2026 recruitment & retention

[Ohgeez]

Neither Haas, Tino or Keon would come to us? What do we have to offer? Broncos have top 4 finishes. South’s have Bennett and Tino could walk back into Storm if he wanted. We won’t attract top tier players until we can start performing like a top tier club. I’d prefer to see us develop from within instead of paying overs.

Tigers & Bulldogs were in a lot worse shape when they brought in the likes of Burton, Kikau, Luai, May etc. If you got the money players will come.

 

[double hoops]

Penns Manly would like to sign Payne Haas.

Have third party's have you?

 

[TheEagle]

No?

Hass, Tino, Koloamatangi are about as good as you get then you have Lindsay Smith, Griffen Neame....I even like Liam Henry.

Haas has been pretty much confirmed to stay with Brisbane. Tino could leave but I think we would struggle to compete with the Bears and it’s likely he stays with Souths IMO. Neame and Henry are solid but I’d like to think we could make bigger signings in our pack for 2028 than those 2.

 

[C_Eagle31]

Did we really just let Talau go? FFS.

 

[King]

Did we really just let Talau go? FFS.

Nothing surprises me now with this club.

 

[ManEagle]

Did we really just let Talau go? FFS.

And looking at keeping Schoupp, does my head in

 

[JenEagle]

Why are we letting Talau go ? He was good for us both last year and this year.

 

[Andrew..]

Did we really just let Talau go? FFS.

I think Talau offers great value for money, especially with the Garrick to the Bears rumour going around.

 

[Wombat64]

Why are we letting Talau go ? He was good for us both last year and this year.

because we are a generally a pretty stupid club, that's why.