Being Creative: The new Tom Boyd is...

[soupman]

We’ll make other list changes. Martin will retire for one. West… prob others will end their second contract also. Cap should, theoretically, be fine but the well earned pay days of Smith and English do change things a bit.

Cant imagine either of these guys are on much, likely losing those two gives us $250-300k max which would mostly be taken up by the draftee contracts we use on those list spots.

As Swoop has highlighted above there is definitely talent available. And more than salary we can offer opportunity in a good side that has to be appealing for a fringe type looking for a way to advance their career.

[Happy Days]

English’s whole game has improved a ton, but his ruck work has too. He’s gone from comfortably the worst boundary first ruck to a competent one, and it’s made as much of a difference as anything.

Save for a weird half against Marc Pittonet, it’s not English’s ruck work killing us, it’s the 5 minutes of Zaine a quarter.

[Bulldog Joe]

English’s whole game has improved a ton, but his ruck work has too. He’s gone from comfortably the worst boundary first ruck to a competent one, and it’s made as much of a difference as anything.

Save for a weird half against Marc Pittonet, it’s not English’s ruck work killing us, it’s the 5 minutes of Zaine a quarter.

Have to disagree on Zaine.
He did more of the ruck work last week and was a huge improvement over Hannan

[Mofra]

We should get a close up look at Crossley today. Mindful of the cap, we should be looking for cheaper depth options.
As much as other clubs have mined the state leagues for developing rucks in the past 18 months (including the MSD), the potential for cheaper support players is still there.

Ideally we have Sweet as pure ruck depth, Crossley (or similar) as forward/ruck depth who can feasibly play in the same team as Timmy, and a kid to develop as well. Noting that many good rucks come from the rookie list we shouldn't have to reach.