OFFICIAL Willison Re-Signs until 2027

[Mr Fourex]

 

[Broncosgirl]

 

[Bucking Beads]

who's leaving next @Bucking Beads ?

Mozer and Staggs surely

 

[BooKhaki]

Great news, hopefully not on silly money. Ideally he spends the entire 2025 coming off the bench. Start Jensen and allow him to keep developing.

 

[Allo]

8. Willison
9. Mozer
10. Haas
13. Carrigan

Anyone?

I’d rather go

8. Carrigan
10. Haas
13. Hetherington

15. Jensen
16. Willison
17. BTK/2nd row+back hybrid cover

Carrigan can play prop like he is for Australia, he and Haas can get an early break for Jensen + Willison while Hetho stays on, Carrigan comes back on for Kobe at about the 50ish mark and plays out the rest and/or rotate with the rest of the pack where needed.

We gotta stop running Patty and Haas into the ground and we need more from our bench

 

[Fitzy]

Great news, hopefully not on silly money. Ideally he spends the entire 2025 coming off the bench. Start Jensen and allow him to keep developing.

I think he is an age and ability now where he doesn’t need holding back. I think he has to earn it most definitely but if he earns it and the bench balance is right he isn’t at a stage where you have to hold the poor think back anymore. He is a middle forward.

 

[Sproj]

I’d rather go

8. Carrigan
10. Haas
13. Hetherington

15. Jensen
16. Willison
17. BTK/2nd row+back hybrid cover

Carrigan can play prop like he is for Australia, he and Haas can get an early break for Jensen + Willison while Hetho stays on, Carrigan comes back on for Kobe at about the 50ish mark and plays out the rest and/or rotate with the rest of the pack where needed.

We gotta stop running Patty and Haas into the ground and we need more from our bench

This is a good point. As much as I defended Kevvie, his bench usage was woeful, as bad as Seesbums.

@Redfern_1980 How is your…I mean Maguire’s bench usage?

 

[Foordy]

I still personally think we need Willison off the bench. We dont have a great deal of impact and he had to have been one of the best bench impact forwards at any club last year.

couldn't agree more.

we need someone to be able to change or maintain momentum when Payne and Patty get a rest ... Willison is that player.

Jensen is better off being used as a workhorse starting prop. he isn't an impact player

 

[BroncsFan]

I still personally think we need Willison off the bench. We dont have a great deal of impact and he had to have been one of the best bench impact forwards at any club last year.

Being a bench forward doesn't get the love that it should.

They come on as a pair and are playing with the remaining fatigued middle players, typically hooker and lock, so it puts more workload on them in defence and attack to either maintain momentum or have to flip momentum... it also becomes a game within the game, because the two bench middles are coming on at pretty much the same time as the opposition's bench middles.

I remember back sometime within the 2015-2017 era there was a season when we had Offa and TPJ coming off the bench and they were the best bench in the league... their ability to come on and maintain or flip momentum was able to turn games.

Ever since then I've had a massive appreciation towards good bench middles.

To be honest I think the third middle starting with Patty and Payne should be our 4th or even 5th best middle, because I want the guys on the bench to be able to dominate the opposition.

It's just overloading having the 3 best middles start the game when everyone is fresh ... there's an entire middle portion of the game where they won't be there.