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I'd support Haas signing but the price tag would cripple us and any other club that signs him. I'd say it's poor salary cap management tbh.

Young T is back at the club
No annoucement yet

foxy_storm wrote: ↑Wed Jun 08, 2022 3:01 pm Young T is back at the club
No annoucement yet

In a playing capacity or some other off field role ?

Train and trial will play for falcons when not in purple

His wife posted a photo of him in storm gear yesterday and I thought she was just posting an old photo turns out he is actually back …love it all the good ones come back home

https://www.melbournestorm.com.au/news/ ... -at-storm/

Now offical

Let's play him at right centre until Reimis Smith is back

Better be a bit more flexible with the cheque book, Munster is on

Olam has re-signed until the end of 2026

Four years is a long time

He'll be our 3rd most capped outside back by the end of it after Geyer and Chambers

blazza18 wrote: ↑Mon Jun 13, 2022 6:30 pm Four years is a long time

More concerned about the 4 years given to Howarth. Olam is the least of our worries.

Lucas wrote: ↑Mon Jun 13, 2022 6:48 pm

blazza18 wrote: ↑Mon Jun 13, 2022 6:30 pm Four years is a long time

More concerned about the 4 years given to Howarth. Olam is the least of our worries.

Seriously…this concern is a non event imo. Howarth isn’t a centre…he’s going to be a backrower and he ain’t ready for FG yet. Plus our current BRs are doing a decent job. CB and FP locked him in for 5 years to keep other teams off him for when he is FG ready and is actually playing decent footy. He may not be ready until late 2022 or even 2023. Just give him space to learn his craft in QCup…there’s no rush.

Four more years of Justin Olam... woo hoo.

Storm Spirit wrote: ↑Mon Jun 13, 2022 7:28 pm

Lucas wrote: ↑Mon Jun 13, 2022 6:48 pm

blazza18 wrote: ↑Mon Jun 13, 2022 6:30 pm Four years is a long time

More concerned about the 4 years given to Howarth. Olam is the least of our worries.

Seriously…this concern is a non event imo. Howarth isn’t a centre…he’s going to be a backrower and he ain’t ready for FG yet. Plus our current BRs are doing a decent job. CB and FP locked him in for 5 years to keep other teams off him for when he is FG ready and is actually playing decent footy. He may not be ready until late 2022 or even 2023. Just give him space to learn his craft in QCup…there’s no rush.

Will say it’s weird that he keeps playing in the centres if the club doesn’t view him as one in first grade.

It’s a shame for the fan base that we don’t know anything about his development tbh. I think you’re right and we need to be patient but we get all this speculation and angst because we’re never told anything.

blazza18 wrote: ↑Mon Jun 13, 2022 10:56 pm

Storm Spirit wrote: ↑Mon Jun 13, 2022 7:28 pm

Lucas wrote: ↑Mon Jun 13, 2022 6:48 pm
More concerned about the 4 years given to Howarth. Olam is the least of our worries.

Seriously…this concern is a non event imo. Howarth isn’t a centre…he’s going to be a backrower and he ain’t ready for FG yet. Plus our current BRs are doing a decent job. CB and FP locked him in for 5 years to keep other teams off him for when he is FG ready and is actually playing decent footy. He may not be ready until late 2022 or even 2023. Just give him space to learn his craft in QCup…there’s no rush.

Will say it’s weird that he keeps playing in the centres if the club doesn’t view him as one in first grade.

It’s a shame for the fan base that we don’t know anything about his development tbh. I think you’re right and we need to be patient but we get all this speculation and angst because we’re never told anything.

I am an armchair expert of course, but I would imagine playing Centres is more of a specialized position compared to a backrower? (happy to be proven otherwise). If you are big, strong and fast you can play backrow with your eyes closed. I would say the Centre experiment is to give him more skills while he physically matures even though he is built like a brick shit house.
I also view his long term contract as mentioned by Storm Spirit, hands off while he develops so we dont have another Tino situation where an elite forward is snatched.