Signings, Suggestions & Rumours Discussion

[TigersFan101]

Even if they put pen to paper on Thursday I don’t think it’ll be official until mid to late next week as the NRL will still need to approve the contract

 

[Tucker]

How on earth is it egg on the club’s face that you chose to believe something you read on a forum? The club, to the best of my knowledge, has never said anything consequential about Moses and certainly not that they are confident of signing him.

I said they’d fed the line. They haven’t done press releases.

 

[ConePuncher]

wait i thought moses suli was at st george not parramatta

 

[davey_farrell]

We now have a strong forward pack who can compete with the best teams in the competition so we need an organiser to guide them around the park & Brooks or Doueihi are not the answer. Moses is & we desperately need him to be a threat for the premiership in 2024 so good on the Tigers for chasing him hard. If we miss out at least Sheensy & Marshall tried their best to bring him back home & it shows that they are targeting the right players that we need, fingers crossed for Thursday’s meeting. I would also give him the captaincy as part of the deal.

Very well said and totally agree with you

 

[bathursttiger1]

stay on topic or you'll have a spell.

supercalifragilisticexpialidocious

 

[TillLindemann]

He’s coming all the way to tell Sheens that he will reject the offer? If that common in rugby league contract negotiations?

Face to face meetings not resulting in contracts are pretty standard aren't they? If he wants to milk a bit more money out of the Eels he would need the Tigers option to look credible.

 

[earl]

Think it might be more complicated Earl.
If the knights were willing to pay Brooks full contract would he still be a Tiger. We will never know the truth. Personally I believe we couldn't reach an agreement on how much of Brooks contract the Knights would cover so we released Hastings instead because he was just easier to move on.

I agree with this. The initial comment was related to pairing Brooks with Moses as if there was some underhand deal to get Moses.

I think Brooks was close to leaving simply because the Knights were after him. I think the money he is on this season was too high to do a deal with Newcastle and by that I mean the Tigers weren't prepared to pay Brooks a chunk of salary to play in Newcastle.

 

[Needaname]

If true we should go hard for Sanders - he will have MM in front of him for 4 years and Brown will be there until he needs a walking frame to get around. If the kid is as good as everyone says he will not want to hang around for 4 years for a few first grade appearances.

You mean like Jonah Pezet?

 

[earl]

Face to face meetings not resulting in contracts are pretty standard aren't they?

I agree but surely not meetings where there is a contract ready to sign and you are expecting him to turn up and sign it.

 

[Tom Brbyb]

my oil is that moses will be signing with wests tigers for 2024 on thursday.

You've got the Thursday bit correct, but not the Tigers bit, that is when his re-signing with Eels will be announced. Take it to the bank. And deposit it in a special security box.

 

[Tom Brbyb]

I agree but surely not meetings where there is a contract ready to sign and you are expecting him to turn up and sign it.

That is fake news, he is not expected to sign anything with the Tigers on Thursday.

 

[earl]

That is fake news, he is not expected to sign anything with the Tigers on Thursday.

Well clearly people are going to get it wrong but I'm not sure it's fake news. It's news from someone who tends to provide good info.

 

[Tom Brbyb]

Informal talks with RTS have been ongoing. Tigers offer will essentially be a straight swap for what was offered to Moses.

 

[fainty]

Maybe MM will cancel the meeting before Thursday. I guess there’s still time for that.

 

[Fingers83]

You mean like Jonah Pezet?

He has recently extended his stay in Melbourne. I think Sanders is probably our best bet from an 'almost ready to go' stand point, and we know Sheens isn't shy of handing a young guy a debut.

Aside from Moses though, there are no week in week out 1st grade standard halfbacks on the market.

I think Sheen's getting Moses sped up his initial timeline of 3 or so years to be competitive, which I commend him for, he really has gone on the attack and been on the front foot. But failing his signature, we should temper our excitment and expect to be waiting a couple more years for finals football.

I don't think a halves combo of AD and Brooks can take us there, worse if one of them gets injured, and Wakeham steps in.

 

[Fingers83]

Informal talks with RTS have been ongoing. Tigers offer will essentially be a straight swap for what was offered to Moses.

With all due respect man, leave this forum.

 

[SeanT]

Informal talks with RTS have been ongoing. Tigers offer will essentially be a straight swap for what was offered to Moses.

1.4 mill for RTS? Get off the turps mate haha

 

[earl]

With all due respect man, leave this forum.

I'd like that story to be true though.

 

[TillLindemann]

With all due respect man, leave this forum.

He's a deadset pest.

 

[old_man_tiger]

Sheens was played by Ciraldo only last year.

I think Sheens got exactly what he wanted and called it as soon as Madge was sacked.
I have a growing fear that the B in plan B stands for Benji if our halves need a shake up or fill in at some point, and the Moses bluster will again be used to say "we tried our best". If you look at the depth we've recruited it makes it very easy to slot Benji in above Will Smith and the angry looking little guy from the dirty dogs.