Daily Telegraph reporting Tepai Moeroa is close to signing with the NSW Waratahs for next year.
Moeroa joins Taka, Mannah, Alvaro & a few others who are very unlikely to be here next year.
The clean out of par average players continues...
We will surely have a lot of cap space to chase some decent players and have a seriously formidable team for next year. Fingers crossed. Very pleased to see BA, O Neil & the club are finally making the right calls in regards to the playing roster. Things are looking up.
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Good luck at the bottom of a ruck though
Oh Fongy, yet again finding away to bash into the club. Waqa Blake is a top top centre. He was on the origin horizon last year, then did his ankle.
I agree Fong, for fcuks sake work out some TPA’s, 3rd largest CBD in Australia and we’ve got jack shit.
I do agree with you however Fong. For once I agree with something you said. The Eels 100% need to learn and start organising some TPAs.
In regardds to TPA's I could not agrre with you more. How many signings are made as a result of TPAS and this dumb arsed club rules them out. Just stupid business!
All of your comments are relevant mate, however our Club has stipulatd, NO TPAs. How do we compete if this is the case?
HKF, Exactly. That's the thing: The Roosters only have $200K worth of TPA's. Politis admits they don't have many TPA's, nor back-ended contracts.
But the Roosters are damn good at development of juniors and players on the whole, which means they they get value for money. That's good business.
They have debuted 27 players under Robinson. We have 14 under Arthur. And a year or so before Robinson they started developing Cordners and RTS. They have had a successful system in place for a long time.
I think, we don't yet.
There are many ways to beat the cap legally other than TPA's and good development. Prudent recruiting not paying overs, smart legal money (such as Lancini's investments). Creating a winning culture where success atrracts success and so on...
Many of those areas we lack in.
And then there's good old fashioned passion shown by the top-end leaders.
Whilst filming Robin Hood, many years ago, Russell Crowe hunted Sam Burgess way before he was a superstar. Calling him, emailing him long reasons why he should join the rabbits. And this was when Burgess was hunting and hounding Des Hasler, begging him for a chance at Manly after Burgess' many chats with Beaver in England.
Therein lies the difference between a business owner, who owns "his" club, and skilled professional employee with a thousand degrees and decades of experience working "for" the club. Like our highly skilled lot.
My money is on Jennings, he over from the Roosters with a TPA with Nike.
It's not about the club not being able to attract them, the issue is we don't have players with a high enough profile to attract them. The size of the Parramatta CBD means nothing if you haven't got players with a national profile that organisations want to tie their wagon to.
Lol at BA Eel, this folks is known as taking the bait. Throw him back in Fong you caught a Guppie.
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