I thought they were there before Rae. He took over mid season and they were there at the beginning of the season. I would suggest it was the towel but I could be wrong

Don't think he was at the Club then.

Tony Rea has only signed Soward, Tommy Lee, Hurst and one or two loan players.

He can't be blamed for Powell wasting the salary cup on 2-3 year deals for dross.

...correct. David Hughes can be though and guess who holds the purse strings for 2014?

Surely the issue in relation to the under-performance of Kaufusi and Rodney was nothing to do with any issue related to signing them, it was to do with getting them to perform to their potential when they were here. I think that they were both signed under Powell's regime or maybe even earlier, but they didn't perform for either Powell or Rea (or for me, FWIW).

Yep, the same one that signed the incumbent QLD hooker, Jason Hetherington; Kiwi Captain, Richie Barnett; origin & international Jimmy Dymock and Dennis Moran and Tony Martin at the same time. Yep, that Tony Rea.




To be Fair GF. If the person holding the purse strings says, "you have X amount of money to spend on players". That tends to be the end of their involvement. Recruitment people go and find, talk to agents, scouts etc. Our recruitment person is Tony Rea isn't it? The buck stops there.

100% correct, but in the context of my post, the problem was that the person saying you have $xxxxx to spend was David Hughes and the person he was talking to was Rob Powell

Anyhoo....rumours are that we have been granted no exceptions on the overseas quota so it's loaners from SL and a few foreigners together with the 11 or so we have already that need to get us to 12th or better.

In many ways isn't that for the best? I mean our detractors would have a field day if we were made a 'special case' (basket case more like!). This way if we finish in the top 12 nobody's going to have that to moan about.

Yes, you're right

Good to see that the lines of communication are open again to the rest of us fans (we only live in the same frigging country as the club after all).......as you now seem to be used as the clubs conduit for all announcements, is that an `official` rumour, or dare I say it, is this part a manifesto soon to be published by our beloved CEO, giving us a blow by blow account of how he intends to take the club forward??

Relegation doesn't bother me, as long as I see some pride, I'm beginning to see already, that the "club" don't really care. I think in a year, perhaps two, we'll be looking around for people to start a new club.

I hope I'm wrong, but I just know I'm not.

We just need a team..........

Thats fine by me Roy. I just hope they are a good standard as we must be competitive.

Yep, the same one that signed the incumbent QLD hooker, Jason Hetherington; Kiwi Captain, Richie Barnett; origin & international Jimmy Dymock and Dennis Moran and Tony Martin at the same time. Yep, that Tony Rea.
And won what with them?
It's the same Tony Rea that presided over a group (I won't use the word team) of out of condition slobs, lost his captain mid-season, and is now CEO of a "club" which doesn't even have 13 players. How inspiring. It will be interesting to see how Messrs Clubb and Sarginson turn out after experiencing Mr Wane's skills and experience in a functioning establishment. Quite frankly they could have joined SWL Chargers and they would have been better coached and conditioned.