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                  EA > SuperEel 22 April 30, 2026 at 3:55pm

                  One thing to consider with Stefano was that his brother was medically retired due to an injury on the field and I am pretty sure the club and his family had some disagreements over insurances or money. So we kind of pissed them off lol
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                    Poppa > EA April 30, 2026 at 4:23pm

                    Yes, that is true EA and possibly (I certainly dont know) a reason for Stephano not carrying through his potential with us.
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                    Hell On Eels > Poppa April 30, 2026 at 7:51pm

                    

                    This is what Stefano said, October last year about leaving us: “Everyone had their say about it and what was going on with my brother, but it wasn’t that."

                     

                    “They told me that I wasn’t going to be a part of the rotation going forward and that I had to bide my time. As a young guy coming through, I knew my time would come, but I was eager to play in the NRL."

                    “If you want to improve, you need to play in the NRL and experience it. The best thing for me was to leave and it’s been one of the best decisions I made."

                    “I felt like I had the best opportunity to play at the Wests Tigers. I couldn’t blame Parramatta because they had ‘Reg’ and Junior and were killing it at the time."

                     
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                  Prof. Daz > SuperEel 22 May 1, 2026 at 8:43am

                  I'd like to hear Chiefy's answer to Super's reality check. The irony of Chiefy's position is the myopic take on Stefano, if generalized, would see the club locking in very early on every green sprout and probably having zero recruitment room to move 
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                    Cʜɪᴇғy Mclovin🐐 - Mark O'neill's 🪓 > Prof. Daz May 1, 2026 at 10:03am

                    

                    Utokimanu 

                    Khafusi 

                    Dylan brown 

                    Russell 

                    Mahoney 

                    Stone 

                    Sanders

                    Blaze talagi 

                    Apa Twidle 

                    Alex Twal

                    What more do I have to.say. And you.are excusing the club for this unbelievable failure. 

                    We have 3 times the amount of developed juniors doing well at other clubs than in our top 17. Then people still make excuses for the eels. administration .  Biggest joke ever.

                    Who do we end up with

                    Kelly 

                    Debelin

                    Pezet

                    Volkman 

                    Kelma 

                     

                    Go and  celebrate that daz

                     

                    The club currently is run by nuffys.  Until we get someone like Shane Richardson, ill.be more interested in how the chief's are doing,  because nothing will happen until people start realising it all starts with Sarantinos and O’Neill 
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                    Prof. Daz > Cʜɪᴇғy Mclovin🐐 - Mark O'neill's 🪓 May 1, 2026 at 10:36am

                    

                    Chiefy, is this the same Richardson who oversaw the Galvin Saga and was responsible for the player options that saw Luai go to PNG?

                    Can you let us know the sorting principle selecting some examples but ignoring others?

                    Also, you have not answered Super's point about misrepresenting the Stefano situation. Why misrepresent then not address a query about misrepresenting?
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            LB > Cʜɪᴇғy Mclovin🐐 - Mark O'neill's 🪓 April 30, 2026 at 11:25pm

            No you don't understand what i am saying. We could want to extend, but they might not want to. Reason being they want to test the market, with two new teams on in the market that is why their management say "hold back" on signing extensions. Why sign a deal worth $300k for two years, when you can get $500k for three years elsewhere? You test the market to get best deal. 
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              Poupou Escobar > LB May 1, 2026 at 8:38am

              Exactly LB. People think you can force players to re-sign on favourable terms, as though they don't know they can get the best deal by having multiple clubs competing for them. That's why they wait until November. If you want them to sign early you need to give them an offer they can't refuse, which means paying overs. You can't do that for every player. You should only do it for the essential ones.
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    EA > SuperEel 22 April 30, 2026 at 3:53pm

    Petrus could easily be ready for the NRL next year in 2027. Don't need to look at 2028. As you said, sometimes we won't be able to do anything to keep him because we can't give him the money or honour of representing his heritage. But if we are relying on Jez and Guymer to be our backrowers for 2028 your setting yourself up for disappointment. They are both middles in the future and have no where near the potential of Petrus as backrowers. You would have to focus on the development of Nauer, Latu, Polley and Capovilla. But other than Latu those boys are only 18 or 16  this year 
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      LB > EA April 30, 2026 at 4:23pm

      We have Su'A til 2029 so only need one back-rower but surely it's Petrus. He could debut this year.