2024 recruits : Sat Sep 30, 2023 8:16 pm  

Some malarkey on other forum about 2024 squad. Any info? My view most of this squad are dialled in and. Good fit for a push next year. We can’t legislate for Norman Whare wanting French sun plus going Back to Southern Hemisphere but other than that I think we should pick up most of the squad.

Re: 2024 recruits : Sat Sep 30, 2023 9:40 pm  

Whare and Norman could get a gig with à french elite 1 team, first round of season this weekend, think most squads are pretty set.
St esteve game today was pretty good standard

Re: 2024 recruits : Sat Sep 30, 2023 9:53 pm  

northernbloke wrote:

Whare and Norman could get a gig with à french elite 1 team, first round of season this weekend, think most squads are pretty set.
St esteve game today was pretty good standard

Don’t tell them but bit surprised Toulouse haven’t stepped in for them. Unless they have a desire to train up as plumbers in southern france and don’t fancy full time RL.

Re: 2024 recruits : Sat Sep 30, 2023 10:08 pm  

Dint think either want full time, but who knows

Re: 2024 recruits : Tue Oct 03, 2023 12:33 pm  

Can't really begrudge the guy if he thinks he can still do it a higher level/wants to be in a full time environment. Not sure I see many SL teams wanting to use up a quota spot, but I guess we will see. https://www.totalrl.com/ex-catalans-dra ... -for-2024/

Can't really begrudge the guy if he thinks he can still do it a higher level/wants to be in a full time environment. Not sure I see many SL teams wanting to use up a quota spot, but I guess we will see. https://www.totalrl.com/ex-catalans-dra ... -for-2024/

Re: 2024 recruits : Tue Oct 03, 2023 1:29 pm  

Knocker_White wrote: Can't really begrudge the guy if he thinks he can still do it a higher level/wants to be in a full time environment. Not sure I see many SL teams wanting to use up a quota spot, but I guess we will see. https://www.totalrl.com/ex-catalans-dra ... -for-2024/ Good to see we’ve got right on this and not left it to chance. Hopefully we’ve taken same approach with Norman who I think has been even better. Sigh?

Knocker_White wrote: Can't really begrudge the guy if he thinks he can still do it a higher level/wants to be in a full time environment. Not sure I see many SL teams wanting to use up a quota spot, but I guess we will see. https://www.totalrl.com/ex-catalans-dra ... -for-2024/ Good to see we’ve got right on this and not left it to chance. Hopefully we’ve taken same approach with Norman who I think has been even better. Sigh?

Re: 2024 recruits : Tue Oct 03, 2023 1:41 pm  

BigTime wrote:

Good to see we’ve got right on this and not left it to chance. Hopefully we’ve taken same approach with Norman who I think has been even better. Sigh?

Who knows, my assumption would be we have offered a deal, however he may feel he can get something better elsewhere. He would walk into the Toulouse or Wakey starting 17. The tone of the article seems to be he is on the look out for something else, so he might have already told the club he's going. Probably his last big contract so I guess it makes sense on his end.

As I said I don't see a SL team coming in for him. Not that he hasn't got the ability, but most teams will have probably already firmed up their squads for next season, even if the signings haven't been announced.

If we could convince Corey to stay by throwing a bit of Dean's money at him, I would take it as a win tbh.

Re: 2024 recruits : Tue Oct 03, 2023 3:17 pm  

Knocker_White wrote:

Who knows, my assumption would be we have offered a deal, however he may feel he can get something better elsewhere. He would walk into the Toulouse or Wakey starting 17. The tone of the article seems to be he is on the look out for something else, so he might have already told the club he's going. Probably his last big contract so I guess it makes sense on his end.

As I said I don't see a SL team coming in for him. Not that he hasn't got the ability, but most teams will have probably already firmed up their squads for next season, even if the signings haven't been announced.

If we could convince Corey to stay by throwing a bit of Dean's money at him, I would take it as a win tbh.

Yes I agree with all of that.
I see we have re- signed Macani. I hadn’t seen that going any other way but with his upturn in form it is decent news none the less. A good team player I think.

Re: 2024 recruits : Tue Oct 03, 2023 3:41 pm  

BigTime wrote:

Yes I agree with all of that.
I see we have re- signed Macani. I hadn’t seen that going any other way but with his upturn in form it is decent news none the less. A good team player I think.

Yeah I'm glad for him and he definitely deserves it. I was critical of him earlier in the season, but he has hit some really good form and found a process that seems to work best to his strengths. Having Dean on his edge has been a bonus and opposing teams seem to have stopped solely targeting him.

Re: 2024 recruits : Wed Oct 04, 2023 11:43 am  

BigTime wrote:

Some malarkey on other forum about 2024 squad. Any info? My view most of this squad are dialled in and. Good fit for a push next year. We can’t legislate for Norman Whare wanting French sun plus going Back to Southern Hemisphere but other than that I think we should pick up most of the squad.

The other point I've only just been thinking about is the relative age of the squad. If you are looking at our UK born players and those we have brought through our academy, then Dalton is the oldest (33). The next oldest is Will (30). The core of the team we could have moving forward still has a lot of time on it's side.