SouthernX
John Thornett (49)
Go back a couple of pages - there was a few names on the move.
don’t have specifics but it sounds like souths & Sunnybank are the big movers and shakers of offseason.
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don’t have specifics but it sounds like souths & Sunnybank are the big movers and shakers of offseason.
PPRugby
Allen Oxlade (6)
A bit of talk around that Souths are losing more than they are gaining.
Plenty of Magpies on the move to other clubs.
Oracle83
Bill McLean (32)
Can’t work that out - thought GM would have bought plenty to the table
SouthernX
John Thornett (49)
Or GM is continuing down the untraveled path of bringing in young up & comers - and it’s simply a case that they are not household names yet…
wasn’t south’s the best represented Oz rugby club last year in aus u20s? Think they had 4 or 5 home grown talents!
MoneyBill685
Ted Fahey (11)
Wests inside centre Vilikesa Raboliku to souths
Oracle83
Bill McLean (32)
Been in a few clubs now - chasing the $$$ ??? Wrecking machine if fit
SouthernX
John Thornett (49)
money??? You can’t see the pattern? he is circumnavigating the compass in an anti clockwise direction… next club will be easts!
Spamnoodle
Larry Dwyer (12)
Chasing dollars at Souths?
PPRugby
Allen Oxlade (6)
I was at the coaches forum today at Nudgee Bulldog and I was told that Todd had appointed Dan Leo as the new BBC head coach with Todd to continue on as the DoR.
eldiablo
Ted Fahey (11)
Reg, you tease! Who is it?
SouthernX
John Thornett (49)
I’m guessing.
Been at wests for years.
last year was super rugby contracted but now just club rugby player (doesn’t count against points cap)
1 test for Fiji
PhilClinton
Mark Loane (55)
I always thought Dammers was quite a decent coach at schoolboy level and colts?
He just seemed to lack the communication piece to relay that style from boys to men.
nup. Still early in the season. Let’s see if he sticks around.
SouthernX
John Thornett (49)
interesting - I assumed you were referencing Sorovi… who’s off contract & has a test cap for Fiji.
Taking a look at Wikipedia (wallaby caps) it could be any of these names Kuridrani, Speight, Nabuli or Sefa Naivalu…. All have links to Brisbane I believe…
Another name I’ll throw to wind… there’s GPS stalwart legend who recently retired from the Warratahs, but im sure we would have heard about that defection from the Yoku road faithful.
SouthernX
John Thornett (49)
that was my take too Phil…
Dammers probably better suited schoolboy rugby.. for all the criticism Todd got with his souths squads. I bet Garrick Morgan was happy that Dammers took the short term pain for the betterment of south’s rugby by blooding so many colts up in premier grade.
Wilson
Phil Kearns (64)
Sorovi has two caps for Fiji, but more to the point he never left Wests - he was the starting halfback in the final last year. Would be a bit disingenuous to tease a players 'return' from the summer break.
My guess was Teti Tela, but I figure we'll find out in due course who it is.
Rugby follower
Billy Sheehan (19)
Any word at what clubs the new Reds players will be aligned too? I know the two kiwi props are aligned to Sunnybank and Norths but what about Daly, Brial and De Lutiis?
Wilson
Phil Kearns (64)
Haven't heard anything but De Lutiis is a Southport boy so bond wouldn't be surprising. That said, from a development perspective I wouldn't mind if he ended up at Easts packing down with Max Craig at hooker week in week out.
Edit: now I feel like I might have already known he was headed to Easts and just forgotten haha. Should be a good move for him and Craig to get that time together.