Potential Five-Eight solution

[Moe]

Another dream team thread.......

 

[chipandchase]

It's a fair point but were guys like Alex Glenn, Gerard Beale and Josh Hoffman Queenslanders or were they brought across from NZ as teenagers to play for Brisbane? It's the latter.

Manly got Foran from NZ, Cherry-Evans from QLD and even Hodkinson who is by far worse than Cherry-Evans who looks an Origin player, from Cabramatta.

We're a long, long way behind in coaching and recruitment it's not even funny. It's been like that for a decade now. We used to be right up there with the best, most professional clubs. Now it seems like no one at the club has much of a clue as to what they are doing and where the club should be headed.

What's our recruitment department doing in that regard? Taupau looks the goods as does Kasiano but compared to other clubs we have a small percentage of kids coming through making the impact that they do at other clubs entrenched in the top 8.

in reality not many kids make the jump for Toyota cup, we soon have Tapau, Kasiano, Lafai, and maybe Finnucune and Jackson in our top 17.
nots too bad really when you break it down.
i also like the look of Abu- Sleiman if that is how u spell it from the 20's also.

 

[Dogzkill4eva]

i dont think our problem is 5/8 i think more with the wing spot. But with 5/8 i say just give it to either Romelo/Reynolds, they both showed they are great players and could make an awesome combination with Hodkinson

 

[Wearnze]

You Never Know, we may shove Barba back to five-eighth with the nyc fullback coming in...? If we are that desperate. Barba can still score heaps of trys playing in the 5/8th position.

 

[bite man]

You Never Know, we may shove Barba back to five-eighth with the nyc fullback coming in...? If we are that desperate. Barba can still score heaps of trys playing in the 5/8th position.

ive been saying that all year atleast give him ago there and if not maybe rynolds but i would love to see benny have a crack at it ,,

 

[Baghdatis]

Ben Barba isnt a number 6. His kicking game is always good or bad and is incossistent in that position. His match fitness +defence is a big worry.

 

[chipandchase]

i dont think our problem is 5/8 i think more with the wing spot. But with 5/8 i say just give it to either Romelo/Reynolds, they both showed they are great players and could make an awesome combination with Hodkinson

our halves are a massive problem for us, lets not gloss over the fact.
Hodkinson showed potential but he only played good for the last 6 or 7 games, thats not good enough for a first grade halfback.
Are Reynolds/ Keating/ Romelo good enough also ?

perfect scenario is that Hodkinon takes the form into 2012 and plays for the whole season and we can get Keating or Reynolds to go to new levels.
i think out forwards especially with tapau and Finnucune comeing through, Kasiano another season under his belt, will go well.
But if our halves only perform for "part" of the year next year we will have a similiar fate as this year

 

[too69u]

keating an reynolds are our 5/8ths for next year so get over it...they will both improve under dymock and the assistance of terry baa baa lamb....

 

[The Greatest]

Ben Barba isnt a number 6. His kicking game is always good or bad and is incossistent in that position. His match fitness +defence is a big worry.

You always leave me scratching my head....

 

[The Greatest]

You Never Know, we may shove Barba back to five-eighth with the nyc fullback coming in...? If we are that desperate. Barba can still score heaps of trys playing in the 5/8th position.

I think this is warranted, since Abusleiman is killing it at fullback.... so we can promote him

 

[Book]

Can't really compare anyone's NYC development to the Warriors because NZ kids are very talented and they have a whole country to develop players from.

 

[B-Train]

Can't really compare anyone's NYC development to the Warriors because NZ kids are very talented and they have a whole country to develop players from.

True. But none of the best NZ players play for the Warriors. Well, not many of them. Foran was at Manly, Marshall with the Tigers, Hoffman at the Broncos, Luke at Souths and us before that, Blair at Melbourne and so on... Where's our slice of the pie?

We bought Eastwood and Pritchard who both started off at Brisbane and Penrith respectively. Since Ackland left our NZ scouting has been nowhere near as good and it's cost us.

Hopefully Taupau and Kasiano turn out to be our NZ stars that we developed.

 

[Book]

True. But none of the best NZ players play for the Warriors. Well, not many of them. Foran was at Manly, Marshall with the Tigers, Hoffman at the Broncos, Luke at Souths and us before that, Blair at Melbourne and so on... Where's our slice of the pie?

We bought Eastwood and Pritchard who both started off at Brisbane and Penrith respectively. Since Ackland left our NZ scouting has been nowhere near as good and it's cost us.

Hopefully Taupau and Kasiano turn out to be our NZ stars that we developed.

Those players are all pre-NYC really, barring Foran. The problem now is that they have too many stars and have to offload, before it was the fact that there was more opportunity over in Asutralia to further their league careers, thus why players like Kasiano etc ended up in Australia.

Just look at the players they are producing now though. Their NYC side tore the competition apart last season and they'll probably win it again this year, Locke, Johnson and Elijah Taylor are all big parts of their FG side and they have plenty more knocking on the door.

 

[SaMi..]

Those players are all pre-NYC really, barring Foran. The problem now is that they have too many stars and have to offload, before it was the fact that there was more opportunity over in Asutralia to further their league careers, thus why players like Kasiano etc ended up in Australia.

Just look at the players they are producing now though. Their NYC side tore the competition apart last season and they'll probably win it again this year, Locke, Johnson and Elijah Taylor are all big parts of their FG side and they have plenty more knocking on the door.

Packer..

 

[Wearnze]

Those players are all pre-NYC really, barring Foran. The problem now is that they have too many stars and have to offload, before it was the fact that there was more opportunity over in Asutralia to further their league careers, thus why players like Kasiano etc ended up in Australia.

Just look at the players they are producing now though. Their NYC side tore the competition apart last season and they'll probably win it again this year, Locke, Johnson and Elijah Taylor are all big parts of their FG side and they have plenty more knocking on the door.

Alex Glenn? Gerald Beale? Josh Papalli? There are a few from NYC. Not alot, but they are all quality players in their own right.

 

[Izzy Forreal]

Presuming Michael Ennis comes back firing next season, that leaves Joel Romelo to fill the utility forward job as say hooker and/or lock. As Romelo is a noted "hit 'em and they stay hit" defender I think his future is in the forwards rather than five eighth. That would leave Josh Reynolds to focus on five eighth with Kris Keating as a back up.

But I wouldn't mind the Bulldogs sniffing out Cronulla's Albert Kelly. He is definitely a talented player although still pretty raw, but I think Jim Dymock coaching could harness this bloke's talents and give us a real attacking asset

 

[morgandogs]

mayb the let john morris go

 

[Big Owl]

I think we need to give Romelo more time in the number 6 to develop his ball playing, he's got good skills, he can kick and most importantly he can "tackle"!
Defence is where we need to focus first for next season. We need to build from that foundation and get back to what our club is all about - mean, tough and uncompromising.
We need to make teams fear playing us again!
I don't know what Moore's problem was with Romelo? I've seen a lot of guys in our colours, over these past 40 odd years, this guy is just what we need at 5/8 right now and will only get better.
I hope he gets first crack at it next seaon.

 

[Hansta]

True. But none of the best NZ players play for the Warriors. Well, not many of them. Foran was at Manly, Marshall with the Tigers, Hoffman at the Broncos, Luke at Souths and us before that, Blair at Melbourne and so on... Where's our slice of the pie?

We bought Eastwood and Pritchard who both started off at Brisbane and Penrith respectively. Since Ackland left our NZ scouting has been nowhere near as good and it's cost us.

Hopefully Taupau and Kasiano turn out to be our NZ stars that we developed.

i dunno, we only had one of the greatest NZers in SBW once upon a time

Add Roy Asotasi to that too lol.

 

[BaYry Ward]

i dunno, we only had one of the greatest NZers in SBW once upon a time

Add Roy Asotasi to that too lol.

Ackland brought SBW and Asotasi to Canterbury. Ben's talking about our NZ recruitment since he left.