Re: More signings to come? : Thu Oct 23, 2014 6:49 pm  

i for one hope that if we say we are after shaun lunt we get him, and not fall flat like rich myler did.. and would anyone go for a punt on clint newton he is out of contract and no club.. could still help our second row out a trade for justin poore maybe

Re: More signings to come? : Thu Oct 23, 2014 7:01 pm  

rebelrobin wrote:

i for one hope that if we say we are after shaun lunt we get him, and not fall flat like rich myler did.. and would anyone go for a punt on clint newton he is out of contract and no club.. could still help our second row out a trade for justin poore maybe

How old is he now and would he come back

Re: More signings to come? : Thu Oct 23, 2014 7:05 pm  

We don't need any more back row forwards, particularly ones into their 30's. If Poore is going, we need to use his quota spot wisely on a nasty 'orrible prop.

Re: More signings to come? : Thu Oct 23, 2014 7:23 pm  

fair point maybe im a sucker for sentiment i like looking back at things that worked at kr.. he was one of the best we had at time.. anyone think we will hear about anymore signings this week

Re: More signings to come? : Thu Oct 23, 2014 9:11 pm  

Can't imagine the Lunt signing is far off being public. From what I've heard Campese too

Re: More signings to come? : Thu Oct 23, 2014 9:36 pm  

Clint Newton has said he will play for Newcastle reserve grade next year.
The odd thing about it is that the coach for next year, Matt Lantry, was in the Knights junior system at the same time as Newton but is a year younger. Both were very good juniors but Lantry only made it as far as playing a few reserve grade games for Parramatta and this will be his first year as a coach at an NRL club.

Re: More signings to come? : Thu Oct 23, 2014 10:05 pm  

What's odd about that?

Newton never came over as having a brilliant mind for the game, indeed, Galea eclipsed him in every aspect other than coming out of the changing rooms last and milking the crowd.

Newton was good, individually, and he was fun to watch, but that was it.

Re: More signings to come? : Thu Oct 23, 2014 10:22 pm  

Sandra The Terrorist wrote:

What's odd about that?

Newton never came over as having a brilliant mind for the game, indeed, Galea eclipsed him in every aspect other than coming out of the changing rooms last and milking the crowd.

Newton was good, individually, and he was fun to watch, but that was it.

It's odd because Newton has massively more experience in the game than his coach, who has one year of coaching a park level club behind him, although he has been a junior development officer and assistant coach (junior team and one year of reserve grade) at the Knights for about 10 years (after injury ended his career at age 21).
It will be a problem if coach and captain disagree on something, because Newton has the authority of having played about 250 games at the top level, winning NRL grandfinal, etc etc, while Lantry's career highlight was playing for NSW under 18s.

Re: More signings to come? : Fri Oct 24, 2014 6:43 am  

roopy wrote:

It's odd because Newton has massively more experience in the game than his coach, who has one year of coaching a park level club behind him, although he has been a junior development officer and assistant coach (junior team and one year of reserve grade) at the Knights for about 10 years (after injury ended his career at age 21).
It will be a problem if coach and captain disagree on something, because Newton has the authority of having played about 250 games at the top level, winning NRL grandfinal, etc etc, while Lantry's career highlight was playing for NSW under 18s.

That explains why the england football team are so shoite then

Re: More signings to come? : Mon Oct 27, 2014 1:14 pm  

MagicCarlos wrote:

Can't imagine the Lunt signing is far off being public. From what I've heard Campese too

you must be very gullible.