The Boss said it best; "Lord have mercy on a man who doubts what he's sure of". Well I'm sure Bula is a star fullback in the making and a humble, decent, and team-focused man. Gutherson, on the other hand, is an injury prone, self-centred, petulant, needy flog. Him and Saints deserve each other.
Eddie and the boys on the latest pod have me wanting Gutherson now 😂
They make me want him even less and that was very little before. We have one of the best young fullbacks in the game and we want to push him out for aging Gutho who his own club don't even want despite him being their Captain
maybe go back and listen again. At no time did I mention Gutho pushing Bulla out. I said bring him in to help Bulla and play Gutho at centre.
I understand why they signed him but I don't understand why they did for 4 years. Ludicrous for a NSW Cup halfMakes you wonder why we signed AD for next season when we were in desperate need for middles and next to no roster spots. Really stupid decision and that’s on Benji and Richo.I know a lot of these mistakes were made by the previous admin, and we will still have issues with some of their poor decisions for the next couple of years.
I am just pointing out throwing out we are development club doesn't justify some of the decisions we have made around our top 30 squad. Our roster is in a terrible spot and it is going to take Richo time to fix.
The toa, twal, Olam, ad and Sullivan signing ls are terrible signings.
I do understand why the Sullivan signing was made though.
Eddie and the boys on the latest pod have me wanting Gutherson now 😂
They make me want him even less and that was very little before. We have one of the best young fullbacks in the game and we want to push him out for aging Gutho who his own club don't even want despite him being their Captain
maybe go back and listen again. At no time did I mention Gutho pushing Bulla out. I said bring him in to help Bulla and play Gutho at centre.
I’m totally in agreement, only as a centre.
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No, no, no, no, no. I would reconsider my membership if that cat ever came near the club.Eddie and the boys on the latest pod have me wanting Gutherson now 😂
I understand why they signed him but I don't understand why they did for 4 years. Ludicrous for a NSW Cup halfMakes you wonder why we signed AD for next season when we were in desperate need for middles and next to no roster spots. Really stupid decision and that’s on Benji and Richo.I know a lot of these mistakes were made by the previous admin, and we will still have issues with some of their poor decisions for the next couple of years.
I am just pointing out throwing out we are development club doesn't justify some of the decisions we have made around our top 30 squad. Our roster is in a terrible spot and it is going to take Richo time to fix.
The toa, twal, Olam, ad and Sullivan signing ls are terrible signings.
I do understand why the Sullivan signing was made though.
Likely because they were desperate and that was the only way to get him to sign.
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I'm not really interested in getting him.Eddie and the boys on the latest pod have me wanting Gutherson now 😂
They make me want him even less and that was very little before. We have one of the best young fullbacks in the game and we want to push him out for aging Gutho who his own club don't even want despite him being their Captain
maybe go back and listen again. At no time did I mention Gutho pushing Bulla out. I said bring him in to help Bulla and play Gutho at centre.
I’m totally in agreement, only as a centre.
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I'm not really interested in getting him.Eddie and the boys on the latest pod have me wanting Gutherson now 😂
They make me want him even less and that was very little before. We have one of the best young fullbacks in the game and we want to push him out for aging Gutho who his own club don't even want despite him being their Captain
maybe go back and listen again. At no time did I mention Gutho pushing Bulla out. I said bring him in to help Bulla and play Gutho at centre.
I’m totally in agreement, only as a centre.
With the problems we are having with roster spots, I can just see us badly regretting if Guffo comes. We need to be more clinical.
To’a and Twal were worse than AD. They weren’t off contract, their contracts were longer and they contribute the same as AD ie nothing.Doueihi's signing was the worst as he had not even set foot on the field coming if an injury to sign a 1 year extension, stupid stupid signing and waste of a spot
As others have said Sullivan is a shocker for the money and length but at the time we had no halves signed so kind of get it.
Has Staines been told he can look elsewhere ?
AD'S defensive attitude and blaming others, mo thanks really hope he leaves, we need the spot. AD is not a 5 or a 1 and not defensively sound enough for centre or 13, hopefully St Merge take him
To'a not a big fan but we are light on in the backs so he may be required.
Twal again is not the worst front rower going around defends well probably should be in the 30
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Interesting they are also persisting with Lobbhttps://www.weststigers.com.au/news/2024/10/23/new-deals-for-faataape-and-porter/
Guys like Faataape and Porter are akin to having players on minimum you'd have in the top 30. We've pretty much swapped the the developing players to that top 25-30 group who would be mostly players on minimum anyway and who wouldn't feature much if the top 25 is what it should be (every club has 3-5 players in this category so they can try to make their top 25 as strong as possible). Unfortunately for us this season there were 4 or 5 players in our top 25 who shouldn't have been so we used those players in that 25-30 group more than we wanted to. I doubt it'll happen next season.https://www.weststigers.com.au/news/2024/10/23/new-deals-for-faataape-and-porter/
To’a and Twal were worse than AD. They weren’t off contract, their contracts were longer and they contribute the same as AD ie nothing.Doueihi's signing was the worst as he had not even set foot on the field coming if an injury to sign a 1 year extension, stupid stupid signing and waste of a spot
As others have said Sullivan is a shocker for the money and length but at the time we had no halves signed so kind of get it.
Has Staines been told he can look elsewhere ?
To'a not a big fan but we are light on in the backs so he may be required.
Im not convinced we have seen the best of To'a yet and I suspect there is a better player inside we havent seen, potentially a first grade centre. He was a GUN junior and we did see that one game against Cowboys that showed what he is capable of. There is something needed to unlock him. Is it better fitness, injury free, coaching, mental adjustment? That is what a coach is for.
https://www.weststigers.com.au/news/2024/10/23/new-deals-for-faataape-and-porter/
Can someone refresh my memory....development Contract players are guaranteed promotion to Top 30 in future years?
@tigersteve you also said pay him fullback money for leadership. I don’t see that stacking up when we bought that in Luai. Moot point I can’t see it happening anyway
