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Re: Transfer Talk / Rumour Thread V2 : Fri Jul 12, 2019 9:37 am  

Joshheff90 wrote:

I’m not sure we’ll keep Albert.

I believe he signed a two year contract. He’s exempt from quota on that contract anyway.

Re: Transfer Talk / Rumour Thread V2 : Fri Jul 12, 2019 10:01 am  

We should move mountains to get Maloney. He is class bloke, a born winner, can kick a team round the field, ain’t scared to get his hands dirty, a damn good player and would be fan favourite also great in the community. Let’s do this.

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Re: Transfer Talk / Rumour Thread V2 : Fri Jul 12, 2019 10:04 am  

sharky64 wrote:

We should move mountains to get Maloney. He is class bloke, a born winner, can kick a team round the field, ain’t scared to get his hands dirty, a damn good player and would be fan favourite also great in the community. Let’s do this.

Would genuinely be happy to lose Ablett, JJB, Cuthbertson, Lunt, Myler, Ferres, Golding if it meant bringing in Burgess and Maloney.

Re: Transfer Talk / Rumour Thread V2 : Fri Jul 12, 2019 10:18 am  

Burgess is a risk and if he came back to super league I think Catalans or Hull would get him.

Re: Transfer Talk / Rumour Thread V2 : Fri Jul 12, 2019 10:20 am  

Trebor1 wrote:

I'd get shut of peteru over cuthbo personally based on cuthbo current form. When fit he brings a lot to the team still. Peteru is a bit meh.

Peteru is injured as much if not more than Cuthbo and is nowhere near as good when fit. Keep cuthbo one more year at least over Peteru as fully fit cuthbo us still a dynamic player and one of our only true line/tackle busters.

Re: Transfer Talk / Rumour Thread V2 : Fri Jul 12, 2019 10:39 am  

Our wings are very average. At least 1 new winger please.

Re: Transfer Talk / Rumour Thread V2 : Fri Jul 12, 2019 10:53 am  

KaeruJim wrote:

We should take the long view - two or three good games doesn’t undo the poor impact he’s shown previously IMO.

Having said that, if he can maintain this form then he could make a positive contribution in his final contract year.

One thing I have to say; it’s early days but nearly every player is coming out in praise of Agar. I guess you could argue they would say that, but seems genuine.

The only people I've heard slate Agar is the fans, he's a very well respected person within the game apparently.

Re: Transfer Talk / Rumour Thread V2 : Fri Jul 12, 2019 11:08 am  

I thought Peteru finally came into his own at the start of this season, when he looked like one of the few forwards that was capable of making metres and defending (his discipline has been occasionally suspect, but then again so was that of most of the forwards at the time). IMO he offers way more than Singleton, and is a more physical player that offers more consistency and future potential than Cuthbertson. That said if we want to bring in more overseas/non-federation players I can see the club viewing him as something of a luxury if they feel there are better players available, or need to find a spot to accommodate a star half-back (etc).

Re: Transfer Talk / Rumour Thread V2 : Fri Jul 12, 2019 11:15 am  

I thought Cuthbertson counted on the quota but Peteru was NFT only? If that is the case losing Peteru would not help to bring in an overseas quota player such as Maloney.

Re: Transfer Talk / Rumour Thread V2 : Fri Jul 12, 2019 11:51 am  

The Magic Rat wrote:

I thought Cuthbertson counted on the quota but Peteru was NFT only? If that is the case losing Peteru would not help to bring in an overseas quota player such as Maloney.

That is correct. We currently have no overseas spots available. To bring Maloney in we need to lose one of our current 5 overseas spots from Cuthbo, Lui, Martin, Merrin and Ava (details from the RFL press release this past week on who all the Overseas and NFT quota players are for all clubs)

As you say, Peteru counts only on NFT quota

Albert doesn’t count on either quota for the length of his first contract due to special rules applying to buying players from clubs in admin