Definitely not and I too would love Katoa but in the same breath do I have any faith we are even targeting any of these names firstly and secondly what attraction is there for any of them to come here.It seems we are struggling to attract top tier young or older talent on and off the field.
Catch 22 really do we keep what we have and hope our pathways provide the answer,I mean we are already nie on 40 years deep what's another 5 years.
Totally understand your pessimism, I feel/hope we are just being patient at the moment and not just signing anyone that's available right now for the sake of it.Sandon Smith is bog average and I don't see anything good about Pezet. If it means a year with Joash at 6 in order to sign Katoa for 2027 would you take it or would you sign Smith because he's the best available and probably an improvement at this stage of his career on Joash and ruin any chance of signing a gun like Katoa. You could well be right and Parra are inept at signing big guns but I'm putting some faith in Ryles atm and hope he's just being patient
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"I will be honest I don't know much about the other clubs to comment about any possible availability issues. But I agree it still hasn't been good enough for a couple games. We won comfortably last week with a similar lineup. "
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I'd pay a mill for Harry Grant tomorrow.
Probably not now we've signed TDS, Katoa is hopefully where my money is going
Definitely not and I too would love Katoa but in the same breath do I have any faith we are even targeting any of these names firstly and secondly what attraction is there for any of them to come here.It seems we are struggling to attract top tier young or older talent on and off the field.
Catch 22 really do we keep what we have and hope our pathways provide the answer,I mean we are already nie on 40 years deep what's another 5 years.
Totally understand your pessimism, I feel/hope we are just being patient at the moment and not just signing anyone that's available right now for the sake of it.Sandon Smith is bog average and I don't see anything good about Pezet. If it means a year with Joash at 6 in order to sign Katoa for 2027 would you take it or would you sign Smith because he's the best available and probably an improvement at this stage of his career on Joash and ruin any chance of signing a gun like Katoa. You could well be right and Parra are inept at signing big guns but I'm putting some faith in Ryles atm and hope he's just being patient
He would be a massive signing.
The only prop I would want more than Tino is Haas.
I would prefer Tino over Haas. Haas asking is 2 million walks a lot and gets left on the bottom of the ruck also. Tino is a way better defender.
Each to their own.
I'm taking Haas over Tino every time.
I would go Haas too. Different styles of Prop really. Both impactful but Haas is in his own way. Tino ain't going to make 25-30 metre linebreaks.
Haas is better than tino plain and simple
Pipe dream.
That sort of money is reserved for our juniors.