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Ruben Daley

Such a lot of competition for this prize.

Usually, losing to a bad team would rank worse than getting flogged by the best team in the comp but I can't go past the pasting by the Panthers. That game was so horrible to watch. Letting the WGD score at the end was the final straw.

Ruben Daley

As I said earlier, for all his numerous technical flaws as a coach, I think as a blues vibe manager and instiller of passion, coaching Origin is actually right in Ricky’s wheelhouse. Imagine if it did all come to pass and Ricky secured a Blues victory in 2024. Surely that would have at least a smal...

Ruben Daley

As I said earlier, for all his numerous technical flaws as a coach, I think as a blues vibe manager and instiller of passion, coaching Origin is actually right in Ricky’s wheelhouse. Imagine if it did all come to pass and Ricky secured a Blues victory in 2024. Surely that would have at least a smal...

Ruben Daley

As I said earlier, for all his numerous technical flaws as a coach, I think as a blues vibe manager and instiller of passion, coaching Origin is actually right in Ricky’s wheelhouse. Imagine if it did all come to pass and Ricky secured a Blues victory in 2024. Surely that would have at least a smal...

Ruben Daley

As I said earlier, for all his numerous technical flaws as a coach, I think as a blues vibe manager and instiller of passion, coaching Origin is actually right in Ricky’s wheelhouse. Imagine if it did all come to pass and Ricky secured a Blues victory in 2024. Surely that would have at least a smal...

Ruben Daley

Despite the alarming reference to using the Wighton/Croker money - which I suspect is just an unnecessary journalist addition to the story - I'm not too worried about this because club hasn't got too many contracts wrong for young players like Weekes. We haven't brought in trash and the non-stars li...

Ruben Daley

Ik it’s too early to think about 2024 1. Savage 2. Cotric 3. Kris* 4. Timoko 5. Rapana 6. Weekes 7. Fogarty 8. Mariota 9. Levi 10. Tapine 11. Young 12. Whitehead 13. Puru 14. Starlo 15. Guler 16. CHN 17. Mooney 18. Strange Missing a smidge of Red Also missing a smidge of Papalii. And Levi over Wool...

Ruben Daley

NoMan wrote: ↑September 22, 2023, 9:22 am I don’t think the Eels holding him when he wants to move will be upping their chances of keeping him. Probably the opposite. I still reckon he is at Canberra in 24.

I'm with you. The new rules help the home club but they don't change the key factors that drove Sanders to us in the first place.

Ruben Daley

"Sitili Tupouniua's got another year so he could be someone who may not be there long term, although the Roosters do love him." Tupouniua has been proposed before (including by me a couple of times) but he would be a pretty great Plan B in the current market. He's got to overcome the ACL ...

Ruben Daley

"Sitili Tupouniua's got another year so he could be someone who may not be there long term, although the Roosters do love him." Tupouniua has been proposed before (including by me a couple of times) but he would be a pretty great Plan B in the current market. He's got to overcome the ACL b...

Ruben Daley

Sometimes a guy can be a journeyman without actually taking a journey. And other times he can definitely not be a journeyman despite being on a long and winding journey with multiple stops. The journey doesn't define the journeyman, the journeyman defines the journey. Sonny Bill was not a journeyman...

Ruben Daley

Saulo should leave the club Five years in the system for 27 games, we get a guy on the cheap and he plays 22 games. I think that is an extraordinarily good return. Will he be guaranteed a start going forward? Not necessarily but he is super back up. Completely agree. More than comfortable with Saul...

Ruben Daley

There is an old saying in NFL scouting that goes "Dont tell me what a player cant do, tell me what he can do" and that's the mentality the Broncos took with Walash. They know his weaknesses, they know he'll never be a brick wall at the back, they know he has errors, but they give him the ...

Ruben Daley

To think we wasted three pages of the Ethan Sanders thread talking about Emre when he's been rep player quality this whole time.

Congrats to all four. Always great for our players to get a taste of rep footy.

Ruben Daley

I suspect their strategy is to have him play on for them in 2024 and see if anything changes. They seem to think the longer he plays for them, the better their chances of holding onto him. Also another offence from Dylan Brown would surely be curtains on his Eels career, although I'm not sure how t...

Ruben Daley

On Guler or Saulo, no other team would have the type of middle forwards we do. They are possibly our 7th and 8th options next year. That is insane. This is probably an unpopular opinion but I think with the depth we have it would at least be worth talking to Papa this off season and see what is mor...

Ruben Daley

Fair point about Guler RD. That surprised me a bit, but to be fair on Guler he is progressively improving. I probably oversimplified my opinion on Guler but what actually gets me the most about him has been the lack of effort plays for a guy that could be much more dominant. He often plays low minu...

Ruben Daley

You can get a vibe pretty early on in a players career if they have what it takes to make it. Most of it comes down to their ability in defence and positioning. HSS didn't give me that vibe at all, nor does Schiller and Schneider. Guler has way too many errors for a front rower and from the get-go ...

Ruben Daley

Can we have a Go Fund Me account to be a third-party sponsor? 20,000 fans x $20 is $400,000. We could do some damage in the player recruitment market with that kind of money. I'm happy to be the front man who goes on trips to the Gold Coast for chats with players and their agents. Please refer to m...

Ruben Daley

Interesting story in The DT about how Sam Burgess and Souths fell out… apparently his planned recruitment of Dominic Young was overruled by the coach. This is part of the story: Burgess was on holiday on the Gold Coast when Souths paid the airfare for English winger Dominic Young to join him for d...

Ruben Daley

Newcastle are a very ordinary team, however with the players we have out and the form we are in, it would take a miracle for us to win. The Knights would have to implode big time. Sent from my CPH2021 using Tapatalk Well, we all know what over confidence can do. The Raiders are not traveling all th...

Ruben Daley

We are in a _need_ situation for edges where we are not sitting pretty or even with a half competent backup so we can look for best ever options. I'd take Leilua for sure. There's nothing too concerning in his defensive output. Edge is a position where you see the odd whiff and it'll look awful at ...

Ruben Daley

Alarmingly, he’s veering towards spud territory. Less excited about this than when it was floated 4 months ago - I hope he’s ready to work hard in the off season because his standards have dropped off a cliff in 2023 Yeah his grinding, brawling and bleeding has been way down. Maybe that has been th...

Ruben Daley

Alarmingly, he’s veering towards spud territory. Less excited about this than when it was floated 4 months ago - I hope he’s ready to work hard in the off season because his standards have dropped off a cliff in 2023 Yeah his grinding, brawling and bleeding has been way down. Maybe that has been th...

Ruben Daley

All Raiders halves live permanently in the shadow of our man Rocky. So much so that we continue to conflate his playing career with his coaching acumen Not me. I consider Ricky's playing and coaching careers to be worlds apart. He played with intelligence, skill, creativity and innovation, which le...

Ruben Daley

I would rate Carney below peak campese he must of learnt his time management from Jason Smith tho, always seemed to have time and good pass... But Campo just made stuff happen in his golden seasons. we have had the opposite this year with the guy that played 6 all year and Sucked. and told Ricky he...

Ruben Daley

Finchy wrote: ↑September 7, 2023, 9:16 am RFM, Sironen, Johns, Tuilagi, what a thoroughly uninspiring group of crappy players being offloaded by largely crappy clubs. No thanks

Amen. It’d be hard to find a less inspiring quartet in the NRL.

Ruben Daley

I reckon George Williams was an above average half who could’ve given us that star quality we’ve sought if he’d stuck around. His on-field contribution was underestimated by some and downgraded because of his off-field dramas by others. But he was a really good player.

Ruben Daley

Wow. That’s nuts. The fact that ten of the seventeen teams have a negative differential (including a couple of mammoth ones) says a lot about the dominance of the top teams too.

Raiders in seventh with a 55% win percentage is decent. Particularly, as the next best is 47%.

Ruben Daley

Congrats to the winners. I love both Rapa and Timoko so very happy with that result. But geez it’s sad that our top try-scorers only bagged 11 tries each. I feel like Timoko, in particular, could’ve scored a thousand this season if we had anything resembling an effective attack. Anyway, not that ti...

Ruben Daley

Congrats to the winners. I love both Rapa and Timoko so very happy with that result. But geez it’s sad that our top try-scorers only bagged 11 tries each. I feel like Timoko, in particular, could’ve scored a thousand this season if we had anything resembling an effective attack. Anyway, not that tim...

Ruben Daley

This may be posted elsewhere but SEN is reporting the club has ‘begged’ Jack to play fullback for the last two years but he refused. If true, this is pretty huge. I need time to process it but my initial thoughts are it may be a cause or a consequence of Jack’s diabolical form over that period, it s...

Ruben Daley

I seriously doubt they’ll play Jack in the halves unless forced to by injury. But my money is on him not being a success. Sure, it could click for a couple of games but I don’t believe he’ll be able to sustain it unless the rest of the team is really firing. He’ll be exposed if they play like they d...

Ruben Daley

Maybe. But what kind of player routinely makes those absolute clangers over a long period and doesn’t do something about it himself? The motivation to fix those things and become your best can’t just be whether you’re comfortable in your position. Absolutely it can. Some players are driven to win a...

Ruben Daley

Haha. I accept it then. Case withdrawn.

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