This should be our team at the minimum. If we can't get a new decent hooker then our recruitment team gets a MASSIVE FAIL in my opinion. Burton is under contract until end of 2021. Would like the Panthers to release him early but we can't count on it unfortunately. So we need to re-sign Foran for at least 1 more year. I really don't believe there is enough room to re-sign Foran, a new hooker and Elliott so Elliott we'll need to sacrifice. We need Foran more. I hate to think how hard it would be to find the tryline next year with 2 of Lewis/Wakeham/Cogger as our halves.
1 Nick Meaney - showed against the Eels he has a passing game. Wish he had a side step but he's a better long term option than Hopa who's too slow
2 DWZ - can he try running into gaps instead of directly at defenders ?
3 Nick Cotric
4 Will Hopoate
5 Reimis Smith - hopefully his little holiday will lite a fire in his belly
6 Kieran Foran
7 Lachlan Lewis - yes not perfect but slightly ahead of Wakeham / Cogger who don't really offer any more in attack and definitely offer less in defence.
8 Ofahiki Ogden - really liked his game in attack and defense against the Eels. Hope he can keep it up
9 Daryl Clarke hopefully OR Tom Starling at minimum
10 Dylan Napa - we need a big body to tackle opposing big forwards. We saw on the weekend our forwards had trouble handling big Paulo
11 Renouf Toomaga - he trained in the off season to play edge and he is a bit of a ball player
12 RFM - I agree he's more a middle but we don't have much choice unless Stimson improves
13 Luke Thompson
14 Suaso Sue
15 Josh Jackson
16 Joe Stimson
17 ?
From November this year we need to sign for 2022
Matt Burton
Addin Fonua-Blake - direct replacement for Napa
Dylan Walker or Oliver Gildart - direct replacement for Hopa who's too slow to make a line break
Sitili Tupouniua (Roosters reserve forward) - drop RFM back to the bench