Do you have faith that we'll get it right by 2022 ?.
Personally the things that have really pissed me off are:
- Seems we may not have even made a play for a decent experienced half in Adam Reynolds.
- Seems we may not have actually made a play at all for Dufty from what I've heard. The Raiders are likely to get him (he toured the club) and they already have a very decent fullback so they will likely have 2 good fullbacks while we have none given that Allan failed this year.
HOW MANY YEARS HAVE WE NEEDED A DECENT HOOKER SO
- How did we miss out on Tom Starling by the way. Again the Raiders have 2 good hookers while we have none.
- If Josh Hodgson leaves the Raiders though he's tipped to go to the Broncos so then they can have 2 decent hookers while we have none.
We couldn't even get young Paikura off the Broncos when they're already stacked with young forwards.
- I do believe from many multiple reports the Storm were willing to let B.Smith out early if they got a decent player swap. How did we f.. that up ?. We don't have 1 decent player they would take seriously ? They took Reimis and he wasn't great
- We've long needed a decent prop badly for 2022 but we've let the barrel run dry, why ?
Yes I'm looking forward to JAC, Burton and Naden (who can't even get a run in first grade during Origin). Not nearly enough to turn us around though. What are we doing ? I hope we're not sitting on our hands waiting for bargain buys like more Flanagans, Allans and Waddells. If we sign Kenny as a hooker yes it's better than JMK or Katoa but only slightly and it's pretty poor of our recruitment team frankly.
The painful reality is we are still suffering from a terrible predicament.
For years we've lost players we should have kept and kept overpaid players that we should have offloaded,
started by Hasler Dib and ReaRea and continued by Lynne Hill Dunn and Pay.
My understating of the salary cap is a minimum of 95% must be spent each year on 30 players,
Tell me, what have we achieved by offloading so many players in 2018 then topped up contracts for unworthy player ?
The solution should have been...upfront players payments to give us more cap space from this year and beyond,
I guess that is asking for too much !
Lynne & co not only failed to fix the problem they further weakened our team and made us less attractive for marquee players joining us.
Now we are in a situation that we could only be content with marquee players to fix the problem, not hopefuls and certainly no rejects.
We all know the players that are needed, the problem is are they available ?
I fully supported John Khoury when he said: We will not Band Aid the problem to win an election !
Does this ring a bell ???