Right, lads, who's our dream signing at first five-eighth once the
Reckon the talk about a certain Wellington playmaker going quiet on contract talks is worth keeping an eye on, lads. Nothing confirmed, just word is his manager's stopped returning calls and that sort of silence usually means something's brewing. Wouldn't mind seeing him run the ship at Rugby Park in red and black, tbh, imagine him pulling the strings for our backline in a derby night under the lights.
Anyway, thought I'd toss it out there before someone else claims they broke the story first. Half of you will say I read it off a rumour page and the other half will have already chucked a multi on it at the TAB. 😂
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✓Manager stops returning calls and suddenly we're signing him? Source on that? Half the Wellington squad goes quiet in winter.
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Imagine him running it at Rugby Park 😱🔥 we've been crying out for a proper first five since... yeah. Would gut the Canes too 💪In the stands since I was a kid.
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GloryDays has a point about winter silence, but I'd add a bit of context to the age profile before anyone gets carried away. I could be wrong, but my read is this: the worry with any playmaker switching unions mid-career is the adjustment curve, new patterns, new midfield outside him, and our attack took three seasons to bed in last time we changed the first five. If the contract talk has genuinely gone quiet, that's usually a negotiation tactic more often than a done deal, for what it's worth. Where I'd temper UncleAllDay slightly: a signing like that only works if the salary fits under the cap and he's comfortable sitting behind our game management rather than being the show. The tape says he's best when he plays flat off a dominant forward pack, we've got that, so on football logic it stacks up. On logistics? I'd put it as maybe one in four from here, and I've tracked enough of these window rumours in my own spreadsheet to know the quiet ones go both ways 📊Do the math before you argue.
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ChrisDiehard, the adjustment curve cuts both ways though, half our problem the last few seasons has been playmakers who knew the system too well and just recycled it. Someone arriving with fresh patterns might actually fix the predictability we've seen in the second half of the season. Small sample, granted, but the mid-career switches I've tracked tend to level out by round 6-8 anyway; that's fewer games than people assume. What I'd actually needle GloryDays on: he says half the Wellington squad goes quiet in winter, fine, but how many of those half have a manager who's suddenly unreachable AND a positional need at our end that's been screaming for two seasons? Two metrics telling the same story is different from one. I keep my own table on this sort of thing 📊 and the pattern's rarer than the skeptics suggest. Stirring the pot? Maybe a bit. But I'd put a few NZ$ on this being more than winter noise.
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Fresh patterns, aye? Back in my day we called that a bloke who hadn't learned the calls yet. Seen worse ideas, but patience, lads 😉Been here longer than some have followed.
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Him winding up the Canes fans by even talking to us would be worth the price of admission alone 😏 what's the TAB line on this one landing, anyone got eyes on it?
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FixIsInPTSD has a point, we've been crying out for someone who'd actually test the line instead of reloading the same loop. My caveat: only if he's coming to play, not just chasing a cheque. I was at a trial a few years back when a big-name import phoned it in for forty minutes and I want no repeat of that.Sample first, conclusions after.
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RobReds nailed it tbh, bloke has to want the red and black, not just a bigger pay packet 🖤 if he's leaving the Canes cos he's choked on the big moments down there, fine, but if he comes here thinking he's made it... nah. Mate of mine reckons he's got the stones for it, and idk, heart says it all here - imagine him carving up at Addington 🔥 ⚪️⚫️Heart with the team, head on pause.
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RobReds nailed it tbh, bloke has to want the red and black, not just a bigger pay packet 🖤 if he's leaving the Canes cos he's choked on the big moments down there, fine, but if he comes here thinking he's made it... nah.…@GloryDaysLoyal spot on mate, hunger beats a fat contract every time 💪 remember when our lot never make it easy, we picked up a big name years back who just coasted, worst season I ever watched from the terraces. If he turns up with fire in the belly he'd be magic, if he's here for the cheque and the sunshine, nah 🔥Heart with the team, head on pause.
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Seen a few of these quiet-contract rumours die on the vine over the years, lads. Time will tell, aye 😄Watch as long as I have and you'll get it.
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Seen a few of these quiet-contract rumours die on the vine over the years, lads. Time will tell, aye 😄@OldSchoolEst66 aye, half these whispers never get off the ground 😂 still, if there's real smoke I'm backing it all day. Hunger's the key bit for me 💪You don't abandon your own.
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@GloryDaysLoyal spot on mate, hunger beats a fat contract every time 💪 remember when our lot never make it easy, we picked up a big name years back who just coasted, worst season I ever watched from the terraces. If he t…@SamUltra totally with you mate, seen that movie before and it does my head in 😤 bloke coasts on reputation and the young fellas in the squad learn all the wrong habits. Give me a hungry kid out of club footy who'll bust a gut at training over a big name on cruise control tbh 🔥 ah well, nowt to do but wait and see if the smoke's realOn the terraces since I was a kid.