I hope we get
Grant Anderson
Ethan Bullemor
Bunty afoa
Jack Hetherington
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What's the fascination with Hetherington? Bloke is a loose cannon and average
Grant Anderson already signed for Brisbane
Afoa is 31 next year, depth sure but we need starters
Bullemor I am all for.
LB Bullemor has been great for Manly and would look good in blue and gold! I see Anderson has signed with Brisbane, My question is how do they fit all their players under the cap and then buy a player like Anderson to boot. They will have to release some named players!
I say throw the kitchen sink at Payne Haas come Nov 1!
I get what you're saying Arnold. I don't agree with barley any of your targets but this is an intersesting discusion nevertheless. Let's say the rumours are true and Junior Paulo is retiring, he's on close to $1 million a season in addition to that Dylan Brown ($1.1 million) and Joe Ofahengaue (already departed 500K) won't be here in 2026, in those players alone we'd have $2.6 million, or arounf that figure. Conbtributing further to this figure the Eels lost Maika Sivo (550K), Clint Gutherson (900K) , Blaize Talagi (550k) and Reagan Campbell Gillard (850K) either at end of thw 2024 season or in the lead up to the 2025 season. Since that point the Eels have signed very little talent, Dean Hawkins, Josh Addo Carr, Joash Papali'i, Ronald Volkman and Dylan Walker are some of the names signed by JR so far.
(FYI: I'm grabbing player esitmated salaries from Zerotackle.com)
Doing some rough maths in my head that should still leave the Eels with roughly $4.4 MILLION!! $4.4 million for JR and his team to sign the players they want, and we are in a situation where we can make money talk here for the right players, that's going to help.
Never in my life have I seen an Eels team with so much cash to spend!
These would be my 5 signing targets for 2026.
(1 mill) Lachlan Galvin - With Brown gone we need a 6, I won't go into it but I doubt he's at the Tigers even beyond this season.
(500K) Blake Mozer - He's barley getting first grade in Brisbane and we defintley could use another 9 to aid Ryley Smith and keep him on his toes, both Smith and Mozer could be great in tandem.
(650k) Tof Sipley - Massive young prop, great potential that hasn't been realised yet. Manly won't want to let him go but I would love to sneak under their noses to get him to sign on with JR.
(450K) Ethan Bullemor - Actually agree with you there Arnold! Nice!
(300K) Davvy Moale - Good bench depth and I think he plays fairly hard when given the chance
Buying all those players would cost us around $2.9 Million, this would still leave us with more than $1 million to go after another star if we wanted but heading into 2026 I'd love to see our team looking something like this:
*If Jnr Paulo is retiring that is
Possible 2026 Team:
1. Isaiah Iongi
2. Zac Lomax
3. Will Penisini
4. Bailey Simonsson
5. Josh Addo Carr
6. Lachlan Galvin*
7. Mitchell Moses (C)
8. Tof Sipley*
9. Ryley Smith
10. Jack Williams
11. Ethan Bullemor*
12. Kitione Kautoga
13. J'maine Hopgood
14. Blake Mozer*
15. Sam Tuivaiti
16. Dylan Walker
17. Davvy Moale*
Could be wrong.. but what y'all think? I reckon this could well and truly be a strong team.
Sipley is 30, and theres a reason manly fans hate him
Good list.
Galvin - Obvs
Mozer - Absolutely
Sipley, Moale - Don't know anything about them.
But I don't think Kotoga is a starting edge, he's a backup or bench, too unfit and slow to be an 80min starting back rower.
Bullemor could be an option, but we'd need a solid backup (Katoga) behind him because of his inuury history, apparently his knees are fucked.
After Galvin, we need an elite edge forward, a reliable prop, and fast winger.
Agreed on Kotoga from what we have seen of him this season. He has some work to do to become a regular starting NRL player. That to me shows our lack of depth in the squad for back rowers, and I'm sure Ryles will look to fill those holes, along with some starting props - not sure if Williams can fit that mould, but he is certainly a versatile player.
We have some good backs in the pipeline, but of course need a quality 6 to fill the void that Brown will leave.
I think Ryles likes Kotoga and is playing him into a good edge forward. Let's see what Mitch can do with him.
Mozer is re-signing with Brisbane.
How will penis makes them team is baffling.
You miss couple of players i think Lane gone i cant see Cartwright and Matterson and Greig be resign so there more money to buy up And Tof sipley woukd be a great buy and love to get one over manly
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