Can’t fault Pearson’s comments, he is passionate and knows he has to spend to get us out of this mess or he will face a financial hit in pass sales anyway. Can we fly Motu back in for a couple of months of wheeling and dealing!?

I thought Motu had swapped rugby league for a job with NZ baseball?

Presumably he's coming over anyway in a few weeks in his new position of General Manager for NZRL.

Missed that - announced 11 days ago! "General Manager for High Performance".

Sorry but Pearson sounds like a feck!n idiot. Proper ranting with no substance. All he means is he'll bin Abdull (who doesnt want to be here anyway), Washy...........errr beyond that i dont think he even knows though.

Me personally id bin the following

Talanoa - great servent but too many poor parts to his game, time to move on
Griffin - massively average - poor defense
Hadley - not 10% of the player Ellis was. Looked good at Wakey last year in a good pack. Shite this year and pre-Wakey
Washy - great servent but time to move on
Mini - Will be on a decent salary that can be better used elsewhere
Green - Made of biscuit. Get rid
Paea - needs to bulk up again and find some grunt or has to go

Don't think Mini will be on the list, he is according to all the ultimate professional and has been playing up to now clearly injured.

Would see Manu as in more danger, he is probably on more money, has contributed little this year and really let the team down getting 3 match ban at crucial stage of the season.

Griffin must go, he doesn't have the right character or toughness.

its difficult to know for certain because some of them might be playing week in week out with injuries. guess we might have to wait and see who needs ops in the close season and who stays and goes. my hunch is that there won't be too many changes. the ones who on the surface seem to be underperforming are carlos, griffin, shaul, paea, manu, abdul and to some extent mini and houghton - however as i have said there may be other reasons

First piece of beautiful action from AP

The Chairman’s vote of Confidence

You all know what’s next after the hammering Cas will give us
When you threaten and abuse the players in the papers after a massive loss then they tend to repay you

"Lee will be coaching the team next year" Is this the dreaded vote of confidence?

Imagine the meltdown on here if this statement said Neil Hudgell has spoken....

You’d all be going into hysterics accusing lack of professionalism etc. Although it’s what the fans want to hear, imagine how players feel for the rest of the year? More poor performances will do more damage for season pass sales then a positive spin like this, and I think your pretty much guaranteed now poor performances.

What if he fails with these signings, what a problem he’s created for him self. He’s lost his head, made some predictions incredibly hard to back up due to contracts and promised the earth. I think Mr Pearson has messed up here, which to be fair is very unlike him.

Sounds like he's trying to ward off a load of season pass non renewals to me. All this talk of 10 or 11 new players is just trying to convince fans it will all be different next year

Spot on only one I don't agree with is Hadley.

Quote: mean_machine "Imagine the meltdown on here if this statement said Neil Hudgell has spoken.... You’d all be going into hysterics accusing lack of professionalism etc. Although it’s what the fans want to hear, imagine how players feel for the rest of the year? More poor performances will do more damage for season pass sales then a positive spin like this, and I think your pretty much guaranteed now poor performances. What if he fails with these signings, what a problem he’s created for him self. He’s lost his head, made some predictions incredibly hard to back up due to contracts and promised the earth. I think Mr Pearson has messed up here, which to be fair is very unlike him.'" It could be worse www.skysports.com/rugby-league/n ... raven-park https://www.mirror.co.uk/sport/rugby-le ... rs-7791105 Smoke 'em out. Au contraire though, this is very like him. He had a fit after the Hudds play-off game, quite rightly, and made a noise about changing things up. He' s clearly not satisfied. He sees us as having the potential of a top club and has delivered in the last couple of seasons. Better this perhaps than comfortable mediocrity of Middle 8 ever-presence. IMO.

Quote: mean_machine "Imagine the meltdown on here if this statement said Neil Hudgell has spoken.... You’d all be going into hysterics accusing lack of professionalism etc. Although it’s what the fans want to hear, imagine how players feel for the rest of the year? More poor performances will do more damage for season pass sales then a positive spin like this, and I think your pretty much guaranteed now poor performances. What if he fails with these signings, what a problem he’s created for him self. He’s lost his head, made some predictions incredibly hard to back up due to contracts and promised the earth. I think Mr Pearson has messed up here, which to be fair is very unlike him.'" It could be worse www.skysports.com/rugby-league/n ... raven-park https://www.mirror.co.uk/sport/rugby-le ... rs-7791105 Smoke 'em out. Au contraire though, this is very like him. He had a fit after the Hudds play-off game, quite rightly, and made a noise about changing things up. He' s clearly not satisfied. He sees us as having the potential of a top club and has delivered in the last couple of seasons. Better this perhaps than comfortable mediocrity of Middle 8 ever-presence. IMO.

Adam Pearson- Promises wonders and 5hits cucumbers.