HAHAH Yes!!! TCF.. Well in, Frodo.. :brrr:Quote:
Originally Posted by Frodo
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HAHAH Yes!!! TCF.. Well in, Frodo.. :brrr:Quote:
Originally Posted by Frodo
Would stop him scoring against us.Quote:
Originally Posted by pv4
Maybe.
He's an improvement on virgili, not much thoQuote:
Originally Posted by Grimario
3 years ago, I would have taken him over most other wingers in the league purely from a prospect perspective. Then he broke his foot or whatever it was and he has been absolutely shite ever since.Quote:
Originally Posted by Tommyjet
Anyone else think Boogaard is getting lined up as the skipper for next year? He's the only one I see doing media from the playing group.
Who else has leadership qualities? I remember thinking years ago that Kanta would one day step up to be a real leader but that's never really happened. The rest are all blow ins, young or visa players. The only other senior player is Carney and he doesn't really strike me as a leader. Boogaard would be ideal as captain, especially if he plans on playing the rest of his career in his hometown. Certainly a better pick than Mullen.Quote:
Originally Posted by Jeterpool
Wasn't questioning it, just making an observation. I agree he is the likely pick from the playing group at the moment.Quote:
Originally Posted by Grimario
Filthy gypo.
This club is a dead set embarrassment.
Middleby out.
This isn't an attempt at a windup or I-told-you-so but who were the Boogard haters on this forum? I know whenever I've brought him up in the past there's been some pretty negative responses about him.
If you are/were a hater, how would you feel about him being given the captaincy?
Just imagine if we had signed him straight from his Breakers then Weston days? He could be the life long club hero we all worship (maybe as Griffs #1 disciple) instead of the guy some people remember scoring his first ever goal against us while playing for the scum.Quote:
Originally Posted by plague
i would hand in the members membership for him
dear pv4:Quote:
Originally Posted by pv4
please see my last post.
Happy for you though that you have another gypo to make you feel more comfortable on game day.
good for you.
Looks like our FFA cup line-up will look something like this
Birraz
Cowburn Boogaard Mullen Carney
Kanta
Barresi Cooper
Alivodic Pavicevic Ki-Je
Not a horrible line-up in the swing of things but seeing as Kanta is our only defensive midfielder I strongly recommend that we make that top priority in our recruitment.
Kanta has already been ruled out of the ffa cup. Still recovering from groin surgery. Ki-ji will be LB, carney LWQuote:
Originally Posted by JetRift
Didn't think we had signed Cowburn? Or can you play trialists in the Cup?
Yeah, you can play trialists. Remember reading the gypos are gonna have to do it.Quote:
Originally Posted by Grimario
I would hope everyone despised him.Quote:
Originally Posted by pv4
But he who don's the jets badge and kicks the **** sydney & gypos will be adored.
Now the new gaffa is back in town we should expect some signings next week.
Herald today murphy saying we should have enough cap space to present a decent contract to maclaren. Talks have started apparently.
Also wouldn't be surprised if we pick up cam Watson from Adelaide. Decent cm IMO
Marlow in there somewhere for Kanta, or BrennanQuote:
Originally Posted by JetRift
Alot can change in 5 weeks.Quote:
Originally Posted by JetRift
Isnt he still on a youth contract?Quote:
Originally Posted by Grimario
Yes Cowburn is still on a Youth contract.Quote:
Originally Posted by tomo
Seriously by this time next week I would be expecting a couple new signings to have been announced at the very least!
We signed Griff yet?
NoQuote:
Originally Posted by Premy
Miller out
Murphy out
JP out
https://twitter.com/marcothejourno/s...26242238418944
There goes that option
Eh, not too upset tbh.
One step closer to us signing Simon...Quote:
Originally Posted by Thomas477
Surely Kale is in front of Simon?Quote:
Originally Posted by Grimario
Damn. I thought we could have done to him what we did with Taggart.Quote:
Originally Posted by Tommyjet
I love joel griffo as much as anyone but if we had to sign either joel or ryan who would you choose?
Joel will be 36 coming off a knee recon. Would play central with the players we already have.
Or ryan 34 and scored 15 in about 30 games in malaysia. Prob battle with Carney for LW. Id go ryan.
As i said would be a good LW backup. Both on little coin. Give us more $$ for quality signings.
For me, the big thing with signing those two is a mentality. Both love Newcastle and both I believe have come out saying its Newy or nothing. Having two boys with that mentality to teach the other guys we sign and the guys we have to appreciate the shirt and the fans is a huge positiveQuote:
Originally Posted by lil_masi
Both are versatile up front and have also come out saying they'd play for little coin which is another positive considering we need players and don't have a whole lotta coin
Who's more useful, Ryan's been more active which is a benefit and isn't coming off knee surgery, so probably him. But, we never saw how well Joel really could go last season due to being played in right mid instead of a wing or striker. Ryan's the best signing but both should be signed
Joel has said he will play for free, ffs. Obviously he can't because the CBA has a minimum salary but sign him up for that and be done with it.
Honestly, I love Joel f$&king Griffiths and the passion he has shown for this club. To a lesser extent I respect Ryan griff as an esteemed former player. Seriously it's time to move on. We can't keep going around in circles. A squad needs to be built for the next few years, not just year to year contracts for past their best players.Quote:
Originally Posted by lil_masi
By all means bring Joel griff in in January if he has recovered form his acl injury and we badly need an experienced striker but I would hope at this stage we are aiming higher in the striker department.
sign griffo on marquee. spend the rest of the cap on ryan. 5 yr contracts all around
I agree too it is time to move on, but if we cant get anyone better for similar $$ id take ryan.Quote:
Originally Posted by Tommyjet
The question was IF we had to chose from the two
Wouldn't be that CBA that has now ran out as of 30th June, clearly this is Griff's work so he can return for free, hail Griff!Quote:
Originally Posted by Grimario
So the Herald is saying we have 9 spots and $800,000 to spend.
Unless we manage to entice some quality on loan, the salary cap leaves us with not a lot to play with. I was hoping that the bulk of the starting 11 would come from the new signings, but it seems there is sweet FA space to move in the cap to bring in a 4-5 solid players. Will be interesting to see how miller manages this, but it really looks like we need to use the both Marquee spots, but FFA say they aren't going to do that.
9? Thought it was 10 unless Lundy has been upgraded or Cowbie resigned.
1. Biraz
2. BK
3. Boogs
4. Mullen
5. Marlow
6. Leaky
7. Carney
8. Kanta
9. Barresi
10. Cooper
11. Enver
12. Rad Pav
13. Brennan
Barresi and Lundy were both contracted until the end of the 15/16 season on full time NYL contracts. So if they were offered the same contracts, they SHOULD be still on those contracts.
And the squad size limit is 26, if you use all 3 NYL contracts.
Lundy I'm not sure if he has re-signed.
Potentially because the NYL contracts are 2 year deals, and our former contracts were considered null&void, maybe we couldn't re-sign Barresi and Lundy under NYL contracts?
Anyway, we currently have 13 contracted players, or 14 if Lundy is back on board. We still have 12 or 13 spots available, if we use all 3 of our NYL contracts.
Well clearly you don't love Joel as much as anyone due to the fact you even posed this question.Quote:
Originally Posted by lil_masi
But I'll humour you anyway.
Joel (the one true Griff):
Born in Newcastle.
Played his entire career in Newcastle.
Averaged exactly 1 goal per game during his career.
Scored the winner in the Grand Final.
Ryan:
Born in Wyong.
Is not actually related to Joel. He is adopted (real name Ryan Berkowitz).
Walked out on our club.
Promotes shitty t-shirts.
Never scored for Jets.
Photographed sitting next to Middleby at a game.
Yeah, there's your answer cuz.