Tom Jenkins has turned his back on plenty of interest from other clubs and extended with the Penrith Panthers for another 3 years!
but but but I thought he was a sure thing to sign at Parra?
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"Just hope TDS learns his lessons and doesn't become a drinkwater type player, absolute rocks and diamonds"
"Coryn, we even haven't managed to sign our young gun Tuivati long term when it was plain obvious after a coupla games he is a dead set keeper :( And you you say the length of time it's taking to sign Junior up on his last deal is another tell tale,…"
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"There's no other way about it our club has to accept we need to offer massive overs to get a couple of high profile experienced players in to mix in with Moses and our extremely young team...else we bugger all of their futures up too :(
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Speaking of R and R experts, where's chief? There's no evidence to suggest he's been on the site for 24 hours. Is a search and rescue mission needed?
I think we have great talent in what we have our pack
Kitione, Teacun Brown, Ryda Talagi, Sam Tuivati, Jackson Konia, Petrus. But I reckon put Spencer with them and also hopgood could really do some damage. I reckon we're missing a six and some talent in the backs. Our forwards seem set probably why we're aren't spending much on big names and hence why they wanted Keaon so badly.
We can complain how bad our recruitment is, and yes it's been bad but we are recruiting in the worse time possible. We aren't winning on field, there is two new other teams with more cap space than us, we don't even have TPAs to put in place or a major sponsorship to get players over the line. We can blame R&R team as much as we like but we have to admit it's the the brand of selling Parramatta the 40 year drought that keeps calling. To get players to come here we need to start winning on field and also make some professional moves in the front office with changing football management like head of recruitment etc.
We have missed 5-6 signings and also losing plenty of young talent over the years with the same recruitment team. It's a factor of when is enough enough. Reason why we aren't performing on field is because the front office is not holding those in charge accountable for why we aren't moving up and why we aren't attracting the big names. It starts with recruiting a big name to that R&R team then you can work ways in out who'll suit us and who'll go and who'll be Mitchell Moses replacement. At this rate the club is not doing anything to benefit the club's future or even the clubs needs and wants now. If we can't sort that out then we cannot be a competitive team until when.
Jenkins is a disaster signing for us, yes he's a try scorer freak but we need balance around the youth. You need to recruit a tago, Bostock, Burton, Spencer maybe even look in to rugby 7s or check some Bronco juniors or Penrith just something that will add another dimension to our team than just basic fundamentals of rugby league. In order to create a star studded team from scratch you need to look into other codes, Teams juniors, touch football and also personality skills test to see if they can add to what we can build here. Right now we have a group of just one dimensional fundamental rugby players maybe Iongi and Moses and Even Fox can play outside of that and TDS. Other than that it'd be cool to recruit a Moses Leo, or a Marky Mark type player. Recruitment should be easy for us yet we keep recruiting the has beens that add nothing to our club.
To'o will go to png. You can blame Jenkins for staying, the last time he left to a team that was way lower on the ladder it almost derailed his career
I have a lot of mates that are Penrith supporters they are happy they kept Jenkins over To'o. Mind boggling. They are also starting a movement to get ryda to Penrith. Saying parramatta is a dead end team and his career won't go anywhere. Talk about sore winners.
There's no other way about it our club has to accept we need to offer massive overs to get a couple of high profile experienced players in to mix in with Moses and our extremely young team...else we bugger all of their futures up too :(
maybe we just don't offer significant overs full stop and don't believe we ought to haha
afterall, the way we handled Dylan's exit deal asking him to remove clauses but not willing to top up by even a slight bit so that he would've stayed, reeked of a total stuff up and the misguided idea of players 'want to play for us' for the love of our club. There ain't no such thing anymore! Moses removed his clauses and got a top up even.
fork up as much as it takes for a couple of significant others, build with our youngins and get us back on track. At least it'll help somewhat in making us look like a serious option to others.
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