Signings, Suggestions & Rumours Discussion

[Roar_Power]

Everyone here is way too pessimistic. IP, Klemmer, Api, Bateman beg to differ. Tupou is starting to come good. Kepaoa is looking good. Staines is starting to look good.

If we can get another signing or two we'll turn it around.

I'm generally an optimist but everyone has their breaking point...

 

[magpies forever]

Everyone here is way too pessimistic. IP, Klemmer, Api, Bateman beg to differ. Tupou is starting to come good. Kepaoa is looking good. Staines is starting to look good.

If we can get another signing or two we'll turn it around.

It we can resolve the issue with the halves inability to do as needed, we can recruit and give the true story "the halves are key to our improvement and you can play a key role in this".

* we have a good, useful forward pack doing its job​

* our backline is good enough and can do its job but we are looking to better recruitment as we can​

* the halves are failing at leading, strategising and sorting the game​

* Benji can mentor and WT can call in specialist halfback coaching to assist​

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We would also have to say our spine will stabilise once we get the needed halfback and 5/8, you can be that.

WT have to settle on Staines at fullback and Api at hooker for the rest of year and stop tinkering there. Let them settle and recruitment be able to tell a consistent story. It can work.

 

[king_sirro]

It we can resolve the issue with the halves inability to do as needed, we can recruit and give the true story "the halves are key to our improvement and you can play a key role in this".

* we have a good, useful forward pack doing its job​

* our backline is good enough and can do its job but we are looking to better recruitment as we can​

* the halves are failing at leading, strategising and sorting the game​

* Benji can mentor and WT can call in specialist halfback coaching to assist​

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We would also have to say our spine will stabilise once we get the needed halfback and 5/8, you can be that.

WT have to settle on Staines at fullback and Api at hooker for the rest of year and stop tinkering there. Let them settle and recruitment be able to tell a consistent story. It can work.

I agree we need to stick with Staines. Ride the odd low point, as long as he is working tirelessly off the field to improve his game then you stick with him. I also would take this opportunity to give Laurie an extended run at 6. We might as well use this disastrous year to see if we have a diamond in the rough with Laurie as a 6. I feel he would go good there, and combine with Staines well. Again, he would need to show he is constantly working on his game and looking to improve. You never know, we may just discover we have our 1 and 6 already here and just need the right 7 to go with them.

 

[versa]

Bring Back Benji for the rest of the year. Done.

 

[tiger_one]

Jarryd Hayne is free lol

Not anymore.

 

[Flippedy]

Lets be honest, Who would put their hands up to go to the Tigers right now and we haven't really played many of the top 8 teams yet.

Wins give a club credibility, The Dolphins have been together for 1 off season and know how to play a type of game that can win.

Yes and to think Bennett had some trouble getting marquee players to sign up. Things will be different next season, the sky’s the limit for this new club. Could end up being another Melbourne and have instant success.

 

[Flippedy]

However, there are several players that either played their best at the WT, or they became "representative" players when they were with the WT: Halatau, Hodgson, Ellis, Lawrence, Tuiaki, Simona, JAC, Koroibete, Richards, Marshall, Farah, Woods, Tedesco, Taupau, A Fifita, Whaitura, Elford, Prince ...

Note that all the players except JAC became "stars" under our current coach😉, so is this the end of the tunnel or the headlamp on a fast approaching train?🤔

Yes but most of them were over a decade ago!

 

[851]

Can’t wait for season 2030!
Only 2250 more sleeps….

Brooks might be gone by then

 

[tony soprano]

Very accurate and sad post....I have been a Tigers supporter most of my 50+ years life, I have been a continuous WT member with my sons for the last 12 years, this year I decided against renewing as I felt its time the Tigers "earnt" my membership renewal. I was hoping the Tigers performances in 2023 would do just that, but clearly they are not going to. All my mates laugh at me now when I tell them I'm a Tigers fan, they all think the club is shit with NO light at the end of the tunnel. Even my mates say, No player or Coach wants to join the WT", we are a career suicide club for players and coaches.

Yes, the Tigers are in my blood, just like a black sheep family member, I can't ever fully disown them. I'm afraid I can't see any positive changes on the horizon, but I remain hopeful that one day/year, I can feel good about cheering my team to a victory...(which is approaching 1 year) and the club is a regular finals contender..

 

[851]

OK W stop right now coz it’s sounding like your next step is the big S. But please don’t do it, hang in there( bad choice of words) and let’s see what happens in the future.
We need you !!!!
PS And believe me we are all more than cranky about where we’ve been and where we are.
But tomorrows a brand new day, and who knows what might happen.
As the old saying goes” it’s always darkest before the dawn”
Cheers mate.

This has been one of the longest nights in history then, when is it dawn, asking for a friend

 

[tiger_scott]

You talking about AD? If you are, I would say no. Surprised we signed him for '24 even. Probably for the best now as he'll have the second half of that year to get a contract with us or someone else. Another injury during '24 might be it for him though.

 

[earl]

I'm generally an optimist but everyone has their breaking point...

I get it. I'm the biggest optimist there is and it gets to me.

 

[earl]

You never know, we may just discover we have our 1 and 6 already here and just need the right 7 to go with them.

I honestly think we do. I think Brooks and Staines give us enough firepower along with Api. If we could just get a quality 7 with a great kicking game I'd be extremely hopeful about massive improvement.

 

[earl]

We need a marquee player in the backs or we’ll continue to be middle to bottom on the ladder.

We need a gun outside back. Tupou is looking good. Kepaoa is looking good as well. We need one more.

 

[hank37w]

Pr

Problem is Schuster is like the Grinch...his heart is two sizes too small

. . . . . . and if he looked when he did his no look passes they might hit the mark more often.

 

[tiger_one]

We need a marquee player in the backs or we’ll continue to be middle to bottom on the ladder.

Like Nicho Hynes is being sold as the Sharks marquee player - the lead attraction for top shelf players to play beside.

 

[Tim Sheens]

Very accurate and sad post....I have been a Tigers supporter most of my 50+ years life, I have been a continuous WT member with my sons for the last 12 years, this year I decided against renewing as I felt its time the Tigers "earnt" my membership renewal. I was hoping the Tigers performances in 2023 would do just that, but clearly they are not going to. All my mates laugh at me now when I tell them I'm a Tigers fan, they all think the club is shit with NO light at the end of the tunnel. Even my mates say, No player or Coach wants to join the WT", we are a career suicide club for players and coaches.

Yes, the Tigers are in my blood, just like a black sheep family member, I can't ever fully disown them. I'm afraid I can't see any positive changes on the horizon, but I remain hopeful that one day/year, I can feel good about cheering my team to a victory...(which is approaching 1 year) and the club is a regular finals contender..

Similar story for my 57 years, though I still proudly wear one of my WT caps around.

At least we have won a premiership, and this century at that, which a few cannot lay claim to. Plus we come from foundation stock on both sides of the joint venture, and maintain a huge following despite the past decade and more.

No phins or any other for me, but a win and decent signing would help to brighten things up for us supporters

 

[Odessa]

Anyone interested in watching journeyman Aaron Woods make his life long dream come true of playing for Manly

This F Wit deserves to be remembered as a journeyman not a one club legend

 

[Westie]

Did Sheen say in an interview at the start of the season that he expects to have a few players extended during the bye round. I have been trying to find that interview but no luck, or was i imagining it.

 

[Don Kershane]

Anyone interested in watching journeyman Aaron Woods make his life long dream come true of playing for Manly

This F Wit deserves to be remembered as a journeyman not a one club legend

He is a journeyman to say the least
Bus 483 Leichhardt to Bankstown
M92 Bankstown to Sutherland then
969 to Cronulla then
985 and 477 to Kogarah all change
train to Town Hall all change to St Leonards then Bus 144 to Manly.

Hope he didn't have a lifetime Opal card as part of his Tigers retrenchment package.