Signings, Suggestions & Rumours Discussion

[BZN]

I just think you have to be realistic about the capabilities of this current squad and the unlikelihood of Benji being the bloke with the magic wand - assuming he will be the next person who fans are most likely to target.
There are too many individuals that are contributing to the failure on the field to expect one person off the field to fix it - especially when the teams that we oppose are all better, and week in week out expose our weaknesses.

We can compete for parts of games but can't defend our errors against stronger faster teams. If we don't get a fair share of possession and field position we will lose.
All comes back to roster - retention and recruitment which our club consistently for years has failed at, and still there are a number of players being paid too much money for output. Recipe for failure.
Brooks in a good system not a different player just got a better team around him. It's always been a bigger problem than anyone person can fix no matter who you target as most likely.

Unless Benji gets hit with a lightning bolt miracle pretty soon from the Big Fella up there in the sky, we're going to come last 'again'.

I just don't get it, as Benji said he would pick the blokes to play that showed their best at training.
But when they get out on the field to play that 'best' evaporates.
No blood and guts, no determination, wont jump for the ball and back away from tackling the big blokes.

As @innsaneink said "it's depressing", boring and just plain embarrassing now to be a WT fan.
I wouldn't be surprised if WT set a new record of being the only team since the inception of R.L. in Aust. to be the only team to come last 3 years in a row.

From the eight games Balmain Tigers, Wests Magpies and WT played last weekend, we won either 1 or 2 games, with the points scored against us being either 3 or 4 times as many as we scored.

I wonder if there is one single person out there that is rich enough [or stupid enough maybe] to become a 'member' of WT if next weekend's game [or games] is another debacle?

 

[BZN]

We don’t run on to the ball, it’s like we all stand in a line and play hot potato from one edge to the other. It started with Madge and we’re still doing it. Actually I don’t think we run with any gusto in A or D?

Gusto 🤔 such a very polite way [from a polite and decent bloke] to describe our running in A or D.
I would have used another G word such as g.....s.

 

[tigermate]

Nah JH is a bit of a myth. Last year was all KP and the coach has basically just admitted that having signed Cogger and given him 2 weeks.

We’ll see how it unfolds

KP was inconsistent before JH arrived and provided a steady half back role.

Yeah he didn’t score and setup all the tries like KP did.

But the biggest value in any team in the NRL is having a steady organizing half who can get the team around and kick to the corners in the 5th

With teams quite even and momentum so hard to pull back and lots of tries now from the rules, having a half who can just pass and kick can grind the other team down.

That’s my point.

I’m not in love with JH. I know he’s slow and a downer for team mates.

But he grinds teams down, with boring, predictable plays, which then allows KP to do his thing.

My guess is he’ll be back in the team… because he’s a competitor and Newcastle before he came along didn’t have that in the team.

Happy to be proven wrong but let’s come back to this debate by round 15 and see where the knights are

 

[BZN]

NSW Cup is where our talent goes to die. Playing at that level only drags players down.
Name the last player that got better playing NSW Cup for us.

Our team as a whole is no better than a good N.S.W. Cup team imo.

 

[BZN]

What ever happened to @earl & @tony soprano

They are probably trying to preserve any sanity they have left by not being involved in reading the depressing WTF.
Maybe they decided to ditch WT and follow a team that gives them some enjoyment.

 

[BZN]

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A step in the right direction hopefully, but I hope he is a bloody genius.

 

[Buttface]

Our team as a whole is no better than a good N.S.W. Cup team imo.

Which one do you reckon we could beat?

 

[weststigers]

I reckon you pay your best players accordingly, regardless of position. The bigger issue might be satisfying their ambitions to run the team.

A centre is not going to be your "best" player. Therefore, they are unlikely to be paid a million a season to play centre.

A centre simply won't touch, kick or pass the ball anywhere near the amount of times a half, hooker or fullback will. Arguably, you could throw lock in there these days. That's why they get paid the big bucks.

If there is some outlier in the NRL, then fine, but that doesn't prove the rule.

 

[Demps]

Parramatta release Ky Rodwell

Off to Wakefield Trinity

 

[stephen]

A centre is not going to be your "best" player. Therefore, they are unlikely to be paid a million a season to play centre.

A centre simply won't touch, kick or pass the ball anywhere near the amount of times a half, hooker or fullback will. Arguably, you could throw lock in there these days. That's why they get paid the big bucks.

If there is some outlier in the NRL, then fine, but that doesn't prove the rule.

Yeah mate. Was referring to Galvin at lock.

 

[hank37w]

Which one do you reckon we could beat?

On a good day possibly Western Suburbs Magpies.

 

[Jedi_Tiger]

Having a laugh about Hastings having a sook being dropped. Lol.

he always has been a different cat, good riddance to him it was a great move getting him out of the club

 

[batboy]

he always has been a different cat, good riddance to him it was a great move getting him out of the club

#12MonthExpiry

 

[diedpretty]

Unless Benji gets hit with a lightning bolt miracle pretty soon from the Big Fella up there in the sky, we're going to come last 'again'.

I just don't get it, as Benji said he would pick the blokes to play that showed their best at training.
But when they get out on the field to play that 'best' evaporates.
No blood and guts, no determination, wont jump for the ball and back away from tackling the big blokes.

As @innsaneink said "it's depressing", boring and just plain embarrassing now to be a WT fan.
I wouldn't be surprised if WT set a new record of being the only team since the inception of R.L. in Aust. to be the only team to come last 3 years in a row.

From the eight games Balmain Tigers, Wests Magpies and WT played last weekend, we won either 1 or 2 games, with the points scored against us being either 3 or 4 times as many as we scored.

I wonder if there is one single person out there that is rich enough [or stupid enough maybe] to become a 'member' of WT if next weekend's game [or games] is another debacle?

Newcastle - 2015, 2016, 2017.

 

[GNR4LIFE]

So another club that Hastings has spat the dummy at. I did not see that coming.

 

[Roar_Power]

Parramatta release Ky Rodwell

Off to Wakefield Trinity

Making way for Lomax.

 

[426Tlgerland]

Parramatta release Ky Rodwell

Off to Wakefield Trinity

Not a bad young player , he will go,well over in the Pommy comp

 

[twentyforty]

So another club that Hastings has spat the dummy at. I did not see that coming.

What are the odds he comes back to Tigers? Do we have a player to swap?

 

[weststigers]

Not a bad young player , he will go,well over in the Pommy comp

Seyfarth. Are you paying attention?

 

[batboy]

So another club that Hastings has spat the dummy at. I did not see that coming.

Did the ole Cryptic "I'm not happy" Post....
about 1 minute after they gave him a dressing down on 360