Kobe Hetherington

[Phobia]

This is a smart signing, we are crying out for workers in our pack and this addition goes also with the theme of adding agile and mobile forwards.

Good work recruitment team!!

A bench of Walsh, Navale, Bullemor and Hetherington would be bloody awesome! Would have to be one of the most impactful benches in the comp.

I think this is the way they're likely going too, which is excellent!!!

 

[jbb/james]

Jason hetherington on the footy show with fatty vautin years ago
Had just had twins
Fatty asks, how do you tell the apart jason

By the balls fatty, he replies.
Fatty face drops

And in the most country drawl imaginable
Yep, one bawls in the morning, one bawls in the afternoon

One of them bawlers are manly bound

 

[Eagles4Life]

I read the Saints want to keep him

There is a @God

 

[Cochrane]

A bench of Walsh, Navale, Bullemor and Hetherington would be bloody awesome! Would have to be one of the most impactful benches in the comp.

I think this is the way they're likely going too, which is excellent!!!

Not sure about a half on the bemch.

 

[Eagles4Life]

Not sure about a half on the bemch.

I am thinking it might be Brooks by mid-season, with Walsh at six.

 

[Cochrane]

Yep, who ever is playing best, but a no to carrying a half on the bench

 

[StuBoot]

Who names their kid Kobe?

Just sayin’

The same guy who named his dog Deefer!

 

[TheSoaringEagle2023]

 

[TheSoaringEagle2023]

I wouldn't mind if they ship Brooks off to SL and let Maguitia have the bench spot.

 

[Eagle Eyed]

Who names their kid Kobe?

Just sayin’

Obi1

 

[47MVEagle]

Good stuff!

There’s a bit of a positive vibe flowing through the air (to paraphrase Bob Marley).

I wonder if the Seibold connection to Brisbane helped here? I remember Carrigan praising Seibold & Kobe would have been in the lower grades when Seibold was at Brisbane.

 

[Phobia]

Good stuff!

There’s a bit of a positive vibe flowing through the air (to paraphrase Bob Marley).

I wonder if the Seibold connection to Brisbane helped here? I remember Carrigan praising Seibold & Kobe would have been in the lower grades when Seibold was at Brisbane.

Careful about saying anything remotely positive about Seibold on here... Cue the wolves derailing this thread!

Wouldn't surprise me though. It seems to me like the players have a good personal relationship with Seibold. He seems like a likeable guy from all the personal accounts I've heard of him.

 

[Ron E. Gibbs]

There’s a bit of a positive vibe flowing through the air (to paraphrase Bob Marley).

Doesn't take much, does it? Just shows how desperate we all are for signs of life and/or somebody in recruitment with half a brain.

 

[Stewbojevic]

I wouldn't mind if they ship Brooks off to SL and let Maguitia have the bench spot.

I’ve thought of this but I think it would leave us with some very inexperienced halves depth

 

[Stewbojevic]

I wouldn’t mind either the Raiders or Broncos winning the comp now… give some finals winning experience to Kobe and Jamal

 

[Phobia]

I’ve thought of this but I think it would leave us with some very inexperienced halves depth

I think a better idea would be letting the Bears take Brooks and Garrick for 2027. This is also a matter of salary cap.

Nothing against either of these players, but this way, you're able to slowly develop Walsh into a first grader over the coming year, and you don't jeopardise his development. He isn't forced to play some hybrid hooker role for an extended period, and neither is Brooks. Brooks would give the Bears an effective kicking game, alongside the chief playmaker in Munster.

With regards to Garrick, this way, you could introduce the athletically gifted Onitoni Large through the centres, much like the Cowboys have done with Purdue. He's able to adapt to the NRL, whilst not overthrowing Fogarty too early. Onitoni could be moved into the halves in 2028, after a debut at some point next year, and two seasons of mentorship from the Fog. He'd be 21 that year.

Of course this is all too early to tell, but if I was the club, I'd be trying to follow a similar sort of path to this.

 

[wombatgc]

Great signing. If he’s as tough as his old man, then we are on a winner. I read somewhere that the only thing that held the signing up was getting his wife a full time job in whatever she does. Once that was secured, it’s was all good.
The ONLY thing he needs to work on is his on field discipline ( he would’ve been great in the pre-punch era). Unfortunately early on in his career Kobe was still accustomed to belting blokes in the head.
And he’s not in the Dads army age group either. A Cpl more would be nice.

 

[Buddy Love]

We missed out on all the good signings and got this guy. He is not very good average at best. Comes off the bench for the broncos. Jazz is a better player imo

 

[Rocky]

Hopefully this means it's the last time we ever see Jake in the 13 Jersey.

I would run with this pack, assuming no other signings

13 Kobe
12 Burbo
11 Haumole
10 Jake
9 Simpkin
8 TKO

Bench forwards

Paseka
Navale
Bully

Prefer having Paseka off the bench going forward, and coming on with impact, with navale and bully.

 

[Jethro]

With Tommy T and Josh going and now potentially a player coming from the Broncs does this mean our years of bargain basement tigers players might be nearing an end?

We can only hope.