Signings, Suggestions & Rumours Discussion

[sleeve]

Watched the interview with Adam on Tigers site , they ask him about his contract and I don’t think he was happy about it , said he’s got nothing to do with it leaving It to his manager , I think he will sign else where and head for early depart in Off-season , need another player signed I think as he won’t stay

No big loss, average at best, - name me a 5/8 who is worse ?

 

[weststigerman]

As far as supposedly available props for 2023, who would you prefer out of Andrew Fifita, Klemmer, Frizell, Woods, or Tamou? If you could only pick one...

Klemmer and it’s not close.

 

[sleeve]

He'd have options. Could see storm picking him up

Are you serious ? They only sign Fast ,Clever, Tough spine players, he is none of those. No one bar the Tigers would pay him what he;s on now!

 

[Jedi_Tiger]

If we can get Klemmer from Newcastle he is just what we need

 

[RonDingo]

If he leaves, need to get Sheens to interview the bloke for 5 hours and find out why. Every gory detail. Winners just don’t stay at our club.

To say he is a winner is a bit of a stretch (alot of potential to become one), in my opinion he has not really achieved anything notable yet in his still early career.

He talks a big game and puts on a face that he is a club man and wants to put in the hard yards so it will be very interesting to see if he has the fortitude to execute.

 

[Pbulk]

Frizell is going back to Dragons, going to swap with Sua. Klemmer is on the way out, hopefully coming here.

This obviously hasn't been confirmed but seems to be all but done according to those in the know

 

[batboy]

In h

To say he is a winner is a bit of a stretch (alot of potential to become one), in my opinion he has not really achieved anything notable yet in his still early career.

He talks a big game and puts on a face that he is a club man and wants to put in the hard yards so it will be very interesting to see if he has the fortitude to execute.

In is best ever season for us - He wins 40% of the time....
Kid can play...
Might even improve if he ever learns it ain't all about him.

People saying he's on the hop to a better team - To Where? Which one?

There's not one team in the top 8 that he'll take the 6 jersey
- Even at the Storm, He "might" be a "Chance" "IF" Munster moves on - Or position (But they ain't getting rid of Paps) outside that, Maybe the Sharks
- They can fit him.... The rest, They've already got better.

Now he could move out of state (Out of home) to another team (That he doesn't know)
- Where he's not a local junior and is basically a nobody....

Or - He can pull his head in a touch, Shut the F*ck up and get it done here....
I'm not fussed if he stays or goes - If it's all "Too Hard" for him, He mays well get packing.

 

[stryker 69]

And that's only if the so called Juniors develop into 1st grade players...and that's a big IF?

Who is going to help mentor them as they come through?
Joffa? He may be leaving
Jacko? He may be leaving
Tamou? Likely retiring
Brooks? 🤣
Noffa? 🤣🤣
etc….

 

[Halbrowne61]

Who is going to help mentor them as they come through?
Joffa? He may be leaving
Jacko? He may be leaving
Tamou? Likely retiring
Brooks? 🤣
Noffa? 🤣🤣
etc….

Good point but for all our sakes would love to see a confirmed list of who is staying and who is actually going, otherwise we’re going to speculate ourselves into an early grave !

 

[tony soprano]

Hopefully we start getting more info once the season is over.

When do they start hitting up new membership.

Sell me hope sell me hope.

 

[stryker 69]

Hopefully we start getting more info once the season is over.

When do they start hitting up new membership.

Sell me hope sell me hope.

Cuckold

 

[stryker 69]

Good point but for all our sakes would love to see a confirmed list of who is staying and who is actually going, otherwise we’re going to speculate ourselves into an early grave !

Are we going to know this year? Not till after the WC I’d suspect.

 

[Demps]

Who is going to help mentor them as they come through?
Joffa? He may be leaving
Jacko? He may be leaving
Tamou? Likely retiring
Brooks? 🤣
Noffa? 🤣🤣
etc….

Api 👑

 

[stryker 69]

Api 👑

Yes that makes 1

 

[Demps]

Yes that makes 1

Based on the current roster and expected roster,

The only one.

 

[Stevec]

WWOS .The mole saying tigers have 3 or 4 more seasons of pain till till the juniors pay dividends
Who the hell is the mole?
Anyway it seems that 2 key strategies are locking us in to this dynasty of mediocre
1. We build a COE which is not a home ground but a nice gym and practise field and that will make us an attractive destination and as such we recruit lot of big guns
2. We will develop our juniors and when we uncover a few budding stars they will be loyal to Wests Tigers and we have great future roster

Seems to me that the COE won't make a dramatic difference to our roster
Most clubs main method to jump from the bottom to the finals is to recruit some stars .Weve recruited 2 (I hope) .
I can't endure 3 or 4 more seasons of this fiasco

 

[cochise]

WWOS .The mole saying tigers have 3 or 4 more seasons of pain till till the juniors pay dividends
Who the hell is the mole?
Anyway it seems that 2 key strategies are locking us in to this dynasty of mediocre
1. We build a COE which is not a home ground but a nice gym and practise field and that will make us an attractive destination and as such we recruit lot of big guns
2. We will develop our juniors and when we uncover a few budding stars they will be loyal to Wests Tigers and we have great future roster

Seems to me that the COE won't make a dramatic difference to our roster
Most clubs main method to jump from the bottom to the finals is to recruit some stars .Weve recruited 2 (I hope) .
I can't endure 3 or 4 more seasons of this fiasco

The Mole is Tony Adams and is actually close to Tim Sheens.

 

[jadtiger]

Good point but for all our sakes would love to see a confirmed list of who is staying and who is actually going, otherwise we’re going to speculate ourselves into an early grave !

Shonky Sheens is staying but it does not make me feel any better

 

[weststigerman]

WWOS .The mole saying tigers have 3 or 4 more seasons of pain till till the juniors pay dividends
Who the hell is the mole?
Anyway it seems that 2 key strategies are locking us in to this dynasty of mediocre
1. We build a COE which is not a home ground but a nice gym and practise field and that will make us an attractive destination and as such we recruit lot of big guns
2. We will develop our juniors and when we uncover a few budding stars they will be loyal to Wests Tigers and we have great future roster

Seems to me that the COE won't make a dramatic difference to our roster
Most clubs main method to jump from the bottom to the finals is to recruit some stars .Weve recruited 2 (I hope) .
I can't endure 3 or 4 more seasons of this fiasco

I remember Marina Go saying the same thing in 2015. This club doesn’t really care about success.

 

[earl]

WWOS .The mole saying tigers have 3 or 4 more seasons of pain till till the juniors pay dividends
Who the hell is the mole?
Anyway it seems that 2 key strategies are locking us in to this dynasty of mediocre
1. We build a COE which is not a home ground but a nice gym and practise field and that will make us an attractive destination and as such we recruit lot of big guns
2. We will develop our juniors and when we uncover a few budding stars they will be loyal to Wests Tigers and we have great future roster

Seems to me that the COE won't make a dramatic difference to our roster
Most clubs main method to jump from the bottom to the finals is to recruit some stars .Weve recruited 2 (I hope) .
I can't endure 3 or 4 more seasons of this fiasco

The COE is a red herring. It's useless when it comes to recruiting or actually improving the team. We probably need it but it's basically meaningless. The old statement of 10 kg is 10kg is true.

Point 2 is the key way forward. If we could recruit quality players we would but we can't. I should qualify this statement. We've recruited 2 high quality players that will make a difference to our team and even a significant difference.

We can't though recruit a team full of established players because the only way we recruit established quality players is picking up established quality players who for some reason are underpaid and typically living in Sydney.

We have a 3rd strategy as well. That strategy is don't play the game the same way the other teams are playing it. That is why we are moving Hastings to lock and basically playing 3 halves which clearly means we have a small pack.

We need gun juniors coming through but to be fair to the club I can't remember how long it has been since we blooded juniors of the quality that we have this year. Our problem is the Rorters blood players like Sualli and Walker. I'm feeling more confident though in this approach.