Please don't tell me he's off to The Force also? Feels like Cron's pulling in all his old charges.
No the suggestion I got was retirement. I’ve just checked and he is only 31 so hopefully he has a year or 2 left in him yet. He should make the most of it because you’re a long time retired from footy!
By the looks of it they should have never let him go.
Can’t argue with that. A victim of the Rob Penney talent ID program.
Hard to blame letting Williams go on Penney, given he was still at the tahs for 2022 when Coleman had already taken over as coach.
You are probably more right than me, I think he left during the season in 2022, probably a sign of the cumulative discontent at the Tahs. Neither coach achieved much.
He was with the tahs for the entire 23 season and played their final game that year (Quarter final vs the chiefs). His signing for the Force was announced around 3 weeks later.
There were definitely some outside the organization/tahs fans suggesting they might have screwed up by loosing both Williams and Douglas at once, but internally everyone was riding the feel good wave of that season and showing a bit of blind faith in a rookie super coach.
I think most were lamenting the loss of Douglas more then Williams but definitely losing both at the same time
He is the captain of the force and they are building the squad around him, his signing is a formality, just needs to be announced. (I hope )
Have to admit I did forget he was captain. Stranger things have happened though. I’m good with him staying there, I was more just curious if he was contemplating a move back, but I wonder what locks we are targeting otherwise.
Wouldn't surprise me if Blyth moves away now that he's a capped Wallaby but will have to compete for gametime at super level. Then again, the Brumbies have managed to balance a rotation of Hooper, Frost, Swain and Neville pretty well over the last few years so it's definitely possible.
He's signed a lease on a rental property in Brisbane if reports are to be believed