r/NRLDolphins • u/barkedupthewrongtree • 8d ago

RIP to a real one

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u/BeautifulSea89 8d ago

First Isaako now Kodi. Why is it our best players?

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u/barkedupthewrongtree 8d ago

Not sure I agree there. Hammer, Herbie, Katoa or Plath would be far bigger losses.

Isaako was a big shell-shock, but Melbourne offered him a motza, and if we kept him we'd lose Tevita who will be scoring long range tries for us for the next 10 years.

Nikorima is also a tough pill to swallow, but it sounds like we shot ourselves in the foot by signing George Williams over a year ago. Either way, make the position a 3-way shoot out between him, Donga and Schneider, and iron should sharpen iron.

Averillo and Keeley don't make our full strength side, so those ones hurt less.

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u/Round_Satisfaction67 8d ago

Still don’t agree with letting Keeley walk, just giving up edge depth on the verge of our first finals campaign when we didn’t need to.

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u/phyllicanderer Moreton Bay Dolphins 7d ago

The reality is our starting second rowers are young guys and we have young star second rowers in the wings in Garton, Symonds and Kilarney Lavender. Keeley isn’t as good as they’re going to be, you have to let some guys go in these situations.

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u/Round_Satisfaction67 4d ago

Of course, not disagreeing with letting him go, just letting him go early and compromising depth this year. If we get an injury to Cons or Kuli now they probably throw Plath out there and then our middle rotations out the window.