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Yeah, and ignoring the young and inexperienced team part also comes in pretty handy, especially when comparing with teams that had injuries to key players, but were still able to put very experienced teams on the park. Also love the vaguely mythical "more pressing matters" Seibold needs to...

What a gigantic load of bullshit. It's not how long injuries are, but how disruptive they are, that counts. We've had nothing but injury and instability issues with the most important area of the team: the spine. Besides, Cowboys and Manly had important people missing out, but had a very...

So you think we should only keep Milford at half his price, but Ponga is worth 1.5 Mill?

You're absolutely correct, but there is a huge difference between being a serviceable run of the mill journeyman half who will fill a gap temporarily, and a serviceable 18 y/o who came into a team with a huge spine deficit, containing an over the hill FB, solid but slow and unimaginative hooker...

Sorry mate, but that bold underlined bit is...

I'm getting pretty sick of the bullshit line that we were tipped to be Top-4 this season. Anyone tipping us to get there with a spine containing Boyd as FB, Macca as hooker and Knik as halfback would basically be an idiot, regardless of how much talent we have in our forwards. I was more...

I'm pretty close to this. Manly would be second behind Canberra on merit though (how things change... 😲). Then all the other teams in the comp, with Parra way down and just ahead of the chooks and the cheating scum from Cronulla and Melbourne, all of whom would still be daylight ahead of...

Boyd is perfecty capable of fulfilling the centre spot currently held by a second rower (Alex Glenn) or a rookie (Herbie or Coates). In fact, that is the only spot left in the team to keep the captain on the park...

We just got our arses handed over to us by the Storm, who relentlessly exploited our leaky right side defense. Solution: Get rid of our best backrower and the only guy who has shown the ability to plug the leaks, because he has had a disrupted injury season...

Is it really a question? Unless his run of injuries continues, it's a no brainer to keep him instead of Boyd, be it as centre or 5/8, especially if Dearden devolops into the halfback we need.

That's a nice way to call him a grammar nazi... 🤪

I agree the competition should be about who is runner-up behind Haas, although I do think Nikora is ahead of Fifita. He has been really good for Cronulla, as has Xerri, who is definitely also a candidate. David probably has a higher ceiling than Nikora, but he hasn't performed well enough to...

Yeah, that's also what I've heard.

If it weren't for a few questionable ref decisions (some right, some not so much), Manly would've easily put 50 on Parra to finish their season...

One grubber kick doesn't suddenly make him an accomplished kicker, and come on, you really can't compare Milf's kicking game with his. We need more from a half, we suddenly have no running threat there and nowhere near enough creativity. There's a reason the better teams generally have a game...

Boyd needs to get out of the spine. Even if he did have a decent game last night, he has no kicking game to speak of, no running game left and although he can pass, the opposition will always know it will most likely be the option he takes, which will blunt that attribute. As solid as his...

Exactly! With our issues in the 3/4s at the moment, it is the ideal time to shove Darius out there, where he will be most useful to us, and avoid the shame of dumping the Broncos captain to reggies...

This was more about Cullen from memory. Not sure how much influence WB had at the time, although he always claimed he didn't like to pay too much for forwards...

Hoppa will probably play left centre for the dogs, I think Staggs will defend him.

I can live with that team at the moment... Coates has a huge future, but he's not used to playing wing besides being too green, which is being constantly exploited by opposition coaches.