Thats how lacklustre the people running recruitment and retention roll. Our best prop, yet he can talk to other clubs in a few months, and were extremely short on go forward props.
When he was only signed until 2027, I honestly couldn't believe it. Anyone could see he could be the cornerstone of the eels pack for a decade, yet the absolute dh's in R&R have a situation where we have one of our best prospects since Utokimanu ( don't get me started on Utokimanu), off contract next year.
Last year, they left it until the last minute to re sign Sam, thats how incompetent these dumb people are.
Sarantinos and Mark o'neill = start looking after our jnrs
Iongi was a great extension now make Sam Tuivaiti and others who are of equal ability, long term Eels
Mark o'neill out asap if this drags on
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Lol I think recruitment doing a great job, so no idea why your whinging about. I think Ryles has players that want to play for the club & this guy one of them.
Praise the lord you're here Tin Tim, I was thinking I'm all alone.
Actually aside from the obvious opinions of how good he is/will be.....what if a club does a Dylan Brown Chiefy and offers him 1.3m ......lets say your the kids father what do you do, take the 550 we offer?
Russell and the point you make is also relevant, lets say Perth offered 650.....do we match it or wish him luck?
Put in the position of Saratinos and O'Neill what would you do Chiefy......
PS I know what I would do.....I would be on my wagon talking to every private sponsor in the Parra District and elsewhere if there are known fans around.,......are they doing that? who knows, but talking is easy, its the walking that's the hard part!
Highly doubt big Sam would want to go anywhere lol, he's a big part of the team now 🤣
Should he have been signed long term accordingly then, before others are able to dangle big juicy carrots in front of him?
Agreed. He will be the leader of the forward pack in a few years. In the meantime he has some old heads in Paulo, Walker and De Belin to provide some guideance, along with of course JR who was himself a rep quality forward. Sam is the type of player you carefully develop, and let him buy into the process you design for him.
very obvious Sam was a vip keeper last year. We should have signed him long term from then. Very slow by us to recognise that :(
there will now be many clubs interested and we have to fork up the big bucks he deserves!
...other one is Ryley signing him on a development contract initially and believe his contract coming up soon too ha T.Brown same.
it's patently clear to most of us thst we have zero ability to sign big names, therefore we must sign our up and comers up to 'real' financially decent contracts early or we get what we get with them moving on Tuilangi style!
parra must not take our young up and comers for granted! It's not the eighties, money and club commitment is the only thing that talks!
The problem is we could have been talking every day and his manager is saying, wait my boy will get a better deal still?
Bit of an overreaction here, but I agree with the sentiment. Sign him up with a 4 year deal, anything less is crazy.
3 years. For a Prop let's not go crazy. I think signing til 2029 is fair and reasonable.
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