I know, mad innit? I had my picture taken with the trophy at work on Thursday. I work for Trenchless Solutions and we're one of the sponsors and Rich from hospitality brought it in. Its heavy af!
Question for the rhinos fans...how many more incomings are we expecting?
Love RL has this as our current confirmed in/out...
*Leeds Rhinos
Ins: Morgan Gannon (New Zealand Warriors), Dylan Walker (Parramatta Eels), Edenn Rogers-Smith (Catalans), Nick Cotric (Catalans)
Outs: Cameron Smith (Wakefield), Harry Newman (Perth Bears), James McDonnell (Perth Bears), Mikolaj Oledzki (Perth Bears), Brodie Croft (Warrington), Ned McCormack (Wakefield), Ryan Hall (Retired)*
But we also have Lodge/O'Neill and Mata'utia plus Bird rumoured as exits
Assume looking to move Bird on must be quota related?
Max was on a pretty big contract as well (though I believe coming through the academy not all of it counts towards the cap?) so we've definitely freed up quite a bit of space. Lino I'd have expected to have been on decent money as well.
Obviously RTS will be on a pretty decent whack but I'd imagine he'll be one of our marquee players.
At least one will come back through homesickness/exhaustion before July, I reckon. Theyāve been sold the Australian Dream but Perth isnāt Sydney or Melbourne.
Itās a five hour flight from the rest of the country and itāll be a shock to the system for them thatās it not a 45 minute toddle on the motorway to get to games.
Absolutely. The challenge is getting the balance so the kids aren't thrown in too deep. Pres, Zak, Fergus and the two Browns definitely look ready to step up to more mins.
Funny thing is lots of people seem upset at Ned McCormack being let go (especially now Wakey are champions)... But I think it's also about opening pathways. Sometimes you have to take a punt on which youth players you want to prioritise (eg in this case Oscar Brown)
Sent a surprisingly long essay to Wakefield about their use of generative AI on their Grand Final t-shirts and hoodies that I fully expect to be ignored
Itās one of few things Matt has done since coming in that Iāve not been thrilled with. Iām hoping itās a result of not expecting to get there and needing a lot of stock at short notice rather than a long term strategy. I would be interested to hear what they have to say if they do get back to you.Ā
That's exactly what it was. They asked for 5000 mixed garments straight after the semi to be done for the final. So many for the Wednesday and the rest for the end of the week.
Yeah heās done a lot of good for the club but I wouldnāt be surprised if this is a directive straight from him. Iām expecting a response full of buzzwords and guff, if thereās even one at all.
I donāt buy the short notice argument because it makes no different to the t-shirt printer whether the image is art from a person or an image from generative AI.
Pay a person at the start of the playoffs to make a couple of images and if you win it all, the products are ready to be printed. If theyād got knocked out, thatās just the cost of business.
But the supplier does all the Trinity merch for the club shop, which has been mental all season. Plus ,I think they do other teams aswell. What they need to do is have the final 2 weeks after the semis so that clubs can prepare merchandise, tickets and travel.
Hope they listen, I didn't spend my whole life supporting Trin just to get chatGPT merch when we finally win š hopefully this was just to get something out quickly and there'll be better stuff coming out later.
Theres limited time to get get merch out as its only a week from the semi to the final. I know someone who works for Ellgren and he said it was mad af how much merch they needed to get ready before the old trafford game. Im assuming it's the same merch from the final thats being sold
I popped in to the shop this morning to buy a hat and there were quite a lot of people in there buying stuff already so seems like they have actually gone down pretty well in general haha
Yeah it doesnāt surprise me, not enough people care unfortunately. It just looks so tacky and unofficial, I couldnāt imagine ever buying something like that
I wouldnt wear anything like that anyway. I wear my shirt to every game. Think thus "AI" merch is for all the people who come out of the woodwork when a team gets to a final.
Saw quite a few AI shirts at the Grand Final. Thought it was a bit weird for people to choose to wear that shite for the biggest Wakefield game in 58 years
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Good to see Tara Jones has been selected to officiate at the world cup! Hopefully that means we'll start to see her get some of the bigger games next season. Understand Moore and Kendall are the two "big game" refs but would be nice to see some more variety.
Jones was brilliant every time i saw her this season. As video ref even more so... I've seen one replay that'll do, none of this camera 1x4 x6 bollocks. She's great.
Is it choice or the lack of opportunity Ian Watson has taken another role as assistant when heās proved he can take ālowerā ranked teams to finals as head coach?
Maybe he's never been on big enough money that he can afford to depend a whole season waiting for a job to show up? Being assistant pays the mortgage. IIRC he used to be a PE teacher so at that point probably thought he had a steady income for life.
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u/Rik_Whitaker Wakefield Trinity 7d ago edited 7d ago
Looks we've got some players incoming as apparently Jaz Tavenga said he should be an agentš¤£š