Signings, Suggestions & Rumours Discussion

king_sirro said:
I would rather Sullivan at 7 in KOE cup to fine tune his organising game. I feel playing 14 will be a detriment to his progression as a 7. A season purely playing halfback is what he needs.
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I reckon Sezer/Sullivan should start the season assuming we get them.

Fainu’s time will come and if we start him from round 1 there is a very good chance he’ll start to burn out mid way through the year.
 
weststigerman said:
I reckon Sezer/Sullivan should start the season assuming we get them.

Fainu’s time will come and if we start him from round 1 there is a very good chance he’ll start to burn out mid way through the year.
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The amount of people that haven't even watched him play a game that are slotting him in for a full season at 6 next year is way too high. IDK if our supporters are getting desperate or dumb.
 
Vicious said:
We have plenty of experts on here that seem to know exactly what is required to be a good GM a good CEO, a good Board Member and a good Chairman of the Board.
In regards to recruitment & retention the on field results are the big driver and our main concern.
If the team was having good on field success and playing an attractive style of play, nobody would even be thinking about who is our GM, CEO, Board Members or Chairnan.
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youre right.

unfortunately for 12 years we havent had any succeess

so we either do nothing

and expect things to change

or do something

and try and change things

it's no surprise that we suck... if you compare our board and administration to any of that in the league we would come last... just like our football team.
 
Penrith have recently resigned Edwards and Martin on big deals and as such will have trouble keeping Luai . Dogs who seem to sign an unlimited number of players ( don't understand how they do it ) might try for him but with Burton and Sexton as half's why they need . Roosters with their "flexi "cap might bid .
Why can't we pull off a big signing and reunite Luai with Api .
 
BAGNF05 said:
Literally all the top eight sides have proven first grade halves, some have two rep players and others have guys who have just been around a little longer than the Ezra Mams and the Metcalf's.

Just a reminder they are the teams we are trying to catch up to. I didn't say we are going backwards but are we catching up?

Have a real good look at their halves and tell us honestly how good we are going.
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I didn't say they don't have proven first grade halves. I asked how many clubs had 3-4 PROVEN ones like you seemed to think? Please name me 5 proven halves that are playing as a backup half atm.
 
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FrodoTBagin said:
How many NRL sides have 3 proven halves on their books? Tigers will have 1 next year in Sezer plus a couple promising young juniors. Compared this year to Brooks (A 6 playing 7), Wakeham (Someone who had no team a week before the season started), Doueihi (A centre who has played 1 and 6 the last couple years coming off and ACL).

I don't know how anyone can say with a straight face that
1) We haven't done good considering what's on the market
2) We are going backwards with our halves
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I'm not convinced any of the options we are getting are better than Brooks so I'm not convinced in relation to point 2. I completely agree with point 1 though. You might be right on point 2 as well. Fainu and Sullivan are two guys that may be able to add some excitement to our team. Sezer may be able to play that general kicking organizing half role.

We'll have to wait and see what happens but it's definitely not depression time assuming we sign those guys. If we could also sign an outside back or two and ideally resign Staines it's be as good a bunch of signings as you could expect.
 
BAGNF05 said:
I think the club already has a young centre coming through in Feledy. We have enough kids and projects, the challenge is filling the first grade side with older pros.
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Two centres I wouldn’t mind us looking at Billy Smith from roosters and Braidon Burns from the dogs, both wouldn’t break the bank and are specialist centres.
And think both are off contract at end of year.
 
BAGNF05 said:
I never said anything about your back-ups. In a perfect world you only need them during origin period. Ideally you have two guys who are proven first graders and a capable back up or two. By capable they can still follow a game plan and eek out a win.
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Even then I would say less than half of the teams in the comp have a proven halves pairing for 2023. Some teams like the dogs don't even have a proven half on their books at all. You ask if we are catching up and honestly the answer is yes.
In the next 3 years the game will lose

Reynolds
Hunt
Johnson
Cherry Evans
Foran
Townsend
Cody Walker
Keary
Sezer
Pearce

Clubs have hampered a lot of halves development in the last 5 - 10 years, when they retire their will be about 10 proven halves in the comp total. Unless some start coming through now. so we have a hell of a chance to get on the front foot and have the next most dominant half of the decade.
 
FrodoTBagin said:
Even then I would say less than half of the teams in the comp have a proven halves pairing for 2023. Some teams like the dogs don't even have a proven half on their books at all. You ask if we are catching up and honestly the answer is yes.
In the next 3 years the game will lose

Reynolds
Hunt
Johnson
Cherry Evans
Foran
Townsend
Cody Walker
Keary
Sezer
Pearce

Clubs have hampered a lot of halves development in the last 5 - 10 years, when they retire their will be about 10 proven halves in the comp total. Unless some start coming through now. so we have a hell of a chance to get on the front foot and have the next most dominant half of the decade.
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Very interesting post. Good foresight.

Locking in good young halves and persevering with them could really pay off down the track.
 
Fainu and Sezer starting halves. Sullivan #14. Wakeham and Doueihi (when fully healed) as depth. Not ideal, but as good as you're gonna get in today's halves market tbh
 
BAGNF05 said:
The problem is those are the teams that make the eight.

In truth I can't see a better viable option than gambling on kids alongside an older veteran like Sezer but as they say when you gamble, "you win some, you lose more".
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Oh of course you are right, the teams that do have them are the ones who win. The problem is those players only go to other clubs who win, not bottom feeders like us. We are going to have to make our own winners. As I said in the next few years there aren't going to be too many of those winners around anyway so the experience level in the halves needed to win a game won't be as high, the game is pretty much about to hit a hard reset again but this time Panthers will be the kings at the top for a decade instead of Melbourne.

And remember those 2 powerhouses built themselves with unproven players in key positions at the right time.. With our 10+ years of shit hopefully us fans have collected enough karma that the Tigers juniors are the next lucky batch that comes through at the right time.
 
BAGNF05 said:
and if they are, we somehow manage to keep them...
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Don't get me started.
Still makes me sick to my stomach that Ivan came in and pissed off a core group of local juniors that played 1, 6 and 7. Left, then got a do over with Panthers core group of local juniors that played 1, 6 and 7. While we got left with his shitty decision making and an ever poorer image.
 
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