NRL Player Movements and Rumours 2015

a quick look at the Roosters forum and most of them don't want him .
 
Morkel said:
FTR, I think the Tiger's biggest mistake (besides letting Farah rule the joint) was spending so much on Brookes & Moses. They were signed on potential, and on decent money in order to stave off poachers. Tedesco at least showed enough promise, those two have proven that a couple of young creative halves don't work if they're both speed bumps in defence. Attacking prowess is nothing if you're constantly leaking points, on the back-foot, and fatigued because they have easy targets on both edges. Oh, and playing a back-rower with zero lateral movement in the centres beside them just compounds the stupidity.
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The Tigers should have kept one, but not the other. Had they shown more confidence in Austin's ability (ie picked him over old man Anasta) and spent 2014 developing the Austin/Brooks combination, they would have been in a better position for 2015. As it happens, Austin wins the Dally M Five Eighth award at Canberra (*cough*joke*cough*) while Moses struggles adapting to a game plan that fails to compliment his abilities and is exposed defensively. I would have been completely against this at the start of 2015, but a Sirro/Brooks combination with Moses developing his five-eighth game in NSW Cup would have been the way to go.

Of course, they had other problems as well. They had the worst backrow in the competition, their backline fluctuated pending on injuries (which were far too often) and their star players struggled to play their best footy week to week. Woods won a lot of respect from me when he admitted at the Dally Ms that he was no chance of catching JT. He put his hand up and admitted his form had tapered off towards the end of the year, which was really honest of him, given nobody else in the spotlight had said as much.
 
Friends wage would increase in the next few years if the Roosters signed him or anyone else for that matter. Friend is a good player and I'm expecting him to play Origin in 3/4 years time which representative honours would make him more lucrative on the market.
 
Big Pete said:
The Tigers should have kept one, but not the other. Had they shown more confidence in Austin's ability (ie picked him over old man Anasta) and spent 2014 developing the Austin/Brooks combination, they would have been in a better position for 2015. As it happens, Austin wins the Dally M Five Eighth award at Canberra (*cough*joke*cough*) while Moses struggles adapting to a game plan that fails to compliment his abilities and is exposed defensively. I would have been completely against this at the start of 2015, but a Sirro/Brooks combination with Moses developing his five-eighth game in NSW Cup would have been the way to go.

Of course, they had other problems as well. They had the worst backrow in the competition, their backline fluctuated pending on injuries (which were far too often) and their star players struggled to play their best footy week to week. Woods won a lot of respect from me when he admitted at the Dally Ms that he was no chance of catching JT. He put his hand up and admitted his form had tapered off towards the end of the year, which was really honest of him, given nobody else in the spotlight had said as much.
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True. I didn't include Sironen in my comments, as i don't know if he was courted by other teams and therefore on an inflated deal. But isn't he a bust. Yes he's still young, but ha's been a starting back-rower for 2 years now and hasn't shown much improvement. He's not a hard line runner (he can run good lines but seems to have little strength so is easily stopped) but doesn't do anywhere near enough work to balance the scales.
 
Cartwright seems like he's going to be the back rower Sironen should have been.

Also I have a feeling both Brooks and Moses are going to be duds.
 
I'm not disagreeing with you, I'm just saying if Taylor wanted to take a more defensive approach to his team he should have played Sirro at 6 instead of converting him into a Graham, Cartwright, Sutton etc. backrow. Like Simona, Sirro's biggest issue is his inability to stay on the field. Everytime he appears to be gaining momentum, he sets himself back with some sort of mid-range injury which completely kills his rhythmn as the Tigers learn to adjust without his skill-set on the right fringe.

In regards to Lawrence, I feel sorry for the Tigers. When they re-signed him in 2011, he was one of the best centres in the world and looked destined to be the long term NSW and Australian centre. Then he suffered that hip injury against the Raiders and was never the same after that. Unfortunately, the Tigers had already signed him on a 5 year deal, meaning they were stuck with one of the worst centres in the competition on marquee money.
 
Broncos release McCullough to join the Titans
Roosters release Friend to join the Broncos
Tigers released Farah to join the Roosters

Seems legit, let's do it.
 
I'd happily take Farak for 200k... Let the Tigers pay the rest. Or Friend on minimum wage with Roosters covering the rest from their "cap".
 
I wouldn't touch Farah with a 40 foot pole personally, Robbie has been a toxic influence at the Tiger's for quite a while now(though the club is also to blame for allowing him to as well) and the last thing we need after rebuilding our winning culture is to introduce a cancer. If it was just a question of form like Blair then maybe, but my concerns run deeper.
 
If the Roosters are stupid enough to punt Friend for Farah, we get on the phone to Friend and sign him in a heartbeat. McCullough can go wherever. Friend is an absolute gun and with his service on top of his defense guiding us around, put us down for a number of repeat GF appearances.
 
I think Farah will start to find coaches are not going to take any shit from him anymore. Sheens and Potter both bent over and presented themselves to him, but now even a club that's barely even functioning has a coach that isn't taking any shit from him.
 
Sing it with me folks.

Friend to Broncos...

 
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I think Pete is running out of material
 
It's the only material I need, Breakable.

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It won't happen but I can dream. I'd take Friend over McCullough in a heart beat.
 
Sproj said:
If the Roosters are stupid enough to punt Friend for Farah, we get on the phone to Friend and sign him in a heartbeat. McCullough can go wherever. Friend is an absolute gun and with his service on top of his defense guiding us around, put us down for a number of repeat GF appearances.
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Yeah there is no way the gulf between McCullough and Friend is that large. Just, no.
 
Farrah to the Chooks? Get fucked. They get linked to everyone ffs.
 
broncos4life said:
Yeah there is no way the gulf between McCullough and Friend is that large. Just, no.
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World of difference. Friend is on another level. McCullough is average, Friend is good, even very good.
 
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