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The frenzy of golf equipment to squeeze rival gamers into their squads forward of the switch deadline to spice up their title hopes has irked Darren Lockyer, leaving the rugby league legend irritated by the “unusual type of really feel”.
Lockyer has expressed his disappointment within the late-season swoops of some golf equipment earlier than the August 1 deadline, after Wests Tigers allowed for David Nofoaluma to hitch the Storm for the rest of the season and Oliver Gildart to slide on Roosters colors.
Lockyer additionally questioned if Melbourne’s bid for Canterbury speedster Josh Addo-Carr, which amounted to nothing, was “honest dinkum”.
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“I do not know if I just like the optics of it,” Lockyer stated on 9’s 100% Footy.
“I keep in mind final yr and Tevita (Pangai Junior), who left the Broncos. He went to Penrith and he did not play within the grand last as a result of he obtained injured. You have a look at him in a Broncos jersey, comes over and performs 4 video games after which goes right into a finals sequence.
“The optics for me do not look nice.”
Melbourne was determined to land a participant of Nofoaluma’s ilk as a result of its exterior backs had been ravaged by damage, with Reimis Smith, George Jennings and Xavier Coates all being struck down.
Gildart bolsters the Roosters’ shares after exterior again Billy Smith suffered a season-ending knee damage.
Phil Gould backed up Lockyer as he additionally condemned exploitation of the revised switch deadline, which was pushed again from June 30 to August 1 on the cusp of the 2021 season.
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“You get to August, you get to the tip of July and the top-four groups begin feeding on the bottom-four groups saying, ‘Your season’s over. Give us your greatest couple of gamers and we will positive up our jobs’,” Gould stated on 100% Footy.
“That is not what it needs to be, that is not what it was for.
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“The June 30 (deadline) was moved due to COVID, as a result of mortgage gamers had been necessary.
“We needed to replenish the Warriors facet, (the) Bulldogs ran out of gamers as a result of they had been up there (in Queensland) in isolation.
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“There was no junior-league soccer, there was no reserve-grade soccer … we had been attempting to get everybody a sport of soccer, we had been attempting to maintain the golf equipment sured up, there was no depth to convey (gamers) by means of and develop.
“That is what it was for — it was a mortgage system for COVID, not for the top-four groups to feed on those that they need to make their premiership groups higher.”
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