Raiders player signing speculation 2018
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Roosters will get Tapau....Probably get Staggs too lol
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Yeah, because releasing Boyd, Paulo and Austin means nothing (we SHOULD have over 2 million in spare cap now...)
Who am I kidding, the Raiders are probably busting a nut to overpay our plodders instead.
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We did this for years with no success while every other team that won premierships did the poaching... I don't know about you but I'd rather win a premiership with 17 poached players than keep waiting for the next great junior to come around
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I would sell my kids to win a premiership....
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I don’t think our cap is still stuffed until 2020... I think the raiders tend to use these things as an excuse to make cutthroat decisions I think we might have a little cap space for next year
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For the right people... cough kapow cough
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I think Watson is a newer version of Austin. He is better defensively, but not as good offensively (this has a lot to do with Pearce and Ponga though, as they are the focus of their attack).
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The only chance the knights have of moving Watson on is them taking a large portion of the freight and a team willing o give I’m a go as 14. We should not be that team.
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I disagree with that. Free to air games isn’t a bigger thing now like it was for exposure.BJ wrote:LastRaider wrote:There’s no reason though that Raiders shouldn’t have access to the same value in TPA’s. They just need to focus there sponsors staff to focus on setting up TPA deals.edwahu wrote:Penrith also have at least 500k in TPAs we don't. That's a lot of advantage.
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The teams with less free to air coverage get less third party deals. It’s not an even playing field.
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Agree.edwahu wrote:We really should be trying to move players on to get Tapau.
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I'd much prefer Klemmer over Tapau.
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What gives you that impression?-TW- wrote:We've also basically given up investing in juniors, and have started trying to poach
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Really? Please explain why
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We should be making a play for both Taupau and Klemmer even if we don't have the cash just to make some other club pay more.
Joey Leilua to Wigan?
Talk over here is that BJ has been offered to Wigan.
Presumably to avoid you having to pay a fee for John Bateman - although hopefully that doesn't mean Bateman at centre.
Presumably to avoid you having to pay a fee for John Bateman - although hopefully that doesn't mean Bateman at centre.
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I could live with BJ going to England, he would absolutely destroy it over there.
My biggest concern moving forward is where do we put Cotric - he’s a natural right centre who can play fullback (without the ball playing yet).
We have a lot of money tied up in our backline, and by the looks of it we are committing to Jack at the back, so moving Cotric to centre to have him more involved would be a good move. He is very likely to be fielding some very good offers from other teams as well, so shifting him to keep him happy would be a good move.
BJ can win us games single handed key, but he can lose us a lot as well. Cotric could be the long term centre for the blues with Mitchell, we just need to give him some time there.
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Swapping one of the most imposing outside backs in the game for a second rower who’s not as good as 4 we already have would be absolute insanity.
Must be true.
Must be true.
well, I guess you could say that I'm buy curious.
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What's with the Bateman obsession? I can understand if we offloaded BJ to sign Klemmer or Tapau, but not to avoid paying a transfer fee for a backrower.
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Right now I’m okay with us offloading BJ to avoid paying freight on a toadstool.
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I would seriously doubt that would be the whole story if this is indeed true.
It would be a triangular plan - release BJ, free up significant cap space. That triggers the release of Bateman, and we sign a backrower on significantly less money than BJ is on. The balance of the cap space would then be used to add to the recruitment coffers to sign Norman/Tapau/Klemmer types.
We can replace BJ with Cotric, indeed it would be a good long term plan to do so. If we are releasing Gubb, potentially Lui (he was apparently shopping around) then Bateman fills that role (or his addition moves Tapine/Whitehead into other positions). The money released because of this can go to signing a half, or starting quality prop, both of which we CANT easily fill internally.
it also removes a polarising hothead personality from the squad.
Good business if true.
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If BJ was to leave I would prefer Wighton to shift back to centre and Cotric to get a crack at fullback.
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Sounds like we are getting rid of the bad apples in our team. Austin and BJ
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Cotric to fullback and wighton back to centre with oldfield on the wing, surely that frees up some cash to throw at a prop and a young half.
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If this is true, then I think that is exactly what they are thinking. Cotric to right centre.Coastalraider wrote: ↑July 11, 2018, 7:38 amI could live with BJ going to England, he would absolutely destroy it over there.
My biggest concern moving forward is where do we put Cotric - he’s a natural right centre who can play fullback (without the ball playing yet).
We have a lot of money tied up in our backline, and by the looks of it we are committing to Jack at the back, so moving Cotric to centre to have him more involved would be a good move. He is very likely to be fielding some very good offers from other teams as well, so shifting him to keep him happy would be a good move.
BJ can win us games single handed key, but he can lose us a lot as well. Cotric could be the long term centre for the blues with Mitchell, we just need to give him some time there.
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Raiders player signing speculation 2018
Yep I like Cotric to centre. Solid move. Happy to move BJ on but not to simply get a Superleague player who is unproven at NRL levelMatt wrote:If this is true, then I think that is exactly what they are thinking. Cotric to right centre.Coastalraider wrote: ↑July 11, 2018, 7:38 amI could live with BJ going to England, he would absolutely destroy it over there.
My biggest concern moving forward is where do we put Cotric - he’s a natural right centre who can play fullback (without the ball playing yet).
We have a lot of money tied up in our backline, and by the looks of it we are committing to Jack at the back, so moving Cotric to centre to have him more involved would be a good move. He is very likely to be fielding some very good offers from other teams as well, so shifting him to keep him happy would be a good move.
BJ can win us games single handed key, but he can lose us a lot as well. Cotric could be the long term centre for the blues with Mitchell, we just need to give him some time there.
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Re: Joey Leilua to Wigan?
The reason is my guess, but the rumour surfaced as him being offered to Wigan, as opposed to being shopped around everywhere (as Austin and Lolohea were).
Doesn't mean he's not getting shopped everywhere - the rumour was accompanied by news of a major dressing down by Stuart after the Bulldogs game, because of the Morris incident (not been through all the threads - assume that's not news on here).
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saw it mentioned somewhere, you grab the horns sometimes you get the whole bullMrPosh wrote:The reason is my guess, but the rumour surfaced as him being offered to Wigan, as opposed to being shopped around everywhere (as Austin and Lolohea were).
Doesn't mean he's not getting shopped everywhere - the rumour was accompanied by news of a major dressing down by Stuart after the Bulldogs game, because of the Morris incident (not been through all the threads - assume that's not news on here).
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The dressing down's been mentioned on TV a few times as well as the usual NRL haunts like reddit. It's not the first time that right edge has copped a spray for poor behaviour.MrPosh wrote: ↑July 11, 2018, 4:02 pmThe reason is my guess, but the rumour surfaced as him being offered to Wigan, as opposed to being shopped around everywhere (as Austin and Lolohea were).
Doesn't mean he's not getting shopped everywhere - the rumour was accompanied by news of a major dressing down by Stuart after the Bulldogs game, because of the Morris incident (not been through all the threads - assume that's not news on here).
If he is being moved on I'd think it's more likely to be cap related (moving the cap elsewhere rather than trying to be under the total) rather than his over the top try celebration that only just happened this week.
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I'm not a huge Tapau fan.
If BJ goes, that's not a bad thing at all.
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If BJ goes, that's not a bad thing at all.
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I think we can make it work well if we were to offload BJ...
As long as it jags us a big signing like suggested... Tapau or Klemmer... surely we have some cash to splash even without BJs coin. I’d like to see ya like this if BJ leaves
1. Wighton
2. Oldfield
3. Croker
4. Cotric
5. Rapana
6. Norman
7. Sezer
8. Tapau
9. Hodgson
10. Papalii
11. Tapine
12. Whitehead
13. J. Bateman
14. Havili
15. Knight
16. Soliola
17. Sutton
18. Baptiste
19. Lui
20. Murchie
21. Bateman
22. Guler
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As long as it jags us a big signing like suggested... Tapau or Klemmer... surely we have some cash to splash even without BJs coin. I’d like to see ya like this if BJ leaves
1. Wighton
2. Oldfield
3. Croker
4. Cotric
5. Rapana
6. Norman
7. Sezer
8. Tapau
9. Hodgson
10. Papalii
11. Tapine
12. Whitehead
13. J. Bateman
14. Havili
15. Knight
16. Soliola
17. Sutton
18. Baptiste
19. Lui
20. Murchie
21. Bateman
22. Guler
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2020: 1. Nicol-Klokstad 2. Cotric 3. Croker (c) 4 Leilua 5. Scott 6. Wighton 7. G. Williams 8. Papalii 9. Hodgson (c) 10. Sutton 11. J. Bateman 12. Whitehead 13. Tapine ----
14. Simmonson 15. Soliola 16. Guler 17. Horsburgh
14. Simmonson 15. Soliola 16. Guler 17. Horsburgh
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I reckon you want someone better than Oldie, but i like the look of that.Dusty wrote: ↑July 12, 2018, 9:24 am I think we can make it work well if we were to offload BJ...
As long as it jags us a big signing like suggested... Tapau or Klemmer... surely we have some cash to splash even without BJs coin. I’d like to see ya like this if BJ leaves
1. Wighton
2. Oldfield
3. Croker
4. Cotric
5. Rapana
6. Norman
7. Sezer
8. Tapau
9. Hodgson
10. Papalii
11. Tapine
12. Whitehead
13. J. Bateman
14. Havili
15. Knight
16. Soliola
17. Sutton
18. Baptiste
19. Lui
20. Murchie
21. Bateman
22. Guler
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Leaves Sammy an Hingano as the backup halves too.
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Yeah plenty of gun young kids looking for a chance. Caleb Aekins (Although just extended at Panthers) is a perfect example. Gets his shot tomorrow night but only after the Panthers have had a 1000 injuries in the outside backs.