Signings, Suggestions & Rumours Discussion

[earl]

Michelle Bishop on SEN this morning said we’re linked to David Fifita now, and Luke Brooks is 100% gone before season 2023, clubs negotiating the swap/freight at the moment

This is possibly a better option than Nanai and IP.

I hope we spend big on another edge backrower and get one of these two.

I think it's our weakest position.

 

[earl]

Except she said Andrew Fifita....

Surely not.

 

[thegbone]

Phil Gould once said 'you sign them all and worry about fitting them in later'

Seems he may have bitten off more then he can chew here

 

[batboy]

Jake Maizen is a Newcastle lad.
He's been playing Q cup and got a few meat pies for Italy the other day.

A Bellamy like signing, imo.
Grant Anderson like...

Wouldn't be expensive and would be good depth.

Those guys will cost 200k in the next Cap deal though....
Reckon the minimum wage is ion for a big up

 

[Spartan117]

I read sheens is in UK looking to recruit halfbacks to shore up that area if we lose Brooks and he's targeting Jake Maizen and Josh Mansour ?
Both these guys are wingers not sure how that bolsters are half's stocks

We will not loose Brooks, We will allow him to leave (Unlikely to retain him beyond 2023 at the current Salary).

I suggest that this article is purely click bait, The current Management appear to have finally learnt from their recruitment fails.

 

[bathursttiger1]

The dogs have a pot load of signings they haven't announced yet... Davey, Pele among them

Hmm another source. Sounds like Brooks is gone.

Can't believe how much Fifita has fallen off a cliff with his form. At the Broncos he was the best player in the NRL.

Maybe poor coaching, toxic environment, party central.
A change of scenery might change his attitude.
You don’t forget how to play football, just lose the drive and enthusiasm for various reasons.
I wouldn’t pay overs for him unless he had certain KPI’s included in a contract.

 

[batboy]

Phil Gould once said 'you sign them all and worry about fitting them in later'

Seems he may have bitten off more then he can chew here

HAHAHA..... You think?
I very much doubt it.

Everyone shot him to shit for years with his vision for Penrith....
How they doing these days?

 

[weststigerman]

On David fifita- did you really think this from was going to improve moving to titans?

If Wests Tigers is where coaches careers go to die, titans has got to be a player career killer.

And yes.. pot kettle black as a tigers club but titans is shit

I didn't expect him to be at the same level, but certainly didn't expect him to drop off as much as he did. As you said we have a similar record when players join us.

Using Peachey as an example, he was even worse with us than with the Titans.

 

[batboy]

Maybe poor coaching, toxic environment, party central.
A change of scenery might change his attitude.
You don’t forget how to play football, just lose the drive and enthusiasm for various reasons.
I wouldn’t pay overs for him unless he had certain KPI’s included in a contract.

KPI's in Player contracts are non existent....
Unless is for a half / spine player with incentives for finals / Grand finals etc.
Lower tier Players can also get a payrise if they play a certain amount of games.

Fifita wouldn't be subject to anything where KPI's would be relevant...
Even if he was, His manager wouldn't swallow it.
He's far too inconsistent.

 

[Halbrowne61]

Woods will have a crack if he gets a chance to come back. i don’t expect him to start the year in first grade but if he gets a chance i think he’ll do a job. besides, as Aubanon said earlier, if it gets Klemmer across i’m all for it.

You’re joking right ?

 

[Halbrowne61]

God help us if Shonky is targeting Mansour

Sometimes I wonder; why the f.., would he even talk to Mansour. I just don’t understand that logic, if it’s true of course.
And Woods as well.
I actually thought we might have been going forward but everything seems to be turning negative again.
I also mentioned that Kenny may be going, anyone know the facts around that little story.

 

[Halbrowne61]

Sometimes I wonder; why the f.., would he even talk to Mansour. I just don’t understand that logic, if it’s true of course.
And Woods as well.
I actually thought we might have been going forward but everything seems to be turning negative again.
I also mentioned that Kenny may be going, anyone know the facts around that little story.

Meant to say “I also saw mentioned”.
Old fat fingers himself.

 

[Jedi_Tiger]

Except she said Andrew Fifita....

She's been saying that about Brooks on that show for 18 months..

she would be the last person to listen too as batboy said she has been saying Brooks to Newcastle for 18 months

 

[TigersFan101]

Fox League are saying Angus Crichton is unsigned for next year, I thought he had struck a deal with the chooks earlier in the year

 

[Spartan117]

Phil Gould once said 'you sign them all and worry about fitting them in later'

Seems he may have bitten off more then he can chew here

Phil and the Bulldogs are very honest and history tells us that the always act with integrity.

They will find a way.

 

[Jedi_Tiger]

David Fafita would be a better option than Bateman his ESL form is not great. D Fafita and Papali in the second row that would just about be strongest in the comp

 

[Jedi_Tiger]

Fox League are saying Angus Crichton is unsigned for next year, I thought he had struck a deal with the chooks earlier in the year

Crichton signed with the Roosters about 3 weeks ago I heard

 

[thegbone]

HAHAHA..... You think?
I very much doubt it.

Everyone shot him to shit for years with his vision for Penrith....
How they doing these days?

Well after they paid massive parts out of Moylan, RCGs, Mansour, Cartwright, Latu , Merrin and Blake’s huge contracts he gave them. They have gone well.

 

[TigersFan101]

Crichton signed with the Roosters about 3 weeks ago I heard

Have a look at the fox league instagram

 

[Jedi_Tiger]

If Hastings is unsigned 1 November and Scott Woodward Analyst over at Dogs and Adam Hartigan running pathways at belmore you would think if they can move Flannagan then they will offer Hastings number 7
If Sheens is adamant about playing Hastings at 13 and he doesn't want to then he may well be belmore bound in 2024