Who are your top 3 predictions on who the Eels will signing come.2026. I have no doubt that signings have already been made but not announced.
Chat gpt has predicted
Taylan de Silva. - Tigers
Sandon Smith - Roosters
Ethan Bullimore - Manly
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Ploppa, going into a season a few million of talent under the cap is a fail. You're not going to win a comp end of story. Substantial Front loadings of contracts still means you're massively under strengthed from a talent perspective.
Love to hear your counter argument . Or are you just arguing for the sake of it? Any examples you'd like to share of teams that have won comps and then been able to keep said squad and then proceeded to have a huge warchest the following season ?
You must have a couple of examples to share based on your novel you've written about how wrong I am ?
That's normal for Parra though isn't it.
Even when we were contenders it always felt when you looked across at the other top sides we we were behind in actual talent value.
The decision imo is where are we going to be in 3-5 years not worry about the next 2 if we have a clear cut vision here then I understand the front loading bit.
Ill continue to say this if Parra are still at the point where they have to go to market to buy there marquee talent and are still looking at bringing in your Williams types it's a lose regardless.Development and our pathways are the key they've always been the key.
Only thing is it's long game planning and it puts into perspective which Gus amongst others have always mentioned Parra aren't a development club this is what has to change if our fortunes are to change.
One of the biggest catchments in rugby league and yet hear we are a slave to the market and watching our best developed talent walk to me that's fundamentally what's wrong at Parra.
That's normal for Parra though isn't it.
Hence my point as it being a massive failure, we have won nothing. Mostly due to player recruitment and retention issues. Whether that be overpaying players and having no money to recruit , or having a team that's missing talent in certain positions due to our R&R team missing their mark.
Going into a season having to pay players twice their value to ensure we've spent the cap is just burning yet another year.
Coryn, that is a big statement saying "we are not a development club!"
I don't believe we have a say in it. Even if we " watching our best developed talent walk" is true, it still makes us a development club!
The reality is about the game and the continued development of it. Rugby League faces enormous challanges because of the physicality of development and effect on young people playing the game.
The administration needs clubs in the social demographic where parents are unlikely to stop their kids playing RL.....the ones that do not have that development, think quickly Perth but not PNG.
Sorry Parra has no choice but to attempt to develop their own and also provide the players for clubs that cannot.
lol funnilly both clubs on the top of the table are built up of mostly imports and recruits 😂.
But Ploppas selling us the story that our R&R team that's he's pumped up for years have no choice but to hire from within due to outside influences that only our club is victim of , apparently. Cool story though.
Front loading them on overs doesn't mean the entire duration of the contract is overs. It works like a signing bonus. The point is to take contract money from future years and pull it into the current/next year of the contract. It happens all the time. The risk is that the player gets a lot of his money up front then agitates for a release later on.
I get the concept , I just see huge issues with it as it still creates a vaccum situation in the coming seasons if you're going to do it in the scale we are talking about. We must be looking at being a few million short in talent at this stage.
Smith
Da silva
Nelson
Fatfita
Curran
Our 1 -17 will be
1. Iongi
2.adocar
3.penisni
4.simonson
5.lomax
6.smith
7.moses
8. Barlow
9.smith
10.nelson
11. Williams
12. Fatfita
13. Hopgood
14. Curran
15. Dasilva
16. Tuivaiti
17. Walker
You got smith playing 6 and 9 hope he gettting good payed good
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