Jason Ryles - Bondi bound

[Guest]

cayless is in discussions with the tigers. although apparently tigers are after Lima from the Storm. Storm may let him go a year early. If they don't get Lima they want Cayless. This from an article... forget which paper.

[Rooster_6]

We let Fitzy go to sign this moron

No, if the club wanted to keep Fitzy they would've. Had nothing to do with Ryles.

Good signing btw.

[Guest]

Melon, source?

[Billy Gunn]

No, if the club wanted to keep Fitzy they would've. Had nothing to do with Ryles.

Good signing btw.

Thanks captain obvious

My statement was that we let player A go and we sign player B.

IMO Player B is a moron who is past it and we sign him for three years......

[Rooster_6]

Thanks captain obvious

My statement was that we let player A go and we sign player B.

IMO Player B is a moron who is past it and we sign him for three years......

A footy player being a moron... never

Still don't see what Fitzy has to do with Ryles, sure everyone is upset about him leaving but it has nothing to do with Ryles. Pretty unfair to put that on him before he has even played a game for the club.

[Billy Gunn]

A footy player being a moron... never

Still don't see what Fitzy has to do with Ryles, sure everyone is upset about him leaving but it has nothing to do with Ryles. Pretty unfair to put that on him before he has even played a game for the club.

We are so successful with recruiting players of his age that I just cant understand the value.

My reference to Fitzy is that everything with Easts is that players only leave due to Salary cap and then presto we sign a high profile player who becomes a high profile dud....

[Rooster_6]

We are so successful with recruiting players of his age that I just cant understand the value.

My reference to Fitzy is that everything with Easts is that players only leave due to Salary cap and then presto we sign a high profile player who becomes a high profile dud....

Fitzy leaving had nothing to do with the salary cap, I certainly don't remember being fed that line? Anyway wouldn't Ryles be taking Sa's salary? I guess now all of a sudden it doens't look like such a bad deal to some.

Also Ryles is Smith's doing, I know we have a poor record with most signings in general but when you look at Smith's recent recruits at the Knights I'm definatley not going to question him.

[Guest]

Can someone answer my question please. Are you 100% sure we signed him and is there a link to it yet?

[Rooster_6]

Can someonenswer my question. Are you 100% sure we signed him and is there a link to it yet?

No there is nothing official.

Ryles is still in the ESL finals series with the Catalan Dragons who he still has a contract with for another 2 seasons, my guess would be that all parties will wait till the club is first out of the finals series, the Catalans grant him a release and then it'll be made official if it is indeed true.

[Billy Gunn]

Fitzy leaving had nothing to do with the salary cap, I certainly don't remember being fed that line? Anyway wouldn't Ryles be taking Sa's salary? I guess now all of a sudden it doens't look like such a bad deal to some.

Also Ryles is Smith's doing, I know we have a poor record with most signings in general but when you look at Smith's recent recruits at the Knights I'm definatley not going to question him.

I just put 2 and 2 together, Fitzy wanted to play on and was still our best performing forward - either it was salary cap or retardation, maybe it was the later.

As for Smith, he will do better but I don't know that Ryles will be the answer to our problems

[Guest]

No there is nothing official.

Ryles is still in the ESL finals series with the Catalan Dragons who he still has a contract with for another 2 seasons, my guess would be that all parties will wait till the club is first out of the finals series, the Catalans grant him a release and then it'll be made official if it is indeed true.

Ohk mate, thanks for clearing that up

[elo]

No there is nothing official.

Ryles is still in the ESL finals series with the Catalan Dragons who he still has a contract with for another 2 seasons, my guess would be that all parties will wait till the club is first out of the finals series, the Catalans grant him a release and then it'll be made official if it is indeed true.

Well Catalans were eliminated last night and every player had the option to leave the club a few weeks back so I'd say if Ryles is done it would have been done already and the announcement won't be far away if true.

[Guest]

let weigh this up:
- we need an experienced prop who can lead from the front - tick (he is also a former rep player so has played on the big stage)
- we need a bloke that makes plenty of hit-ups and is quite big, strong and destructive - tick

He ticks the boxes and I think his attitude problems should no longer be a worry as smith is one to always get the best out of players. Dont forget how good he was for st george last year and id imagine we are getting him for good value considering the money he has been on and was on. Here are his stats averaged out from last year:
57 mins
16 runs
139 metres
27 tackles
1.2 missed
2 offloads a game
1.4 tacles busts a game

thats pretty bloody good if you ask me. He is a very big boy so hopefully we can get him into shape for next year and use him as a wrecking ball in the early exchanges before introducing the likes of JWH, paea and Nuuasala to provide similar sting from the bench

[Billy Gunn]

let weigh this up:
- we need an experienced prop who can lead from the front - tick (he is also a former rep player so has played on the big stage)
- we need a bloke that makes plenty of hit-ups and is quite big, strong and destructive - tick

He ticks the boxes and I think his attitude problems should no longer be a worry as smith is one to always get the best out of players. Dont forget how good he was for st george last year and id imagine we are getting him for good value considering the money he has been on and was on. Here are his stats averaged out from last year:
57 mins
16 runs
139 metres
27 tackles
1.2 missed
2 offloads a game
1.4 tacles busts a game

thats pretty bloody good if you ask me. He is a very big boy so hopefully we can get him into shape for next year and use him as a wrecking ball in the early exchanges before introducing the likes of JWH, paea and Nuuasala to provide similar sting from the bench

We bought Ogre to do the same........remind me how that turned out.

[Guest]

We bought Ogre to do the same........remind me how that turned out.

Great in 2008.....