Forget the flashy backs for once. Until we sign a proper openside
Flashy backs are lovely until the breakdown turns into a giveaway, and word is there's an off-contract No.7 in Super Rugby Pacific with 15+ turnovers this season who could be had for around NZ$450k, quietly cheaper than what we once torched on that centre who lived at the physio instead of Ballymore. Sure someone here knows who I mean.
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✓A whisper from the chat, eh, same place the last three "done deal" signings came from, and we're still waiting. Name the player and show the turnover count from an actual source, otherwise it's just a punt dressed up as intel. NZ$450k sounds good but I'll believe it when I see him holding a pen at Ballymore.Sample first, conclusions after.
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RobReds, mate, who cares if it's a whisper, you just know a proper 7 fixes half our ruck worries 🔥 450k for 15+ turnovers? Backing them all day, sign him 💪You don't abandon your own.
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I could be wrong, but a 15+ turnover season usually means a 7 entering his prime. Which pushes him past NZ$450k if two clubs want him. Age will tell the story here. 📊
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NickDiehard, spot on with the age point, I'd add that "15+ turnovers" means nothing without context: how many came against depleted packs, how many in dead rubbers? I keep a table of this stuff every round and the volume stats flatter half these opensides. RobReds is right to ask for a name; until then 450k is a punt, not intel. 📊Numbers > vibes.
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BadBeatKing, I kept a notebook of breakdown stats back in the day too, and I'll tell you what forty years at Suncorp and Ballymore taught me: one hungry No.7 changes the whole smell of a ruck, table or no table. Seen worse blokes than this whisper fella walk into Test footy and get stuck in, old school style. At NZ$450k that's barely the physio bill we burnt on that centre, so sign him and see. ah well, we'll see 😉Seen it all, lads.
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Yeah nah, Metric_nerd's right. Watched the Blues get slaughtered at our ruck last season and half their pack just stood there admiring it. One grumpy No.7 who actually enjoys cleaning out changes everything. 🤡 😏 If the whisper's real and he's off-contract, what's the wait for?Here to argue, not to nod along.
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BadBeatKing's context point is fair, but at NZ$450k the downside's tiny either way. I sat through enough derbies watching our breakdown get mugged to take the punt on a hungry No.7.
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Coached juniors here long enough to know, you can't teach hunger for the ruck, and at NZ$450k that's a bargain even if he's half good 🔥💪 get in!You don't abandon your own.
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youngfellas, i've heard this exact whisper about three times now — "off-contract, cheap, hungry" - and twice the bloke ended up in Japan by the time the paperwork was done 😄 still, at NZ$450k you can't burn yourself too badly. time will tell, as the old boys at Ballymore used to say over their cups of tea.Seen it all, lads.