Who cares what he gets paid? (NTS) We've got salary cap space to spare given we've used no "outside the cap" concessions...
Is this a good use of one of our remaining three squad positions on the other hand?
Clut played either all or part of the game at RW in the FFA cup and did very well. Dimi can play wide as well.
You compare our squad now, with the best case scenario that we somehow sign Nathan Burns and he arrives fit, I still don't see any better than 7th.
We will be competitive but I doubt Merrick has the nous to turn a competitive team into true finals contenders.
SFC, Roar, Victory have top 6 squads already.
Wanderers and City I have little doubt will recruit well enough to be top 6 with the players they already have.
Perth & Adelaide have more of a question mark, with holes to fill but are more than capable of doing so by Rd 1.
Nix and Gypos are undertaking rebuilds. Gypos Could be successful but could go either way. Nix look pretty terrible right now unless the new coach can recruit 5 quality Visa players, which you suspect is why they signed the coach they did.
We unfortunately do not have enough quality by the looks of it.
Griff said it himself when he did the same - you go over to get a couple of good paydays and setup your family.
You then come back for same family and lifestyle, not the paypacket.
Griff came back from China and was on low dollars and R.Griff offered to play for nothing. Grifflet went over to Saudi, made a million in as season and promptly vanished.
They know they can't stay on top coin forever.
I think you are in denial here
For the last few years no **** has wanted to come here thanks to Tinkler Muppet and that cluster ****
All we got were everyone else's cast offs as players came here as they had no options
This season all of a sudden blokes of HAL level are now coming here
Let's remember we still came last and haven't addressed all our issues
But your telling me Our Caravan knocked back Roar WSW and Adelaide all clubs where he will probably play semi final football for certain next season and chose to come to Newy despite us not paying top $$
I will just use some logic and call Bullshit
Petratos Our Caravan Georgevski Topor are here because we are paying more than what they would get elsewhere
Make no mistake about it
Now I will give the club credit as we sort of have to wear it to jump up a ring or two on the ladder.
I just hope though they ain't ridiculously being paid over their worth like Boogaard is
Bullshit
He had ample opportunity and couldn't get a regular start in a side as shit as ours.
Stop making excuses
The bloke wasn't good enough for the Roar and he ain't good enough for us.
I calling it as it is the bloke isn't a HAL level player just the new Kaz Patafta
I've got Zero issues with booting Clut whatsoever, he hasn't done anything to prove that he deserves to be here BUT....
I think we need to get rid of Boogs, Kokko and Kanta even more so. So much money being spent on players that either don't suit the club, which includes Clut, or aren't good enough to earn their paychecks.
Boogs yes punt him he was on the slide at Adelaide, Kanta is free, he can play, just not consistently enough for all of you, keep him.
Kokko well I say give him a chance, he was never going to shine after the start he had with injuries last year, then Jones went back to GVE coaching manual and shut him out.
The new gaffa should play things differently hopefully, Kokko with a decent preseason and a change of style, might turn out to surprise, lets just wait and see.
Over the years we have had some strikers play in this club, that benefitted from different styles, which at most times we didn't play to suit them.
If we all remember Edmundo Zura couldn't play as a lone striker to save his life, GVE finally changes to 2 up front, if I remember we win the game, Zura scores 2? wins praise all-round, GVE next week goes back to one up front, sound familiar.