NRL 2021

Have those 30 injured Roosters from last year hit their straps again yet PT ? 

Your not spreading rumours are you PT ?

Just refer to them as the Premiers PT. 

I had half an hour in the Doctors waiting room this morning , with Justin Hodges , his Wife and livewire daughter .
   He looks a million Dollars , Fit and strong .    Employed as an Assistant Coach with the Dolphins.   
   I hope he has given up on the Boxing madness.   Not a game to start in at near 40 . Bloody fools .
   But he chooses his Doc well , They present as great Family Role models, Very friendly and one must wish the neighbours well.    

They wanted to punt Brandon Smith to the Tigers for Stefano Utoikamanu, so basically asking the Tigers to swap a potential 5-10 year top level prop for 12 months of cheese, surprisingly the Tigers said no.  

Melbourne are dark on the way Brandon Smith went about announcing he was joining the Chooks in 2023. So dark they are trying to get rid of him straight away, but not letting him go to Bondi. Tried to do a 12 month swap deal with Tigers who told them to p1ss off.

I understand why players want fullback money rather than winger money, but I don't understand why the game values good wingers so much less than good fullbacks, as many have shown over the years a good winger can be very handy for a team in kick returns and try scoring, ok they don't have the same impact in attack as a good 1 like Teddy or Tommy Turbo, but as guys like To'o, Ado-Carr, Sivo and even Holmes show, a winger can still be useful.

That was pretty much the old system wasn't it? The one that they complained disadvantaged so many fringe players, leaving them out in the cold and accepting scraps. This change was meant to give the players with short playing life spans some power.

I think the NRL need a common draft to help give value to free agents, you could have compensatory draft picks based on the losses/gains from free agency the previous season, plus it would give senior players a value so that these all to common signed a year out and agitating for a release moments don't happen.

Or managers  , my idol  Steven Gerrard jumps ship and leaves Rangers mid season ( contracted till /23 ) and goes to Aston Villa who by the way have won 2/2 since his arrival  bees do it , birds do it  they all do it .

With the average career length of an NRL player being less than 50 games, their opportunity to maximise what they have is limited. The old system of players in limbo until after the current NRL season was over and the rush for a new club in the off season  was very harsh on players and career uncertainty.

Looks like Luciano Leilua is going to be Matt Burton of this off-season as the Cowboyss and he push to get him out of the Tigers and up to Townsville early.  If I were the Tigers I'd be negotiating hard with the Cowboys to get him out early, given his brother has been punted and saying plenty and Luciano has already signed elsewhere he'll likely be a disruptive influence until he's allowed to leave.

oneonesit wrote: Another dud transfer buy. Not worth any more than 400k/season - tops. Lazy blighter just like his brother.

He was apparently p1ssed off that the Tigers paid $600k a year to get Isaiah Papilií from Parramatta and looked elsewhere  saying he was undervalued. Parra had offered him $425k.  Getting crazy out there.

Another dud transfer buy. Not worth any more than 400k/season - tops. Lazy blighter just like his brother.