The 2 biggest problems with this club is the parramatta board and the mutant parramatta fan base like this bloke, you should all hang yourself in shame
Mahoney is similar in some ways to Smith; no thank and he is not worth the $$$
Our backs will be ok once Simmo back and some reggies kick on; one or two forwards with zest will help. We held C'buty for 60 mins but did not play composed footy; Brown and Moses needed to lead more for me; and lets be clear we have lost Matterson / RCG / Offa / Carty and Lane out of the pack and while I am good with it the forwards need a year or two with some added depth. Maybe one more back up hooker or someone who can help Smith out.
Mahoney will not come to us for less and personally no thanks.
Issue with big Dave is that he has not fired under a few coaches...that is a concern.
Mahoney is a different style of Hooker compared to Smith. Mahoney is more creative and has a better pass. Smith is cleaner as a player in terms of defence, but against Dogs there were a few passes that were very ordinary early on. He is a good Hooker, but Mahoney has other areas of this game he does better than Smith. Vice versa.
As for money, well Dogs will pitch in for 2026 but after that i do not think he has much of a choice as not many teams are gonna go for him purely since they have a Hooker.
I feel a lot of people just say no and justify it for other reasons when deep down are still scarred by him leaving to go to Canterbury when he was offered an extra year and $100-150k more a year and captaincy. That is a good deal wouldn't you say? Instead i was more pissed at the club for letting him walk.
"I think we need to try Twiddle as a centre because we desperately need one in the NRL and he has the skill set of a fullback/. Five eight which would show the attacking upside he has. Nanva and Richie are a fair bit of NRL. "
"If they turn up with good line speed and focus on defense/effort no reason they can't win games. Coming off the bye hopefully that's what we get. Brown and Penisini need to be in the team cause like you said no real depth to overthrow them. Really…"
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Latu signed with Dogs
Fifita cannot even make Dragons team
How can dogs fit all all these players under there cap Latu $1.2M Galvin $1.2M then they all rest big name players and rest of the team come on
I'm sorry I don't like it(Arnold) rubbish binni
The 2 biggest problems with this club is the parramatta board and the mutant parramatta fan base like this bloke, you should all hang yourself in shame
Can we please refrain from telling other members to kill themselves, especially arnold, whom it seems has walked a troubled path
There are many ways to abuse the shitgibbons amongst us..... i can show you few if you like shawney
Telling folks to end themselves over this garbage is.....(you tell me?)
Smoke them Randolph, at least they will leave the tent!
Eels won't buy any of them
2026
1: I Longi
2: J Addo Carr
3: W Penisini / B Simonson
4: S Cobbo ( sign up )
5: Z Lomax
6: Te Marie Martin ( sign up cheap )
7: M Moses
8: Daniel Fifita ( sign up from the dogs, big mobile prop )
9: R Mahoney ( sign up 2 year deal to help smith out )
10: S Tuivita
11: David Fifita ( sign him on a cheaper deal )
12: K Kautoga
13: J Hopgood
14: R Smith
15: Jr Paulo
16: J Williams
17: D Walker
18: L Moretti
19: K Tuilugi
20: B Simonson
21: M Doorey
Mahoney is similar in some ways to Smith; no thank and he is not worth the $$$
Our backs will be ok once Simmo back and some reggies kick on; one or two forwards with zest will help. We held C'buty for 60 mins but did not play composed footy; Brown and Moses needed to lead more for me; and lets be clear we have lost Matterson / RCG / Offa / Carty and Lane out of the pack and while I am good with it the forwards need a year or two with some added depth. Maybe one more back up hooker or someone who can help Smith out.
Mahoney will not come to us for less and personally no thanks.
Issue with big Dave is that he has not fired under a few coaches...that is a concern.
Mahoney is a different style of Hooker compared to Smith. Mahoney is more creative and has a better pass. Smith is cleaner as a player in terms of defence, but against Dogs there were a few passes that were very ordinary early on. He is a good Hooker, but Mahoney has other areas of this game he does better than Smith. Vice versa.
As for money, well Dogs will pitch in for 2026 but after that i do not think he has much of a choice as not many teams are gonna go for him purely since they have a Hooker.
I feel a lot of people just say no and justify it for other reasons when deep down are still scarred by him leaving to go to Canterbury when he was offered an extra year and $100-150k more a year and captaincy. That is a good deal wouldn't you say? Instead i was more pissed at the club for letting him walk.