Re: DoR - New Coach - Investor & Adam - New signings : Tue Aug 27, 2024 2:59 pm  

scarrie wrote:

How do you have the faintest clue what Myler has or hasn't done?

Apart from Asiata all the players he has signed are bang average and in my mind very lazy recruitment.
Like others you could say that they were the only players available but how do you know?
Have you seen the arrival of a quality halfback as its a year since Clifford departed NO
Have you seen the arrival of a quality centre NO
Have you seen the arrival of a big mobile forward eirther front row or second row NO
The fact that it seems that he has passed the buck now onto Cartwright to find us players i dont think he has done very much positive recruitment at all

Re: DoR - New Coach - Investor & Adam - New signings : Tue Aug 27, 2024 3:04 pm  

bonaire wrote:

Apart from Asiata all the players he has signed are bang average and in my mind very lazy recruitment.
Like others you could say that they were the only players available but how do you know?
Have you seen the arrival of a quality halfback as its a year since Clifford departed NO
Have you seen the arrival of a quality centre NO
Have you seen the arrival of a big mobile forward eirther front row or second row NO
The fact that it seems that he has passed the buck now onto Cartwright to find us players i dont think he has done very much positive recruitment at all

Are we just ignoring the signing of Abdull and Jed Cartwright then?

Re: DoR - New Coach - Investor & Adam - New signings : Tue Aug 27, 2024 3:08 pm  

Chris71 wrote:

In Dans article today he states that Trueman will not be here next season so whilst not official, it pretty much confirms what we have all thought/known for long enough that Trueman is on his way to pastures new.

That article feels like it's laying the ground for us to an accept that it'll be a Cust and Abdul pairing in 2025

Re: DoR - New Coach - Investor & Adam - New signings : Tue Aug 27, 2024 3:11 pm  

Haven't they already put up he monthly cost? Unlikely they'll do that and not put up the annual

Re: DoR - New Coach - Investor & Adam - New signings : Tue Aug 27, 2024 3:12 pm  

bonaire wrote:

Apart from Asiata all the players he has signed are bang average and in my mind very lazy recruitment.
Like others you could say that they were the only players available but how do you know?
Have you seen the arrival of a quality halfback as its a year since Clifford departed NO
Have you seen the arrival of a quality centre NO
Have you seen the arrival of a big mobile forward eirther front row or second row NO
The fact that it seems that he has passed the buck now onto Cartwright to find us players i dont think he has done very much positive recruitment at all

There's definitely an argument to made that his recruitment thus far has been unsuccessful, especially if its measured against an aim of being a top 6 side next year. Perhaps less so if you reduce those aims slightly.

It's just the lazy comment I found odd, for all we know he has been solidly working 12 hours day contacting every agent in the southern hemisphere but to little avail or he might have been getting unreal scores on Minesweeper and just ringing a couple of blokes in Leigh instead. We have no way of knowing.

Re: DoR - New Coach - Investor & Adam - New signings : Tue Aug 27, 2024 3:18 pm  

bonaire wrote:

Apart from Asiata all the players he has signed are bang average and in my mind very lazy recruitment.
Like others you could say that they were the only players available but how do you know?
Have you seen the arrival of a quality halfback as its a year since Clifford departed NO
Have you seen the arrival of a quality centre NO
Have you seen the arrival of a big mobile forward eirther front row or second row NO
The fact that it seems that he has passed the buck now onto Cartwright to find us players i dont think he has done very much positive recruitment at all

IS RECRUITMENT FINISHED? NO!

Re: DoR - New Coach - Investor & Adam - New signings : Tue Aug 27, 2024 3:23 pm  

I’m sure the part about Truman leaving wasn’t in the original article then edited in a couple of hours later,which seems a bit odd

Re: DoR - New Coach - Investor & Adam - New signings : Tue Aug 27, 2024 3:58 pm  

Hullfc-white wrote:

I’m sure the part about Truman leaving wasn’t in the original article then edited in a couple of hours later,which seems a bit odd

No it wasn't. That's why I asked where it was. It was purely about the half back situation without Trueman in it.

Very strange.

So at the minute we were promised 3 marquee players by Pearson.

As if yet only one for next year

Re: DoR - New Coach - Investor & Adam - New signings : Tue Aug 27, 2024 4:12 pm  

Blackandwhitebigdog wrote:

No it wasn't. That's why I asked where it was. It was purely about the half back situation without Trueman in it.

Very strange.

So at the minute we were promised 3 marquee players by Pearson.

As if yet only one for next year

asiata and abdul. I'm not worried about how many marquee signings we have, more the quality of player. No point throwing marquee money at the wrong player

Re: DoR - New Coach - Investor & Adam - New signings : Tue Aug 27, 2024 4:33 pm  

But quality players usually get marquee money.

I'll be surprised if Abdull is a marquee.

Wakey have a big announcement at 7 tonight. Wonder if it's trueman after the article got edited.