Rebuilding. Who do you keep?

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ARONA, Tinirau 2015
AYSHFORD, Blake 2015
BARBA, Ben 2017
BEALE, Gerard 2017
BIRD, Jack 2016
BROWN, Fa'amanu 2017
BROWN, Mitch 2016
BUKUYA, Jayson 2016
ENNIS, Michael 2016 +1
FEKI, Sosaia 2017
FIFITA, Andrew 2018
FIFITA, David 2016
GAGAN, Jacob 2016
GALLEN, Paul (c) 2015
GARDNER, Nathan 2015
GORDON, Michael 2015
GRAHAM, Wade 2017
HEIGHINGTON, Chris 2015
HOLMES, Valentine 2017
HOUMA, Saulala 2015
LEUTELE, Ricky 2015
LEWIS, Luke 2016
MURPHY, Todd 2015
POLITONI, Pat 2015
PRIOR, Matt 2015
ROBSON, Jeff 2015
ROQICA, Junior 2015
SAUILUMA, Sami 2015
STANLEY, Kyle 2015
TAGATAESE, Sam 2015 (already told to go elsewhere)
TUPOU, Anthony 2015
WELLS, Dallas 2015

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FLANAGAN, Shane too ****ing long


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HOUMA, Saulala 2015
LEUTELE, Ricky 2015
SAUILUMA, Sami 2015
GALLEN, Paul (c) 2015
MURPHY, Todd 2015

The rest of the 2015 expiry crew .. not to fussed
 

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Take Murphy and Gallen out and I agree. Also we should take a leaf out of Wayne Bennets book to unload duds still on contract. Start with Lewis.
 

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Here is my list highlighted equals out the door - just like Penrith 2 years ago

I'm not sure you could fill the salary cap with the talent you've bones and versus what's left on the market. Ennis? Really?? We need someone to lead the kids. We also don't have a dominant NYC side to fill holes.

The roster isn't too bad. Needs tweaks, not dynamite.
 

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I'm not sure you could fill the salary cap with the talent you've bones and versus what's left on the market. Ennis? Really?? We need someone to lead the kids. We also don't have a dominant NYC side to fill holes.

The roster isn't too bad. Needs tweaks, not dynamite.

Yeah it's a harder exercise than it appears. The problem with his list is we'd be paying a fair bit of our cap to players no longer with us. Next year...add a quality half back to our roster, don't re-sign Gal and sign an innovative coach, we're much closer than people realise imo.
 

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I see a lot of people have given up on Ben Barba already, he's only 3 games into his Sharks career FFS.
I don't see him as a 5/8 under our structure, maybe a different coach and 7 could create more in the middle leaving space on the edges and we play barba one side and holmes the other?
 

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What we need is for the club to say what stage we're at.

We need to know what our long term plan is.

Are we in a transition phase, which I won't cop, we've been there since 2008.

Are we in a rebuilding phase? If we are, I can take the losses.

We sure as **** not in a premiership window.

Until the club or Flanno give us their endgame, we're stuck in limbo and will continue to sign players on the outer from other clubs.

I hope we're in the rebuilding, but wouldn't suprise me if they think we're still in transition.

If we'd signed DCE, we would be in phase 1 of rebuilding.
 

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HOUMA, Saulala 2015
LEUTELE, Ricky 2015
SAUILUMA, Sami 2015
GALLEN, Paul (c) 2015
MURPHY, Todd 2015

The rest of the 2015 expiry crew .. not to fussed

Aside from Gallen, all those on your list could leave and I wouldnt bat an eye lid
 

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Aside from Gallen, all those on your list could leave and I wouldnt bat an eye lid

Most were squad players , chosen for depth yet fully capable of holding their own in first grade and perhaps more .
 
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I thought ricky re-signed last year for 3 more seasons?

I thought that was announced around the same time as the gagan/feki/d fifita deals. Or was leutele a 2 year deal signed in 2013?
 
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No such thing, its a knockdown rebuild or its nothing.

Not really.

Under contract are blokes like ennis, graham, fifita, fifita, holmes, gagan, feki, beale, nu brown, lewis, barba

Thats a very good starting point to build a team around
 

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Its regeneration. We're basically looking to replace some or all of our old forwards and the #7. Maybe upgrade our 6 options.
 
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