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  Fuuuuuui February 2, 2019 at 8:43pm

  French could go to the Cowboys as well. Very similar to Barba in the way they play.
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    Wile E. Coyote > Fuuuuuui February 2, 2019 at 8:53pm

    Yeah I was wondering that 
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        SuperEel 22 > Fuuuuuui February 4, 2019 at 8:29am

        It was fan voted. Each club put up their Maori and Indigenous players that were available and fans voted on the squad.
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    Brett Allen > Fuuuuuui February 3, 2019 at 2:50pm

    The Cowboys will use Ben Hampton or Carlin Anderson there, maybe even Te Maire Martin. The Cowboys would’ve have had an insurance policy in place should they needed to get rid of Barba.
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  Steel be with you February 2, 2019 at 9:40pm

  I think they will have a temporary replacement for this year.  Then Holmes will fail in The NFL and will come back to Australia and sign with NQ as he is from Townsville originally.  That will be in 2020, he can never return to Cronulla, he burned his bridges with them.  

   
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    Wile E. Coyote > Steel be with you February 2, 2019 at 10:22pm

    Heard talk of Holmes to NQ but thought he promised to return to sharks as part of the deal for him leaving mid contract 

    they do have a lot of outside backs but no specialist FB
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      Alan David Reid > Wile E. Coyote February 3, 2019 at 4:32am

      Haynes said he would come back to Parra after the NFL but didn't. Even if it is a clause in his get out contract Cronulla wouldn't try to force Holmes to go back to there.
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      Eels 1986 > Wile E. Coyote February 3, 2019 at 12:16pm

      • The deal was that Holmes would play for Sharkes this year if he doesn’t get picked up in the NFL. He will be playing for the Cowbous in 2020. 
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  ARNOLD SCHWARZENEGGER February 3, 2019 at 11:35am

  Im willing to give French this year  to see how he goes and if he goes like he did last year he can leave with my blessing but not right now he cant i think he make a good fullback with a bit more weight 
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    Alan David Reid > ARNOLD SCHWARZENEGGER February 3, 2019 at 12:35pm

    I think French has the ability to be a sensation at fullback this year. He certainly had a terrible season last year but in 2016 and 2017 he was a try scoring machine whose strike rate was very close to that of of Vunavalu. Last year we didn't have the players to get a good start to our sets which hampered our pack's go forward and we were constantly on the back foot. That killed everyone's confidence including French but Ferguson will, and hopefully  Sivo can, bring the ball to our opponent's defence much better than our wingers did last year. To let French go now without giving him the opportunity to redeem himself would be madness and I'm sure he'd come back and bite us on the arse like a lot of others, who we let go prematurely, have done in the past.