Round 1 2025 Team

I feel someone will debut.
Hard to say who.
Schiller on the wing?
Matt Arthur at 9 or 14?
Zeb Sua on the bench (his 10 minutes doesn't count)?
Paul Bryan on the bench?
Tyrone Thompson on the bench?
 
Seems i spoke to soon. Reporting now that Pezet is likely to turn down an offer from the Knights. Perhaps we didn't put enough on the table, surely there's a price?
 
Les Misérables said:
All true.

It's kinda fortuitous they poached him. We sent our favourite son to the greatest academy in the country to become the best version of himself. He'd be a very confident lad as a result.

I genuinely can't see him viewing himself as a place-holder. He's the type to believe that he could make the most of the 7 jersey at Newcastle and I reckon once the dollars are officially presented, with a full-blooded pitch from the club and its staff about the immediate prospect of having a team built around him, playing with Ponga and some of the games best young talents, with a team on the up, and a rich club, on the beach with all the people he grew up with. I'd be very interested to understand how anyone in his position would turn that down to earn half as much playing in the QLD Cup to maybe do a similar thing for the Storm in 3 years time, with the only variables being some low percentage alternative scenarios

Tyran Wishart is infront of him..
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It’s fortuitous if we get him back!
 
Oliver said:
Wishart is in front of him as a 6 not a 7 I would say. Anasta manages both Pezet and Munster so he would know what the short and long term plans are for both players at the club. I am not so sure Munster will continue to play 6. I can see him moving one out to play centre which allows Pezet to play 7 and Hughes to 6. The one glaring weakness in the Storm side over the last few years especially in big games has been their centres while solid are no attacking threat.
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If a half is slowing down physically the last thing you’d want to do is play him in the centres. He sucked at fullback the last time they tried that. He’s a 6 now until he retires.
 
HarVeeGee13 said:
If a half is slowing down physically the last thing you’d want to do is play him in the centres. He sucked at fullback the last time they tried that. He’s a 6 now until he retires.
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More to do with their centres than Munster slowing down. I don’t see them winning a premiership with Meaney and Howarth as their 2 starting centres especially if Panthers are still around. They kept turning Coates under in the grand final as they had no strike in the centres. It has been their achilles in the finals the last few years.
 
Howarth is a backrower long term. He only started playing there when Bellamy realised Remy Smith wasn’t the answer and he shipped him off to the Super League. Another option would be Coates to centre and Faalogo to wing.

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Les Misérables said:
All true.

It's kinda fortuitous they poached him. We sent our favourite son to the greatest academy in the country to become the best version of himself. He'd be a very confident lad as a result.

I genuinely can't see him viewing himself as a place-holder. He's the type to believe that he could make the most of the 7 jersey at Newcastle and I reckon once the dollars are officially presented, with a full-blooded pitch from the club and its staff about the immediate prospect of having a team built around him, playing with Ponga and some of the games best young talents, with a team on the up, and a rich club, on the beach with all the people he grew up with. I'd be very interested to understand how anyone in his position would turn that down to earn half as much playing in the QLD Cup to maybe do a similar thing for the Storm in 3 years time, with the only variables being some low percentage alternative scenarios

Tyran Wishart is infront of him..
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Very well put! I agree with all of this post.
 
Defence wins games said:
I read today Melbourne have offered Pezet a three year contract which would allow him to take over from Hughes or Munster.
It sounds like we may be urinating into the wind with acquiring Pezet.
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LOL ask Ryles who waited for Bellamy to retire the last 5 years how that works out.

Every chance Munster and Hughes could go another 5 years, also what sort of money would Pezet get us a back up $300k-$400k tops, if we are offering $600k-$700k reported, who leaves a million on the table.

And his well behind Wishart for the bench spot.
 
Grandpa Joe - Prev Lord said:
LOL ask Ryles who waited for Bellamy to retire the last 5 years how that works out.

Every chance Munster and Hughes could go another 5 years, also what sort of money would Pezet get us a back up $300k-$400k tops, if we are offering $600k-$700k reported, who leaves a million on the table.

And his well behind Wishart for the bench spot.
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That's why it would make no sense for him to re-sign without testing the market. He could throw away a huge chunk of career just waiting to become a starting first grader. I suspect the story is a plant to drive up his price and our desperation.
 
Grandpa Joe - Prev Lord said:
LOL ask Ryles who waited for Bellamy to retire the last 5 years how that works out.
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It is actually crazy how many guys they can gaslight into sticking around longer than they otherwise would have with this **** hahaha. I know they're a great club and you'd definitely rather play in the spine for them than for a mid table team, but they have pulled the ball out of the way at the last minute like Lucy with Charlie Brown so many times and yet keep fooling people.

They had Scott Drinkwater & Brandon Smith especially convinced those 1/9 jerseys were theirs when Billy/Cam retired. Neither particularly happy when they worked out they weren't actually at the front of the queue.
 
HarVeeGee13 said:
It is actually crazy how many guys they can gaslight into sticking around longer than they otherwise would have with this **** hahaha. I know they're a great club and you'd definitely rather play in the spine for them than for a mid table team, but they have pulled the ball out of the way at the last minute like Lucy with Charlie Brown so many times and yet keep fooling people.

They had Scott Drinkwater & Brandon Smith especially convinced those 1/9 jerseys were theirs when Billy/Cam retired. Neither particularly happy when they worked out they weren't actually at the front of the queue.
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Also - does anyone really see Hughes retiring after another two or three seasons? He only turned 30 last week and with a late start to his career has only played 150 games. I agree, Pezet would be nuts to stick around.
 
It wouldn't shock me if Munny fell off a cliff at around 32. He's a bit old school, doesn't exactly treat his body like a temple during the off season, and plays a very physical style where he's basically taking hit ups ten times a game. Problem is that Wishart is a much more obvious like-for-like replacement for Munny. Pezet plays better as a traditional 7 and likely needs to play on the right side of the field to maximise his value. Wishart is a runner and could play anywhere.

But yeah Hughes, a later starter against men who looks like he heeps himself in excellent shape. He might be around till he's 37 honestly.
 
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