Recruitment and Retention for 2027

[yonathonjoung]

Same junior club as Kurt Donoghoe

Butcher boys?

 

[SwoopAE]

RE SIGN JACK BOSTOCK RIGHT NOW

What a performance singlehandedly keeping Australia in this

 

[257Matt]

Butcher boys?

Yes

Kain older brother is the current Butcher Boys club captain the Anderson and Donoghoe families been a part of Butcher Boys all their lives

 

[Red]

Bostocks asking price might have just gone up about 100k.

 

[yonathonjoung]

RE SIGN JACK BOSTOCK RIGHT NOW

What a performance singlehandedly keeping Australia in this

Attacking under the high ball he was like Xavier coates. Genuinely have no answers against him. Both those kick tries were against Isaako too, and one was even a 2 on 1. On the kangaroos socials they had some pictures of training and by god bossy is as much of a specimen as I have ever seen for an outside back.

 

[mr_c]

Never heard of him until now. Signed from which club?

raiders played in last game against us last year that raiders rested players hes handy player , deserved more time in nrl

 

[mr_c]

I assume he's a min wage depth signing but if the coach sees something in him hopefully he has what it takes

Barring any craziness our starting back 5 is pretty locked in for 2027 with Hammer/Naufahu/Bostock/Herbie/Cobbo at full strength but it's good to have depth

Has anyone seen much of him playing?

yeah he will be but with the way we get injurys having next man up with nrl ready experince seems to be proving gold for us

 

[257Matt]

I assume he's a min wage depth signing but if the coach sees something in him hopefully he has what it takes

Barring any craziness our starting back 5 is pretty locked in for 2027 with Hammer/Naufahu/Bostock/Herbie/Cobbo at full strength but it's good to have depth

Has anyone seen much of him playing?

This year the depth pecking order was Averillo, Fuller, Naufahu and Nonu the latter season was constantly ripped by a pre-season training mishap that never fully got right. Nonu if he wasn't injured would have made his NRL debut this year and he was very close to a debut in 2025 despite starting the season on an Academy deal.

Now the pecking order will be Fuller, Nonu, Anderson and Lavender and I suspect the latter like Pouniu will eventually make the full-time transition to the second-row.

I would be finding a spot in the team now for Pouniu to me he's one of those talents that just has to be there. I think Lemuelu will be moved on end of next year and also the time for Woolf to have the conversations he doesn't want to have eg moving Knowles on. He's in a position where Dolphins are overloaded with high quality in Plath and Donoghoe and there's also Fineanganofo coming through the system who's pretty much taking the Donoghoe path of a couple years back playing and standing out in the lock position for Capras whilst filling in for NRL at dummy half.

 

[257Matt]

Last year Dolphins only filled 28 of their Top 30 spots.

Dolphins never confirmed which players from Development got promoted. Fineanganofo was a known to be one the others you assume Symonds and Garton as they're now on Top 30 deals.

SIGNINGS/PROMOTIONS vs DEPARTURES
Kain Anderson (Raiders) IN Jamayne Isaako (Storm) OUT
John Fineanganofo (Dev/Sup) IN Jake Averillo (Wests Tigers) OUT
Zac Garton (Dev/Sup) IN Daniel Saifiti (retired) OUT
Kilarney Lavender (Academy) IN Oryn Keeley (Storm) OUT
Lewis Symonds (Dev/Sup) IN Ray Stone (retired) OUT
George Williams (Warrington) IN Kodi Nikorima (Dragons) OUT

Player 29 really needs to be a front rower and Player 30 you keep up your sleeve.

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[Liverbird with Phins up]

Dolphins sign Kain Anderson from the Raiders. Outiside back

Kain Anderson becomes a Dolphin

Canberra Raiders' outside back Kain Anderson will become a Dolphin after signing with the club through to the end of 2028.

www.dolphinsnrl.com.au