Signings, Suggestions & Rumours Discussion

[balmain boy]

I agree with what you are saying, but we simply cannot retain our best players such as Stefano, upgrade others such as Galvin, have a red hot crack at signing a couple more quality players to strengthen up our team and still pay the rumoured 500-550k per season for a halve who is highly likely to okay NSW Cup for the remainder of his contract.
If he was on much less money it would be nice to keep him, but he’s not.

He's not on as much as reported in the telecrap

Are previous recruitment team were bad, but do you really think they'd offer an injury prone reserve grade half a $2million deal? It's not that much, and i'm pretty sure there are options in the contract too.

Clubs never announce "we've signed XX player on a 4 year deal but there are conditions that we can offload them earlier at no expense if we want to". It makes it sound like the club doesn't rate the player and that they're not wanted, sometimes even before they've played a single game. These clauses and options only come out down the track if/when necessary. See Stefano's origin clause, supposedly Schuster weight clauses etc. They don't announce these things up front, just that it's a X year contract.

 

[Nonotmeagain]

Can we blame him? Is he a bad guy if leaves for greener pastures????

NO we cannot

 

[Nonotmeagain]

He's not on as much as reported in the telecrap

Are previous recruitment team were bad, but do you really think they'd offer an injury prone reserve grade half a $2million deal? It's not that much, and i'm pretty sure there are options in the contract too.

Clubs never announce "we've signed XX player on a 4 year deal but there are conditions that we can offload them earlier at no expense if we want to". It makes it sound like the club doesn't rate the player and that they're not wanted, sometimes even before they've played a single game. These clauses and options only come out down the track if/when necessary. See Stefano's origin clause, supposedly Schuster weight clauses etc. They don't announce these things up front, just that it's a X year contract.

Are previous recruitment team were bad, but do you really think they'd offer an injury prone reserve grade half a $2million deal? It's not that much, and i'm pretty sure there are options in the contract too - yes they would and we'll never know what's in the contract.

 

[Vicious]

He's not on as much as reported in the telecrap

Are previous recruitment team were bad, but do you really think they'd offer an injury prone reserve grade half a $2million deal? It's not that much, and i'm pretty sure there are options in the contract too.

Clubs never announce "we've signed XX player on a 4 year deal but there are conditions that we can offload them earlier at no expense if we want to". It makes it sound like the club doesn't rate the player and that they're not wanted, sometimes even before they've played a single game. These clauses and options only come out down the track if/when necessary. See Stefano's origin clause, supposedly Schuster weight clauses etc. They don't announce these things up front, just that it's a X year contract.

I hope you are right.
The only logical reason why we didn’t at least attempt to sign Zac Lomax has to be due to Salary Cap constraints, otherwise why are we doing nothing about strengthening up our weak backline when a big, strong, fast and skilful player who is also one of the best goal kickers in the competition becomes available?
Not to mention he’s previously mentioned he would be interested in playing for Wets Tigers the team he followed growing up.

 

[Canadian Club]

James Schiller reportedly signs with the Knights from next season onwards.

 

[WestsEffTheRest]

James Schiller signs with Newcastle on a 3 year deal from next year.

 

[Vicious]

James Schiller reportedly signs with the Knights from next season onwards.

We obviously don’t like big, strong, fast backs who make line breaks and score tries.

 

[FrodoTBaggin]

Might sound crazy, but I love a good hot take. The Panthers will fall back into the pack next year. JFH and Luai are huge losses.

While we are at it I'll throw a hot take in too. JFH is going to be the biggest loss to that Panthers team in the last 5 years.

 

[Tom Shines]

I agree with what you are saying, but we simply cannot retain our best players such as Stefano, upgrade others such as Galvin, have a red hot crack at signing a couple more quality players to strengthen up our team and still pay the rumoured 500-550k per season for a halve who is highly likely to okay NSW Cup for the remainder of his contract.
If he was on much less money it would be nice to keep him, but he’s not.

Just pay half his deal from next year to move him on ..,this is what happens with all teams when they move on dud players they don’t want ,,

250k a year over three years … is what it is and they turn the page completely on the prior crapshow

 

[Buttface]

An old quote " A good big man will always beat a good little man"

On average, other traits being equal.

Old Poppy BF used that line a fair bit. Along with this “god give ya two hands, so learn how to use em and you’ll be able to chop some big men down to size. But never kick a man while he’s down, help him up and ask him if he’s finished. If he is then shout him a beer.” 🍺
Mmmmm beer.

 

[Buttface]

While we are at it I'll throw a hot take in too. JFH is going to be the biggest loss to that Panthers team in the last 5 years.

Let’s see how Cleary copes when his best prop his Eiso. 😁

 

[GNR4LIFE]

 

[rugbygoated]

And us.... a great buy for us....

fingers crossed

 

[Bones]

We obviously don’t like big, strong, fast backs who make line breaks and score tries.

Maybe they didn't bother after reading all the posts about how he won't leave Canberra on here 😆

 

[Vicious]

Let’s see how Cleary copes when his best prop his Eiso. 😁

Highly likely his best prop will be Utoikamanu who by season 2025 will be an upgrade on Fisher-Harris.

 

[Dennisspicer1]

Like a lot of West Tiger supporters, I give up.

 

[Vicious]

Like a lot of West Tiger supporters, I give up.

If we lose Stefano and lose a young talent in Large, it will be another 10 years of failure ahead.
We obviously cannot or do not want to sign any players to strengthen us, so it’s a must to keep the good ones we have.

 

[balmain boy]

James Schiller signs with Newcastle on a 3 year deal from next year.

Now this is disappointing. We should have been offering him 400k to join us.

Some clubs just have the right idea with recruitment. Snap good players as quickly as they can. We've been lamenting our pathetic outside backs and yet whenever a decent one is available we're nowhere to be seen. We may have made him an offer and been rejected, but geez it's frustrating when we repeatedly sign small and slow players while other clubs sign the big strong fast types. And we wonder why we lose nearly all of our matches...

He was an absolutely perfect fit for us. And we still missed out. Newie have now snapped up Thomas Jenkins and Schiller, while we're messing around with Faatape and Lobb.

 

[balmain boy]

I hope you are right.
The only logical reason why we didn’t at least attempt to sign Zac Lomax has to be due to Salary Cap constraints, otherwise why are we doing nothing about strengthening up our weak backline when a big, strong, fast and skilful player who is also one of the best goal kickers in the competition becomes available?
Not to mention he’s previously mentioned he would be interested in playing for Wets Tigers the team he followed growing up.

I think while we're looking for a back we weren't going to look at 700k on an outside back.

 

[Demps]

Time to negotiate an upgrade with Stefano and identify some outside backs.