Re: Transfer Talk / Rumour thread V4 : Mon Oct 10, 2022 1:44 pm  

Saddened! wrote:

Tons and tons. Room for two more at the inn. We don't pay the bit city rates Leeds seem to get stung into offering. Konrad joined for half his Leeds wages and a Hello Fresh subscription for example.

McDonald's subscription**

I'd be very happy if Saints took Fusitua off our hands. Too soft and seems pretty uninterested. Just seems to be here for the pay packet.

Re: Transfer Talk / Rumour thread V4 : Mon Oct 10, 2022 2:39 pm  

rugbyleague88 wrote:

McDonald's subscription**

I'd be very happy if Saints took Fusitua off our hands. Too soft and seems pretty uninterested. Just seems to be here for the pay packet.

Saints won't sign him if that's true.

Re: Transfer Talk / Rumour thread V4 : Mon Oct 10, 2022 3:36 pm  

When he's fit and plays well he's an asset, it's just like many this year he's had multiple / long injuries

Re: Transfer Talk / Rumour thread V4 : Mon Oct 10, 2022 8:36 pm  

Simmo71 wrote:

There's got to be some poker tactics in the comments.
We can't possibly be at the cap and unable to sign Hardaker or anyone else.
This is classic GH.

We can't possibly go into a season without a left centre.
And with Newman still unable to put a run of games together, we start the season with no centres.
We can't.
Can we.....?

Wouldn’t bet against it

Re: Transfer Talk / Rumour thread V4 : Tue Oct 11, 2022 5:09 am  

You can take Fusitu'a. Drive him over mesen for you

Re: Transfer Talk / Rumour thread V4 : Tue Oct 11, 2022 6:40 am  

Bang wrote:

You can take Fusitu'a. Drive him over mesen for you

Me too.
Saints have already taken one overpaid, unfit, Tongan luxury player off our hands.
Would gladly let them do the same again.

Re: Transfer Talk / Rumour thread V4 : Tue Oct 11, 2022 6:56 am  

Its the core fitness thats annoying with Fusitu'a, as it was with Hurrell when he was at Leeds. If he stays hopefully he can get a full preseason into him.

Re: Transfer Talk / Rumour thread V4 : Tue Oct 11, 2022 8:05 am  

Saddened! wrote:

Konrad joined for half his Leeds wages and a Hello Fresh subscription for example.

Famously of course Saints offered Hurrell more than Leeds did for him to stay. But whatever helps you sleep at night.

Re: Transfer Talk / Rumour thread V4 : Tue Oct 11, 2022 8:37 am  

Emagdnim13 wrote:

When he's fit and plays well he's an asset, it's just like many this year he's had multiple / long injuries

But is that really a surprise?

Fusitua had lots and lots of injuries and issues which meant he hardly played for a couple of years. Before that he was one of best outside backs in the NRL, scoring tries for fun.

Simply put if he wasn’t injury prone he wouldn’t be here, if he didn’t get those injuries and stop playing he most likely would have continued playing in the NRL. I mean we haven’t even been paying his full salary because his contract was based on him being a top NRL winger. We knew it when we signed him, the idea we could keep him fit was misguided. We don’t have a great track record of injury prone players joining and suddenly staying fit.
I see the issue with the club, not the player. We knew the chance we were taking from the history but we went for it anyway and it hasn’t really worked out. We seem to have done that a lot over the last 4-5 years don’t we.

[Ex-Swarcliffe Rhino]

Re: Transfer Talk / Rumour thread V4 : Tue Oct 11, 2022 9:52 am  

Lprhino wrote:

But is that really a surprise?

Fusitua had lots and lots of injuries and issues which meant he hardly played for a couple of years. Before that he was one of best outside backs in the NRL, scoring tries for fun.

Simply put if he wasn’t injury prone he wouldn’t be here, if he didn’t get those injuries and stop playing he most likely would have continued playing in the NRL. I mean we haven’t even been paying his full salary because his contract was based on him being a top NRL winger. We knew it when we signed him, the idea we could keep him fit was misguided. We don’t have a great track record of injury prone players joining and suddenly staying fit.
I see the issue with the club, not the player. We knew the chance we were taking from the history but we went for it anyway and it hasn’t really worked out. We seem to have done that a lot over the last 4-5 years don’t we.

This maybe why weve decided to go a different direction with our backroom conditioning staff.
For FAR to long weve had masses of Salary Cap sat in the stands, now im not saying that other teams havent suffered with the same but its wild to me that we always seem to get a glut of injuries while other "top" teams dont seem to get them as often or as severe.