2022 Knights Recruitment & Retention Thread

HarVeeGee13 said:
Oh wow. Yeah he could get way more than that.
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He probably will. Tigers rumoured to offer $600k. Eels are only willing to put him up to $275 for 2022 and $425 for 2023 & 2024.

I honestly don't think he is worth $600k to us though, he has only had one good year and is still contracted to the Eels for 2022. I like him as a player and think we should be able to get him cheaper than the Tigers as they have to overpay for everyone.

He is a good player. And players are worth what ever someone is willing to pay.
 
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Sporting Declaration: Mitchell Pearce is no average Joe

Even Joey Johns, at the peak of his powers, could not have played much better than Mitchell Pearce...
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Article says we will miss Pearce and makes the tenuous argument that Pearce was as good as Joey, for 6 games in 2019.
Of course, Joey had us all believing we could win any game against any opposition if Joey had a day out for 10 years in a row - not 6 games.

We probably will miss Pearce, but we were going to go through this in 2023 anyway, so might as well get it over with.
 
Nothing in the history of this sport has been more overrated than Junior’s 6 game stretch in 2019. Team was humming as a whole, Pearce put in plenty of his classic atrocious kicks but the effort and enthusiasm of his teammates covered for him, and it was mostly Kalyn breaking those games open when the result was still in question. Not in even one of those games did Junior play as well as the mean Joey Johns performante.
 
I'm not going to miss Pearce to be honest. He came here with a lot of promise and really reinvigorated the place. That is his best achievement here.

Beyond that he turned in to Hodkinson 2.0 and with his mediocre bombs we mindlessly persist with, his 10m kick for touch, getting tackled on the 5th, kicking straight down the throat of opposition receivers when there is 3/4 of the field empty, his lack of playmaking/creating ability and his seeming inability to secure repeat sets places us under repeated pressure and poor field position.

Clifford arrived and for a short time our kicking game improved out of sight, but only when he kicked. Long penalty touch finders, high bombs that our kick chase could get there in time to put pressure on the catcher, not to mention the difficulty of catching them. But, then we for some mystery reason nobody knows, we reduced his kicking involvement and gave it all back to Pearce.

I was excited he was coming, im not fussed that he is going.
This team is crying out for a decent playmaker in the halves.



Oh look, Ponga!

Let Ponga do his thing at 5/8, give Clifford the job of controlling the game, where we end our sets, where they receive the ball and start their sets, AJ in charge of attack and getting the adlib heads up flowing footy we need to adopt in todays game. Ponga is that style player.
 
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Kurriboy said:
I'm not going to miss Pearce to be honest. He came here with a lot of promise and really reinvigorated the place. That is his best achievement here.

Beyond that he turned in to Hodkinson 2.0 and with his mediocre bombs we mindlessly persist with, his 10m kick for touch, getting tackled on the 5th, kicking straight down the throat of opposition receivers when there is 3/4 of the field empty, his lack of playmaking/creating ability and his seeming inability to secure repeat sets places us under repeated pressure and poor field position.

Clifford arrived and for a short time our kicking game improved out of site, but only when he kicked. Long penalty touch finders, high bombs that our kick chase could get there in time to put pressure on the catcher, not to mention the difficulty of catching them. But, then we for some mystery reason nobody knows, we reduced his kicking involvement and gave it all back to Pearce.

I was excited he was coming, im not fussed that he is going.
This team is crying out for a decent playmaker in the halves.



Oh look, Ponga!

Let Ponga do his thing at 5/8, give Clifford the job of controlling the game, where we end our sets, where they receive the ball and start their sets, AJ in charge of attack and getting the adlib heads up flowing footy we need to adopt in todays game. Ponga is that style player.
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Definitely on board with Kalyn at 6, IF we can get someone who’s ready and reliable at 1. The way I see it, the 6 is where you can most easily get by with an average player, out of the four spine positions. We saw with Tex this year the kinda drama it causes when you can’t rely on your #1.

There’s maybe an argument for having Dane fill in back there?
 
Allegedly he wants $700K. He’s dreaming lol. But now is the time to make such requests I guess, new club with a completely unallocated cap coming in and all. Now that’s what I call a war chest.
 
I hope if they put KP at 6 that it works because it didn't get close to working last time . I dont think they will though with Clune , Crossland , Sasagi on the books and us looking to sign another 5/8 .
I hope they dont move Ponga to six imo it would be weakening one position to try and strengthen another which as i said didn't work last time ... Ponga needs room to move to play his best footy .
 
Thoughts on gutho at FB? I think he turned his nose at 700k. Good energy player and cleans up a lot that Kalyn was bad at.
 
Yeah if there was the thought that they specifically needed to replace Pearce’s intensity, attitude and effort, Gutho is another “fittest man at your club/best trainer” type. I don’t think he’s as talented as Pearce was at his physical prime, but I think he’s also made himself into a better & more valuable player than Junior has ever been. I think he’s a bit better at just sticking to his role and executing, being a net positive to your side. He gets slammed a lot on social media and honestly I think he’s a bit underrated at this point. Worse players have gotten way more money over the years.
 
Billy said:
www.newcastleherald.com.au

Sporting Declaration: Mitchell Pearce is no average Joe

Even Joey Johns, at the peak of his powers, could not have played much better than Mitchell Pearce...
www.newcastleherald.com.au www.newcastleherald.com.au

Article says we will miss Pearce and makes the tenuous argument that Pearce was as good as Joey, for 6 games in 2019.
Of course, Joey had us all believing we could win any game against any opposition if Joey had a day out for 10 years in a row - not 6 games.

We probably will miss Pearce, but we were going to go through this in 2023 anyway, so might as well get it over with.
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I have had a 6-week span where I could do no wrong in life.

According to Robert Dillon, that trumps the other 4.5 decades of mediocrity.
 
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