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| Quote: Wires71 "The timing seems a little strange to me. I would have thought that they would have gone home in the off season unless his wife has only recently joined him and had enough.
In any case I wish them all well.'"
I imagine it was only after his performances in the first 5 games of this season that the NRL started showing an interest. It's a bit hard to take, but he was probably on peanuts here and can now earn a good wage back in the nice weather where his family will be happy. I'm sure KF and Powell know that we are a shop window for the younger ex-NRL players like Mikaele and Dufty, that's the nature of the beast.
Let's see how we fare without him before splashing the cash on another prop.
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| Quote: Kevin Turvey "Just when you thought the professionalism of the club had turned a corner.....'"
Just when you thought knee jerk reactions and criticism of the club had turned a corner
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| Quote: Wires71 "The timing seems a little strange to me. I would have thought that they would have gone home in the off season unless his wife has only recently joined him and had enough.
In any case I wish them all well.'"
He wanted to go in pre season. Agreed to stay because of the McGuire ban, hence why he’ll leave after McGuire has served his ban (after this weekend).
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| Quote: Lord Tony Smith "He wanted to go in pre season. Agreed to stay because of the McGuire ban, hence why he’ll leave after McGuire has served his ban (after this weekend).'"
Ok, though we didnt know of the Maguire ban until after the friendly game just before the start of the season.
As I said wish him well.
Without commenting on individual cases, is it reasonable to say we have more than our fair share of home sickeness exits?
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| Some good points raised, in that it's come at an odd time and do we need to sign another prop, or strengthen a different position. If we are able to recruit, it won't be a signing that will raise any eyebrows given that there will be so few players available. We've had a lot of injuries in the pack, and who knows, we could just as well have a prolonged spell of injuries to the backs. Perhaps the solution would be to bring in somebody on loan should we be in dire straights, and look to use the Mikaele cap money and quota spot on a player for 2023.
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| Quote: Fantastic Mr Catpiss "Just when you thought knee jerk reactions and criticism of the club had turned a corner'"
Not really. We’ve had almost 2 months to plan for this by the sound of things. Not the best time of year to look for new signings but if we haven’t got some options for a replacement in mind I’d be disappointed.
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| Quote: Kevin Turvey "Not really. We’ve had almost 2 months to plan for this by the sound of things. Not the best time of year to look for new signings but if we haven’t got some options for a replacement in mind I’d be disappointed.'"
So you're just taking one person's word on here as gospel?
We're definitely looking at recruiting and replacing him.
There, does that make you feel any better?
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| Its disappointing to lose him because he's been great this season but I don't think we need to rush a replacement, mcguire will be like an immediate replacement anyway as of next week. We should just see who becomes available, and recruit for the longer term IMO. This week we have Vaughan, dudson, philbin, thomas and mikaele, the following week barring possible injuries, we have the same less mikaele but with the inclusion of kasiano and mcguire after their suspensions end. I don't think we are at panic stations at all for the time being.
If mikaele has stayed for 7 games to help us out, then I'm really grateful to him for his great contribution to our brilliant start to the season and towards keeping us up last season. Good luck to him and his family for the future.
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| I think we have a well-balanced squad, even without Mikaele. It kind of feels like we have an immediate replacement in McGuire anyway, even though they are different types of players.
Makes sense to keep the cap space in our back pocket and wait for the perfect player, rather than getting someone in for the sake of it.
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| Let's hope McGuire doesn't do anything silly in his first game back in the hot bed of southern France....
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| Dunamis Lui, rumoured to be coming in. 33 year old Prop/loose currently playing queensland cup in Aus, played 150 plus NRL games previously and earned an origin call up in 2020.
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| Quote: Fantastic Mr Catpiss "So you're just taking one person's word on here as gospel?
We're definitely looking at recruiting and replacing him.
There, does that make you feel any better?'"
The money is to be used offering 2 players extensions so no new players coming that are going to be in Herbert's money
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| Quote: Gaz3376 "Dunamis Lui, rumoured to be coming in. 33 year old Prop/loose currently playing queensland cup in Aus, played 150 plus NRL games previously and earned an origin call up in 2020.'"
I saw that Madam Boyd post.
Another Asotasi I think.
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| Quote: rubber duckie "I saw that Madam Boyd post.
Another Asotasi I think.'"
Do you mean he's a great place kicker with a 100% record?
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