Re: Shopping list for 2025 : Tue Sep 24, 2024 12:41 pm  

Cuddleclub wrote:

As bombed out has said above I’d have much rather tried a 22 year old with something to prove than Cust who can’t even get in Salford’s team and is injury prone. Lovodua never won Queensland cup player of the year either.

Didn't exactly work out too well with Ockunbor or Pele.

Salford ate 4th, we finished 11th, that's the position we are in.

I'm not sure using our quota spots on a gamble is a good.idea.

Re: Shopping list for 2025 : Tue Sep 24, 2024 12:42 pm  

Dave K. wrote:

Let's not go over the top here, it's not like Rimba is a top NRL player, Cust has played for Wigan and Manly, Rimba deemed not good enough for the NRL.

Let's not get carried away by a youtube highlights as we have been here before.

Cartwright will know more about both players, we also have three young hookers.

Maybe we should trust Cartwrights judgement.

Cust isn’t even a top championship player.

Re: Shopping list for 2025 : Tue Sep 24, 2024 12:45 pm  

Dave K. wrote:

Didn't exactly work out too well with Ockunbor or Pele.

Salford ate 4th, we finished 11th, that's the position we are in.

I'm not sure using our quota spots on a gamble is a good.idea.

Anybody with any knowledge of the game would never have signed Okunbur.

Re: Shopping list for 2025 : Tue Sep 24, 2024 12:46 pm  

Cuddleclub wrote:

Cust isn’t even a top championship player.

That's why he has spent his full career at top rugby clubs ( apart from us).

You obviously know more than Cartwright.

You would think Rimba was Jackson Hastings the way you ate going on.

Good chance to have a moan and dig at the club though.

Re: Shopping list for 2025 : Tue Sep 24, 2024 12:49 pm  

Cuddleclub wrote:

Anybody with any knowledge of the game would never have signed Okunbur.

Well he was regularly picked by a top NRL coach, but the point us, we have only seen Rimba in highlights, Cartwright will have a much better insight into him and there was a reason we pulled the plug.

We either trust Cartwrights judgement or we don't.

Re: Shopping list for 2025 : Tue Sep 24, 2024 12:53 pm  

Dave K. wrote:

:lol:

That's why he has spent his full career at top rugby clubs ( apart from us).

You obviously know more than Cartwright.

You would think Rimba was Jackson Hastings the way you ate going on.

Good chance to have a moan and dig at the club though.

He’s been at Salford a year, and they had an option for him for a second but have said no thanks. Wigan soon got shut of him too. Time will tell, but Cade Cust isn’t going to get us out of the mess we are in be lucky if he plays 15 games, absolute waste of a quota spot. They give us an excuse to “rant and moan” we just finished joint bottom and have largely recruited poor again.

Re: Shopping list for 2025 : Tue Sep 24, 2024 1:02 pm  

Cuddleclub wrote:

He’s been at Salford a year, and they had an option for him for a second but have said no thanks. Wigan soon got shut of him too. Time will tell, but Cade Cust isn’t going to get us out of the mess we are in be lucky if he plays 15 games, absolute waste of a quota spot. They give us an excuse to “rant and moan” we just finished joint bottom and have largely recruited poor again.

I'm not fan of the Cust signing, but he is a decent player if fit, he showed that Wigan (first season) and at Manly, most fans agree that on paper this looks a bit of a gamble, it's been mentioned hundreds of times on here.

But the bed wetting because Cas have signed a QRL cup hooker we turned down is way over the top.

Recruitment which is still on going, has been solid and should improve us.

I've asked others who else we could have signed?

Yet to be given any sensible answers, if the answer is Rimba then I'm worried.

Re: Shopping list for 2025 : Tue Sep 24, 2024 1:12 pm  

cust will mainly play half back I expect as I can't see abdul being fit any time soon

Re: Shopping list for 2025 : Tue Sep 24, 2024 1:15 pm  

Dave K. wrote:

I'm not fan of the Cust signing, but he is a decent player if fit, he showed that Wigan (first season) and at Manly, most fans agree that on paper this looks a bit of a gamble, it's been mentioned hundreds of times on here.

But the bed wetting because Cas have signed a QRL cup hooker we turned down is way over the top.

Recruitment which is still on going, has been solid and should improve us.

I've asked others who else we could have signed?

Yet to be given any sensible answers, if the answer is Rimba then I'm worried.

I just don’t see the recruitment as solid, I know what you saying hard to attract players because of our position, but I largely think recruitment has been poor personally.

For me people are putting too much emphasis on Cartwright. Fact is he’s not been a head coach for 10 years. I for one hope he comes here and transforms the club as that’s what we all want. But the signings are largely underwhelming and people are expecting him to work miracles with a largely poor injury prone squad yet again. I just can’t see much changing in 2025, if that’s having a “dig or rant” then so be it. Just an honest assessment.

Re: Shopping list for 2025 : Tue Sep 24, 2024 1:18 pm  

Jake the Peg wrote:

cust will mainly play half back I expect as I can't see abdul being fit any time soon

More than likely as Cust and Sezer are “Johns” signings allegedly. Borough as first choice 9 only played about 20 SL games since his debut in 2019 doesn’t fill me with much confidence.