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I don’t get the TSS criticism. I thought he was great for a young FRer. Ran with purpose and often found his front when being tackled.

Edited to add that his stats weren’t garnished by making a lot of wider runs or taking hitups off kickoffs. I’d assume a low error rate as well. Cue Cces hammering me with his error stats.

Noitall said:

There’s been massive excitement for the potential of Toby Crosby I’ve seen on their forum but Kalani Going is one many are talking about. I think the overall thought is they picked up some great recruits from us

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They did but the ones we kept are even better.

I know this is recruitment, so fucken ban me mods! But all I want to say is merry Christmas to all of you. I hope you are having a great start to the holiday and please all take care of one another.

Much love and cant wait to go again in 26.

Confirmation Kayliss Fatialofa is on a top 30 contract for 2026 and 2027

Honouring Sonny.

Sounds like Tom Ale and Kalani Going are going well at Penrith. I reckon Ale is going to do well there

On you tube night

El Chuckie said:

There's a couple. One is on Fox (the one above): "It's charged down, play on Warriors, charging through. Halasima...Halasima has scored for the Warriors." Bit dry.

The other one is Nine Wide World of Sport. That's the one I like: "Charged down, it ricochets, space here...look at him go! Halasima! It's on! Footwork! Trysaver! He's over!! With momentum!! Aw, Leka! Halasima for the Warriors. Can you believe what you have just seen?"
It's more like a radio commentator building up to totally losing his shit. Then Joey Johns, probably in tears, asks "Is there a defibrillator in here?"

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This is the one has the last 8 minutes but go to 10:40

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?app=desktop&v=r_S0v_JSiqA

Looks like we got a new Roache in the system. Younger bro of Nathaniel and Paul

This is also good to see.

Cces said:

Good to lock EIT in for an extra 2 seasons.
Unsure why the upgrade to the NRL part leads the story though as that was announced 12 months
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Although not shown off, it looks like everyone was back at training for the final week before the christmas break.

From the release on the Warriors website:

"He [EIT] follows Demitric Vaimauga (22), Ali Leiataua (22), Jacob Laban (21), Leka Halasima (20) and Tanner Stowers-Smith (21) with yet-to-debut second rower Kayliss Fatialofa (20) also joining the top 30 squad from 2026."

Seems like Fatialofa is in the top 30 for next year.

just fyi the details of the extension Jason Salalilo signed earlier this year, confirmed supplementary list in 2026 and top 30 in 2027 & 2028

It's gona feel good to have him back in the team. Also cool to see the warriors media staff making videos for the player's private socials.

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Everyone talks about AKP’s speed meaning tries, and yes, that’ll happen. But Webby might use him a bit differently early on.
If he plays on the Right, his main job could be kick chase. With his speed, he can be brutal chasing kicks, forcing errors and pinning teams inside their own 20. That actually fits our game plan perfectly.
Webster’s system is all about pressure and field position. AKP doesn’t need to score heaps of tries straight away to be effective, if he’s winning the chase and keeping teams stuck deep, he’s doing his job.
The tries will come later. For now, he can be a weapon just by doing the hard stuff well.

Will be interesting to see if he gets to start this year.

It’s not just about scoring tries. RTS work out the back is top 3 in the game imo.

He’s 8th for post contact meters in the comp

He’s 5th for run meters

He’s a yardage winger, that can finish very well. His leadership, and chat from his edge is supreme too. Not many tries scored down his edge this year.

AKP is nipping at the heels of first grade, but it’s not RTS spot, it’s dallins. If RTS wants to stay, it’s an absolute no brainer he’s retained.

Not to mention, albeit dubious, he won our player of the year..

Personally i think RTS played really well on the wing last year and actually got better as the year went on. His value has dropped though. It may be one of the rare instances where with him being settled and happy the team may get him for slight unders.
From all reports he's an amazing guy to have in the squad and there is real value to that. Players like RTS and JFH justify a a percentage of their value in what they do off the field. Stats alone wont back this up

Blain said:

Well the media say $500k for a winger is at the top range, I think he's a level below that. Would expect $300-$400kish. I don't think he's a money first type of guy. He got signed originally as a centre.

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According to the NRL top 100 paid list earlier this year, he was the highest paid winger in the NRL by a fair margin. Even if he did sign on for another year, it would be interesting to see how the salary cap auditors would accept a 40-50% drop from his current salary. He is not going to get any younger. I would rather we position for some younger players in the backline. That current back 3 of CNK, DWZ, RTS is amongst if not the old back 3 in the NRL. How webby transitions from those 3 to inject some youth/experience is going to be interesting to watch how it unfolds.