Signings, Suggestions & Rumours Discussion

[hsvjones]

SMH reporting Talau and Fainu early swap deal is still on the table.

Negotiations in place now.

This has us getting screwed all over it.... If Fulton stuffs this up its not going to go down well.

 

[tigerballs]

I spent 13 christmas's in Old Bar when I was a kid

Wallabi Point my favourite break.

 

[Vicious]

This has us getting screwed all over it.... If Fulton stuffs this up its not going to go down well.

Manly are now in the box seat.
It’s highly likely they will demand Brooks and Talau straight away for this season, in order for them to release Fainu to us.
Happy for Talau to go now, but we need more depth in our halves other than just an 18y.o Fainu to give us some chance of avoiding the spoon again.

 

[gregjm87]

Channel 10 reported the signing as a cost cut signing, so we never offered unders at all

Channel 9 reported it as estimated 650k a season

 

[Year_of_the_Tiger]

Manly are now in the box seat.
It’s highly likely they will demand Brooks and Talau straight away for this season, in order for them to release Fainu to us.
Happy for Talau to go now, but we need more depth in our halves other than just an 18y.o Fainu to give us some chance of avoiding the spoon again.

I’ll take another spoon instead of 16th if Fainu is as good as I hear. We’ll be lucky to win another game anyway with injuries. Blood the young ones. Haha sounds like last year but just fresher without brooks

 

[Mighty_Tiger]

Manly are now in the box seat.
It’s highly likely they will demand Brooks and Talau straight away for this season, in order for them to release Fainu to us.
Happy for Talau to go now, but we need more depth in our halves other than just an 18y.o Fainu to give us some chance of avoiding the spoon again.

Can’t help but think in typical Wests Tigers fashion that Fainu stays at Manly and in 3yrs Manly wins the comp with Brooks and Fainu in the halves.

Meanwhile we continue to hunt for some halves that can get us to at least 1st week of finals.

Hopefully we get a win, Fainu comes across and we get him to reach his potential in our jerseys.

 

[Telltails]

There are plenty of top halves that have played the game that are not controlling halves like Brett Kenny, Cliff Lyons, etc, etc Good teams don’t try and make players something they’re not! They use players to their strengths not their weakness. Look what sheens did this season took the pressure off him let him play his natural game and he started to play much better.
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Picked two good ones there where is the correlation? Do you honestly think that everyone was against Brooks playing to his strengths except Sheens? We can all identify his strengths it's his weaknesses that have been the problem and while he he can never be held accountable for the club being unsuccessful nor can others be held accountable for areas in his game that separate the good halves from the not so good ones.

 

[tigerap]

Channel 9 reported it as estimated 650k a season

$700k x 4 years….our offer was 2 years + CO at $635k A year

 

[LeichhardtTiger]

Brooks is an ok player. Poor first grader / borderline reserve grader as an organising half, can play well at 5/8th. He's not going to be some revelation at Manly, not a chance.

He'll do better than here I'm sure, but he's not going to suddenly become some great ball player or put on a bunch of tries with his short kicking game. His running game can be quite good, but he does still make some very questionable decisions when it comes to his choice of time to take on the line and the way he does it. Obviously having a 7 in DCE will help a lot in that regard, but the point is that a lot of his flaws are inherent to him and not products of the system he's in or the team around him.

Giving him 4 years as a guy who greatly relies on his speed, and that has already seen some loss of pace already, is definitely a risk. Brooks is much more likely to regress during this deal than improve as a player throughout it. On top of that, does this 4 year deal match-up with DCE's timeline? DCE is 34 now ... will he still be playing at a high level at 38? Do Manly have a contingency plan if DCE calls it a day in 2 years? What if Brooks needs to play 7 in 2025 or 2026 ... big problems in store.

To be fair, Brooks has been procured to run the Blacktown Workers side in 24, 25, 26 & 27. It's his big chance to play finals footy at long last.

 

[LeichhardtTiger]

Manly are now in the box seat.
It’s highly likely they will demand Brooks and Talau straight away for this season, in order for them to release Fainu to us.
Happy for Talau to go now, but we need more depth in our halves other than just an 18y.o Fainu to give us some chance of avoiding the spoon again.

They can go now - I'll pay the Ferry costs.

 

[Vicious]

Can’t help but think in typical Wests Tigers fashion that Fainu stays at Manly and in 3yrs Manly wins the comp with Brooks and Fainu in the halves.

Meanwhile we continue to hunt for some halves that can get us to at least 1st week of finals.

Hopefully we get a win, Fainu comes across and we get him to reach his potential in our jerseys.

It will only be worse if it drags on past the weekend as I’m certain we are going to get whipped against the Cowboys.
They are just hitting peak form and would have beaten anyone up in Townsville this coming Saturday, we are lambs to the slaughter.

 

[LeichhardtTiger]

He's worth what the market is prepared to pay. Manly were prepared to pay and give him allegedly a 4 year deal. Good luck to him and for WTs if this is true I respect the club's decision not to counter bid. But to suggest he is a poor first grader is nonsense.

It's been confirmed on the Manly Website. Brooks 4 years TT 2 years. from 24.

 

[Mighty_Tiger]

Good on Brooksy if the rumour is true, those who said he wouldn't get an NRL deal are dead set on the wacky tobacco. I'll be hoping he has success at Manly. Good for us too but only if we can pair Fainu with a Mitchell Pearce type of mentor.

Very funny this place.
No club would want him
500k is about right
2 year deal is right
He is the reason we suck

Signs with Manly within 2 weeks of saying no to us for a 4yr deal between 600-700k a season.

Meanwhile we have zero halves on our books for next season in the squad signed & wonder why we struggle. Living in hope Fainu an 18yr kid is released, picks us and can deliver in a few years.

 

[Halbrowne61]

Yes , but our 5year starts every year , so we will never see it come to fruition 🥴

Good to see you understand that I said it’s an annual version ie starts every year.
By golly you’re sharp, as a bowling ball 🤣

 

[lathami]

Brooks is an ok player. Poor first grader / borderline reserve grader as an organising half, can play well at 5/8th. He's not going to be some revelation at Manly, not a chance.

He'll do better than here I'm sure, but he's not going to suddenly become some great ball player or put on a bunch of tries with his short kicking game. His running game can be quite good, but he does still make some very questionable decisions when it comes to his choice of time to take on the line and the way he does it. Obviously having a 7 in DCE will help a lot in that regard, but the point is that a lot of his flaws are inherent to him and not products of the system he's in or the team around him.

Giving him 4 years as a guy who greatly relies on his speed, and that has already seen some loss of pace already, is definitely a risk. Brooks is much more likely to regress during this deal than improve as a player throughout it. On top of that, does this 4 year deal match-up with DCE's timeline? DCE is 34 now ... will he still be playing at a high level at 38? Do Manly have a contingency plan if DCE calls it a day in 2 years? What if Brooks needs to play 7 in 2025 or 2026 ... big problems in store.

I hear u but reckon with cherry taking all the heat of him. His kicking game will improve with the pressure off. He was a great kicker in the 20’s comp he’s just lost his confidence.

 

[Coastie_Tiger]

$700k x 4 years….our offer was 2 years + CO at $635k A year

We were never going to go that high for that long for Brooks, they'd burn down the COE, all Pascoes hats would go up in flames 🔥

 

[Halbrowne61]

And who have we signed to replace Brooks ? Oh that’s right, we’re chasing Josh Madden !

Watcha angry about Jad ?

 

[tony soprano]

Tigpies continue to keep recruitment mostly in house despite the manly/issac propaganda being in full swing.

Really hope they're not letting their egos get in the way and sign some good players.

 

[Lukic]

Also if we get Fainu, it's a pretty clear no brainer to let Brooks go when it's a 4 year deal that another team offered.

Brooks for 2 years with Fainu coming through would have made a lot of sense (which is what we offered).

If Fainu is the prospect everyone says he is, there should be no regrets about Brooks leaving.

 

[jadtiger]

It’s all about the pathways S, ours is paved with gold and we will be red hot in 5 + years( you’ve heard of a 5 year plan haven’t you ?)
We have an annual version !🤣

We are the only organisation in history to have had more 5 year plans than Stalin and just like that mass murderer none of them work.