Signings, Suggestions & Rumours Discussion

[weststigerman]

Tedesco played us mate , he knew he was going and strung us along , we also lost Paps that year

Funny how Melbourne didn't complain they were "played" when JAC and Brandon Smith left. They replaced JAC adequately and no doubt they already have someone lined up to replace Smith's role.

We lost both Tedesco and Paps and replaced them with Lolohea. That's on our management.

 

[twentyforty]

But listening to Munster speak this morning .. clearly saying his family are all back in Brisbane and they are his priority right now .. meaning .. im going to Brisbane and joining the Redcliffe Dolphins .. there are already 3 or 4 other Melbourne Storm players signed by the Dolphins so makes sense to join them.

Yes, I would be surprised if he doesn’t land at Dolphins.
When Bennett was asked where he would start recruiting it was no secret he would start with the QLD Origin team.

 

[Nadz4483]

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But the question is, would that recruitment outcome satisfy us as supporters?

can’t speak for everyone else but I would be pleasantly surprised if we could something like that off…

 

[WT2K]

Sounds like Bateman is cooked, going off of what those who watch ESL say.

 

[TheDaBoss]

Sounds like Bateman is cooked, going off of what those who watch ESL say.

Perfect
Sign him up

 

[weststigerman]

Sounds like Benji is texting everyone. Time will tell if the "spray and pray" approach works. There is a fairly good chance it will backfire.

 

[jadtiger]

Sounds like Bateman is cooked, going off of what those who watch ESL say.

His form is well short of what he was doing at Canberra,considering he would want big money i would classify him as very poor value

 

[batboy]

Funny how Melbourne didn't complain they were "played" when JAC and Brandon Smith left. They replaced JAC adequately and no doubt they already have someone lined up to replace Smith's role.

We lost both Tedesco and Paps and replaced them with Lolohea. That's on our management.

Hardly relatable.....
Storm haven't replaced JAC at all... Let alone "Adequately"

JAC asked for a release from the Storm more than a year before he left....
Teddy had a contract offer for almost the same amount of time, Before signing elsewhere.....
He used our contract as leverage keeping us on Ice for the best part of a season before letting us know that he wasn't signing.

Tedesco was never staying - And in fact did play us....

 

[Long Term Fan]

Sounds like Benji ringing around, texting around to players is akin to U2 putting their album
"Songs of Innocence" free on itunes and we all know what happened. Lots of pissed off itunes subscribers. Might have been different if album was as good as Actung Baby or Joshua Tree.

Good luck Benji as WT needs to experienced hard nose metre eating props and speedy backs.

 

[momo_amp_medo]

The love of mediocrity is now a myth. It's a love of total failure now.

You are entitled to your opinion.
Just can’t figure out why people like you need to continually push it on this forum.
We heard you the first time mate.

 

[momo_amp_medo]

Whoever was responsible for not upgrading and extending Tedesco well before he came off contract, should be sacked

We tried and offered overs. What more can you do?

 

[AdelaideTiger]

While I like the reports that Benji is sounding people out to gauge interest, can someone confirm if he is actually allowed to do that to players contracted for next year (i.e. Cam Munster) prior to Nov. 1?

 

[momo_amp_medo]

https://weststigersforum.com/threads/wests-tigers-board-ceo-discussion.33430/page-10

Here is the thread to use for Board & CEO conversations. Ill move posts over.

That’s good. Sorry I posted reply on subject without noticing.
Good work 99.

 

[momo_amp_medo]

While I like the reports that Benji is sounding people out to gauge interest, can someone confirm if he is actually allowed to do that to players contracted for next year (i.e. Cam Munster) prior to Nov. 1?

You can talk you can’t negotiate.

 

[momo_amp_medo]

If we sign Bateman, Leinu and Tedesco, retain Hastings are we a happy lot?

Fairies at bottom of the garden time.

 

[twentyforty]

You can talk you can’t negotiate.

You can’t table an offer.

 

[Jedi_Tiger]

No more Brooks at 7 … proven this year it’s not his spot.

Brooks 7 Dylan brown 6 yes for sure

 

[InBenjiWeTrust]

Brooks 7 Dylan brown 6 yes for sure

I would like to share you optimism, but Brooks had 10+ years to show that he can play, with the classy players better than D Brown e.g. Marshall, Moses, Farah, Tedesco, and he failed miserably

 

[Tiger-ferret]

While I like the reports that Benji is sounding people out to gauge interest, can someone confirm if he is actually allowed to do that to players contracted for next year (i.e. Cam Munster) prior to Nov. 1?

From what I’ve read on here is that you can talk to anyone anytime as long as you don’t put forward a contract and coerce them to break their current contract??

 

[coivtny]

You might think this post is in the wrong thread but it goes to who we should be signing. There's a book by Gary Lester called "Clouds of Dust Buckets of Blood", which is a history of the Western Suburbs Rugby League Club". In it there's a wonderfui quote from Noel Kelly in which he says:
"There wasn't one Wests player I didn't want to play with .... not one dud. I loved Wests. It is the greatest club in the world. To put a Wests jumper on was equal to wearing an Australian jumper."

Wouldn't it be great if we could say win, lose or draw, there wasn't one dud in our team. And, if we could say the players feel a great honour to play with Wests Tigers and prize the jersey highly. I said something in an earlier post about culture, or the lack of it at WT. We should be recruiting players who have these characteristics and, more important, we should be making sure our juniors are imbued with this spirit and want to play with WT above all else.

Pipedream? I hope not.