2023 Recruitment & Retention Thread

The problem isn't necessarily the number but rather the quality, 80% of Klems offloads are him backing into a 3-man tackle getting held up and struggling to pop a ball to the 9 that everyone knows is coming with that player quickly getting tackled and often us losing ground. It's all very predictable, it's half Klems fault and half the rest of the side/coaching that we don't take better advantage of them. When he's in those positions he is no chance of breaking through the tackle so everybody knows the offload is the only option and therefore wraps up the intended receiver.

In that sense his offloads overwhelmingly aren't equivalent to a TPJ, Kikau, Tapine, NAS because those guys supplement the offloads with a running threat that keeps defences honest and their offloads are variable, coming from any position in the tackle.

That's why his offload to set up the try last weekend was so good, instead of standing in the tackle and trying to milk PCMs while the defence can get set up for the offload he just made first contact dragging 3 defenders in and immediately popped the ball out the back to Milf while those 3 are still holding him. As such the defensive line hasn't been able to retreat during the time he usually stands and struggles to gain that extra metre or two before popping the offload. Seeing more of that from him would be wonderful.
 
I was kind of with him on a lot of that until he got to his solution of signing Nick Meaney (who is not off contract).

Don't think you can rubbish the signing of Tyson Gamble because he can't get a game over Mam and Reynolds, then say the solution is the guy whose main job in his team atm is "stay out of Munster's way".
 
HarVeeGee13 said:
Surely Keeley plays NSW Cup next year given he’s now played first grade. Probably Bradbury jumps up too.
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Well it depends on what the policy is next year.
Jaron Purcell played nearly every game in reserve grade last year and was starting lock for the back half of the season and one of our best every week, but this year we are just giving young forwards 2 or 3 games in reserves and then back to their age group.
I was at the Flegg game on the weekend and Jaron played the full game at lock and got through a mountain of work doing most of the hard yards in attack and defending the middle of the field like a champion, while all the other middles were rotated for short bursts. Jaron looks like the most ready for firstgrade to me, but he is stuck in Flegg for whatever reason.

Just about every forward in Flegg has been given time in reserves this year and it looks like what they are doing is giving them a run of 2 or 3 games in a row, and I assume they are also training with the reserves squad. At the moment it is Tevita Toloi, who I saw play Flegg a month or so ago, and thought he'd really stepped up a level. But all of them have had a go, Keeley, Bradbury, Bryan, the Johhannsen brothers before they left, Purcell, Glamazina, Greacen, Burgess, Williams, now Toloi. The only one who hasn't got a run in reserves I think is Tom Cant, who they probably need to keep in Flegg for his goal kicking.
 
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nunnsy said:
Funny you should say that i just read a arctile about him killing it in the superleauge. On the weekend he had 1 try 3 try assists ran for 182m and had 11 tackle busts.
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He’s good over there because he’s quick and that thing he does where he darts back behind the ruck keeps working over and over again. He’s not good over here because he’s a bad passer, bad kicker, bad game manager, and bad under pressure compared to other NRL halves.
 
Just my opinion, but I reckon Taumalolo over the last few years was a lot better than Klem has been this year, and the forwards surrounding Lolo before this year were playing worse footy than the likes of the Saifiti twins, Barnett, etc. Bit of a dead heat cripple fight between the likes of Lachlan Fitzgibbon and some of the back rowers the Cowboys fielded before this year though 😂
 
Tamakiamoana Whareorere has signed with the knights im reading on Factbook , apparently we tried to sign him as a 15yr old along with a lot of other clubs ... Does anyone know anymore about it .
 
Interesting to see which players are training with firstgrade this week - Mitch Henderson, Ethan Ferguson, Riley Jones, Lachlan Williams, Paul Bryan.
No doubt they are seeing which of these guys can cut it when training with the firstgrade squad.
 
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