Signings, Suggestions & Rumours Discussion

[BAGNF05]

Every member of last year's squad was signed or got an extension by Madge. 4 years is enough time. We were going backwards under him. The two big inclusions were both signed after Sheens started which is no coincidence. Madge wouldn't have got them over the line

Yeah people love saying that. All our $ was tied up in Brooks/Packer/Mbye/Reynolds/Matulino for most of his tenure. He had little room to sign anyone of note. Pascoe and Chins dad fked us

 

[hammertime]

1.4m in a proposed 12m cap is about 11-12% of your cap. A little overs but it checks out that your number 1 marquee player can take up at least 10% of your cap.

Didn't I read that there potentially was a large 3rd party TPA in there? Potentially this isn't the cap amount, but the total opportunity.

 

[Le Tiger]

Not sure man, Manly have DCE on 1 mil, Turbo on 1.2 in a cap less than 10 mil...
Teddy on 1.1 in the same cap.

Moses starting number for this contract is 1 mil, He's already on 900+ after a year of probably his best footy. Cap going up as it is - The 1 mil becomes 1.2... That's just to stay where he is, Doing what he's doing... To pull him away, to a lower level team
- 1.4 is where that conversation is set to start...

Those contracts would likely be increasing as the cap goes up. DCE signed his rumoured $1m deal in around 15/16. Cap was just under $7m then.

We should really be talking salaries as a percentage rather than a dollar figure as the cap will keep increasing each year at this rate.

 

[Odessa]

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Is stalking illegal?

 

[851]

Balmain particularly got great value from their English players. Who could forget the Lockwood / Pringle combination. Wests didn't do as well. Lee Crooks was probably their best, excluding Ellery who Balmain had first. I was a Wests fan BTW.

Hanley, Schofield, Crooks, Howard, Drummond were good for Wests

 

[Odessa]

It is strange to feel this prevailing optimism, this cannot be the WT forum, for sure! 🤔

Death riding start's again next week

 

[Tim Sheens]

Moses behind our pack, it is better than the parramatta pack of 2022, he will kill it.
At 6 Brooks is a better option or at least equal to Dylan Brown
They will prove a very formidable partnership in 2024 Moses 7 Brooks 6

Don't know about the better pack bit, as Junior is like a wrecking ball on his own, and had some quality around him as well at Parramatta this season.

 

[king_sirro]

Moses, Doueihi and Kiraz were training together today at Holy Cross.

 

[supercoach]

Moses is worth what the market place is willing to pay. It’s that simple . It’s like Sydney realestate, soon as the government introduce a scheme to help first home buyers, the cost of housing rise to eat up all the savings of the scheme. Salary cap goes up, wages go up, especially if your a elite player who plays in thespine

 

[Bones]

The thing is Brooks is on the amount that you are suggesting we offer to Moses. Moses knows he is way better than him so it's just natural that he is going to want a lot more .

Yeah except by the time Mitch gets here Brooks will be on half what he is now.

 

[Tim Sheens]

Yeah - Just Clownery....
Those players were taken over the line to signing with WT's by an old enigma they'd never met (Sheens) as opposed to a bloke that had coached them both previously (Madge).

Madge did plenty wrong, But gets no credit at all for the things he got right.
As soon as he had money, There were quality signings and it's no coincidence.

WT were seriously hunting Latrell and others, so there was money available for top shelf signatures.

 

[Red88_Tiger]

Doggies Spine 23/24

Can’t see burton not being there

 

[Tito Santana]

Bro.... You turning to the darkside.

I like the new signings as well, But there is no way our packs bests Parra next year....
Even with Bateman.

Lane was immense for them last season, Marata and Oregon very solid interchanges....
RCG and Paulo (RCG gets overlooked often but is huge for them)

Matterson, N Brown and Mahoney.....

We're a ways from there just yet bro.

I hate to agree, but I agree. Parra have some big old forwards right there.

 

[Glenji95]

I hate to agree, but I agree. Parra have some big old forwards right there.

Few of the names he mentioned aren’t there next year. Marata is gone, Papali’I gone, Oregon gone, Mahoney gone, Brown possibly gone, they still have RCG, Paulo, Lane and Matto which is still solid but the pack is weaker than it is this past season. Not the worst pack still but its definitely weaker.

 

[Mystery]

Bro.... You turning to the darkside.

I like the new signings as well, But there is no way our packs bests Parra next year....
Even with Bateman.

Lane was immense for them last season, Marata and Oregon very solid interchanges....
RCG and Paulo (RCG gets overlooked often but is huge for them)

Matterson, N Brown and Mahoney.....

We're a ways from there just yet bro.

I’m pretty sure Marata (Warriors), Oregon (Sharks) and Mahoney (Dogs) are not at Parra next year. They are also trying to offload Brown. They aren’t the pack they once were.

 

[Holman Barnes #1 Fan]

WT were seriously hunting Latrell and others, so there was money available for top shelf signatures.

There was enough talent here in Madge's tenure to get some sort of job done. A lot of talented players went backwards under him. Twal was close to an origin spot. Brooks club player of the year twice in a row. Garner showed early promise as a good hole runner. Simpkin lost any ability he had out of dummy half.

Our players also became very injury prone. God bless him, but Ronnie Palmer was a disaster appointment. Every club he's been at in the modern era was plagued with injury. We kept him around for so long despite him not being that good at his job.

 

[WT2K]

Moses, Doueihi and Kiraz were training together today at Holy Cross.

Bulldogs gonna look good for 24 season

 

[Mighty_Tiger]

Salary cap increases for 23 and 24 plus another team might be introduced after that which will see it rise again.

$1.4m a year isn’t dumb cash for a quality player that will win us games. There just isn’t many of them in the NRL.

Our expectations of how much a player is worth will all be reset over the coming years as the days of a key player being on 5-600k will be gone once their existing contracts expire.

 

[Glenji95]

Bulldogs gonna look good for 24 season

Maybe just depends how far Tigers are willing to go to try and land Moses.

 

[sleeve]

Tedesco, Manu, Munster, Cleary,Cheese, DCE, Moses, Tamaloula, Hass, - These are players in the 1 mil and overbracket, and the top sides know they are worth 10 points a game to them, Considering at a guess an average score is around 30 points. they represent value for money, This is a rough estimate only.