Re: DoR - New Coach - Investor & Adam - New signings : Mon Feb 10, 2025 1:18 pm  

Club have confirmed it. Think this might come back to bite us.

Not surprisingly a nothing statement.

Leaves us very short in the backrow.

Re: DoR - New Coach - Investor & Adam - New signings : Mon Feb 10, 2025 1:26 pm  

Disappointed as thought he had something about him . But there's always things behind closed doors which we are not aware of......Clearly the club have decided he can go for whatever reason........We have been banging the drum for years we are to soft on recruitment so it appears now we are being more ruthless....Maybe he wanted away ?.....So we've done the business early ?......We got to trust the process of the new regime

Re: DoR - New Coach - Investor & Adam - New signings : Mon Feb 10, 2025 2:06 pm  

Well that’s two gone who obviously can’t get up to the desired standards of fitness, just got to back Cartwrights judgement. 11 plus months on from an ACL and still not back fit should be 6-9 months, maybe question marks on his desire to get fit.

Re: DoR - New Coach - Investor & Adam - New signings : Mon Feb 10, 2025 2:08 pm  

Do find it interesting that 2 of the 'larger' players have been let go

Re: DoR - New Coach - Investor & Adam - New signings : Mon Feb 10, 2025 4:15 pm  

Hasbag wrote:

Perhaps Cartwright has also seen a lot of potential in Kirby or somebody like Lennon Clark aswell during pre season and thinks they will be able to fill a gap left by Staveley

I doubt if he has seen any potential in Fash,Laidlaw or Gardiner

Re: DoR - New Coach - Investor & Adam - New signings : Mon Feb 10, 2025 4:31 pm  

weaver93 wrote:

Disappointing IF Staveley is leaving.... My guess is he's already signed for another club, and that club has no cap space this season (probably Hull kr)
maybe we wanted to see, how his fitness is progressing, before offering a contract extension , or another club were willing to take a gamble on his fitness.
At the end of the day, im confident on the club's decision .

Think you are in the minority there backing the clubs decision
It cant be a coach decision because he hasnt had time to see him play but it seems a strange one because the club actually gave him his chance at first team level and he seemed to rise to that before his injury so given there is little in front of him now at the club in either Holmes Lane or Chamberlain it looks like he has signed for another club but will spend the season at Castleford.
My take would be that Myler knowing he cocked up with Abdull wouldnt take the chance of a new deal for Staveley so early in the season
Think we have lossed a good prospect

Re: DoR - New Coach - Investor & Adam - New signings : Mon Feb 10, 2025 4:34 pm  

bonaire wrote:

Think you are in the minority there backing the clubs decision
It cant be a coach decision because he hasnt had time to see him play but it seems a strange one because the club actually gave him his chance at first team level and he seemed to rise to that before his injury so given there is little in front of him now at the club in either Holmes Lane or Chamberlain it looks like he has signed for another club but will spend the season at Castleford.
My take would be that Myler knowing he cocked up with Abdull wouldnt take the chance of a new deal for Staveley so early in the season
Think we have lossed a good prospect

He never saw Abdull play but Cartwright got rid of him.

Re: DoR - New Coach - Investor & Adam - New signings : Mon Feb 10, 2025 4:34 pm  

Cuddleclub wrote:

Well that’s two gone who obviously can’t get up to the desired standards of fitness, just got to back Cartwrights judgement. 11 plus months on from an ACL and still not back fit should be 6-9 months, maybe question marks on his desire to get fit.

It's not just about a coaches judgement on how you play or train but about your whole application to the career and the group. You toe the line follow the instructions and get your head down with Cartwright, or your out, the coaches and physios do their bit but the players have to do theirs, that's what one of the assistant coaches told me weeks ago on this subject. And so it has been!! This is not just strong action, but also a lesson for the rest I guess!

Re: DoR - New Coach - Investor & Adam - New signings : Mon Feb 10, 2025 5:22 pm  

A hard nosed NRL coach, who’s worked in elite environments over the last twenty years, makes a decision on a player.

I’m comfortable with whatever conclusion he reaches.

Re: DoR - New Coach - Investor & Adam - New signings : Mon Feb 10, 2025 5:28 pm  

Irregs#16 wrote:

It is a really odd one. The way he is built, perhaps doesn't lend itself to this injury not repeating itself? Or, it could be what Myler was alluding to last week, the December 1st deadline for players beginning talks, and he was going to leave at the end of the year, so we thought we would release him a year early.

ACL injuries are not about your build ( I work in the injury profession) There’s a lot of speculation about why he’s going but the most obvious one is that he wants to. That would be a good reason to release him. Like most my feeling is that he’d have done well for us but if he’s not fully committed then we need him to go. As people have said we need to trust the coaches