Signings, Suggestions & Rumours Discussion

Mistymuzzle said:
Where is Hastings playing this week?

Luai will be first picked in the halves each week next year, Latu & Galvin will be fighting for 6/utility/lock/resting Api.
Click to expand...
We would’ve been in the 8 last year with hastings at 7, api at 9, brooks at 6.

See how long he stays out of the team for before claiming one week as a point of justification lol
 
tigermate said:
We would’ve been in the 8 last year with hastings at 7, api at 9, brooks at 6.

See how long he stays out of the team for before claiming one week as a point of justification lol
Click to expand...
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.
 
Telltails said:
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.
Click to expand...
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?
 
Buttface said:
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?
Click to expand...
Gusto :unsure: 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.
 
BAGNF05 said:
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.
Click to expand...
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
 
stephen said:
I reckon you pay your best players accordingly, regardless of position. The bigger issue might be satisfying their ambitions to run the team.
Click to expand...
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.
 
weststigers said:
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.
Click to expand...
Yeah mate. Was referring to Galvin at lock.
 
BZN said:
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?
Click to expand...
Newcastle - 2015, 2016, 2017.
 
You must log in or register to reply here.

Latest posts

Members online

Total: 490 (members: 16, guests: 474)
Forever online: Tigergran, Geo
Back
Top