Right i had my rant earlier and was heated and was saying they are pathetic etc. Now no excuse to conceade 56 points in any facet, no matter who is playing. However, 2nd half at least can be bulit on. I was probably a bit too optimistic for 2025, with some veteran players being seen as being able to help when Ryles is waiting to move on some for 2026. Looking upon how Greig and Cartwright were not named and not listed as injured on the list, it could be they were just not considered. If that is the case, it is what Ryles is moving towards, that being 2025 being a building year for 2026 onwards based on the kids at the club right now.
Now am i justifying today? No, it was bad and poor. But it is still elements of the old Parramatta still there. What Ryles is implementing is similar to BA in 2018. Debuting Mahoney, Kaufusi, Niukore, Stone and Salmon. Then moving on Ma'u, Alvaro, Moeroa etc. the year after. Then debuting Brown in 2019, we go onto having a decent line-up based around the juniors we brought along. Now Ryles has given good minutes to Smith and Tuivaiti today i hope he continues with them.
With the likes of Iongi, Smith, Tuivaiti, Samrani, R.Penisini, Papali'i, Guymer he is moving towards building this team on the juniors. These kids after a full year will be much better as all first graders are. On top of that players like Kautoga can have a full season too and be primed for 2026 to start. It is loser talk to look to 2026, but unfortunately it might be what we need to do and what needed to be done. I mentioned it for years that BA and the club were delaying an inevitable rebuild as our roster was ageing and we were wasting the years of our good players. Then we lost the juniors we developed, all of them from 2018, and did not replace them at all, we replaced them with fringe players. We still have players who are promising who will not be ready til 2027 at least like Funa-Iata and Ryda Talagi who can be talents for us. Coinakis and Fletcher aswell and Twidle has gotten a taste in a trial, if Brown moves on which seems likely he should be considered a 6 option. Also some young options like Moretti at the club too. And better yet, Ryles is another year older too.
Though still need a mixture of experience as though these kids will be a year older and wiser come 2026 and a full year in the top grade they are still young and need guidance. That is where the likes of Moses, Lomax, Simonsson, Penisini, Paulo, Hopgood and Williams are all crucial into the future.
For 2026, there is not much on the market to improve our forwards, unless you luck out with a diamond in the rough like Papali'i in 2021. In 2019 BA got players like Lane and Ferguson for experience then got RCG and Matto in 2020 to build the squad. Ryles got a head start with Williams and JAC. We still might need a signing or two and few more depth signings but juniors is where Ryles is heading. BA was forced upon it in 2018 to save his job, Ryles possibly has had this plan all along.
I mean i know it is early for this but to add to my point, this could be a team for next year.
1.Iongi
2. Simonsson
3. Penisini
4. Lomax
5. JAC
6. Twidle
7. Moses
8. Tuivaiti
9. Smith
10. Paulo
11. Kautoga
12. Williams
13. Hopgood
14. Papali'i
15. Moretti
16. Guymer
17. Lane/Matterson
That is a building block to developing like Penrith did. We wont match what Penrith did, not team ever will. But 2019 Penrith were average as Cleary blooded kids, they started slow and eventually finished strong, using that as momentum for 2020. Ryles hopefully can do similar with these kids. Patience will suck, losing will suck but if someone said to me there is a premiership or two in the next 5 years but have to have a terrible 2025, i would say let's do it.
Does this mean we cannot do anything in 2025? Of course not, we absolutely can. But Ryles could look to blooding more kids to see what he has moving forward. Even kids like Will Latu who could be anything for example. EA could add more to it too.
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Paulo should be moved on as soon as possible. All the talk of him losing weight and being fit. Junior Plodlo still just plodded along. Don't think I've seen him hit top speed for years. Jog 6 steps turn and pass. Hasn't bent the line since early 2022. Why we let RCG go over him is beyond me.
The only way Ploddo could've bent the line was if he sat on it , now he doesn't even have that. Maybe he can hit it with his Tongan Taxi Tarago van.
Ploddo is Samoan so needs a car that relates. Maybe a SsangYong Stavic?
Haha , my bad .
His Samoan side loader then.
My word i need to say it again. RCG was way easier to move on for a few reasons. Firstly salary and secondly years left on deal. It is easier to release a player with a year left, compared to a player with two years left. If Ryles went up to Paulo and said we want you to go and Gold Coast will take you and your deal, he can say no. We cannot just get rid of him unless we pay him out and why do that? RCG was open to going and was offered a long term deal elsewhere asap on similar money. Therefore the deal was done.
Sorry Micka if i sound like a jerk, but so many people bring this up and my response has been the same each time. It is not like a video game where you can trade a player where you want them to go. When a contract is signed both club and player have leverage over one another, therefore it is hard when one or the other wants out. More so when club wants player to go, as unless another club honours the deal and opportunity also matches what the player wants they wont go. Players like to choose where they go, RCG wanted to go to Queensland and landed on GC.
It was a throw away line, I get all that. But u forgot to mention how no other club was interested in Paulo at that price. So they never got a chance to see if they could work anything with his contract and have him go elsewhere
Twiddle at 6?
Galvin will be wearing the 6 if Brown goes to Newcastle.
They should let Brown go and throw all that cash at Wishart
Wishart is signed at Melbourne for 2026.
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