Signings, Suggestions & Rumours Discussion

weststigers said:
Yeah was thinking the same way.

Current options are:
To'a
Naden
Kepaoa
Talau

Definitely need a quality centre. If we can do that we round out a pretty good off season in terms of recruitment.
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Demps said:
Naden is the only legit option really.

Toa is a winger.
Talau looks like a second rower.
Kepoa is mehhh.

Wouldn't mind another legit centre.
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I didn't watch most of the other sides last season so not really up on a lot of the average first graders but i know Corey Allan is being shopped and the bulldogs would reportedly pay 50% ( supposedly $250k ) of his contract for next year. Is he worth offering a 2 year deal if we are only paying $250k the first year and say 350 - 400 the second year.
 
Mighty_Tiger said:
One could say that we were actually worse off with Hastings as our chief this year given it was clear all our play was structured around Hastings.

He just didn't run out on the park and decide to touch the ball 1200 times, 40% more than any other half.

In 21 we won twice as many games & scored 150 more points during the season with Brooks in the halves and without Hastings.

I'm not saying Brooks is brilliant and should be here, have said multiple times he should be gone & don't get why we are keeping him.

But if people's arguments are built on attack or success then I have no idea how one can actually say Hastings is better off the year we had if coming last, winning 4 games & scoring the least points ever is the barometer especially when the guy touched the ball 40% more than anyone other half in the team

Both actually sucked this year, that's the reality.
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Shooooosh!!! Knights might have second thoughts with all this logic.
 
diedpretty said:
Well said but you should expect a gobful of unabashed rubbish from a couple of forum members for having the balls to suggest such a thing.
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Nobody’s blaming our entire performances on him at all.
He has been our halfback for 9 gloriously insipid years though… the position that is supposed to ‘own the team’.
Many players have underperformed and been punted, or dropped to ressies, in that period but the wonder kid never seems to cop the blame from the ‘people who should know better than us supporters’.
Even though they’ve all been punted too.
It’s quite simple, forget about him being in the ‘halves’… he is a halfback and the highest paid player in the team.
All that and, seemingly, no responsibility.
The only way we go better next year is if we actually get a real halfback and Brooks moves to five eight or centre … oddly enough the two positions he ran on for in his one and only half baked rep game.
He actually played ok doing similar when Hastings was feeding him this year.
Maybe the All Stars coach knew something all those years ago. 🤣
 
The Chad said:
It would seem to some that Luke Brooks is almost solely responsible for the Tigers poor record of the last 9 years.

Just because he was a part of the problem doesn't MAKE him THE problem.

To simply point a finger at one individual & suggest his performances alone made the team play poorly is very short sighted.

This isn't defending Brooks, as some would likely want to suggest it is. Just saying that there are generally multiple factors that go toward any kind of failure.

And just because he was part of the problem doesn't automatically mean he can't be part of the solution.
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Don't disagree, but he's the common denominator through his entire tenure and he's always failed. The fact multiple other players keep getting moved on to try and get 'the best' out of Brooks is the biggest frustrating part.

He's not the entire problem, but he's a major cog in the problem and the only one that has been here the entire lean period.

He's sure as hell not part of the solution
 
LeichhardtTiger said:
The Roosters were terrible in 2016. Pearce was MIA most of the start of the season due to a lost dog. When Hastings played half his 5/8 was at times Jayden Nikorima, Guerra or Matterson. Hastings played 5/8 4 times to Pearce at half towards the end of the season. Maloney was at Cronulla in 2016. Keary was at Souffs in 2016.
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Hastings last name is Hastings and the Roosters pushed him out. QED.
 
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innsaneink said:

Cowboys shift sheds weight off NRL's Tamou​

Fraser BartonAAP
November 15, 2022 12:24PM

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Rugby League
James Tamou came so close to calling it quits on his rugby league journey after a wooden-spoon season with Wests Tigers he considered what jobs he'd go for after a fruitful career.
Enter his maiden NRL club North Queensland and the 305-game veteran is shaping up for his 15th pre-season back where it all began, this time as a veteran willing to impart experience on their young group.
Tamou entertained offers from the Super League earlier this year and considered a switch to the UK.

But the thought of uprooting his family and potentially moving back after a year squashed that idea.
When his manager called up and said the Cowboys were interested the decision was a fait accompli.
"I said yes straight away," he told reporters on Tuesday.
"Because I knew coming up here I just wanted to enjoy it and not have the weight of the team on your shoulders."
Tamou was one of a number of co-captains at Wests Tigers that slumped to bottom of the ladder with just four wins in 2022, and the pain is still fresh in his mind.
"The way we ended last year was tough, mate. It was tough."
"You have to look in the mirror and go you know, maybe that's it.
"As far as the career playing on, it was a few weeks, even a month I was like: 'Well, I gotta find something else to do, got to get a job."

That job came in the form of a premiership-winning, experienced clubman for the Cowboys' young core who were one game away from the grand final just a few months ago.
Tamou was a shoe-in for selection each week last season but knows the same doesn't apply at his new club.
A motivation that's renewed a fire in his tank.
"I'm in awe with the style of play they played with - they just never gave up," he said.
"I'm not expecting to walk straight into a team at all. You've got genuine superstars - the amount of boys that are in the Kangaroos side and played State of Origin - its crazy.
"I'm going to have to bide my time and make sure I bring my best everyday."
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And we signed him as a leader
 
happy_tiger said:
Well yeah .....that is my point ... he is pretty good defensively ...but his main job is creating enough points to win games most weeks
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mikey said:
I would have preferred Brooke's gone; but now it's water under the bridge he gets my support until he starts doing what he does for the last 9 nine years again, which I sincerely hope he doesn't.
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Just don't won't to see on the clubs website Brooks writing on a piece of papers. " I will Be a leader"
 
Camel2281 said:
Wests Tigers didn't win a game with Brooks at 7 in 2022. Tells you everything you need to know.

With Brooks Tigers won 2/17 games (both wins were with Hastings at 7)

Without Brooks Tigers won 2/7. Still poor but 2.5 times more likely to win with Brooks out of the team
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This is a bit like two bald men fighting over a comb. We looked good for maybe 5-6 games all year. We looked frequently poor when one or both of those men played and very infrequently okay or good when one or both did. Hastings probably had a higher peak but wow it was hardly a season of excellence.
 
851 said:
I have been a supporter for over 50 years, got my first Wests jumper in 1970, so to tell me to support another club is just a flat out insult
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I was a Balmain boy and my second team was West I went to most of there home games between 87 /92 and alot of games at the 8th wonder and that lead into the merged team to support and I am starting to believe that it's a metal condition to support Balmain West and now the West Tigers and you 50 years how the heck have to done it ?
 
weststigers said:
Assuming we have locked in Klemmer and Bateman, is our recruitment for 2023 finished?

What gaps do we need to fill?
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Well klemmers a swap with Hastings, so that still leaves us at 3 roster spots, then add in bateman, that leaves us with 2.... the pom mentioned that more then likely we will give a roster spot to one of the other young fellas (can't remember the name)... so leave us with one spot left for a good signing.... then there is talks maumalo might get moved on or retired... so depending what happens we have 3 possibly 4 roster spots free at the moment
 
Odessa said:
I was a Balmain boy and my second team was West I went to most of there home games between 87 /92 and alot of games at the 8th wonder and that lead into the merged team to support and I am starting to believe that it's a metal condition to support Balmain West and now the West Tigers and you 50 years how the heck have to done it ?
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My mum and sister were Balmain supporters, so picking Wests as my team was a weird one for them. Got to say mate, there were a lot of hard years in there, but we live in hope that Sheens and Benji can conjour up some more good years
 
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