or is it the Tony Rea who got us 2 top 6 finishes and signed such crap players as Dorn, McLinden and Leauleai? short memories......

My memory goes back longer than the arrival of Mr Rea. If you think he's a good enough coach and/or CEO for a professional Rugby League club, that's fine. I don't. It's only my opinion but I feel there are a lot of posters on here who are happy not even with second best, but with second worst.

Perhaps someone can enlighten me as to who signed Kaufusi and/or Rodney, my apologies if I was wrong.

I think I am correct in saying Rea did coach them in the well organised and successful 2013 season?

I thought they were there before Rae. He took over mid season and they were there at the beginning of the season. I would suggest it was the towel but I could be wrong

I thought they were there before Rae. He took over mid season and they were there at the beginning of the season. I would suggest it was the towel but I could be wrong

I thought they were there before Rae. He took over mid season and they were there at the beginning of the season. I would suggest it was the towel but I could be wrong

Don't think he was at the Club then.

Tony Rea has only signed Soward, Tommy Lee, Hurst and one or two loan players.



He can't be blamed for Powell wasting the salary cup on 2-3 year deals for dross.

...correct. David Hughes can be though and guess who holds the purse strings for 2014?

Surely the issue in relation to the under-performance of Kaufusi and Rodney was nothing to do with any issue related to signing them, it was to do with getting them to perform to their potential when they were here. I think that they were both signed under Powell's regime or maybe even earlier, but they didn't perform for either Powell or Rea (or for me, FWIW).

Yep, the same one that signed the incumbent QLD hooker, Jason Hetherington; Kiwi Captain, Richie Barnett; origin & international Jimmy Dymock and Dennis Moran and Tony Martin at the same time. Yep, that Tony Rea.









To be Fair GF. If the person holding the purse strings says, "you have X amount of money to spend on players". That tends to be the end of their involvement. Recruitment people go and find, talk to agents, scouts etc. Our recruitment person is Tony Rea isn't it? The buck stops there.

100% correct, but in the context of my post, the problem was that the person saying you have $xxxxx to spend was David Hughes and the person he was talking to was Rob Powell





Anyhoo....rumours are that we have been granted no exceptions on the overseas quota so it's loaners from SL and a few foreigners together with the 11 or so we have already that need to get us to 12th or better.

In many ways isn't that for the best? I mean our detractors would have a field day if we were made a 'special case' (basket case more like!). This way if we finish in the top 12 nobody's going to have that to moan about.