Signings, Suggestions & Rumours Discussion

[innsaneink]

I’m not the one who made the claim.

Not true.
You said:
"He did attract players when he was playing. Numerous players when they signed were quoted as saying Benji was one of the reasons they were attracted to the club."

Then when asked who....or if they were keepers or not, you weakly said:

"Can't be bothered finding that out. Feel free if you have the time."

Weak as..

 

[Masterton]

I would try to get past our former captain bending us fans over if we could have the young version back leading our pack. Hard running, footwork at the line, ............. Yeah, nah.

I remember a game where he seemed to beat Manly almost single-handedly. It was a long time ago, though.

 

[Tigerwould]

For the first time in living memory we have had our salary cap in better shape than most other clubs, now all the advantage we had is out the window as every club will have a stack more cap space. Peter V keeps delivering for the big clubs

I can from a long line of Norsemen. Now is the time to rape, pillage and plunder… actually we have mellowed and become more p.c. No more rapeing, just pillage and plunder the other clubs.

 

[balmain boy]

I would expect most of the big $ contracts over multi years would have a clause for increased cap.

If they don't than they had a dud manager imo.

Yeah this is definitely true. You would think most contracts would have a clause with a % increase based on the % of the cap.

So if the cap increases its not just free money and extra cap space, much of the increase will already be taken before clubs can offer new contracts to players.

So yes we'll still have a competitive advantage and maybe a couple of mil to spend on 3 spots

 

[happy_tiger]

They're "told" to say they came here to play with Benji?

I don't see too many players quoted saying they came here to play with Brooks, Douehi or Laurie.

So why did you come to the WT's " Money and no other club wanted me "

Do you expect players to be honest lol

 

[BAGNF05]

Yeah this is definitely true. You would think most contracts would have a clause with a % increase based on the % of the cap.

So if the cap increases its not just free money and extra cap space, much of the increase will already be taken before clubs can offer new contracts to players.

So yes we'll still have a competitive advantage and maybe a couple of mil to spend on 3 spots

Tigers a competitive advantage 😂 we just bought a reggies winger who was on half a mill 😂

 

[Camel2281]

For god sake give it a break , ur all like little kids who don’t get there own way , and just TELL me one player who is not devoted to what he can earn , there all out for the cash

Don't doubt it. I was responding to the buffoon who suggested that Brooks is devoted to the Tigers and deserves special treatment

 

[Love_the_WestsTigers]

Just to add to these points there is some bigger news.

Apparently Superman is coming to play for us at halfback.

In 2024, not 23 though

 

[vlad]

Yeah this is definitely true. You would think most contracts would have a clause with a % increase based on the % of the cap.

So if the cap increases its not just free money and extra cap space, much of the increase will already be taken before clubs can offer new contracts to players.

So yes we'll still have a competitive advantage and maybe a couple of mil to spend on 3 spots

they’re called ratchet clauses .

Pascoe spoke about this in an interview earlier this year .

He said we’d previously had 60% of players on such a clause .which crippled our salary cap .

He didn’t name him but Brooks wouldve been one of them hence why his $ keep going up .

Pascoe went on to say that we’d nearly cleared the books of such clauses .

we dont Have any elite players on long term contracts at the moment

 

[pawsandclaws1]

they’re called ratchet clauses .

Pascoe spoke about this in an interview earlier this year .

He said we’d previously had 60% of players on such a clause .which crippled our salary cap .

He didn’t name him but Brooks wouldve been one of them hence why his $ keep going up .

Pascoe went on to say that we’d nearly cleared the books of such clauses .

we dont Have any elite players on long term contracts at the moment

This trend of good news from our admin and Football Dept is very concerning. 😂

 

[weststigerman]

So why did you come to the WT's " Money and no other club wanted me "

Do you expect players to be honest lol

You didn’t answer the question. Why are they not they came here to play with player x now?

You’re going off on a tangent now. Whether you like it or not when Benji was here and in his prime he helped attract players. Even when he came here washed up he was able to get Farah back.

 

[weststigers]

You didn’t answer the question. Why are they not they came here to play with player x now?

You’re going off on a tangent now. Whether you like it or not when Benji was here and in his prime he helped attract players. Even when he came here washed up he was able to get Farah back.

After Prince left and it was Benji in his prime, we never attracted a big name player.

Look at the 2011 squad. Most of them were juniors.

The biggest external name was Tuqiri.

 

[Fainu Brothers]

After Prince left and it was Benji in his prime, we never attracted a big name player.

Look at the 2011 squad. Most of them were juniors.

The biggest external name was Tuqiri.

Keith Galloway (Sharks) Ryan Ohara (Flop Raiders, Jamal Lolesi (flop Raiders), Lote Tuqiri (union), Garreth Ellis (England), John Morris

 

[hank37w]

I don't see how that works.

If our cap is in better shape than most other clubs, now it's in better shape +$2M. So we are still positioned to out-compete clubs that were close to their caps.

The real question is how clubs plan to spend the cap increase - whether anyone is going to try and use it to retain some top-level talent, or spread the money around their roster. Whichever way a club decides to spend, there will always be a disadvantage that can be exploited by Tigers.

For example Eels - imagine they now have $2M more to spend, which they could use to bump up Dylan Brown and Mitch Moses both. However teams with money to spend can still match and probably beat those bumps, because everyone has another $2M to spend. And if Eels instead went all-out to retain their stars, then it makes their middle, lower and junior rosters vulnerable to exploitation.

The only problem I see is that all of the nuffies that we have signed probably have automatic salary cap increase clauses in their contracts and all the extra salary cap money ends up going on their salaries leaving us no better off.

 

[bathursttiger1]

After Prince left and it was Benji in his prime, we never attracted a big name player.

Look at the 2011 squad. Most of them were juniors.

The biggest external name was Tuqiri.

You forgot Teddy Blair.

 

[happy_tiger]

You didn’t answer the question. Why are they not they came here to play with player x now?

You’re going off on a tangent now. Whether you like it or not when Benji was here and in his prime he helped attract players. Even when he came here washed up he was able to get Farah back.

Can you rewrite your 2nd question .....I can't make sense of it ....sorry

 

[Mighty_Tiger]

So why did you come to the WT's " Money and no other club wanted me "

Do you expect players to be honest lol

Naden was and we extended him

 

[happy_tiger]

Naden was and we extended him

Naden has speed which is what we needed ......but he lacks punch when we are needing yards out of our own half .....

 

[Red88_Tiger]

I'm sorry dude. You have to forgive me because I've been a Tigers supporter for a long long time and we never get news like that.

I figured everyone would realize it was too good to be true.

Sorry Everyone !

Don’t worry too much earl. I read through the page and picked up on your ruse
Funnily enough it was plausible aswell.
Difference being between yourself and smoking gun is you gave it up.
Don’t let them deter you from posting
Facepalmers post have been quite funny but they are super obvious. Maybe more towards his style and avoid the repercussions.
Have a great day

 

[Tucker]

Lol Cameron Smith played til he was 37...

Several levels in class between those two players.