Signings, Suggestions & Rumours Discussion

[Mistymuzzle]

OK, so you can't tell us who we should chase, or who they play for, or what you'd offer them, just more of a 'do better' kinda feel.

That, and cheat the system.

This, despite the fact that the Dolphins were fined $50k last month for doing that exact thing with Deine Mariner at the Broncos..

Got it.

Mate most of our recent and best purchases were not on the market including Klemmer, Bud, Fainu. None of the top clubs wait until they are available. You can talk to who ever you want whenever you want but cant sign a contract more than 12months out without permission.

 

[AmericanHistoryX]

Never heard half of the Brisbane or Penrith players.

 

[lathami]

Large hasn't turned 16 yet...

I didn’t mean next week, I was talking medium to long term pathways!

 

[Mistymuzzle]

What club did we acquire Bula from?

Titans

 

[PabloX]

Bit hard to identify him if he was not playing for anyone.

That's fair, he wasn't playing for an nrl club.

He was playing though, was it the koori knockout where he was playing with Greg Inglis and got the taste for it again?

I hope we have talent scouts at these carnivals...

 

[lathami]

I know of him. Again, I know he's a Magpies legend it seems but he didn't really register that much beyond there.

He’s like your Kevin Hastings of the roosters. Same era, both low clubs in the comp but great clubmen. Has offers to go to other/better clubs, chose to stay!
Get sick of hearing the ‘do t want to live in my dads shadow’ line, mind u only heard it from Pearce and cogger. Crap call look at Cleary and walters?!?

 

[earl]

Mate, c'mon, enough with the technicalities. The only reason way got Bula was due to his relationship with Peni. Our recruitment team sadly didn't identify him...I wish they did, it would give me a little more confidence in the club

I don't think that is entirely fair. Sure Peni got him a look in but they actually decided to use him. The club had high hopes for him without him playing much higher level footy.

 

[earl]

Get sick of hearing the ‘do t want to live in my dads shadow’ line, mind u only heard it from Pearce and cogger. Crap call look at Cleary and walters?!?

It's loony tunes stuff but did Cogger actually state that and did it have any meaning at all. I thought Fulton wanted Cogger and not Sezer but Benji won out.

 

[loklok]

Latu fainu picked in Tongan squad

 

[PabloX]

I don't think that is entirely fair. Sure Peni got him a look in but they actually decided to use him. The club had high hopes for him without him playing much higher level footy.

I agree, but this discussion was around players helping recruit other players, which is what happened.

 

[Lestronge]

You don’t know jackshit about me so stop right there with that line of garbage.
You replied to me champ. I said this was our worst season given the amount of positives attached to it. I said nothing about outlooks to the future, nothing about juniors coming through. I said this is our worst season yet and you tried to smugly discredit this by pointing to a season where we weren’t beat in 10 games. Newsflash…we won 4 games this year and came last with 19 losses. Luckily there were 3 byes or we likely would have lost over 20 games.

???
Why are you so aggressive about nothing lol “RAhhh someone disagrees with me on a forum …” I think what you’re saying factually wrong and I explained why . I 💯 disagree . Even offered 3 other season and why I think that way .
You act like a baby , calling people champ and generally behaving like a Neanderthal on here .
Put the gun down Janie …. It’s like your take on the Fainu brother …. Jesus …

 

[Kelce68]

Mate most of our recent and best purchases were not on the market including Klemmer, Bud, Fainu. None of the top clubs wait until they are available. You can talk to who ever you want whenever you want but cant sign a contract more than 12months out without permission.

I agree.

In the case of those blokes, they were all given permission prior to explore their options, which helps to facilitate those discussions I'm sure.

Let's hope that there's a few more of these types of situations open up this off season.

 

[crazycat]

Yes understood.
You do need to remember though, that when it comes to football, you are a bloody idiot.

What the hell is with you Tucker!

Nothing idiotic about this comment:
"I can't see a single player on the list, with the possible exception of Crichton, who the Tigers might have had a realistic chance of signing and who would have been a significant difference maker. Sure, there are probably some names here and there that we could have used. But all this whining about how we don't sign anyone is pretty pathetic TBH."

I agree, there is no one I see on the GF list that we could have signed that was instrumental or significant in that game.

You would have to go down the list of the top 8 to find signing targets.
Cronulla, Easts, etc. to find someone we would want.

Heck we have 2x Junior centers in Reilly and Feledy... Starford Toa who may be best at Center... Naden who surprisingly is better at Wing... and out turnstyles in Nofo and Tupou. We really need to upgrade our backline and I don't know how we would do that without making stupid big money offers (i.e. 900k) for a Olam/Manu/Bradman Best.... When we have tried to be smart, it has backfired (Ken M for example). Braidon Burns would be an upgrade on those in our backline, yet he is off to the superleague.

 

[Tiger_Yoshi]

@kade7 - are we in the hunt for this Kiwi?

Clubs hunting Tuivasa-Sheck clone after code switch

'The guy has everything'

wwos.nine.com.au

 

[lathami]

It's loony tunes stuff but did Cogger actually state that and did it have any meaning at all. I thought Fulton wanted Cogger and not Sezer but Benji won out.

Didn’t hear it from his mouth, but was well quoted. Heard the recruitment dude from the knights say they were confident in signing him as he didn’t want to go to the tigers due to that fact.

 

[crazycat]

Why don't we chase Marika Koroibete for a swan song

Because winning off a strong winger is our problem!

We have always had awesome wingers, although some did not hang around.
Koroibete
Tukali
Nofo (5 years ago he would really cross the line, yes horrid defense but a try or two per game).
Pat Richards

Because our team was so driven by the wingers. We don't get the proper structures developing. It disguises where we are at.

Hiring Koroibete will give us a try per game. Now if Koroibete could train up Tupou to be a gun winger, sure hire Koroibete. There would be knowledge he could impart.

Yet for years we have relied on strong wingers. This has disguised our problems with team structure and defense.

 

[earl]

Didn’t hear it from his mouth, but was well quoted. Heard the recruitment dude from the knights say they were confident in signing him as he didn’t want to go to the tigers due to that fact.

It still doesn't really ring true to me. Like it's a choice between the Knights and us but we aren't sure if we are going to even move forward with signing him and it doesn't sound like we are offering him more money.

I wonder what the tune would have been if Benji was pushing hard for him to come and we were offering him an extra 50k per year.

 

[crazycat]

@kade7 - are we in the hunt for this Kiwi?

Clubs hunting Tuivasa-Sheck clone after code switch

'The guy has everything'

wwos.nine.com.au

A player with mental problems and "could be the next thing" or "could be the next 400k player not taking the field". Not who we should be targetting, IMHO

It's like the Dogs signing TPJ and the Sharks signing Dale Finucane. Dale's performance won't be extreme, but he is easy to coach and helped a rookie coach in Craig F get the teams structure down. TPJ being handled by a rookie coach at the dogs, underperforms and sounds like he is more trouble then he is worth.

Lets target next big things that Benji can actually coach. Anyone wrong attitude won't be helped in our structure.


ALSO:
They "forgot" our winger of the year was a Rookie!

Shame on the NRLW!

Bloody hell, can we release the Karens of Western Sydney on them?

 

[Mistymuzzle]

Bloody hell, can we release the Karens of Western Sydney on them!

They are all busy in the 25 years thread.

 

[bptiger 0]

Dragons: Kyle Flanagan and Hame Sele.
Bulldogs: Stephem Crichton, Jaeman Salmon, Bronson Xerri, Blake Taafe.
Titans: Keenan Palasia.
Dolphins: Jake Averillo, Herbie Farnworth, Thomas Flegler.
Manly: Luke Brooks, Aitasi James, Jaxson Paulo, Tommy Talau.
Cowboys: Jake Clifford, Viliami Vailea.
Parra: nobody.

That's the bottom half of the ladder and I'll give you two clubs we could perhaps be envious of. The Dolphins I think are a bit of a special case given their combination of cap room, the Queensland factor and Wayne Bennett. With the Dogs we're talking about one player, aren't we? I'd rather have anyone we've signed than the second best player they've signed.

So what you're saying basically comes down to "I wish we'd signed Stephen Crichton". Even there, isn't the story that he wants to play fullback - which we don't need?

U forgot the knights, two English international backs and a panther kid who lucks very good