George Williams (Wigan) going there next season. Canberra coach wants him to partner Wighton & not Sezer. Also think they will have salary cap issues if they keep all their halves.

Watched a lot of Sezer as I'm a Raiders fan. Had a good year this year, and has been much more consistent than previous seasons. In fact it's probably the best I've seen him this season.

If he can maintain that consistency if he joins you then you'll have a very good HB. If he reverts to the way he was a few seasons ago, he may be a little frustrating to watch. Regardless, quality HB's are like gold dust at the moment, and you'll have a top one for next season if you pull the signing off.

Not me, i always questioned giving a three year contract to a winger when we had mcg, mcintosh and the two seniors. Without knowing mcintosh going to FB it meant 3 good cheapish prospects would not get a game and would leave (crystal ball did not show injuries)

Sorry to bring up this long standing subject again but it is being reported in the Australian Daily Telegraph (approx. 1 hour ago) that he is leaving Canberra and signing with us with immediate effect!

DJ says he’s not coming.

We would need a NF trained spot to be made available.
One of Edwards, Gavet, frawley, seb, uate, matagi taai must go.

As I have said before don't think Frawley is coming back from Oz. However if you could enlighten me Jools on whether Sezer , having a Turkish father & having played for Turkey in 2018, qualifies under "non NF trained spot" or whatever its called. Cheers

Does the article actually say it is with us or another SL side? Paywall for the telegraph so can’t see and I know HKR are in the lookout for a half as well?!

I can't get onto the article either but on a headline for it I found, it does actually state Huddersfield.

He would definitely class a non Federation trained player as he played his academy years in Aus. As for whether he fills an overseas quota spot The EU don’t have a free movement of people agreement with Turkey but I’m not sure of the legalities of the association agreement the EU has with Turkey so cannot say for sure. Someone else may know.

League weekly says Ikahifho is a target for Salford.

Just had a nosy on the Salford forum
Saw this regarding a quote made by a Salford director on the rugby league article “Paul King spoke at the Supporters Trust event last night. He said they are definitely not on for Keinhorst and he has no idea where the story came from and the first he heard of it was in the league express article. He also said “as for the other player named in the article - no comment”.
So that sounds like Salford are interested in Seb- which would free up a quota spot......

He has been offered to every super league club Jools, Salford look to be the club interested now - He was offered to Wakefield, with Hudds still paying 40% of his wages for next season but I think even with paying the 60% he was still out of the price range we would have taken him at.

Not sure if Salford have negotiated the % further but I know Hudds are desperate to get him off the cap and quota and it now looks more than likely to be to make way for Sezer.

Cheers Jools & regards the info on the Salford fans forum. There's also lots of comments on the Canberra fans forum regards Sezer at the moment if anyone is interested.

As far as i'm aware Sezer signed his contract on Saturday but we cant send the paperwork to the RFL until we move one of the overseas players on.

League Express reporting Salford have signed Ikahihifo on a season long loan, presumably to free up the overseas spot for Sezer.

But he’s not coming according to DJ.

Can’t be right all the time like you jools, must be hard being right all the time, for the record he signed last week and couldn’t be registered until seb left, Aldo while on it you are way off on your call on the Kruise situation

No you can’t always be right- the difference is, I don’t claim to be in the know, slipping out secrets from my employers (Or at least things that have yet to be made formal) whilst talking about the MD of the company in less than glowing terms.

And who’s Aldo?

Was last day last Friday jools so won’t have to worry about me slipping any secrets out

They’ve got rid of the mole then.

This forum is such a joy

For those of you interested in stats, see the facts (2019 season) on our potential new signing on the Canberra Raiders fans forum. Some good, some average & some indifferent.

When was the last time we signed a player truly at the top of their game- I mean thought of as one of the best at the time we signed them in their position- I can’t think of one who comes close In the last 25 years except brough.

The last player I can think of is Brett Hodgson.

Brett was a fabulous player- Was he really at the top of his game when we signed him though?
I doubt we’d ever sign anyone from aus at that level of their career. Can’t compete wage wise.