Re: New 2-year deal for Ade? : Wed May 22, 2013 1:26 pm  

Meli I would say has earned the right for one more year. If there is someone better who we can get, then I would go get them in the interests of the long term over the short.

Gardner for me has not shown the same blistering form as Meli and I think Makinson is now above him in the pecking order, so I would not offer a new contract and certainly not 2 years.

The only reason to retain all 3 would be if there was litterally no one we could recruit and no one who can come up. But if that's the case it's a very sad state of affairs.

Re: New 2-year deal for Ade? : Wed May 22, 2013 3:52 pm  

bewareshadows wrote:

Meli I would say has earned the right for one more year. If there is someone better who we can get, then I would go get them in the interests of the long term over the short.

Agreed.

If we cannot get someone in I would have no issue with re-signing Meli for another season.

Re: New 2-year deal for Ade? : Wed May 22, 2013 8:23 pm  

Offside Monkey wrote:

He was very good at it around the 2006-07 period, but he's had period where he's been equally as dreadful.
I can only think that the club are panicking about replacing two old wingers at once, even though we have have Swift and Makinson who are in many ways as capable as Ade.

Does the club not have any young wingers? It seems like we always use young standoffs/centres as back up in order to break them in. Makinson stuck there, but he was a centre originally. What young wingers do we have?

Form is temporary, class is permanent. And that was his form year

Re: New 2-year deal for Ade? : Wed May 22, 2013 8:40 pm  

Ade is a good clubman that works cheap. Giving him a new deal is a good idea, I would prefer it to be a 1 year deal but he is going to be worth his spot either way.

Re: New 2-year deal for Ade? : Wed May 22, 2013 9:33 pm  

Noel Cleal wrote:

Ade is a good clubman that works cheap. Giving him a new deal is a good idea, I would prefer it to be a 1 year deal but he is going to be worth his spot either way.

But he's not very good. If we're planning on turning into Wakefield or Cas and that's the limit of our ambition, fine. But if we're honestly trying to win Grand Finals by resigning dead wood like Gardner we may as well pack in.

Re: New 2-year deal for Ade? : Thu May 23, 2013 6:00 am  

Saddened! wrote:

But he's not very good.

And is he cheap? He's got a fair few england caps that will have, at some point, boosted his wage renegotiation.
Its all very well us saying that we could resign him on a reduced wage, but it puts you on the back foot from the start.

Isn't that Alex Brown off contract? He's got mistakes in him, but he's still reltively young, very big and very fast. Him and Turner coming down one flank would be quite a prospect.

Re: New 2-year deal for Ade? : Thu May 23, 2013 9:36 am  

I believe he's already signed his deal

Re: New 2-year deal for Ade? : Thu May 23, 2013 11:25 am  

Noel Cleal wrote:

Ade is a good clubman that works cheap. Giving him a new deal is a good idea, I would prefer it to be a 1 year deal but he is going to be worth his spot either way.

I bet he isnt as cheap as just using a junior at the club as wing cover. He may or may not be cheap but every penny counts when you have to stick to a salary cap

Re: New 2-year deal for Ade? : Thu May 23, 2013 11:33 am  

St pete wrote:

I believe he's already signed his deal

Re: New 2-year deal for Ade? : Thu May 23, 2013 11:37 am  

St pete wrote:

I believe he's already signed his deal

I think I can hear the 2014 season tickets flying off the shlef as we speak!

Do you think this means we'll release Meli?