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Hunt is a mobile prop forward, expecting him to cover the backrow was always an unrealistic proposition. It was almost as unrealistic as expecting Piakura to get through 24+ 80 minute performances.

I've heard development players referred to as secondary players which sounds more appropriate. You're right about TMM. I believe Segeyaro was on an NRL contract, but the Broncos didn't pay full freight. The development squad changed through out 2019 due to all the mid-season releases. It...

Can I just say I hate the current system. 😄 The whole point of including a development squad was for transparency and to help streamline the second tier cap situation. Instead of limiting clubs to 36 players and only granting them exemptions under special circumstances, you have clubs like...

You know what they say about best laid plans. It's moreso 2025 that I have concerns over. We were led to believe the Broncos salary cap was tight and yet they can afford a Test player? It doesn't add up, especially since they haven't been offered any dispensation for Mam. It's not that I think...

On paper it's a great signing. It solves the biggest concern for the club, Reynolds immediate successor. None of the current suitors at the club are ready for the responsibility and while Hunt is older he is in better condition and offer that bridge between now and 2027. It also solves the...

Fingers crossed it all works out, but you have a whole season's worth of footage to watch over on QPlus. You have to earn an opportunity to play NRL and after that disaster of an U/19s Origin he was so far off the pace. The only case I could make for him would be the Round 10 clash against the...

I often roll my eyes when fans complain about signing athletes instead of footy players like Melbourne. Like Vunivalu was some Rugby League genius. However with Leota, his inexperience is so obvious it makes you wonder what Kevie, Scanlan and co. were thinking when they offered him that NRL spot.

Are you sure about that?

Most fans would argue they haven't cared about it since '88...

Dolphins offered a two year deal worth 1.4 million. However the Broncos remain in the box seat with their 1.1 million offer. When did Matt Tripp join the club?

Wasn't his fault and it all worked out because of the decisions he made so it's silly to hold that against him.

All I remember Kevie saying is that he'd seen so many 18 year olds thrown into the deep end and that he wanted Walsh to play half a dozen QCup games before giving him a crack. It seemed like a reasonable expectation, especially since Walsh had hardly played any football since he injured his...

There's plenty of valid reasons to go after Walters, but judging a coach based on losing quality players is misleading. I can agree to an extent on flip flopping on Dearden ahead of Round 1 2021, I disagree on Walsh. That had nothing to do with Kev's opinion on Walsh and had more to do with...

Cleary has lost Crichton, Kikau, Burton, Luai, Koroisau, Leniu, Fisher-Harris. Point being, you can't keep them all.

The difference is that the position was wide open when Munster was selected. JT had just played his final ever rep. game and after Milford failed his audition, Morgan had slotted into the centres so Munster had a free passage to come into the 6. Meanwhile Tedesco was on his way to becoming the...

That was how long ago? Wighton was a CC award winner too and is reportedly on a similar amount of coin.

Sure, but when is he getting picked? The only reason he was discussed as an option was because of injuries to other players, so when you take them out of the equation he's still behind a few other players. Which is why at best I could see him as an interchange player in a similar role as Hynes...

2020 was his best opportunity and that was off a premiership. However he was ruled out due to a calf injury, while Tedesco was also racing the clock and Turbo had been ruled out after a bad year with injury. If we play the 'fully fit' game, he's not displacing Turbo. I think he would have...

I'm pretty sure it was actually set by Melbourne which makes things worse. He's reportedly on $1.1 million and he's re-signed for $800K. When you take that piece of context out of it, I can see $800,000 for Papenhuyzen but with that in mind it obviously fails the pub test. To answer my...

How do you figure? Hetherington and Paix are on around $600K total, Mam likely isn't going to come under the no-fault stand down policy. You'd have to sweeten the pot more for it to pass the smell test.