Signings, Suggestions & Rumours Discussion

[earl]

You've missed the bit where it has been stated the next two years are foundation building. Yes we can have some good performances and our recruitment has been excellent, but the work is not finished yet - it's a semi colon not a fullstop.

Let's wait and see what happens. I haven't looked forward for a long time with the Tigers. I don't have any confidence that in 2 or 3 years time everything will be cooking.

I hope it is.

I should have added in relation to Brooks I don't think he is a dud player like a lot of his haters seem to think. I just don't think he is a top tier player. He is an average player in a dud team.

 

[Kelce68]

Amongst the bottom few probably.

Here they all are:

Brisbane
1. Walsh
6. Mam
7. Reynolds
9. Walters

Canberra
1. Savage
6. Wighton
7. Fogarty
9. Levi

Canterbury
1. Perham
6. Burton
7. Flanagan
9. Mahoney

Cronulla
1. Kennedy
6. Moylan
7. Hynes
9. Brailey

Gold Coast
1. Brimson
6. Foran
7. Boyd
9. Verrills

Manly
1. Trbojevic
6. Schuster
7. Cherry-Evans
9. Croker

Melbourne
1. Papenhuyzen
6. Munster
7. Hughes
9. Grant

Newcastle
1. Miller
6. Ponga
7. Hastings
9. Brailey

New Zealand
1. Nicoll-Klokstad
6. Martin
7. Johnson
9. Egan

North Queensland
1. Drinkwater
6. Dearden
7. Townsend
9. Robson

Parramatta
1. Gutherson
6. Brown
7. Moses
9. Hodgson

Penrith
1. Edwards
6. Luai
7. Cleary
9. Kenny

Redcliffe
1. Tabuai-Fidow
6. Milford
7. O'Sullivan
9. Marshall-King

South Sydney
1. Mitchell
6. Walker
7. Ilias
9. Cook

St. George Illawarra
1. Sloan
6. Bird
7. Hunt
9. Liddle

Sydney
1. Tedesco
6. Keary
7. Walker
9. Smith

Wests
1. Laurie
6. Doueihi
7. Brooks
9. Koroisau

Super thorough as usual, @KingRobbie. Awesome work mate.

I've got us above Dragons, Dolphins, Warriors and Titans.

I think we're on par, or in the ballpark of, Raiders, Newcastle, Canterbury and Brisbane.

So I tend to think @Mighty_Tiger is pretty on the money in his assessment.

 

[AdelaideTiger]

Amongst the bottom few probably.

Here they all are:

Brisbane
1. Walsh
6. Mam
7. Reynolds
9. Walters

Canberra
1. Savage
6. Wighton
7. Fogarty
9. Levi

Canterbury
1. Perham
6. Burton
7. Flanagan
9. Mahoney

Cronulla
1. Kennedy
6. Moylan
7. Hynes
9. Brailey

Gold Coast
1. Brimson
6. Foran
7. Boyd
9. Verrills

Manly
1. Trbojevic
6. Schuster
7. Cherry-Evans
9. Croker

Melbourne
1. Papenhuyzen
6. Munster
7. Hughes
9. Grant

Newcastle
1. Miller
6. Ponga
7. Hastings
9. Brailey

New Zealand
1. Nicoll-Klokstad
6. Martin
7. Johnson
9. Egan

North Queensland
1. Drinkwater
6. Dearden
7. Townsend
9. Robson

Parramatta
1. Gutherson
6. Brown
7. Moses
9. Hodgson

Penrith
1. Edwards
6. Luai
7. Cleary
9. Kenny

Redcliffe
1. Tabuai-Fidow
6. Milford
7. O'Sullivan
9. Marshall-King

South Sydney
1. Mitchell
6. Walker
7. Ilias
9. Cook

St. George Illawarra
1. Sloan
6. Bird
7. Hunt
9. Liddle

Sydney
1. Tedesco
6. Keary
7. Walker
9. Smith

Wests
1. Laurie
6. Doueihi
7. Brooks
9. Koroisau

There's only two teams that have all 4 spots loaded, and they are both well known to have creative accountants. Not even Penrith have stars in all Four spots, at full strength our spine is somewhere in the middle, trouble is we are 1 injury away from a deep dark chasm.
Sure we need an upgrade, but it's well documented that they are trying to solve that in the next two years.
Thanks for the list KR!

 

[earl]

Super thorough as usual, @KingRobbie. Awesome work mate.

He is a superstar of this forum.

 

[fainty]

Has Moses signed yet?!

 

[hsvjones]

Has Moses signed yet?!

We are just giving the Eels a few more months to find more money to keep him. We are just a backup plan for him unfortunately.

 

[dazza65]

Sign by Friday Mitch or we pull our offer....... sounds familiar!

 

[The Fresh Oil]

Has Moses signed yet?!

I'd settle for any news, confirmed or not.

Can anyone confirm that they saw Moses having a late brunch in Concord today with Sheens and Benji?

 

[tony soprano]

We are just giving the Eels a few more months to find more money to keep him. We are just a backup plan for him unfortunately.

Desperate huh

 

[Demps]

Nanai, 4 year extension with NQ

 

[Tigerstigerstigers]

It's a team game and yes the spine is important. However some of those spines look good with the exception of the 9 - the key player in the team.
Having Api alone, running our new look forward pack from dummy half, hopefully will make up for some of the deficiencies that are in our current spine. Until then, we can only imagine...

1. Welsby
6. Brooks
7. Moses
9. Api

lock this in please.

 

[Camel2281]

JT = 1.0
JM = 800
LL + 750

OUCH!!

I reckon they'll end up not having to pay LL. He'll get the sack soon

 

[ElleryHanley]

Reading those spines makes me change my opinion on our spine. Yeah ours is terrible but so are plenty of other teams.

Main issue for us is depth.

Most other teams have serviceable back up halves.

We do not.

We should be fine as long as Brooks and AD click...and have no injuries.

If either fails to fire or gets hurt...we will have major issues.

 

[sleeve]

I agree with you to a point. The problem is people are talking up Sheens, Benji etc as being great coaches and we've signed so well and Madge was the problem.

The reality is we have one of the worst spines in the comp. Our fullback played one cracker last season but hasn't been great. Brooks is maligned because he is an average player. Doueihi is a forger at this point in his career. He looks great in a couple of games for part of those games but overall he is ordinary. We've actually improved the team this season as well.

Can't argue with that, and the coaching has yet to be rated. FB is still up in the air with Laurie, Stains and eventually Bula. I still think Stains could do well, but many don't. The fact they chased Moses so hard shows they doubt the halves can do the job. Good ones are as rare as undoctered skin in hollywood. With all that i think with the better forwards and Api around the ruck they will go much better. Still need at least 5 new class players for 1 to 7 .

 

[Halbrowne61]

Is it the same injury the reporters were talking about when it was leaked by Diane Laurie and the tigers said it was fake news?

https://www.zerotackle.com/tigers-confirm-no-brooks-injury-after-social-media-post-125715/amp/

Very good point Bob, yes when the forum jumped up and down we were told it had nothing to do with any injury to Brooks.
I think we all now know that was a lie.

 

[Roar_Power]

I reckon they'll end up not having to pay LL. He'll get the sack soon

I'll take him back tomorrow.

 

[Halbrowne61]

Main issue for us is depth.

Most other teams have serviceable back up halves.

We do not.

We should be fine as long as Brooks and AD click...and have no injuries.

If either fails to fire or gets hurt...we will have major issues.

Especially as Brooks seems to be perpetually injured, in some form or another.
It scares the you know what out of me !

 

[Halbrowne61]

Don’t be shocked if Wakeman goes ok this game , if our forwards can match the raiders which I think we can this could give wakeman and Simpkins a bit of time and space , I think he will go ok , just a feeling I got , I would not right any player off just yet as poor , give them a few games

I’m hopeful he improves with trading and game time but he’s going to have to improve a lot to be an acceptable back up.

 

[Halbrowne61]

I’m hopeful he improves with trading and game time but he’s going to have to improve a lot to be an acceptable back up.

Training not trading, we don’t want any car park deals.

 

[sleeve]

It's a team game and yes the spine is important. However some of those spines look good with the exception of the 9 - the key player in the team.
Having Api alone, running our new look forward pack from dummy half, hopefully will make up for some of the deficiencies that are in our current spine. Until then, we can only imagine...

1. Welsby
6. Brooks
7. Moses
9. Api

Man, that looks great!-- If only.