SIGN David fafita.

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KENDOZA May 5, 2025 at 11:12pm

Fifita won't leave qld. And besides he's a lazy prick. He's just like Dave Taylor all the talent but just can't be bothered half the time.
- Bob mertens > KENDOZA May 6, 2025 at 8:50am
  
  He might have no chance to stay in Queensland.
Jack May 5, 2025 at 11:51pm
- Cʜɪᴇғy Mclovin > Jack May 6, 2025 at 7:05am
  
  Pretty sure he's off contract at the end of 25.. Why would be be shopping him around for 26?
  
  How this guy was allowed to block pathways for 5 years in our system is beyond belief. I've never seen a player with a smaller motor.
  
  Another feather in the cap for a bush bum coach
  - LB > Cʜɪᴇғy Mclovin May 6, 2025 at 8:54am
    
    This was reported back in December, but his whole contract thing is weird. Some report 2025 he is off-contract, other say 2026.
    - Cʜɪᴇғy Mclovin > LB May 6, 2025 at 10:11am
      
      Fucking unbelievable if he's signed for 2026 here
      - Uncle Wizardssleeve- Indigenous Elder-Freemason Hunter -He/Him > Cʜɪᴇғy Mclovin May 6, 2025 at 11:36pm
        
        Is it really unbelievable? Come on Broseph. With our track record , you'd find it unbelievable? It'd be more unbelievable if he wasn't.
Trent May 6, 2025 at 7:33am

Sign Fifita we win the comp
- Mr Positivity Pronoun is HE > Trent May 6, 2025 at 8:37am
  
  That's very optimistic and a possibility
Nightmare Off-Season May 6, 2025 at 10:05am

Fifita seems, at least from the outside, to be one of those players who just relies so heavily on environment?

In 2023, when he was arguably the best forward in the game, he was next to Foran & that might have been the key.

Next to Mitch Moses, he could be back to his best pretty easily.

Fifita has always survived off the back of unbelievable talent, but it still obviously requires a lot of hard work & sacrifice to play at the elite levels he has.

That doesn’t just disappear, you wouldn’t think.

A lot on here didn’t want the Eels to sign Lomax due to ‘attitude’ or ‘entitlement’ concerns, yet he’s been the best signing we’ve made in a long time.

It’s easy to criticise attitudes from our position, we all do it, but we also don’t know the motivation behind form slumps.

Money doesn't always = output, & these players are human like us. We are all at out best when in an environment that suits us.

If the Eels were interested, I’d back Ryles to get the best out of Fifita being an ex-international forward himself, & Moses who is just going from strength to strength in leadership.

But we’d have to offer something other than $$ because the elite teams don’t pay 1mil + for edge back rowers, and what exactly is it we can offer to entice him away?

He rejected the Panthers & Roosters to stay on the GC, so its hard to believe the last placed Eels could offer something he’d find hard to resist.

Regardless, its a fair question, if one of the best edge backrowers in the game becomes available, a position we are completely at sea in, I’d hope the Eels at least looked into it.