Opinion Worst Signings Roster

Artybulldog 26

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Nah Perrett went over to the broncos during Covid. Maybe he didn’t play NRL for them tho.
Suli didn’t play a game I don’t think, so not gonna include him.
 

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Raelene Castle should be first on that list.

I thought she was going to play as a prop but instead she became CEO.

Jack Cogger, Jack Hetherington and Lachlan Lewis also come to mind.
 

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Raelene Castle should be first on that list.

I thought she was going to play as a prop but instead she became CEO.

Jack Cogger, Jack Hetherington and Lachlan Lewis also come to mind.
Hethrington did well, was a pretty good forward in 2021 and did well in the first couple of games of 22 before his injury.
Cogger did his job for minimal money, and would be behind Flanno and Foran. Lewis debuted with us as well.
 

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Complied a 1-18 of our worst signings of the NRL Era. Player can’t have debuted at our club as well.

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Matt Dufty
Nic Cotric
Brenko Lee
Brent Naden
Corey Allan
Kieran Foran
Kyle Flanagan
Luke Thompson (He’s hasn’t been as bad as others, but the price coupled with suspensions and injuries hurt us)
Michael Lichaa
Aaron Woods
Tony Williams
Joe Stimson
Corey Haraweira- Naera (Pretty good player but off-field antics hurt him, and Pay thought he had an attitude problem)
Brad Abbey
Dylan Napa
Dean Britt
Clay Preist
Drury Low
Anyone else feel the need to wash their eyeballs after seeing that line up? Or format my hard drive LOL. That's some team.
 

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I agree that this a pretty bad team. But interestingly, six of them played SOH (Cotric, Lee, Allen, Woods, Williams and Napa), three for Australia (Cotric, Woods and Williams), two for NZ (Foran and Harawira-Naera) and three for other countries (Thompson for England, Lichaa for Lebanon and Napa for Cook Islands). However, I don't think that many of them played rep football while playing for the Dogs, maybe Lichaa.

Did we destroy their careers, did they overachieve before they joined us or were they lucky to play rep football?
 

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You say NRL era - and show some recency bias. No players pre 2011

Players I’d include:
Kane Cleal
Brett Howland
Joe Williams
Nick Youngquesr
Danny Williams
Scott Tronc
Charlie Leaeno
Michael Sullivan
Aaron Groom
Nathan Sologinkin
Damien Ford
 

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I agree that this a pretty bad team. But interestingly, six of them played SOH (Cotric, Lee, Allen, Woods, Williams and Napa), three for Australia (Cotric, Woods and Williams), two for NZ (Foran and Harawira-Naera) and three for other countries (Thompson for England, Lichaa for Lebanon and Napa for Cook Islands). However, I don't think that many of them played rep football while playing for the Dogs, maybe Lichaa.

Did we destroy their careers, did they overachieve before they joined us or were they lucky to play rep football?
I think we have to acknowledge our own role in this a bit , we have killed careers sadly.
 

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Shocking stuff, some of the players on the team were talented but came for all the wrong reasons and ‘downed tools’ so to speak.
 

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Ok I must be confusing him with someone else then..
Think your kinda right...
He come through our juniors but disappeared for a year....
May have released him or may have been injured....
Then he was back 12 months later when he debuted.....
 

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Who was the bloke from Melbourne we signed that was part of that betting scandle? Surely he's captain coach of this side.
Tandy? Didn’t he wind up in a criminal underworld mess?
 
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