2023 Recruitment & Retention Thread

MontyBrogan said:
I'll lose my voice saying it, but Randall isn't a great defender. He's fit, works hard, and makes a lot of tackles. But making a lot of ineffective tackles which lead to quick play the balls isn't good defending.

He's a likeable player because he tries his best, but he's extremely unathletic, and a liability in both defence and attack. Moving him on for anything is a good move for the club. Mann is a better option at 9, and Crossland is as good as a backup.
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Randall has a great ability to find his target area and his technique is awesome. Unfortunately for him he isn't blessed with any sort of muscle power so all he does is hit and stick to slow a defender, rather then dominate them. With gang tackling he a stud at allowing others to get involved but 1v1 he allows a quick PTB which sadly is what today's game is all about.
 
Gags was always going to be centre for 2023, its wishful thinking otherwise, Same as AOB being sacked.

Randall is only up for trade because if the past few years have proven anything its that if we lose Brailey, Randall isn't good enough to keep us a top 8 team so it isn't worth keeping him. Great defender but cant do the job when called upon.
 
JuniorFromNewyy said:
Gags was always going to be centre for 2023, its wishful thinking otherwise, Same as AOB being sacked.

Randall is only up for trade because if the past few years have proven anything its that if we lose Brailey, Randall isn't good enough to keep us a top 8 team so it isn't worth keeping him. Great defender but cant do the job when called upon.
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I honestly don't think we went any better when Brailey came back and please don't tell me Mann can be a number nine.
 
On Gagai, honestly he should be the bait we send out in order to get a fullback. Cronulla probably fancy themselves as having a shot at winning the comp but they play a utility at left centre for example, who hasn’t disgraced himself but it’s not really his spot - If they look at his highlights playing on the left side of the Souths backline they might be tempted to take him on.

Just sit down and have a chat with him - look Dane, we thought we’d be in a better spot than we ended up being in when we signed you (didn’t know Pearce was leaving at that time for example). We’re re-tooling and there might be growing pains. Do you want to stick around for that?

Then if he’s got that same itch which drove him to Souths again, the desire for guaranteed finals footy, offer him up (with an offer to eat a small amount of his deal) in exchange for - plot twist - Will Kennedy. Sorry but Lachie Miller isn’t proven, and I am pretty sure Cronulla wanna transition to Dykes anyway (Kennedy off contract at the end of next year).
 
HarVeeGee13 said:
On Gagai, honestly he should be the bait we send out in order to get a fullback. Cronulla probably fancy themselves as having a shot at winning the comp but they play a utility at left centre for example, who hasn’t disgraced himself but it’s not really his spot - If they look at his highlights playing on the left side of the Souths backline they might be tempted to take him on.

Just sit down and have a chat with him - look Dane, we thought we’d be in a better spot than we ended up being in when we signed you (didn’t know Pearce was leaving at that time for example). We’re re-tooling and there might be growing pains. Do you want to stick around for that?

Then if he’s got that same itch which drove him to Souths again, the desire for guaranteed finals footy, offer him up (with an offer to eat a small amount of his deal) in exchange for - plot twist - Will Kennedy. Sorry but Lachie Miller isn’t proven, and I am pretty sure Cronulla wanna transition to Dykes anyway (Kennedy off contract at the end of next year).
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your saying cronulla would want to sign gags so they can win now and in the same post say they should let their best fullback go for this year
 
HarVeeGee13 said:
If Kennedy is their best fullback, why did they prioritise extending Dykes over him? Writing is on the wall.
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I see it a bit different. Kennedy is massive for the sharks and will always be first choice. With Dykes, they did what a lot of clubs do with a boom youngster and upgraded him when they planned to give him a run in first grade. That way they generally pay unders for a first grader for a couple of years and other clubs can't swoop if they really take first grade by storm but are still going to be bumped down the pecking order when an established star comes back.
 
sherpa said:
I honestly don't think we went any better when Brailey came back and please don't tell me Mann can be a number nine.
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Have to say I thought Brailey was a breath of fresh air when he came back into the side, and despite coming back from a snapped achilles he performed miles better than Randall. I’m not bothered by losing Randall, he definitely tries hard, but his shortcomings were pretty evident as the season went on last year.
 
Keenan Palasia has requested a release from his contract at Brisbane.

That’s Palasia and Atoni, two reliable rotation middles who are capable of stepping up and starting (Palasia also decent on an edge), both asking out in the first week or so after the end of the World Cup.

More proof if it was needed that releasing Klemmer to get a halfback was worth it. We’ll find decent forward reinforcements. Whereas we could have tried for another 5 years and still not signed a decent 7.
 
HarVeeGee13 said:
On Gagai, honestly he should be the bait we send out in order to get a fullback. Cronulla probably fancy themselves as having a shot at winning the comp but they play a utility at left centre for example, who hasn’t disgraced himself but it’s not really his spot - If they look at his highlights playing on the left side of the Souths backline they might be tempted to take him on.

Just sit down and have a chat with him - look Dane, we thought we’d be in a better spot than we ended up being in when we signed you (didn’t know Pearce was leaving at that time for example). We’re re-tooling and there might be growing pains. Do you want to stick around for that?

Then if he’s got that same itch which drove him to Souths again, the desire for guaranteed finals footy, offer him up (with an offer to eat a small amount of his deal) in exchange for - plot twist - Will Kennedy. Sorry but Lachie Miller isn’t proven, and I am pretty sure Cronulla wanna transition to Dykes anyway (Kennedy off contract at the end of next year).
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Okay I was drinking and in supervillain mode when I wrote this **** 😂

Trading out Gagai to get a decent fullback would be nice but I don’t know who’d take him at the moment. Maybe Wests. They’re stupid.
 
krustykraz said:
I have heard my Sharks fan mates saying Kennedy won't be resigned, could all be speculation.
Seems odd to me. But I doubt they release him for Gags lol.
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That's surprising, I'm a massive Kennedy fan, maybe you are right about Dykes Harvee! I think Kennedy shapes up pretty well to the real top fullbacks in a really hot field. The sharks had also said there back five were all off contract and were priorities. I don't know how much longer Moylan has in him but would have thought 5/8 would have been Dykes' path to fg. He killed us there last year in reggies. If the stars aligned and Kennedy ends up in red and blue, I'd be super excited!!
 
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