Recent content by leon.bott

shame about hoppa, hope he’s not injured after all the speculation of how highly Madge regards him. Excited to see beni Allen, I watched his q cup game on qplus where he played the last 15 minutes and made one enormous bustling run. He’s a frighteningly big boy.

I loved the look of Johnson in the Trial coverage. Raw boned kid who was getting under his Qcup opposites skin by showing him up. O’Ofou stood out with high energy but was a bit ineffective. His hitups gave Thaiday vibes where he looked to be hitting the line hard but went down even harder...

Trying not to read too much into Shibasaki looking like he’s getting reps with the main squad in those opposed session pics. Weird you’ve got Jensen in the green shirt too. Id think you’d opt for Mariner/cobbo, Hoeter, Arthars with a Hoppa/philitoga or heaven forbid Leota reshuffle, and Perham...

I will never understand how the signing and retention of junior players works within clubs. I wish there was more transparency to the public. Otherwise you just get the media riling up fan bases with articles about clubs losing players on their books for years. When we sign junior guns up to...

Come to think of it, I‘d imagine Perham as a dev player will get allocated to Wynnum seeing as Souths got Siegwaldt and Burleigh got West (and I think still Toia) as fullbacks.

I think Shibasaki is the only one of note. Hopoate and Gayle are the other train and trialists and were already there. I’m eagerly awaiting a proper QRL gains and losses/season preview article but there’s one on zero tackle (but it’s a bit scratchy and lists them having nil gains). Surely...

If nuaasala carries her unbelievable pacific championship form into next season and Lafaele continues to improve her rugby league transition that’s got to be the best pack by far. Keilee as the clean up woman and Brill‘s prime Cheese impact through the middle after Jada goes off is just an...

That’s all been quite well documented but would we even want him past his current contract length? He’s got old legs, I wouldn’t really care if he did a hit and run at this point in his career. He’s not a long term signing. If we believe we’re still in our premiership window with our last year...

Are the feeder clubs capped to how many players they can put forward for T&T? Slash can madge or did Kevie have the ability to veto or weigh in on the decision? Just thrown off by Khunt’s wording there regarding choosing those with the greatest potential. I get vaihu being raw and promising and...

If we are in fact taking a look at Bateman, you’d imagine the club would explore leveraging the interest Wests reportedly showed in Hetho. As with others here, I love Hetherington as a Bronco, but unless he adds a string to his bow to play an edge competently, he is sadly surplus to our team...

Mam limbo aside, l’d sooner see us try and scavenge a decent second rower or outside back from whichever team lands Hunt, if it is in fact a Queensland team. Surely the signing team will face a salary cap pinch and reshuffle to make it happen. Some appear far fetched, but in an ideal world some...

could be absolutely nothing but my internet sleuthing noticed on an nrlw page’s post listing departing NQ players that Bri Clarke liked all the comments hoping for shaniah power to the broncos. I reckon we’re bound to sadly lose some of our heavy New Zealand contingent to the warriors and...

Dam shame Lauren is 18th woman

Far out. Dumb nuaasala brain snap aside, we’ve gotten some rough ruck calls all game. Who’s the refs cousin in the eels line up? Also totally agree on maddick call, how is this her third season as our 1. Teitzel used to be a gun fullback at Newcastle, surely she couldn’t do worse.

what’s the logic behind not naming a full extended bench? I thought I’ve read somewhere before that after a certain round you can select players outside of your top 30 and dev players and just pay them a nominal amount per round? We even medically retired Pereira. What’s the negative of at...