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(10-20-2018, 12:41 AM)townsendcalling link Wrote:If a Club B&F results reflect a player’s ability to play their role and follow the match committee’s instructions, Sam Rowe would be justified in asking ‘What more can I do’ after finished 8th in the B&F in the most pressurized back line in the league.
Exactly. We must be really planning to bite the bullet next year and really put it on Weiters and his young mates to step up.
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(10-20-2018, 12:47 AM)kruddler link Wrote:I said earlier that Rowe was unlucky simply because he is 30 and was out of contract.
All 4 of our recent delistings were the last 4 players who did not have a contract for 2019. Everyone else was already signed on.
Had we got rid of Casboult, Rowe would still be on our list. As it turns out, Casboult was contracted, Rowe was not.
True but couldn't we have paid out Casboult? He can't be on that much and since we didn't land Shiel we must have some spare cash?
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I think we'll rookie Hugh Goddard....
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(10-20-2018, 12:54 AM)kruddler link Wrote:Sure we could.
But that doesn't address the other point. Rowe is 30.
But wouldn't he be OK for just one more year? Plenty of 30 and over players around? Or is he suffering after effects of his injury? I just find it a little surprising - Rowe imo would potentially be more useful to us next year than Casboult - or does Levi's possible use as a ruck backstop get him over the line?
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(10-20-2018, 12:59 AM)cookie2 link Wrote:But wouldn't he be OK for just one more year? Plenty of 30 and over players around? Or is he suffering after effects of his injury? I just find it a little surprising - Rowe imo would potentially be more useful to us next year than Casboult - or does Levi's possible use as a ruck backstop get him over the line?
There must be more to it than we know, because it's clear Rowe is better value than some of the players we have retained. Maybe they have removed him to force players like Jones, Marchbank, Macreadie and Weitering to step up. Sort of like Cortes burning his ships!
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On SEN he said that he was told it's over, no chance of being rookied etc.
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Guys it's a two way street. These guys would have had some very mature conversations about things including where they see themselves vs where the club sees them to go with whatever goals they are setting for themselves.
I'm confident that Wright only left because of his coaching opportunity as well as the fact his wife is pregnant and he played accordingly in the second half of this season.
Sam Rowe had some similar moments IMHO.
We may still cut Levi loose too. We seem happy to have retained one, but we might cut more.
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