Gagai released!!!!!

[Bucking Beads]

We did bag Boyd a lot in a similar vein to Copley

The similarities are uncanny actually.

 

[Coxy]

The similarities are uncanny actually.

True. Boy I hope Copley develops into a player like Boyd.

 

[noisetheory]

i'm not saying copley is great just the hate towards him still is unnecessary.

the ball rarely even gets to him in attack.

 

[Renegade]

Boyd very rarely made errors though. He just didn't do a lot else, so in some senses yes, but in others no.

Anyway, I don't want to keep harping on about it, what's done is done.

I feel a better comparison is Kemp, both were given limited involvement early on, both did well but then were unsighted again for a bit, Kemp eventually got his run and did well when he was with us, and then yeah, we all know what happened from that point onward.

But I remember a lot of people screaming for Kemps inclusion and them receiving a similar response to how people were/are carrying on about Gagai.

And if the ball rarely gets to him, is that an indication of some players faith in him?

 

[noisetheory]

And if the ball rarely gets to him, is that an indication of some players faith in him?

i dont think so.

 

[GCBRONCO]

Again, I don't blame the Broncos for their stance on Gagai, but you can't help but be a little disappointed for how it's panned out, both for the kid himself and the club.

As for alternatives, I don't know, that's why they pay Griffin, and that's why I pay money to the club, to voice my opinion without the risk/reward element.

You like any other supporter regardless of being a member of the club or not are allowed to voice their opinion but you also have to be prepared for the consequences of doing so and too often(not suggesting this of you) the line between justified and not can be crossed. When it comes to Griffin and the management they have to be prepared to make the tough calls and in this case there are consequences where if they don't act in the appropriate fashion and maintain the high standards the club demands of its players on and off the field it can be like a cancer if you allow it to continue to exist, IMO Gagai has been given a fair amount of time to get back on track and continued to do so, that doesn't exactly put Griffin in a position where he can just allow that to continue and sometimes you have to be willing to make the tough calls, otherwise you shouldn't be there. Gagai put this on himself, not Griffin.

 

[Jeba]

He's off to Newcastle until the end of 2014, effective immediately.

 

[Alec]

Sucks, but what can you do. Hopefully he gets some gametime over there, and takes his job more seriously.

 

[noisetheory]

gagai named in the centres for the knights this week.

 

[Bull Shark]

gagai named in the centres for the knights this week.

must be the first time in bennett's career that he's named a mid season 'refugee' in the top grade within six weeks of that player's arrival ... very unusual ... he usually makes them earn it ...

 

[Bucking Beads]

He is obviously desperate

 

[Bull Shark]

He is obviously desperate

don't blame him ...

 

[Hi Guys]

Or maybe Wayne just rates him highly. It only took a call from his good pal John Dixon that Dane was his man. "As good as Hodges at the same age"

NEWCASTLE coach Wayne Bennett said mid-season recruit Dane Gagai would bring a ''God-given'' talent to the Knights that he could not teach.

The discarded Broncos utility back has signed until the end of 2014. Gagai will train with his new teammates for the first time today but it is understood he is unlikely to make his Newcastle debut against his old club at Suncorp Stadium on Sunday.

Considering him as a winger, centre or fullback, Bennett will monitor Gagai's progress this week, but would not discuss whether he would be considered for selection against the Broncos.

''This guy's a rare talent,'' Bennett told the Herald last night. ''That's why we've brought him here, because he can bring something that I can't coach, and he can bring something the fans want to watch, and that's God-given. If we get the other part right, he can hopefully have a decade here.

''If he was just another footy player that didn't have those special qualities, well, we wouldn't have recruited him. He's got speed, he's highly skilled and he's a football player. In other words, he's not an athlete, but he's got a footy brain about him.''

The 21-year-old former Junior Kangaroos representative signed a two-year contract with the Broncos in March but Brisbane coach Anthony Griffin told him three weeks ago that he would no longer be considered for NRL selection due to a series of disciplinary breaches.

Gagai's indiscretions were undisclosed but Bennett said the Mackay-born former Queensland Schoolboys rugby union representative was not guilty of any abusive or antisocial behaviour linked to drugs or alcohol.

''We need to be candid about it. At the end of the day, the Broncos realised his wonderful potential but felt they'd gone as far as they could with him,'' Bennett said.

''But from all my questioning of people that mattered up there was the fact that he doesn't have a drinking problem and he certainly doesn't do drugs.

''He was missing the odd session here and there, or being late, and he was probably not as disciplined off the field as they wanted him to be. They felt he was getting in with the wrong crowd, and the influences around him weren't good for him, so they just ran out of patience with him. That happens sometimes at footy clubs.''

When the Broncos released him, Gagai said he ''stuffed up'' and their decision was the ''kick in the pants'' he needed. Bennett said Gagai had to support that sentiment with better behaviour off the field.

 

[noisetheory]

i honestly think in two years time we are going to be really disappointed we had to let him go.

 

[Bucking Beads]

i honestly think in two years time we are going to be really disappointed we had to let him go.

Of course we will be. Regardless of that I think the right decision was made.

 

[Kaz]

i honestly think in two years time we are going to be really disappointed we had to let him go.

The Knights will expect too much from him & he will crack under the pressure.

Or lard guts Tinkler will fire him for looking sideways at him.

 

[lynx000]

It will go one of two ways. Either this will be the wake up call that Gagai needs to pull his horns in and apply himself, which is what he and his manager have been saying to the press, or the lack of discipline will continue and he will eventually be punted by Newcastle and wind up like someone like Seymour, going from club to club and never fulfilling his potential. The ball is in his court really.

 

[Coxy]

It will go one of two ways. Either this will be the wake up call that Gagai needs to pull his horns in and apply himself, which is what he and his manager have been saying to the press, or the lack of discipline will continue and he will eventually be punted by Newcastle and wind up like someone like Seymour, going from club to club and never fulfilling his potential. The ball is in his court really.

This. 100%. And as Beads said, releasing him was the right decision for the club - and if the first scenario pans out, it was the right decision for Dane too.