2024 pre-season discussion: Pre-season Premiers

[Painin the Haas]

TPJ looking boxing fit………..or fit enough for a bench role!

If he came back humbled and jumps to Kevie’s demands I wouldn’t say no

 

[Lockysillegitimatechild]

Controversial TPJ: Sign him up on a cheap deal. Keep him playing reggies make him buy in. Hes 27/28. If hes going to mature at any point - it will be around this age. He wanted to be a superstar before playing like one. Bulldogs would have been a huge learning curve for him. If he doesn't, no big deal, no contract next year.

No. He's toxic

 

[Painin the Haas]

He was toxic, he would be coming back to a very different club with different demands

 

[McHunt]

He was toxic, he would be coming back to a very different club with different demands

Controversial TPJ: Sign him up on a cheap deal. Keep him playing reggies make him buy in. Hes 27/28. If hes going to mature at any point - it will be around this age. He wanted to be a superstar before playing like one. Bulldogs would have been a huge learning curve for him. If he doesn't, no big deal, no contract next year.

 

[Kaz]

TPJ looking boxing fit………..or fit enough for a bench role!

If he came back humbled and jumps to Kevie’s demands I wouldn’t say no

Kill me now.

I never want him back in our Jersey.

 

[KateBroncos1812]

I never liked TPJ I don't know why I am happy with the squad we have

 

[theshed]

Tell you what, for the right price TPJ would be the bench option that can cover middle and second row we’ve been looking for.

He would be an unreal buy at $400k if Reyno, Patty, and Payne can keep him in line .

 

[Fozz]

TPJ looking boxing fit………..or fit enough for a bench role!

If he came back humbled and jumps to Kevie’s demands I wouldn’t say no

TPJ has no interest in playing footy anymore if he came back it's only for the money.

 

[Scorchie]

The Mariner thing is weird. You'd put him on the wing, surely.

 

[Kaz]

I never liked TPJ I don't know why I am happy with the squad we have

Because TPJ isn't in it.

 

[Big Del]

He reckoned he didn`t like playing Rugba League and only did it because his parents made him do it and it`s what Pacific Islanders do .

Fck him ...

 

[Big Del]

The Mariner thing is weird. You'd put him on the wing, surely.

He was on the opposition wing [right ] against Jock / Reece / Selwyn / Oates in a clip I saw .

 

[McHunt]

The Mariner thing is weird. You'd put him on the wing, surely.

It's not that weird when you consider the competition. Jesse was one of our best in the Grand Final. He did nothing to warrant dropping. Before Oates was injured he was in flying form. Recalled to Origin, and leading try scorer in 2022. Deine will just have to be patient or blow them off the park in trials.

 

[YeahNahMate]

Tell you what, for the right price TPJ would be the bench option that can cover middle and second row we’ve been looking for.

He would be an unreal buy at $400k if Reyno, Patty, and Payne can keep him in line .

100%. All about the price for me.

If he just played a bench role, nothing more nothing less…

When TPJ understands he is just a cog in the machine that’s when he has done his best work, early days with us and his time at the panthers.

With that being said seems like a classic media beat up. Would be more likely at the dolphins I recon

 

[The True King]

I wouldn’t say no to tpj on min wage playing a leniu type role off the bench

I spat out my cornflakes reading this. No thanks

 

[BroncosFever]

Fair point, but don't forget how 2022 ended. The skepticism was warranted.

We'd gone down in a shower of shit. The admin hit the staff with a broom, which included Kevvie's brother and one of his mates. He was bumbling through interviews with platitudes. His emerging captain had just spent weeks on the sideline for a telegraphed crackdown infringement that reeked of a coaching failure.

And lest we forget he'd been playing his son in every game.

He was on final notice. He would've been sacked had we hit Origin time outside the Eight.

Kevvie had to earn the respect he has now. Whether he deserves all the credit for the transformation or the blame for the season before, the buck stops with him. It cuts both ways.

You've posted a fair bit of crap there, to be perfectly honest. It was Kev's fault that Patty got into a position that so many other players have found themselves in? What do you reckon, he should have just let the bloke go on his merry way towards our line?

You're still going on about Billy, the less you say about Billy the better off is going to be for you, at this point. You had your turn, he/they proved you wrong. Coach and player, father and son.

 

[BooKhaki]

Would 100% take TPJ back on a small contract, and would allow him to box as much as he wants if he signs on for min wage. Insanely high ceiling, and is besties with Haas.

 

[I bleed Maroon]

No. No no no no no.

We just got done driving the toxicity out of the joint, we aren't about to invite it back in.