Re: DoR - New Coach - Investor & Adam - New signings : Tue Aug 27, 2024 6:08 pm  

The Dentist Wilf wrote:

I don't like the sound of all this letting players go and taking stock/sitting on our hands and waiting to see what becomes available stuff. We need to be proactive and making 'unavailable' players offers if that's what it takes. I know there isn't much out there and even less that would want to come here, but to me it smacks of last seasons and the previous ones late rush to sign what turned out to be little more than mediocrity.

I would like to think that now Myler and Cartwright are in charge of recruitment that repeats of past mistakes won't be repeated and that we will already have a replacement signed before releasing Trueman from the remaining year of his contract.

Re: DoR - New Coach - Investor & Adam - New signings : Tue Aug 27, 2024 6:12 pm  

ComeOnYouUll wrote:

Yes it's tedious when posters make the same point over and over again, isn't it?

Yes it is
Is recruitment finished yet?
i have heard you say several times like other posters on here when the clubs poor recruitment has been questioned

Re: DoR - New Coach - Investor & Adam - New signings : Tue Aug 27, 2024 6:19 pm  

Marcus's Bicycle wrote:

Wakey sign Trueman.

Good luck to the kid, but in the past 4 seasons he's had a bad back injury, done his ACL and his achilles. You have to go back to 2019 to see him hit 20 games.

Frees up a big chunk of cap space for us.

Re: DoR - New Coach - Investor & Adam - New signings : Tue Aug 27, 2024 6:26 pm  

Asi not the half we are targeting according to HDM.

Re: DoR - New Coach - Investor & Adam - New signings : Tue Aug 27, 2024 6:32 pm  

bonaire wrote:

He should have made a trip to Australia a priority to introduce himself to players and agents especially as he knew we needed a quality halfback but instead chose the easy route and recruit a quantity of average players.
One quality player is far better than two or three average Joes as we will find out next season when we line up with Briscoe,Hardaker and Chamberlain as our first choice backs

Does anyone even do that any more with the advent of video calls? Plus our new coach is already there if any face to faces are necessary.
Also I don't get how the recruitment we have so far done is somehow easy? Are you suggesting he couldn't be arsed to find any good players so just signed the first ones he could?
I get that they don't exactly set pulses racing but we need quite a few players and there aren't that many quality ones around to sign atm, especially if you are trying to get value on the cap which is something we're hugely struggled with.
We've still got two non-fed spots to play with and I doubt we're done just yet. Whether we'll end up with the calibre you crave is open to question but I find this assertion that Myler has signed players because he can't be arsed to do the hard yards a bit ridiculous in all honesty.

Re: DoR - New Coach - Investor & Adam - New signings : Tue Aug 27, 2024 6:58 pm  

I agree with that but I do think we now need a statement from the club letting us know what they plan, what the thinking is and what's behind another player leaving without a replacement. Hardly engenders any confidence amongst us season ticket holders. Perhaps we'll hear something tomorrow!

Re: DoR - New Coach - Investor & Adam - New signings : Tue Aug 27, 2024 7:16 pm  

The Dentist Wilf wrote:

I agree with that but I do think we now need a statement from the club letting us know what they plan, what the thinking is and what's behind another player leaving without a replacement. Hardly engenders any confidence amongst us season ticket holders. Perhaps we'll hear something tomorrow!

I can't say I have any great confidence that we'll get the players we need but I don't think it'll be from lack of trying.

Re: DoR - New Coach - Investor & Adam - New signings : Tue Aug 27, 2024 8:13 pm  

Really don't understand how we have released Trueman without signing a replacement.

How many of our eggs did we put in the basket in relation to Lam??

Re: DoR - New Coach - Investor & Adam - New signings : Tue Aug 27, 2024 8:16 pm  

I’m as realistic as anyone with the financial situation we are in, but I think it’s obvious now with the bargain basement signings and long contracts we plan yet again on spending way under the cap because Adam is obviously confident licensing will save us from relegation. I worry that we wont last until the end of 25 anyway if we go down that route again.

Re: DoR - New Coach - Investor & Adam - New signings : Tue Aug 27, 2024 9:14 pm  

Not like us to release a half back from his contract early