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There is a good player in there. Maybe even a great one. He needs to get his body right and play constant football. Imagine a prop rotation of Blake, Uele, Toby and
The Big Nut.
 
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BHU - 2023
Not very impressive metrics for BHU.

Looks great up to 26 minutes of ball in play (exactly half a game) but any time he plays more than that, his involvement drops 20-40%, he misses more tackles, and inside his own half he turns into Kaufusi.

BUT...

All of his best games in both attack and defence were prior to round 9.

Sharks missed him big time when he was gone, and he wasn't the same player when he came back after that. Less runs, less tackles, more missed tackles. Thanks Jeremiah Nanai.

Not a great year on paper, but based on this I'm sticking with my assessment that the inability to get a healthy Finucane, BHU and Rudolf into the 17 at the same time was a huge factor in the team's overall performance.

There was only one game all year where Nicho’s played and BHU. Rudolf, McInnes, Finucane and Williams all played... and in that game both Kaufusi and Nikora got HIA'd so it messed up Williams' minutes. There were zero games with Nicho where Fitz had all five of those players to use in his preferred rotation.


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Wonder if the Wahs want him next year.
 
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Gumby said:
With AFB coming in 2025 does anyone here think we will re sign him?
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I think it’ll be hard to
AFB opens up money and need for a prop in NZ you’d think they’d be able to make him a great offer we can’t compete with. Caleb moving out and Braden visiting NZ over Xmas would also support he’d be likely to accept.

If we can hold him and Williams and just lose like Kaufusi or something our forward becomes stacked.

AFB, BHU, Rudolf, Hunt, Hazleton, Williams, Colquhoun (THT, Bradbury)
 
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we have a whole year to decide whos worth holding onto but with BHU given the captaincy in the trials and senior leadership roles, i doubt fitz is pushing him out the door

i dont neccessarily think we have to lose anyone with AFB coming, we were lacking one more grunt in the first place. maybe Hunt if anyone
 
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stalefish said:
we have a whole year to decide whos worth holding onto but with BHU given the captaincy in the trials and senior leadership roles, i doubt fitz is pushing him out the door

i dont neccessarily think we have to lose anyone with AFB coming, we were lacking one more grunt in the first place. maybe Hunt if anyone
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BHU, Williams, Colquhoun and potentially Kaufusi can negotiate now so we don’t have a whole year unless they decide to wait 12 months before deciding anything.

Even though Finucane is scaling down it’s possible we may need to free up more money than someone like Hunt is on to fit AFB. Maybe not though
 
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yea for sure, if they wanna jump ship without approaching us for an offer then so be it, but what fitz is building is something players want to be apart of, and like mulitalo will take less to stay here.

i cant see a player leaving without the club having a final take it or leave it offer
 
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I’d be happy if Finucane does retire after this season and then keep Uele (saying that if money is a problem).
 
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stalefish said:
yea for sure, if they wanna jump ship without approaching us for an offer then so be it, but what fitz is building is something players want to be apart of, and like mulitalo will take less to stay here.

i cant see a player leaving without the club having a final take it or leave it offer
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I have no doubt they will give us a chance to respond to an offer (be mad not to), but that doesn't buy us a year, buys us maybe like a month or two from that point. Maybe much less.

NZ will be motivated to try and lock in one or two NRL starting calibre props fairly early once season starts I'd think.
With a million or more to spend on it.
If they offer BHU an extra 100k or more than we can be nice if he stays but makes sense for him to take it.

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I’d be happy if Finucane does retire after this season and then keep Uele (saying that if money is a problem).
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With Tracey not on 25 books anymore (and any savings we can dig up for 25 by Moylan leaving now) you'd think the extra from Finucane retiring probably pretty much would allow us to hold the rest of the middles.

AFB, Rudolf, BHU, Hazelton, Hunt, Kaufusi, Colquhoun (THT, Bradbury)
McInnes and Williams at 13
 
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Why would we let him go if he stays fit and smashes it this season , they are all in the same boat . I'm sure they all want to be part of the forwards when AFB gets here , it will just be great for competition amongst the forwards .
 
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