2020 NRL Season

Discussion in 'The Cesspit: Rugby League Discussion' started by Maroon_Faithful, Oct 7, 2019.

  1. Cribbage RG Cribb

    They won't actually put him back to centre IMO, he'll stay at fullback but not have the fitness to be where he's meant to be in attack half the time. "Left inside centre" was my best guess of where he'd end up hanging out most of the time with the 1 on his back instead of running sweeps.

    Probably still a good signing at 800k but it will definitely come with some drawbacks. I can't see them creating too many overlaps on the right.
     
  2. Magic AJ Parker

    Roosters release Latrell. Nek minute... Billy Smith does his ACL.

    Radiers release Leilua. Nek minute... Curtis Scott tasered and charged with asaulting a polic officer.
     
  3. Julian BJ Taylor

    I’ve hated this signing from the get go.

    Hoping the club just cut their ties and punt the cunt. Very over rated player.
     
  4. Lukic L Popovic

    Fuck lol. Our right edge of Marshall, Leilua x2 and Nofoaluma is going to be insane in attack but diabolical defensively.

    Hope we can somehow pick up Doueihi and Addo-Carr. That would be mental.
     
  5. Toolman TR Man

    lol. they finally release leilua who has always caused off-field drama and his replacement does the same straight away
     
  6. Benny BS Read

    You guys can have dooey and we will take Tarago
     
  7. Maroon_Faithful M Faithful

    This is going to be a very interesting season. So many teams can win the comp as opposed to the usual two or three imo.
     
  8. Paddy P Orr

    And the Cows still won't be one of those tbh. Holmes won't solve a chunk of our major deficiencies.
     
  9. Julian BJ Taylor

    Lol of course they won’t.
     
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  10. Lukic L Popovic

    Doueihi locked in.

    Apparently player swap with Melbourne coming up - Momirovski for Grant to settle our hooker issue.

    We should finally make the 8 this year.
     
  11. Boobidy BJ Gemmell

    Doohey for 2.5m over 4 years is hilarious.
     
  12. Lukic L Popovic

    Not correct. It's 4 yrs 2m with Souths chipping in 200k, so 4 yrs 1.8m for the Tigers.
     
  13. Magic AJ Parker

    Still a lot of money for him.

    He would be in the bottom 2 fullbacks in the game.
     
  14. Boobidy BJ Gemmell

    He is a squad player. Worth 100-150 at the moment.
     
  15. Toolman TR Man

    Looking like his old man already. He's gonna avg 70m per game at fullback.

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  16. Lukic L Popovic

    Load of potential though and a huge upgrade on Thompson. At least he has all the traits to become a gun fullback. Can see him becoming a better version of Gutherson.
     
  17. Cribbage RG Cribb

    I don't hate him as a player but I definitely think the price is pretty significantly overs. He improves the team for this year but I worry about his contract becoming an albatross moving forward.

    I kind of question his agility and pace off the mark for fullback a bit. He can run but more over 30m+; fullback increasingly requires a lot of short bursts from a standing start or from originally going the opposite direction, and I dunno if that's really his thing.
     
  18. Lukic L Popovic

    I don't think his acceleration is too bad. Considering he's only 21 and coming off the ACL tear, I wouldn't be surprised if he becomes more explosive throughout the deal.

    We've long favoured the sweeping backline play anyway so even if he isn't the quickest off the mark, his combination of speed and size with ball playing ability will be huge. He'll be a good fit with Leilua especially given Nicoll-Klokstad might be the worst passing fullback since Dugan.
     
  19. Lukic L Popovic

    I'm interested to see if we play Mbye or Talau in the centres. Assuming we grab Harry Grant in than swap deal with Melbourne, I think that Mbye would be perfect in the 14 and we use him like Gidley like the ~2010 blues.
     
  20. Magic AJ Parker

    He hasn't shown that much as a ball player to date yet either though. If ever a player was going to succeed with a sweeping backline play it's someone who was in a Bennett coached side but he only had 3 try assists, 2 linebreak assists to his name last year from 14 games at fullback. Even when he was in the halves the year before he just didn't show a whole lot as a ball player.

    Only 30 games into his career though so still plenty of room for growth, he just looks like a good squad player for mine with plenty of utility value who could become a bit of a fan favourite given the tough nature in which he plays the game.
     

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