Ben Hampton

CHOGM said:

We have Robson and Brown next year as 7's so it might be better to wait and see before signing another. The market isn't exactly flush. We can sign one next year or maybe Brown works out and we don't need to.

I would like to see us sign more than 1 five eighth for next year though. Hampton and another.

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skeksis said:

Yeah people need to give up on Hunt as well, because Manly aren't letting go of DCE and while the Broncos are getting Milford, I can't see them letting go of Hunt after his performance this year.

We may need to accept that our "marquee" signing of 2015 will be Ennis (which I am stoked about, but yeah, there won't be a "carney trade-off" unfortunately. One area of the spine improved while another took a big hit.

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HaroldBishop said:

Just because Brisbane don't land DCE doesn't mean there's no chance of getting Hunt.

We need to bite the bullet and start again now that Carney is gone imo. We have a decent crop of youngsters coming through in Holmes, Brown, Gagan, Deitz, Leutele etc. I'd rather we wait for the right half to come along rather than make another stop gap acquisition. In the meantime we should identify the best 15-17 year old prospect possible and develop him.

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HaroldBishop said:

Just because Brisbane don't land DCE doesn't mean there's no chance of getting Hunt.

We need to bite the bullet and start again now that Carney is gone imo. We have a decent crop of youngsters coming through in Holmes, Brown, Gagan, Deitz, Leutele etc. I'd rather we wait for the right half to come along rather than make another stop gap acquisition. In the meantime we should identify the best 15-17 year old prospect possible and develop him.

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hamsy44 said:

Agree HB but to do that we need to get in a bloke who can develop talent. Brian Smith can develop talent. Put him in charge of our junior development and we would be producing top class juniors - Off course Gallen would need to go but I'm cool with that.

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HaroldBishop said:

Yep agree hamster. Investing in a guy like Smith would be the best thing we could do.

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Sutty said:

Melbourne's play style, with always going to Cronk first does make it pretty hard to judge a second-fiddle half I guess; Hampton's workrate is clearly better without Cronk, especially the past 3 weeks.


The red 'official' was there, hence the talk about it on the first page of this thread.

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HaroldBishop said:

Yes it was.

I like S14's info. If people don't like it then ignore it.

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hamsy44 said:

Cool I'll make some calls and get this on the boil.

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Chad said:

Fully agree HB, but I'm worried about the bit I've put in bold. I don't think we know how to do that.

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Great_White_Shark said:

well getting a full time halves coach who is actually good is a start

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SJTB said:

So it's the storm or us

Or can he get around the terms ?

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sharkboy18 said:

Anyone seen Jaden Clarke play yet? Is he promising at all?

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snowman said:

Love the kid. Can play

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