Signings, Suggestions & Rumours Discussion

Stevec said:
I see the Klemmer thing is not on at least for 2023 . I'm not surprised yet I still. read lots of fantasy recruitment Moses , Dylan Brown and even Burton let's face it recruitment is hard and yet few want to admit it and soul-search why ?
On Oct 18 I expressed some views on this but no one challenged and I would love someone to debate me
So I'm clear Wests Tigers have an NRL side and a Jersey Flegg side
Western Suburbs Magpies have a NSW cup side and a SG Ball and Harold Mathews side and Balmain has a SG Ball side .
We are just not where top nrl stars want to go and its not to do with the spoon
just look at the dogs . I feel ONE club One name gives our profile more power
If someone disagrees and feel that Cup ,Ball and Matt's sides should be called magpies tell me why and how it helps
The JV was taking the Wests from one club and the Tigers from the other and when mixed together a club called Wests Tigers is born and that is the club I support
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It is not simpy the spoon but year upon year of failure. No clear plan on how or why the team will improve and the continued instability of the club. Recruiting established stars has absolutely nothing to do with how our junior systems are run or named. The would be recruit is already beyond that level and most likely has no ties to our junior system. Why would they care about any of it?
(Admittedly i don't truly know the set up, but) I can see more arguments against merging our junior sides than for it.
The arguments for is one club with clear pathways and a style of football to be played the whole way through. It has some merit but, in my opinion very little. It would ease players moving through the different grades mid-season. I certainly believe that the structures in place in first grade should be replicated in reserve grade (i dont care what name the reserve grade plays under) but below that i don't see the need to make it club wide.
The arguments against merging juniors is that it keeps the pre-merger identities. By this i dont simply mean as Balmain Tigers and Wests Magpies but i mean as a sense of our club being a part to each community. This is needed to ensure the next generation in these areas grow up to be Wests Tigers fans. More importantly, this also allows us to continue to draw talent from two areas instead of limiting it to just the one. Quite simply we would have a difficult time convincing any Balmain kids to travel to Campbelltown 2 or 3 times a week to train or vice versa. Worse still would be trying to convince them all to go to Concord and losing our identity and attachment to both areas.
 
LM, I remember Wayne Erickson fondly he ran the touch line when Gregan denied jeff Wilson in the '94 bledisloe. He was my neighbour, west harbour old boy too 🙏🏼
Lidcombe_Magpie1 said:
The Centre probably have been Rory Sidey he played for NSW Waratahs, maybe even Timau Tahu. I think Timau and Lote Tuqiri played together at the Pirates. Finau Filaau was brilliant - Catchpole medal winner if I remember correctly
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jirskyr said:
That's baloney and I'll repeat the sequence of events again, for about the 10th time.

Jason Taylor was head coach in 2015 when Tigers scouted JAC from Sharks Toyota Cup. You are trying to argue that the head coach who oversaw a junior signing wanted to keep him in reserve grade? Baloney.

JAC played 4 FG games prior to signing with Melbourne, and they announced him the day after his 4th appearance. He played rounds 7, then 11-13 before signing with Melbourne. JAC went on to play another 9 matches, which again is fairly considerable for a guy that apparently the head coach thought was a reserve-grader.

Furthermore Rankin played in 7/9 matches that JAC played, including the first 3 (i.e. JAC was not a Rankin injury replacement).

So your recount of events is custard.
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Yeah but you can’t argue with the fact that Taylor is still one of the worst things that happened to this club.
 
Stevec said:
You seem to be saying that both my statements are correct but that there is no connection between them . Fair enough that's your point of view . I think we have offered a number of players good coin .
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So let me get this straight. You believe players are knocking us back because of what our lower grades are called.
 
happy_tiger said:
Yeah I rarely watched NYC games ...but when I did Milone looked a superstar in the making and his build reminded of Renouf ...a bloke who I had seen close up in 1986 being in the same Qld schoolboy side ..had shocking hands for a few years ...but when he grabbed it ..watch out
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Just for you Happy, I found this photo circa 2015 with young superstars Matt Lodge and Nathan Milone. I have blacked out the good looking bloke that was in the middle to protect my identity.Lodge & Milone.JPG
 
diedpretty said:
hardly a dinosaur. I'd say you are referring to Mick Lubinskas who played with both Wests and Balmain. people on here always whingeing about no football nous on the board. And yes from reports he did resign over naming issues and has put his talents totally to Wests Ashfield and the Magpies.
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People complain that there's no football nous on the Board, because the Board has never overseen success.
 
WT2K said:
Welcome to WT, Napa 🔥
L’Independant reported: “(Catalans) management told Dylan Napa and Josh Drinkwater that they would not be retained despite a year of contract, which brings the number of departures to twelve pending the recruitment of three to four additional players.”
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Please no.
 
jirskyr said:
That's baloney and I'll repeat the sequence of events again, for about the 10th time.

Jason Taylor was head coach in 2015 when Tigers scouted JAC from Sharks Toyota Cup. You are trying to argue that the head coach who oversaw a junior signing wanted to keep him in reserve grade? Baloney.

JAC played 4 FG games prior to signing with Melbourne, and they announced him the day after his 4th appearance. He played rounds 7, then 11-13 before signing with Melbourne. JAC went on to play another 9 matches, which again is fairly considerable for a guy that apparently the head coach thought was a reserve-grader.

Furthermore Rankin played in 7/9 matches that JAC played, including the first 3 (i.e. JAC was not a Rankin injury replacement).

So your recount of events is custard.
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The way I read the JAC signing with the Storm was: Frank Ponissi came to Sydney earlier in the week that we played the Storm and signed JAC before he made his debut against them.
 
I was friends with his daughter
She attended MLC college.
Sensational, thanks for the msg
How good. Storied career, Wayne
 
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Thaiger said:
I don’t know our juniors as well as @pawsandclaws1 but if they are worth their salt, they will welcome the challenge as, of yet they are unproven. Pretty sure they would take the same view.

Promising players with this attitude are the type we need to get back to the top.

Prima donnas that often think they have been hard done by, quite often don’t make it.
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Pretty sure they won't as they want to play 1sts if they back themselves, so this is a rubbish response at best. We have probably 10-15 or so kids for 1 or 2 spots if Dom Young is as good as everyone believes. we lose kids from centre, fullback and wing by signing young (sorry about the pun) wingers. My question is real unless no one believes the kids are good enough. Nofo already has a wing locked up.

Clubs will come knocking as they do for the panthers kids. If they dont we have the wrong kids, if they do we need to sign the right ones. Life of a club that signed many kids.

I ask a real question and your response is they should stay "because"? Other clubs will show them a first grade spot like we did for Staine, Laurie, Blore... the list is long. You are in a dream world if you believe they will all stay
 
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