OFFICIAL Piakura signs for three more years

Brendan Piakura has snubbed the Titans and Bulldogs and signed a 3 year $1.2 million extension to his existing contract.

Corey Parker has worked with him in junior teams:

“I’ve watched Brendan for some time and he is outstanding. In my mind Piakura is physically ready for the NRL now and he would be the perfect replacement for Alex Glenn in the back row next season. I can see why the Bulldogs were going hard for him ... there’s no doubt for me that he is NRL quality. Brendan has all the skills. Piakura is a different style of back-rower to David Fifita .. he is a damaging ball-runner but I also like the fact he has mongrel in defence. He is a quietly-spoken sort of kid but he has a great attitude, it’s no surprise clubs were lining up to sign him.”

McHunt

 

[1910]

Kevvie has input but he's not in charge of player retention. Darren Lockyer is where the buck stops on that, I believe. Correct me if I wrong.

Coach has the most input. The other three voice an opinion and Louise says no or yes but coach never misses out.

 

[1910]

actually it would be Peter Nolan. most of Locky's input would be around the "player x can play footy" or "player x is shit stay away"

Kevvie would have major input around the squad though ... we'll retain or chase the players he wants; we'll get rid of the players he doesn't etc

Definitely not. Nolan is one voice. Coach always gets the biggest say.

 

[Tristan1990]

What are we basing this guy being the next big thing... I’ve never seen him play and just remember that Tom flegler is apparently the next Shane webcke hahah

 

[Jason Simmons]

You got all the time in the world. Just admit it you made the figure up. Also to suggest we have our own Brandon Smith in Turps

If you think Turpin is similar to Brandon Smith, I’m guessing you don’t watch many Storm or NZ International games...

 

[ZTop]

Yeah there’s like a 20 minute one with Kemp reacting to it out there somewhere

Spent the last half n hour looking for itcannot find the damn thing

 

[Jason Simmons]

I know "quietly-spoken kid" is generally thought of as a positive trait, but in our team we need some confident out-going communicators.

Yup, someone owning our team would be nice... It’s been a while. Milf has, but he has been fucking terrible. Arguably we’ve had no-one do it since Hodges and even then, as much as I loved Hodgo as a player, was only a pale shadow of how we were with Lockyer in charge...

 

[Dash]

Spent the last half n hour looking for itcannot find the damn thing

Google "Brendan Piakura highlights", it is the first result.

 

[1910]

I think people are overplaying Lockyer's role in the recruitment and retention.

The way I think it probably works is probably along the lines of:

Nolan: "Staggs' manager wants $700k for 4yr"
Lockyer: "That seems a bit high for a center"
Kev: "All good I see Staggs as a 6 anyway"
Lockyer: "Is he really a 6 though Kev?"
Kev: "Milf is out the door and I can make Staggs a 6"
Lockyer: "He hasn't showed any ball playing or kicking game, and he's had limited experience at 6"
Kev: "He's a strong runner, and allows me to have a right side of Staggs, Niu, Coates... we just need a strong game managing 7 inside him"
Nolan: "Is that going to be Dearden or should we look at ARey?"

.... etc. etc. etc.

You can't just have the coach and the recruiter (Nolan) making all the decisions without some sort of independent voice to add some weight to the argument one way of the other.

I think the CEO being there is next to useless, unless they just want to be across the decisions being made, because they end up being the last signature on the contract

I have said it before but minutes are kept, it’s an offical meeting. If you read them you’d be able to see who was for or against players.

I think the committee idea came out of the Storm debacle and that’s why you have a cross section of the club there so no one can say didn’t know.

 

[the_next]

Definitely not. Nolan is one voice. Coach always gets the biggest say.

Any decent names on the hit list mate?

 

[theshed]

I have said it before but minutes are kept, it’s an offical meeting. If you read them you’d be able to see who was for or against players.

I think the committee idea came out of the Storm debacle and that’s why you have a cross section of the club there so no one can say didn’t know.

How do we read them?

 

[1910]

How do we read them?

I am unsure how you could do that, I don't know how business minutes work but I would doubt it's just a pdf for anyone to enjoy.

 

[1910]

Any decent names on the hit list mate?

I know Kevvie wants change and is going about it.

 

[the_next]

I know Kevvie wants change and is going about it.

I like it.
Thank you.

 

[Kooly87]

I am unsure how you could do that, I don't know how business minutes work but I would doubt it's just a pdf for anyone to enjoy.

You can ask for minutes if you're a shareholder but even then, they're almost certainly confidential and not something you're allowed to discuss publicly.

 

[theshed]

You can ask for minutes if you're a shareholder but even then, they're almost certainly confidential and not something you're allowed to discuss publicly.

How many shares do I need?

 

[Kimlo]

How many shares do I need?

42

 

[theshed]

42

Damn, I only got 0.

 

[Sproj]

Damn, I only got 0.

Only 42 to go then.