at how it impacts our 21 Salary Cap and I know people will be thinking it will enable us to sign another top line player, however, if it does free up 400k it could also cover roster positions 28,29 and 30, which means we can spread the remaining $'s across 27 players instead of 29.

Whichever way you look at we should be able to improve our overall squad as a result.

 

[Kempsey Dog]

I heard we're getting Kodi Nikorima for next season as part of the deal.

With the new rules I think he could be a real force at hooker for the warriors ... But he's played there before and didn't like it ala Ben Hunt

 

[Kempsey Dog]

I really hate the Allan signing, I tried to look at it positively (lol) thinking he could do job @ centre but after seeing Schoupp play i think I prefer him. Allan is just a slug and isn't powerful enough to play wing either.

Me too haha was the same when we signed woods lol tried to convince myself it would all be ok. We need to offload him to the Sharks so he can play with his fishing buddy Connor Tracey

 

[BELMORE]

Surely club will offset this announcement with a new signing

 

[alchemist]

I wish DWZ well but as a player, he lacks the skills to play fullback in today's game and always has a costly error in him... and you can't be paying $800K+ a season for a hard running but inconsistent winger

 

[wendog33]

Surely club will offset this announcement with a new signing

Only Warriors do that lol

 

[wendog33]

I wish DWZ well but as a player, he lacks the skills to play fullback in today's game and always has a costly error in him... and you can't be paying $800K+ a season for a hard running but inconsistent winger

Why didn't Management also see that.

 

[Jai81]

My thoughts as well but Okunbor is still to come back and may need a couple of weeks in reggies. My point is surely they must have been a deal somewhere that allows us to see out the year with him?

hopefully its a great deal, but I doubt it.
We are just trying to free some salary cap space.
would be great if we were trading for Reece Walsh lol

 

[Howie B]

That makes sense. Depends if Meaney is heading off.

After only 3 games, we need to see how Allen goes at FB now that the team has found a bit of form.

Might surprise?

Yep agreed.

We are playing alot better than we were in those 3 games as well. Thommo wasnt there for starters so we had no go forward. Also Katoa was our main dummy half.

He played really well for Souths at the back end of the year so it will be interesting to see what Baz does.

 

[Scoooby]

Good stuff. One down lol.!!

 

[mikey]

Club needs to come out and explain this one i think

Old board and coach signed him.wasn’t a bad buy back then but hasn’t really shown anything else.like his enthusiasm.the fox and naden will be here next year.I don’t think he figured in Barrett’s plans.

 

[COVENS]

I really hate the Allan signing, I tried to look at it positively (lol) thinking he could do job @ centre but after seeing Schoupp play i think I prefer him. Allan is just a slug and isn't powerful enough to play wing either.

Yeah I know. I only see 2 options for Allen at this point and it's either offer him to the Broncos or play him at Fullback and hope there's an improvement with Averillo playing dominant half instead of Flanagan.

 

[RabiedDog]

Will he be able to sell his watches over there ?

 

[w00t]

Overpaid but literally gave everything he had whenever he played with us.

He would've looked amazing if we had a decent squad, but obviously he isn't the type to spark something out of nothing.

 

[Trafford10]

I'm ok with paying $300k to get $500k available in the cap.
If it;s 50/50 that sucks but the good news is no BJ Leilua!! I was scared that was going to happen.

 

[FZ1-S]

The A Grade standard pass he threw in the last minute of the first half vs Panthers is enough reason. There is no justification for a player earning elite player money to do such a stupid thing.

The couple of reverse play the balls didn't help either.

 

[cookieman909]

I’m glad that’s resolved. Gotta be something big in the pipeline.

 

[piggy]

Dogs likely paying half as always and screwing our cap again

Yep if we are paying more thsn half of his salary they can fuk off.....cant believe he is getting 800 k next year....sick of this shit...now fuk of flanagan whike we are at it

 

[FZ1-S]

I'm ok with paying $300k to get $500k available in the cap.
If it;s 50/50 that sucks but the good news is no BJ Leilua!! I was scared that was going to happen.

Yeah me too!