Re: Shopping list for 2025 : Mon Sep 02, 2024 5:02 pm  

K-Diddy wrote:

Willie Peters & Brett Delaney across the river would suggest otherwise.

And smith and gene - did gene count as a coach?

Re: Shopping list for 2025 : Mon Sep 02, 2024 5:07 pm  

K-Diddy wrote:

Willie Peters & Brett Delaney across the river would suggest otherwise.

Unless Delaney is another one the UK citizenship. Been here a long while now

Re: Shopping list for 2025 : Mon Sep 02, 2024 7:27 pm  

mwindass wrote:

Unless Delaney is another one the UK citizenship. Been here a long while now

On their website Hodgson is the assistant coach, so maybe that’s how they’ve got around it. Had it clarified. You can’t have an overseas coach and an assistant coach unless he’s played here.

Re: Shopping list for 2025 : Mon Sep 02, 2024 10:02 pm  

Cuddleclub wrote:

On their website Hodgson is the assistant coach, so maybe that’s how they’ve got around it. Had it clarified. You can’t have an overseas coach and an assistant coach unless he’s played here.

Kearney and Fitzgibbon would have made expensive assistants

Think Last is a decent appointment. He’s got plenty of experience, worked in the England camp. Also local so there’s no additional cost of re locating. Whatever budget Myler has,
It’s not fantasy league. Everything has to be costed

Re: Shopping list for 2025 : Tue Sep 03, 2024 5:58 am  

Aussie S@C coming over for a few weeks in pre season.
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Re: Shopping list for 2025 : Tue Sep 03, 2024 6:26 am  

Custs gonna surprise a few this season now he's a settled super league player.

Re: Shopping list for 2025 : Tue Sep 03, 2024 7:03 am  

Sebasteeno wrote:

Custs gonna surprise a few this season now he's a settled super league player.

Been here 3 years hasn't he? Can't even get in the salford team

Re: Shopping list for 2025 : Tue Sep 03, 2024 8:06 am  

boardwalkempire7 wrote:

Kearney and Fitzgibbon would have made expensive assistants

Think Last is a decent appointment. He’s got plenty of experience, worked in the England camp. Also local so there’s no additional cost of re locating. Whatever budget Myler has,
It’s not fantasy league. Everything has to be costed

Yes because the current Cronulla head coach was going to step down and come to us as assistant

Re: Shopping list for 2025 : Tue Sep 03, 2024 8:11 am  

Cuddleclub wrote:

Yes because the current Cronulla head coach was going to step down and come to us as assistant

Once we come calling, actually think people actually think we are bigger than we are, but sadly we have to recruit some players who can't get into play off teams.

Re: Shopping list for 2025 : Tue Sep 03, 2024 10:03 am  

Jake the Peg wrote:

Been here 3 years hasn't he? Can't even get in the salford team

Just to be clear I’d much prefer we used the quota spot elsewhere but for perspective we will finish the season rock bottom as the worst team in the competition and Cust is obviously a decent SL level player. I don’t know the ins and outs of budgets and who we targeted before him but maybe someone who can’t get in the Salford team is just our level now. It’s a shame we couldn’t get him in for whatever for the end of the season.

I say decent player because he seemed to play pretty regularly in a good Wigan team, and I’m sure he played a fair bit at hooker for them in the run in last season. Also he played nearly 30 NRL games by the age of 22 with a decent try scoring ratio, most of which while Cartwright was his assistant coach at Manly. That’s better than many players who have ended up doing well in SL. I think it’s the coaches recommendation and It’s not exactly blinkered to think he might even still have a bit of improvement at 25.