2023 Recruitment & Retention Thread

krustykraz said:
I'd guess They'd swap him for Young.
But I can't see them doing us any favours like a loan.
I prefer Crossland at hooker to Watson. Watson is a good 14 or 13 imo.
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Given how well he has been doing I forgot that he was going there.

Scratch that thought entirely then, will have to stick with what we got.
 
Thieves Like Us said:
History shows us that Brails is unfortunately going to pick up a season ending injury. How much of that is due to him playing 80 mins each week - who knows? Either way we should be in a position where we have a recognised hooker like KL in the squad ready to play minutes each week and potentially step up if/when Brails does pick up an injury. I’m not knocking Brailey, I think he has been one of our better players this season so far but the lack of a solid contingency plan is a knock on the club.
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My point is the club goes to Kruise Leeming to try and sign him he would just say no. Brailey was too entrenched in the side. Randall had a chance to establish himself last year and looked absolutely dreadful so they let him go. He also asked for the release because the path to first grade was blocked.
 
waynesworld said:
My point is the club goes to Kruise Leeming to try and sign him he would just say no. Brailey was too entrenched in the side. Randall had a chance to establish himself last year and looked absolutely dreadful so they let him go. He also asked for the release because the path to first grade was blocked.
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And I wonder what will happen at the Titans when Verills comes back and KL is third in line behind SV and Randall?

Surely Brian McD could have just spoken a bit of Yorkshire to the lad (eh up, how’s thee guing?) to entice him to Newcastle?
 
HarVeeGee13 said:
The best back up hooker is probably Jayden Berrell (Sharks, off contract at the end of this year). 27 year old career reserve grader who’s never been given his shot in the top grade.

The most hyped young guys currently stuck behind established players are Peter Mamouzelos at Souths (signed till the end of 2024), and Blake Mozer at Brisbane (signed till the end of 2025).

Best hookers who can be signed for 2024 are Berrell, Jacob Liddle, and Tom Starling.

I would lean towards trying to loan Mamouzelos as the first option - I think he’s gonna be a gun, but there is no prospect of him playing regular first grade any time soon as Cook never seems to get hurt, and at 31 he’s probably got at least a few years left in him as a first grader. If all goes well, try to parlay that into an early release and a signing for next year. Brailey is going to miss most of the next pre-season so we should be planning for him to *not* be an 80 minute hooker next year - such a huge ask fitness wise, he’s already looked off the pace compared to his 2021 form at times this year.

Second choice for me is probably Berrell. I’m not a big believer in Mozer from what I’ve seen. If Brisbane does give him his shot soon, that’s probably something to monitor given it might mean there’s question marks over Paix going forward.
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Discussed it here ^^^
 
i wonder if we will look at turpin again, not a fan of it, but we were interested previously and is in a contract year this year i believe.
 
EASBay17 said:
tyson smoothey (broncs now but out of the storm system) and ben marscke ( bears) are apparently on our radar for the hooking spot.
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Where did you get this from?

Marschke be a good get, but only going off the fact Bears have performed well past couple years and he's been apart of it.

Just checked, now Roosters have Turpin he's bumped Marschke to the bench.

Smoothy, dunno, have zero opinion on him.
 
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