Metcalf Dragons bound.

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- - - LB > Perpetual Motion May 14, 2026 at 3:28pm
      
      For less money? He signed for $600k. Would you have paid a player with 24 NRL games experience that much straight away?
- Cʜɪᴇғy Mclovin > KENDOZA May 14, 2026 at 12:29pm
  
  They have a good bunch of young forwards coming through and both metcalf and drinkwater are great additions along with Kolomatagi.
  
  We on the other hand cant even keep our best juniors although we've bought nobody, and our number one up and coming prop can negotiate shortly
Darren Munro May 14, 2026 at 11:40am

Metcalf is a very good player of high potential. However, 40 odd games over 5 to 6 years with an asking price of 1 million. Forget about it! On the plus side sua may get released early.
MattL May 14, 2026 at 12:57pm

I can't see them letting him go early with a run at the finals looming, but in a perfect world, Metcalf to Dragons could see Sua coming over to us early.
This would be great as he's usually left side from memory which is where Lorenzo will likely end up (MM on right), meaning Ryles may get the experiment started early with protection in place for the yourg 6.
- Prof. Daz > MattL May 14, 2026 at 4:08pm
  
  I thought Su'A plays right edge backrow?
Zip zip May 14, 2026 at 12:59pm

Dragons will have 5 players on close to $1m next year. Gutho, Holmes, Keon, Metcalf and Drinkwater. Leilua and a couple good young forwards may get pushed out. Would be a good get for Parra. MoN needs to monitor the situation closely.
- Eels1 > Zip zip May 14, 2026 at 1:16pm
  
  MON and Roger's are monitoring each others sphincter
  - WMD > Eels1 May 14, 2026 at 3:18pm
    
    Lol!
Blue Eel May 14, 2026 at 1:22pm

The Statement: "We are not involved in the Lachlan Galvin discussion and we won't be involved in the Lachlan Galvin discussion," Gould told The Sydney Morning Herald on April 21, 2025.

Note on later developments: Despite this initial withdrawal, In late May 2025 they did a backflip where the Bulldogs ultimately signed Galvin effective immediately.

Sound Familiar.
Joel K May 14, 2026 at 1:35pm

Dragons have a better recruitment team then us with Daniel Anderson there, he knows you have to overpay on a few players when you have a weak roster, or else you are stuck in the bottom 8

We need to move on from our conservative approach, if we offered Keaon an extra year, we could've had him and Sua at the club next year, which would of changed the dynamic

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"Im saying you start a new blog to support O'neill and the current r and r and put your case forward. If you don't, you have zero argument against the fans who do not favour him.
Now its up to you. We're all waiting
If you don't put anything up,…"

"So tell me this genius, if Parra do what you say and try and negotiate with Tuivaiti now and he says he wants to test his worth on the market, then what? You cannot force him to sign."

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You’re mixing two different things again, player value judgements and how contracting actually works.
Saying “Guymer is replicable and Tuivaiti isn’t” is just your opinion on player ceilings. That’s not proof of recruitment failure or proof a deal…"

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