Your spine is so important to winning games, we need to decide who that is and lock them in
1 Gutho goes good in the 1 and is locked in
7 Moses while not a fan, he has a good game.espicialy if our forwards fire.
6 Brown opinion is could be brilliant, not completely sold on him after only 3 games.
9 Mahoney and Schnieder have this sewn up
13 Lock Brown in.
While there not the best of the best, with a decent forward pack, as a combined unit the would be one of the best spines in the game.
I would also lock French, Smith and Stone in as qualit back up. Apparently French is killing it in Wentys, Smith goes alright, not brilliant but not bad and can defend.
BA needs to coach Stone to fill in at 9 and 13 he is hungry, good line speed and aggressive, if not let him go.
I think Dylan Brown will be asking for around 600k a year to stay another 2 yrs.
I work with a Kiwi scafie, his family are tight with Browns, his sayin it's Browns family who want him back in NZ playin for the Warriors.But apparently Dylan is keen to stay in Aus, to improve his footy under good coaching.With who?
Start of 2020 hire Phil Gould for 2 mths to work on our game plan and skills, hopefully he will bring in Andrew Johns, or Fitler. But that should be a high priority to hire a very good skills coach.
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Good points Graham. Our spine is young and fairly inexperienced but more games under their belt and hopefully some semi final football will help that.
Not sure what is happening with French. It seems he is not in the running. Maybe he has been told to work on his game in Wenty this year, but I would have expected to see him in some different positions. Agreed though we need some reliable backups.
Agree. The club should be going all out for the best support and mentoring staff money can buy. We have a good young crop coming through, go all out and help them to be the best they can be for us...it makes sense to bolster our behind the scenes staff and reap the rewards...and it’s cost effective Parramatta!
recall back in 2016 we hired Kimmorley to work with our halves. We did have the right idea back then. Since then who have we had in a halves mentoring role and if not anyone, why not?
Make the club an attractive ‘mentoring’ proposition so that they’ll feel they can better their game with the right mentors for up and comers of likes of Brown and Mahoney salmon etc.
holy heck I’d like a dollar for every time I’ve heard Moses is better with Browns assisting composure, an NRL four game rookie ha...so if that’s the case, it’s not like our marquee half can’t use mentor assistance either!
I’d love to hear the club was able to entice brainy Buderus (whatever he wanted) here for some one on one mentoring assistance for Reed...he is worth throwing money into developing.
Lock in smith are you mad i hope you are talking about Carmen Smith
But with the rest i do agree with you
Why Paul ?
He's a decent back up. What sort of player do you think you're gonna get to come to the club as a back up. If they're starting quality they'll want to start and will want that kind of money.
I hope Stone gets a good go in the next few weeks because I agree we need a no 14 to cover lock, hooker and center.
With the HIA rules it makes it even more important to have a good no 14.
I have no idea if he's good enough to play nrl but who else do we have at the moment and if he's not good enough we have to move on.
Not sold on Stone in any respect - got enthusiasm and that's about it.
Smith - decent back up for several positions. Hlaves, FB or hooker.
What happened to Salmon? Got stitched up for Storm loss and now not even mentioned. Hmmmm.
Dylan Brown @ $600K ??????? Not proven, although he has performed well in his short time in the position.
Will be interesting to see how Nathan Brown goes when he returns - you know, that old confidence thingy?
Until Dylan got injured our Spine was killing it
I've got no issues with:
1. Gutho
6. Brown
7. Moses
9. Mahoney
We just need them to all be healthy