News The Mole: 'Massive' rival offer poised to lure $800k Bulldogs star away from Belmore

[Brizdog]

From my limited watching, Oloapu is totally ready for NRL in many areas but there are other areas where plainly he is not ready. It's not the same as if he needed work in all areas, he absolutely doesn't. He just needs to work on specific things which is much easier for him to learn and implement and much easier for the coaching staff to train. He has also been working hard on his fitness which is a necessity to play the 80 minutes required from a half, he does fade in and out of games at the moment.. This will also help him mentally with the demands on an NRL player, week in week out. His reading and positioning in defence needs work, but his general kicking and forced restarts are good, they just need to happen more often.


Always a Bulldog

lets all hope he can step up for us. Flanagan is not the answer right now

 

[haz123]

From my limited watching, Oloapu is totally ready for NRL in many areas but there are other areas where plainly he is not ready. It's not the same as if he needed work in all areas, he absolutely doesn't. He just needs to work on specific things which is much easier for him to learn and implement and much easier for the coaching staff to train. He has also been working hard on his fitness which is a necessity to play the 80 minutes required from a half, he does fade in and out of games at the moment.. This will also help him mentally with the demands on an NRL player, week in week out. His reading and positioning in defence needs work, but his general kicking and forced restarts are good, they just need to happen more often.


Always a Bulldog

KO might fade in and out of games at the moment,
Flanno hasn't faded into a game to fade out of yet.

 

[maroondog72]

$800k for Thompson & $500k for Flanagan in cap saving by the end of the year. $1.3m in cap money to buy a good prop and a halfback.

I would throw most of it at hunt.

 

[haz123]

I would throw most of it at hunt.

Or big Nelson

 

[bradtalo]

They have 2x marquee slots outside the cap where they can go balla.

But usually they marquee playas around 500k aussie so if Wigan is real thats d game they at.

Warrington can get a bit cray cray they spent 700 on Widdop but the owner has mad cheese

Hope we don't waste 500K on trying to keep him. He's not even worth 400K. 300K maybe but he can do better in the UK so we should cut our loses

 

[maroondog72]

Or big Nelson

I would go hunt first we need him more.

 

[Ewan McGrady]

Even at $400k…that’s good money for a part time player

 

[NQ Dog]

If we had Hunt, I think the forwards we have will have more room and space created to perform better.