It's almost 2021. If we wanted to sign the best case scenarios we would of been in the transfer market last November (maybe we'll learn for 2022). This is unfortunately what happens and it's out of our hands. It's now a sellers market, not buyers. Not sure how people didn't know this was a possibility last November and the longer we didn't sign anyone the more worrying something like this would become. To be fair the club blew a shiz tone of money on one prop already. Too bad it doesn't look like it was the right one. I can't wait to see who we sign at hooker, if anyone.
DWZ fucking off would be an absolute dream
This is why it would be a good signing.
We signed a current international, a current origin player and a great major sponsor. Try to be a little positive in life. Signings are coming, probably not what you want to hear though as that’s not negative or something you can cry about
More than enough? We don't have a single good edge forward right now.
RFM has been great on an edge and Doorey has looked good too. If Waddell is signed he'd play on an edge plus hopefully Topine can be in the mix.
RFM is not good enough to play their fulltime, Doorey looks okay but obviously still young and is yet to put in a solid 80 minutes, Waddel lol. We don't have a quality edge forward we can rely on right now and Elliott is probably our best option their in this moment.
RFM is just a battering ram. Needs to play in the middle. Can count on my hand the amount of times he has passed the ball. If you want a battering ram edge rower, yo u need skillful halves. He was great through the middle
To be fair an origin winger and current winger to play centre and an English International from ESL who every above average rookie is outplaying at (the moment)
Try and be a bit positive
Agreed. RFM has probably been our best player all season who scored a couple of good tries and made a lot of good runs. I just can’t recall him setting up a try or putting the centre away from his half breaks.
The problem I see with RFM and Jackson is their speed and lateral movement. This is easily noticed in defence. Another problem for Jackson is he doesn't create anything. RFM also doesn't create for others, at least he's a handful individually. We have the option to play Elliott and Doorey (or someone else) in the second row and Jackson at lock with RFM coming off the bench and playing in the middle, either lock roation or prop. With Jackson at lock over Elliott we lose a lot in attack. RFM could also find himself on an edge at some point of the game so he's getting more minutes. RFM has been one of our best players this year so it wouldn't be fair to give him a low minute role.
In all honesty though someone mentioned Elliot to the edge a while back and the more I think about it the better it is. If he goes to the edge it simplifies his role and he has lateral movement over RFM and Jacko (Jacko having a very bad year defensively) Elliot can concentrate on the edge which may remove the brain explosions he has in the middle trying to create. On an edge - use his speed and foot work and nice short passing game to set up his centre. So in fact if that were the case we would actually gain something on the edge we don’t currently have. RFM would be a good lock cause he makes metres through the middle and can offload if need be. Just my opinion.
Obviously ideally we'd upgrade every position in the squad and have more quality on the edges but considering how they've managed the cap and how many forwards we have under contract, I can't see how they can recruit any more forwards. They'll just have to make do with what they have short term and need to prioritise a hooker, fullback and halves first.
You'd think that but then you hear we've reportedly signed Waddell. Unless it's a top second rower (e.g. someone like Bateman) it's just more of what we already have unfortunately. I actually refuse to believe we've signed him until it's official, that's how against it I am.