Signings, Suggestions & Rumours Discussion

[hsvjones]

I was just having a look at South and their squad and it blows my mind how NRL is not looking into them..

Arrow - 700K
Burgess 750k (400k next year)
Cook - 750k
C Graham - 850K
Latrell - 1 Million
Murray - 950k
Tatola - 650k
Walker - 750k

Thats $6.4m on 8 players
Now add
Wighton - 750k next year and players like Ilias, Johnston, Koloamatangi (SOO player and been upgraded and extended) and Tass would NOT be on min wage.

How do they fit 30 players under the cap ???

Sorry but the game needs an overhaul.

I can see why they are in top 8 every year now so it's extremely important we keep the best juniors and set ourselves up for the future.

 

[dazza65]

I was just having a look at South and their squad and it blows my mind how NRL is not looking into them..

Arrow - 700K
Burgess 750k (400k next year)
Cook - 750k
C Graham - 850K
Latrell - 1 Million
Murray - 950k
Tatola - 650k
Walker - 750k

Thats $6.4m on 8 players
Now add
Wighton - 750k next year and players like Ilias, Johnston, Koloamatangi (SOO player and been upgraded and extended) and Tass would NOT be on min wage.

How do they fit 30 players under the cap ???

Sorry but the game needs an overhaul.

I can see why they are in top 8 every year now so it's extremely important we keep the best juniors and set ourselves up for the future.

Because they’re the pride of the league….. if south’s are going well, footy is going well…. Usual BS

 

[TV Ted Ellery]

I was just having a look at South and their squad and it blows my mind how NRL is not looking into them..

Arrow - 700K
Burgess 750k (400k next year)
Cook - 750k
C Graham - 850K
Latrell - 1 Million
Murray - 950k
Tatola - 650k
Walker - 750k

Thats $6.4m on 8 players
Now add
Wighton - 750k next year and players like Ilias, Johnston, Koloamatangi (SOO player and been upgraded and extended) and Tass would NOT be on min wage.

How do they fit 30 players under the cap ???

Sorry but the game needs an overhaul.

I can see why they are in top 8 every year now so it's extremely important we keep the best juniors and set ourselves up for the future.

The only times clubs have been penalised for egregious breaches of the cap have been because of whistleblowers. The NRL's salary cap auditor is about as effective as North Korea's human rights council. They would be better off removing the cap as an acknowledgment that it cannot be enforced.

 

[Coastie_Tiger]

Mate I don't need this. I'm just telling you what I was told. Believe it or don't, I really don't care.

Mate you've been on here for yonks and hardly someone who i'd say bullshits people, if people didnt pass on info they heard this thread wouldnt be worth opening. If it happens great if not im sure the vast majority arent going to stone you to death. To top it off you're a fellow Coastie so you're quite obviously a stand up bloke 🤣

 

[Yossarian]

Mate you've been on here for yonks and hardly someone who i'd say bullshits people, if people didnt pass on info they heard this thread wouldnt be worth opening. If it happens great if not im sure the vast majority arent going to stone you to death. To top it off you're a fellow Coastie so you're quite obviously a stand up bloke 🤣

Ha! Cheers mate.

 

[mactiger]

Don't understand the tactic of doing four short drop outs in a row to a attacking team like souths handing the ball ten metres out when you're trailing 20 to 18 seems like madness to me

 

[Yossarian]

Don't understand the tactic of doing four short drop outs in a row to a attacking team like souths handing the ball ten metres out when you're trailing 20 to 18 seems like madness to me

I think you’re in the wrong thread Mac!

 

[Fainu Brothers]

Seems that way. It's not like I'm offering a guarantee here, just passing on what I heard.

All good, i hope its true

 

[tony soprano]

Is Hawkins faster than lead foot wakeham ?

Probably but couldn't lead a souths team to a win against the Bulldogs.

I would stay clear of players souths don't want. They have a few average ones in the squad

 

[tony soprano]

Reckon he's coaching now and allowing Sheens to cop the bullets, the team isn't looking too flash at the minute.

Yeh, recruitment is an obvious disadvantage for me.

 

[Wiz]

Tell me about this bloke Yoss hears we have signed. Young prop from Broncos is all I know. Thanks in advance!

 

[Needaname]

I hear Xavier Willison is heading our way.

Collateral for retaining Hass prehaps.?.

 

[tony soprano]

Tell me about this bloke Yoss hears we have signed. Young prop from Broncos is all I know. Thanks in advance!

Would be like WT Signing jesus.

 

[weststigers]

Maybe check your source coz looks like he’s locked up until end of 2025.
Unless of course we are planning a long way in advance.

Mate… @Yossarian has been around this place since I can remember. He’s no fame chaser.

Just because someone is contracted, it doesn’t mean they won’t move.

He’s just sharing info. He never said it was 100%. In fact said the bloke has a good strike rate, but gets the odd one wrong.

 

[crazycat]

Swap for a centre

Agreed Tiger Yoshi

Jake Simpkin has done fairly well for a second tier player.
We need a defensive center badly and Wingers that can either tackle or harden up

 

[TigerNeddyK]

Exactly

He’s already coaching

He sucks man

He was an inconsistent player

Why would we expect him to be a consistent coach

Wayne Bennet was an average winger, pretty elite coach though, Bellamy was a fringe first grade 5/8 , he also goes ok.. I do get your logic though. I hope he learnt from experience and the coaches he played under.. Benji is a thinker , and competitive,and definitely a Tiger

 

[Wiz]

Would be like WT Signing jesus.

Interesting. And why is that? His size? Power? Big hits? Offloads? I need some hope after securing our 8th loss in a row.

Possibly part of Lee’s agressive recruitment!

 

[tigermate]

Wayne Bennet was an average winger, pretty elite coach though, Bellamy was a fringe first grade 5/8 , he also goes ok.. I do get your logic though. I hope he learnt from experience and the coaches he played under.. Benji is a thinker , and competitive,and definitely a Tiger

He’s too flashy

I have never heard benji or sheens saying you need to earn the right to go wide

One of my mates is mates with benji and apparently after the first 5or 6 losses benji told him those were his fault for trying to be too expansive.

Him and sheens are self admitting offensive minded coaches

They’ve said it

Whereas you listen to Billy slater … he says go hard and simple and then go wide

Even Webster the warriors coach on NRL 360 the other day said he keeps it really really simple

We have Robbie doing attack out of our end zone

Benji doing attack in their end zone

Sheens saying you have to use the ball

And the only guy doing D is david furner … out of 4 coaches.

It’s been sheens benji and Robbie Achilles heel and why we never consistently made the top 8 from 2005 to when they both retired

Making the finals 3 times in like 15 years!

All because they just don’t do the simple stuff

Look at the dolphins and Wayne Bennet

I guarantee if Bennet was coaching us we would be in the 8 with this team

 

[weststigerman]

He’s too flashy

I have never heard benji or sheens saying you need to earn the right to go wide

One of my mates is mates with benji and apparently after the first 5or 6 losses benji told him those were his fault for trying to be too expansive.

Him and sheens are self admitting offensive minded coaches

They’ve said it

Whereas you listen to Billy slater … he says go hard and simple and then go wide

Even Webster the warriors coach on NRL 360 the other day said he keeps it really really simple

We have Robbie doing attack out of our end zone

Benji doing attack in their end zone

Sheens saying you have to use the ball

And the only guy doing D is david furner … out of 4 coaches.

It’s been sheens benji and Robbie Achilles heel and why we never consistently made the top 8 from 2005 to when they both retired

Making the finals 3 times in like 15 years!

All because they just don’t do the simple stuff

Look at the dolphins and Wayne Bennet

I guarantee if Bennet was coaching us we would be in the 8 with this team

With 3 coaches our attack is horrible too. Sheens used to be known for very deep back lines but right now we have the flattest attack in the comp. Souths go to their edges all the time but we seem to think Twal and Klemmer are our key attacking weapons.

 

[Halbrowne61]

Lots of people are contracted. All I know is what I was told.

Please accept my personal apology for carrying on like a pork chop earlier, not the way an elderly gentleman should conduct himself.
I had some sort of meltdown watching the first half of repetitive Tigers rubbish. My medication has kicked in now.
I enjoy and respect your opinions and hope that your mail is correct.