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Lefty said:
That really makes me wonder about the Knights salary cap management. Hope we don’t need another rebuild to sort it all out.
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remember he was signed from Saints who gave him an immediate release to join the Knights, viewed as a starting 9, he was still in the starting side when this current extension was signed - he isnt on 200 k thats for sure.
 
jamesgould said:
Very weird he hasn’t been given more of a shot this year. Apart from a few untimely errors, he was starting to look quite good.
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He’s rangy, talented and athletic. He’s bulking up too, we will be spewing he moves on giving his promising future.
 
Johns, Jones (Brody), and Mann are all very good squad players and serve the Knights well...

That said, I can understand Mann being moved on given Crossland's development. I also get the Jones decision given the young forwards we have coming through. Johns on the other hand I would be keeping.
 
8/7
Says we will have 9 rookies in the top 30 next year with an average age of 21 and 8 NRL games between them.
Kai Pearce-Paul
Will Pryce
Toni Tupouniua
Paul Bryan
Myles Martin
Dylan Lucas
Krystian Mapapalangi
Oryn Keeley
Ryan Rivett

Says Jed Cartwright is a recruitment target because he is a big body who can play centre and second row.

If we can get Frizzel, Cartwright, Tuala, Pompey all signed, we have 2 spots left for next year.

Says Hastings injured himself by kicking the ball into the crowd in our last game after scoring a try. Says he won't do that again and scans have cleared him of major injury.

Draws a long bow to say that dropping Best for missing a bus last year has led to him knuckling down and getting picked for SOO. Says discipline has been an issue for some time and has improved this year, so dropping Marzhew was a good call.
 
Billy said:
8/7
Says we will have 9 rookies in the top 30 next year with an average age of 21 and 8 NRL games between them.
Kai Pearce-Paul
Will Pryce
Toni Tupouniua
Paul Bryan
Myles Martin
Dylan Lucas
Krystian Mapapalangi
Oryn Keeley
Ryan Rivett

Says Jed Cartwright is a recruitment target because he is a big body who can play centre and second row.

If we can get Frizzel, Cartwright, Tuala, Pompey all signed, we have 2 spots left for next year.

Says Hastings injured himself by kicking the ball into the crowd in our last game after scoring a try. Says he won't do that again and scans have cleared him of major injury.

Draws a long bow to say that dropping Best for missing a bus last year has led to him knuckling down and getting picked for SOO. Says discipline has been an issue for some time and has improved this year, so dropping Marzhew was a good call.
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With all those inexperienced guys in the top 30 squad, we need a coach who is good at developing young guys. 🤔🤔🤔
 
Lefty said:
With all those inexperienced guys in the top 30 squad, we need a coach who is good at developing young guys. 🤔🤔🤔
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I don't think Obi is too bad at developing young players, he's just very reluctant to pick them. I think guys like Leo, Young and Best have improved mightily under him. Now he'll be forced be use some younger guys for the first time, mightn't be a bad thing. There is some talent amongst them.
 
Owey said:
Billy, is Martin plateauing a bit? He doesn't sound as dominant in the juniors as recent years.
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He played much longer minutes and made many more tackles this year in Ball after a firstgrade pre-season, but not scoring a try a game this year.
Ball made the grandfinal and some games it looked like Martin was holding the middle of the field all by himself for the full game - but not many of those barnstorming runs he was so good at last year.
 
Our top 30 for next year certainly doesn’t fill me with confidence. Until we start signing players in positions of need and bring in some quality depth, we’re gonna be up shiznit creek for a while.
 
Top 30 might not be looking good but if we get our best 17 on paddock for most games we will be ok.
This years top 17, with Tuala in for Young, Brailey for Crosslands to bench moving Mann out, Lucas in for Fitzy, bench Crosslands, JSaf, Hetherington & Croker.
Thats leaving Pearce-Paul & Pryce to adjust and Cartwright as back up.
 
Frank McWilliams said:
Top 30 might not be looking good but if we get our best 17 on paddock for most games we will be ok.
This years top 17, with Tuala in for Young, Brailey for Crosslands to bench moving Mann out, Lucas in for Fitzy, bench Crosslands, JSaf, Hetherington & Croker.
Thats leaving Pearce-Paul & Pryce to adjust and Cartwright as back up.
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Our top 17 looks reasonable but depth may be a problem.
 
Defender1 said:
The Knights can't bloody win... they get smashed for not looking after juniors.. then get criticised for giving a heap of juniors a crack in the senior squad!
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I'm all for giving juniors with plenty of tomorrows a crack, and build for a future with sustained success, and deadset against bringing in half baked bog average fringe first graders on 500K + a year .....looking at Hetherington, Elliot, Miller , Mann, etc and in the process bugger the cap
 
Think Elliott is ok but let the other three go, Hetherington has failed to fire, Miller is just a player, disjoints the attack with jinking runs or poor passes, Mann, well he is just Mann but not the Mann
 
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