Must admit I'd be very surprised if Okunbor is still at the club come pre season and maybe even Sao if the rumour of the Fire Service job is 100%.

On Abdul, my only reservation with his signing is his injury record particularly if we see both him and Trueman as first choice pairing. Ability wise they both have it in buckets but both have suffered from persistent injury issues so its a big gamble if we are expecting them to do more than 50% of games together. Hopefully the club will be getting in some serious Fitness and Strength & Conditioning staff to address this and the clubs own poor injury record overall.

The squad for 2025 so whilst not being world beating certainly looks to be an improvement of this seasons and will likely be costing a lot less, leaving more room on cap to hopefully add in some quality at 9 and centre at the very least.

Hope you’re right. Reasonably happy with Hardaker(!) and Ed C, just bot sure if either would be happy as squad players. A strike centre is a must, we’ve not had one for years.

Lafai or Leutele are only centres I've heard rumours about for next season.
But in this whirlwind, topsy turvey, rollercoaster rise of a season we have had...and still having...anything is possible.
Signings still likely to come out out of left field

not at all. I said cartwright and asiata are good signings, also said holmes would be ok. My opinion is that in abdul we're pinning our hopes in a key position on yet another player (in a long list of previous ones) who has shown no ability to get on the field week in, week out and perform to a high standard. Disagree all you want, I don't mind but it's a valid point. If you find it boring then that says a lot about you

https://www.nswrl.com.au/news/2023/05/2 ... -round-13/ Some good bits from Treigh Stewart in this game above. Gone through all his games, and he looks great on his feet, quick and dangerous. Defensively not too great, but hard to tell from highlights

https://www.nswrl.com.au/news/2023/05/2 ... -round-13/ Some good bits from Treigh Stewart in this game above. Gone through all his games, and he looks great on his feet, quick and dangerous. Defensively not too great, but hard to tell from highlights

No b&w tinted glasses here

In fact I got accused of the opposite when I questioned the loan signing of Aydin a few weeks back.
Amazing how fans try to accuse you of being one or the other the minute your opinion differs to theirs?

But I get the feeling you are going to criticise Abdull no matter what he achieves this season.

Granted I haven’t seen that much of their games this season but I caught a bit of the Saints game the other day and he looked far from knackered. It was around the hour mark and he was leading their line speed in defence. A Saints player made a break and he caught them up and dragged them down. He certainly didn’t appear lazy like some of our current squad do.

Absolutley nothing wrong with the Abdul signing, our kicking games terrible, weve addressed that by signing one of the leagues top kickers , i also like how he organises which again were terrible at, a disinterested houghton throwing the ball to a prop on the 5th AGAIN last game. Itl be nice to have a senior player who organises properly

The centre position, is Roman Dawson ready? Very highly rated and will be in the 1st team squad next year

Think Okunbor and Pele will both be moved on,, if so can see us signing a quota hooker and prop

I'd be amazed if we signed a quota 7 and prop.

Centre and hooker is by far our weakest positions , both in terms of quality and depth. Need to use ant quota spots on those IMO.

so abdul has a great kicking game and is a great organiser but you want us to sign a quota 7?

Lafai or Luetele and Paix hopefully.

They will be no rush in getting Roman Dawson into the first team after his ACL injury the other month. I would suspect 2026 would be the year we really start to see him break into first grade (should he continue to impress as he has).

I'd be very surprised if we don't end up with Leutele or Lafai to be honest unless Cartwright with his knowledge of the game in Aus has other ideas. Corey Paix would certainly improve us significantly at 9.

It remains to be seen whether any of Okunbor, Pele or even Sao will remain at the club for 2025 as yet as I imagine Cartwright will have a big say on those.

Probably Rodrick Tai or Neve Mcdonald the way our recruitment is going, particularly the latter PNQ and use to play for Leigh.

To be honest Jake when we let Jordan leave us, I recall saying we are going to miss that booming left peg of his, it’s a great part of his armoury, and causes absolute mayhem in the defensive ranks, we have badly missed a quality kicker since Sneyd went, his fitness issues will always be a blight on his signing, but as we are rumoured to be getting a fitness obsessed coach, Jordan will never have a better opportunity to progress.

The kicking game we have now, is unbelievably from Danny, the rest Clifford, Nu Brown, Smith, and up to now Trueman have been second rate, Jordan hopefully will alter this hole we have.

Opinions will differ, and concerns will prevail, but not so long ago a well respected scribe on hear, announced Swift as a sausage fingered signing, and will not succeed, it all opinions and thoughts, personally almost all the replacement that has/will happen is a much better scenario than we were left with, the only criticism if I must look for one, is the age of replacements coming in, but I suppose we can balance this against the number of our projects coming through.

I’m sure we will evolve the team ongoing, and up to now from me it’s a great start from Myler and the investors.