Why wouldn't it? Nasheed is my name after all.
Firstly, I want to make it clear that I have always been against the Lichaa acquisition from day dot. If you don't believe me, ask boxer17 or Jacobshade, I wasn't a fan then and I'm not a fan now. I e had many an argument with my friend in Taree who is a Bulldogs tragic . I just didn't rate him. He couldn't even keep his place against Damien cook last year, and the geniuses that are decided to punt Cook and keep the one Cookie emasculated.
Secondly, I don't have anything against either using Craig Garvey at hooker, I like his Josh Reynoldsesque grunt, or moving Reynolds or mbye to the number 9 and concentrate on sourcing a new half. You can find a thread I posted on this topic elsewhere in the discussion forum under 'sourcing a new half'.
Thirdly,
Why the hell did we not go for Robbie Farah? Tigers were virtually offering to pay almost all his salary and he is a tackling machine who offers creativity out of dummy half, that's exactly what we need!!
What's more, he is a Bulldogs junior and an
ARAB! With the Canterbury Bulldogs supporter base 80-90% Arab,The powers that be missed an absolute trick by not uploading an instant crowd favourite to the team. Lichaa didn't just go to the toilet against the panthers. We've known how bad he was for a while, we could have replaced him with the Arabic NSW origin hooker in the cheap and we missed it.
Fourthly,
Going forward, given the above has already sailed, we need to explore what we want from a hooker. Do we want a creative hooker like Cam Smith or Peter Wallace or do we want a hardnut machine in the Nathan friend and Matt ballon mould. I suspect the latter and that's why we passed up Farah and Cook.
If we want that then we should offer Nathan Friend a deal. Yes he's retired, but that's clearly because peats had arrived. Guys fit as a fiddle and a machine. He will definitely accept an offer.
Failing that we should really look to get josh Reynolds in there.
If we want an attacker, why don't we Pursue Damien Cook again? His run last year towards the back end was '09 Haynesque. I hadn't seen a run home like that since parramattas surge way back when. Yet, we dumped him. At least he understands the place. Jeff Robson is also an accomplished number 9, so perhaps we can use him for his structured edge.
Failing all that, we have another option,and it's a serious One;
We go overseas, where there is a current plethora of Hooking talent.
We have Jamie Soward who can easily be turned into a hooker, and the big one, Joel Segeyaro.
Segeyaro is a game breaker, an attacking maestro who got shafted for why? He hung out with a bunch of lebs at the casino? Was photographed having dinner. Big whoop, that's me every Friday night with the sick ***** at Awafi. If I was in the nrl I should be there still.
Segeyaro;
-wants to come back to oz
-is a game breaker
-an accomplished attacksmen
-and my favourite. He would come cheap given his predicament! Why not give him a 2 year deal that equates to under a bill over two seasons and at the very least, buy some time ?
-Nasheed