Pearce release - should we just cut bait?

Should Junior be granted his release if the club “can’t find a replacement”?

  • Yes, get the spud outta here, we’ll be better off without him & have decent prospects coming through

    Votes: 9 36.0%

  • No, he made a commitment and we need him

    Votes: 4 16.0%

  • Maybe - depends on whether it’s impacting/derailing pre-season

    Votes: 0 0.0%

  • No, specifically because I don’t want us to sign Brooks

    Votes: 0 0.0%

  • Yes, and use the cap space to get after a big name non-half eg Papali’i, Gutho, or someone else

    Votes: 8 32.0%

  • Only if we get a like-for-like replacement

    Votes: 4 16.0%
  • Total voters
    25
Momo has had an interesting journey.
Reading NZ articles about him, he comes from a sporting family and was a top athlete who played many sports in school, but didn't give league a try till his last year of school. He impressed so much he got an under 20s deal at Melbourne, but only played a handful of games for them.
Brownie brought him to the Knights when he came from his job of scout for Melbourne.
I watched him in his first year at the Knights and he was pretty raw to start with, but seemed to base his game on Pasami Saulo and was hard to pick from Pasami from the sideline by the end of the year. He improved massively in that year.
Next year he got a firstgrade pre season and the training staff said he was the strongest player at the club from his first gym session as a 19 year old.
Last year O'Brien decided to try him out as a second rower because of his obvious athletic ability, but reserves hardly got any games. This year he did his achilles in virtually our first training session and spent most of the season rehabing from that, but came back as a much better player than we've seen before - maybe because of the coaching to expand his game to play second row - maybe just because he finally has some experience at League - maybe just because he is a natural athlete and it's finally showing.
 
If only the talk of Pearce wanting out had been a few months earlier, Nicho Hynes would have looked brilliant here.
 
Shaun Johnson. Scott Drinkwater. Matt Burton. There were some pretty handy players whose deals were up at the end of 2021…
 
Now that Pearce is confirmed gone, it’ll be very interesting to see what happens. I do think we’ll get someone. Just the knowledge that there’s a club walking around with that free space for next year, who might be able to help them free up some cap space of their own.

It doesn’t make sense for the Cowboys to keep Val Holmes, Scott Drinkwater AND Tom Dearden, no matter what Todd Payten says lol.

Tigers are allegedly pushing hard to get Josh Hodgson and Isaiah Papali’i. You know who they could move to free up a lot of cap space?

NZ Warriors allegedly pushing hard to get Luke Metcalf out of the Sharks early, as they see him as their “long term halfback” (good luck with that guys! but not my problem). I reckon it’ll happen as the Sharks have Trindall, Tracey, Moylan & Hynes already. Doesn’t leave Kodi Nikorima and Chanel Harris-Tavita in a great spot.

And of course, Andrew Johns is back at the club. How old is too old?
 
4. Holmes
6. Dearden/Drinkwater
14. Dearden/Drinkwater.

Makes perfect sense for all 3 to be in the top 30 squad.

Depth is what’s needed.
 
HarVeeGee13 said:
Now that Pearce is confirmed gone, it’ll be very interesting to see what happens. I do think we’ll get someone. Just the knowledge that there’s a club walking around with that free space for next year, who might be able to help them free up some cap space of their own.

It doesn’t make sense for the Cowboys to keep Val Holmes, Scott Drinkwater AND Tom Dearden, no matter what Todd Payten says lol.

Tigers are allegedly pushing hard to get Josh Hodgson and Isaiah Papali’i. You know who they could move to free up a lot of cap space?

NZ Warriors allegedly pushing hard to get Luke Metcalf out of the Sharks early, as they see him as their “long term halfback” (good luck with that guys! but not my problem). I reckon it’ll happen as the Sharks have Trindall, Tracey, Moylan & Hynes already. Doesn’t leave Kodi Nikorima and Chanel Harris-Tavita in a great spot.

And of course, Andrew Johns is back at the club. How old is too old?
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We’re going to end up with Nikorima, aren’t we 😒
 
We don't have to spend the money if we can't find anyone worth buying.
We can use the money to keep Ponga by upgrading his contract before anyone else can.
No point throwing all of Pearce's money at someone who doesn't improve the team.
I suspect someone will come up though.
 
Fortunately I don’t think Kodi is Adzy’s type of player.

I can see him being keen to bring CHT into our system though.
 
The surprise buy of the year in the halves for my money is Jackson Hastings. He really really understands how to play - how to structure a set, manipulate the defensive line, make sure your guys are in the right position and running the right lines. He doesn’t have a freakishly accurate boot but he’s very smart about putting in the *right* kick. His stats aren’t gonna blow you away but I’m fairly convinced at this point that if it was us who signed him, and gave him that #7 jersey, we’d be going forward better, playing smarter, and getting Kalyn in much better positions. The kind of guy who’s very easy to build a team around cos you can just look for flashy guys with X factor to compliment him. Frustrating that we never got a look in at signing him and also frustrating that we may yet still end up with Luke Brooks. Can only hope he’s learning and absorbing as much as possible…
 
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