Player movements and rumours

Sam Verrills splits the minutes at dummy half with Friend for mine. I don't think we can afford to leave him in reserve garde next year, he's just too good someone will snap him up and he's a couple of levels above Lussick in terms of potential for mine.

And Sam Walker, young kid who just turned 18 will finish next season in the halves just depending on whether Keary plays the 6 or 7 role.

The spots of contention for the Roosters will be right edge backrow as Crichton really struggles with the technical side of the game there and has been an absolute beast at lock forward but you're not going to split minutes between Radley and Crichton so that's just a huge headache for Robinson.

We also looked a front rower short all season, didn't help that Liu had to cover for Radley but at the same time one player shouldn't expose us so badly. JWH, SST, Collins and Liu is still such a good first 4 just barely anything of note after that. Not sure if Robbo will go back into the market or back himself to develop some kids.

Borris and Jorris both tipped to play on for another season.

 

Tedesco won’t leave but I can see the Roosters hesitation in signing a fullback until they are 34.

I’m not sure it’s a money play for Tedesco, I think he wants to lock himself into a high performing environment for as long as possible so I don’t see him moving to a club like the Eels/Titans/Dragons. There’s romanticism around going back to the Tigers but I could see that happening in the back end of his career not his prime ala Benji but I hope not, it’s almost slightly disrespectful to the Tigers fans if he did.

And lol @ Crichton being on 1mil. Only a sunbrero fan would believe that shit.

 

Source: Shane Richardson's tears

The story and bitterness behind the Angus Crichton saga is ridiculous I guess only Roosters/Souths fans would know the story to be fair.

But yeh Angus Crichton is not our highest paid player these numbers were so far off the mark and dismissed a long time ago.

 

I feel sorry for Flanagan that the media are making him out to be the scapegoat, this year definitely isn't on him.

But he just didn't excel in any one area of half play: kicking, running or passing. I feel like as a young half if you're at least good at one of those 3 you can build your game around that.

I find it amusing that people think he had a decent season, he was almost non-existent throughout large parts of our season where we were very dominant. I wonder if it's just the perception of being top point scorer for large parts of the season that made people feel like he had a better year than he really did. Sadly the goalkicking was the pinnacle of his year.