Toronto SACK three players : Thu Jan 18, 2018 9:39 am  

https://www.loverugbyleague.com/post/toronto-sack-forward-trio/ All three I would have thought would have been important to Toronto as which club can really afford to lose three front row forwards? Question is, most clubs won't have enough cap to cover them... do any of them sound of interest to the Bulls. Dave Taylor is way off the mark as his salary alone would rule him out, but what about Bailey or Moi Moi... its been 10 years in the making... could he actually become a Bull?

https://www.loverugbyleague.com/post/toronto-sack-forward-trio/ All three I would have thought would have been important to Toronto as which club can really afford to lose three front row forwards? Question is, most clubs won't have enough cap to cover them... do any of them sound of interest to the Bulls. Dave Taylor is way off the mark as his salary alone would rule him out, but what about Bailey or Moi Moi... its been 10 years in the making... could he actually become a Bull?

Re: Toronto SACK three players : Thu Jan 18, 2018 9:42 am  

they've got experience in the division. did they pull up trees last year? they'd need to because they'd be higher earners in the squad

Re: Toronto SACK three players : Thu Jan 18, 2018 10:09 am  

Controversial, but I'd be after Bailey. We need an utter b4st4rd up front with our young squad, so long as Kear can get him to channel it properly

Re: Toronto SACK three players : Thu Jan 18, 2018 12:27 pm  

Only possible would be Bailey. Taking into account wages, age then being sacked plus the recent drugs test case I wouldn't be bothering.

Re: Toronto SACK three players : Thu Jan 18, 2018 12:41 pm  

Taylor - would cost too much and is obviously a massively bad influence on everyone around him, judging by what he was like at Catalans, never mind Toronto. Anybody signing him needs their head examining

Moi Moi - pretty much past it - but would still cost too much. Will presumably go back to Oz

Bailey - clearly two sandwiches short of a picnic, barely escaped getting banned as a drugs cheat only last week, would still demand more money that we've got to spend

I think that just about sums it up

Re: Toronto SACK three players : Thu Jan 18, 2018 1:21 pm  

bullinenemyland wrote: https://www.loverugbyleague.com/post/toronto-sack-forward-trio/ All three I would have thought would have been important to Toronto as which club can really afford to lose three front row forwards? Question is, most clubs won't have enough cap to cover them... do any of them sound of interest to the Bulls. Dave Taylor is way off the mark as his salary alone would rule him out, but what about Bailey or Moi Moi... its been 10 years in the making... could he actually become a Bull? Hang on, someone gets sacked - this close to the start of the season - and you want to sign them?! Does the fact that they got sacked not tell you anything? It should be ringing huge alarm bells and telling you to not touch them with a 20ft pole. Obviously their attitude stinks and they would do nothing but cause disruption. I don't want any of them anywhere near our club and hopefully John Kear is smart enough to think the same.

bullinenemyland wrote: https://www.loverugbyleague.com/post/toronto-sack-forward-trio/ All three I would have thought would have been important to Toronto as which club can really afford to lose three front row forwards? Question is, most clubs won't have enough cap to cover them... do any of them sound of interest to the Bulls. Dave Taylor is way off the mark as his salary alone would rule him out, but what about Bailey or Moi Moi... its been 10 years in the making... could he actually become a Bull? Hang on, someone gets sacked - this close to the start of the season - and you want to sign them?! Does the fact that they got sacked not tell you anything? It should be ringing huge alarm bells and telling you to not touch them with a 20ft pole. Obviously their attitude stinks and they would do nothing but cause disruption. I don't want any of them anywhere near our club and hopefully John Kear is smart enough to think the same.

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Re: Toronto SACK three players : Thu Jan 18, 2018 1:39 pm  

Obvs without knowing the circumstances it's difficult to comment but out of the three I'd rather have Moi Moi - provided he's still up to it. The other two have histories.

Re: Toronto SACK three players : Thu Jan 18, 2018 2:20 pm  

Nothus wrote:

Hang on, someone gets sacked - this close to the start of the season - and you want to sign them?!

Does the fact that they got sacked not tell you anything? It should be ringing huge alarm bells and telling you to not touch them with a 20ft pole.
Obviously their attitude stinks and they would do nothing but cause disruption.

I don't want any of them anywhere near our club and hopefully John Kear is smart enough to think the same.

Whilst I agree with the sentiment, it didn't stop us last year did it. The player, who was waiting to find out if he'd be sent to prison, was even made captain.

Re: Toronto SACK three players : Thu Jan 18, 2018 4:32 pm  

Nothus wrote:

Hang on, someone gets sacked - this close to the start of the season - and you want to sign them?!

Does the fact that they got sacked not tell you anything? It should be ringing huge alarm bells and telling you to not touch them with a 20ft pole.
Obviously their attitude stinks and they would do nothing but cause disruption.

I don't want any of them anywhere near our club and hopefully John Kear is smart enough to think the same.

The details have yet to emerge so who knows what the situation is. Darryl Griffin was recently sacked but later emerged texts of agreement and now looks a ploy to shed some cap to enable Hock to sign.

Personally of the four recently "sacked" players, I would take a punt at either Griffin or Moi Moi. Think despite their age they have both shown themselves to be incredibly fit and capable of doing a job we need in the front row. We need experience and leadership.

We've took gambles last year in Tonga and Moore, one turned out to be poor whilst the other turned out to be a master stroke as his experience lead that young pack around the field.

I guess it depends who Kear has got lined up in the next couple of weeks as mentioned on Mick's interview. If its Sironen (which I really hope it is) or a similar type then I think we are ok.

If its another back however I still think we are short of quality and grunt up the middle.

Re: Toronto SACK three players : Thu Jan 18, 2018 5:14 pm  

I don't think Kear is the type of coach to be drawn towards a big name player and I suspect the club can't afford a big name right now. I would expect Kear signings to be solid reliable types possibly unknown to most of us who he knows he can trust 100%. I don't see Kear as a gambler so I don't expect any of them to turn up unless they were just about free.
Also agree with above about why sacked now and what a gamble that would be. Not me thank you.