Hey Guys,
I know there is 10000000 hooker blogs after the Peats Injury! I am really concerned for the remainder of the 2014 season. Luke Kelly could be a great replacement, but he has shown in the past that he is very predictable in attack and average in defence. It will be his first time in his career in this position which could be a great experiment but also could be a costly one.
I am looking at the market for 2015 off contract players end of 2014 (could get releases) that could have a shot as a primary hooker position before June 30 and this is what I have come up: (there are a few more but I chose the players that I thought could fill the gap for the time being)
*Matt Srama TITANS
* Issac De gois SHARKS
*John Morris SHARKS
*Matt Hilder KNIGHTS
*Travis Waddell KNIGHTS
*Anthony Mitchel COWBOYS
*Kevin Kingston PANTHERS
I would attempt to go Matt Srama as he is young and a live wire in attack! But how good would it be if we got Isaac De Gois, He s old but he is fantastic in defence and gives pretty decent go forward for his forwards! He would love an 80 minute start in a decent side to finish his career which seems to be near the end. De Gois would be the perfect fill in!
What do you guys think?
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Morris is going nowhere and if we sign Hilder we'd might as well sign Keating again.
Out of the group above I'd prefer one of De Gois, Srama or Kingston. All 3 would be capable of 80 minutes.
Well said sir! Hopefully Kelly has a blinder, maybe his best postition :-) wait and see lol
I feel like it is worth mentioning that Cronulla fans have very little love for De Gois. He might have been a decent pick up a few years back but time has caught up harshly with him in recent seasons. Luke Kelly probably offers us as much from dummy half at this point without further impacting our cap.
Ditto for Kingston, who doesn't share the positive opinion of Penrith fans like James Segeyaro does. While it would be nice to snare a hooker to cover the rest of the season there seems to be a lot of people that are over-rating some of the options available.
Our problem is two-fold, first we need to convince a given player that coming to Parra is worth his time beyond filling in for the remainder of 2014 (where he will definitely be behind Peats and likely also Pritchard) and secondly, we have to wrangle them loose from their current club. No rival club will willingly move to aid us by releasing their reserve hooker so we are left to either to meet them halfway in a player trade or look to players in the NSW and QLD Cups that aren't contracted to a NRL club.
Furthermore, while the injury to Peats exposed a hole in our team balance that will likely hurt us badly this year, come next year Kaysa Pritchard will have graduated from the NYC into the NSW Cup and be perfectly positioned as the understudy to Peats. Rushing out and signing up a patchwork solution to a 1.5 year deal could potentially unbalance our squad composition and perhaps force out some one that we would have otherwise kept.
Some blokes are saying we look like signing De Gois. My inside tip was it was going to be Johnny Morris.
Really wouldn't mind De Gois. Also why did we ever sign Liam Foran? I thought he was meant to be fill in hooker. Is he that terrible?
Not again.
Being Parra fans, now it is time for some Ray Price...
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