Signings, Suggestions & Rumours Discussion

[balmain boy]

Said a few months ago we should target Sitili Tupouniua. What happens? Gus Gould gets him first before our useless recruitment team. Played the best footy in his career in the past month. But no... he is a washed injury-prone player and not worth the punt

According to the experts on here there's barely a dozen players worthy of our consideration.
They seem to forget we've won 3 spoons in a row and have a terrible squad.

 

[Juice]

Wasn’t corey horsburgh looking for a release to return home to QLD? That’s what I heard but could be wrong

 

[Buttface]

You could care less or couldn't care less? You sound confused? Or are you just copying a USA saying?
For the record I'm against mediocrity in all its forms, particularly when an organisation promotes itself as doing whatever it takes to win, while its mindless followers hang on like useful idiots. Don't be afraid to call it out when you see it Butthead. Be proud of yourself for doing so.

Geez, I didn’t mean to offend you 2040.
I am trying to swear less or maybe watching to much tv has wormed its way into my vernacular. I’m not sure what was so confusing? I could have said it like this, leave the Tigers and I could not care any less about you or your career. I didn’t think I needed to be so precise in my words. But thanks for calling me a useful idiot at least I’m not a useless idiot. I’m glad you let me know you’re against mediocrity, bcoz I couldn’t tell from that post where you were jerking off over Stef and Blore. I hope you’re team the Storm enjoy your support.
Oh and another way of saying I couldn’t care less is🖕you.
OMG I think the middle finger is a USA saying. 😱
OMG might be too.
Enjoy your day, I know I will.

 

[Buttface]

explain yourself Mumbles

Bad Karma to those who are not with us Merlot. That’s all.
Funny you asking me to clarify myself. 😁

 

[Merlot]

Bad Karma to those who are not with us Merlot. That’s all.
Funny you asking me to clarify myself. 😁

all fun n games

 

[Buttface]

all fun n games

Always Merlot. I upset 2040 with that post but I struggle to wish players like Ute good luck. I just hope he drops the ball and miss tackles for life. Well unless he comes back and wins us a comp and then I’d love Ute again. You know what I mean? 😎

 

[Merlot]

Always Merlot. I upset 2040 with that post but I struggle to wish players like Ute good luck. I just hope he drops the ball and miss tackles for life. Well unless he comes back and wins us a comp and then I’d love Ute again. You know what I mean? 😎

Stephano -has no steely backbone - that cannot b coached into him

 

[Buttface]

Stephano -has no steely backbone - that cannot b coached into him

Yeah I’m not sure that’s entirely correct, but we’ll see in the next couple of years if Stef was just being a cat here or not.

 

[crazycat]

Maybe if the club had given them a 1/2 s pairing they might have preformed better , so next year we have a much better backline but no forwards , so will we call out our gun 1/2s for not preforming, without any forwards

YEP....

I have been thinking the exact same thing.
We only keep a Klemmer + 2 years, pole. No Stef + Bateman leaves us really REALLY weak up front.

It's going to be a tough ask for Luai. Yes people will blame our halfback when the forward pack for 2025 looks awful compared to 2022.

 

[crazycat]

Stephano -has no steely backbone - that cannot b coached into him

He is joining Melbourne.

If he has no backbone, Melbourne will break him.

 

[crazycat]

Bad Karma to those who are not with us Merlot. That’s all.
Funny you asking me to clarify myself. 😁

Wait
That's just our normal hat. Usually you have a picture of a face+Behind combination as your Avatar....

<checks our position on ladder> 🙁
Yep.. ok makes sense...

 

[426Tlgerland]

The interesting bit for me is that we still have 2 options that we need to understand what's happening in Sezer and Tumeth and 5 players in our current top squad who aren't in the top 30 next year in - Alimalo, faatape, Porter, Johansson and Sione Fainu.

What we really need to do is clear the decks. Not sure who goes but their would have to be questions around - Feledy, Sakuru, Naden, Sullivan, Matamua, Kit, Sukkar, Faagutu as to which if any we have next yr. None have made any impression in nrl this year and yes some are young but then imo they should be on development or cup contracts not top 30 but don't know how you go about paying them out and still keeping them at that lower level

Agree , I would be locking up Ruben Porter , he is improving every game and a good off season he will become another player like young Sam F. Both going to be strong for up
Ruben x 2 years

 

[twentyforty]

Geez, I didn’t mean to offend you 2040.
I am trying to swear less or maybe watching to much tv has wormed its way into my vernacular. I’m not sure what was so confusing? I could have said it like this, leave the Tigers and I could not care any less about you or your career. I didn’t think I needed to be so precise in my words. But thanks for calling me a useful idiot at least I’m not a useless idiot. I’m glad you let me know you’re against mediocrity, bcoz I couldn’t tell from that post where you were jerking off over Stef and Blore. I hope you’re team the Storm enjoy your support.
Oh and another way of saying I couldn’t care less is🖕you.
OMG I think the middle finger is a USA saying. 😱
OMG might be too.
Enjoy your day, I know I will.

Play the ball Buttsy, when you play the man you can expect 10 in the Bin. Stefano is one of the best front rowers in the game and Richo was visibly upset that he couldn’t retain him. I can understand you echoing Richo’s sentiments but because he acted like a spoilt brat doesn’t mean it’s right to follow him down that path.
The real problem is that Stef gave us 3 full seasons to get our act together and we took away his hopes and aspirations. Stefano is leaving because he wants to be a better player and I applaud the guy for that.

 

[tigeress]

According to the experts on here there's barely a dozen players worthy of our consideration.
They seem to forget we've won 3 spoons in a row and have a terrible squad.

Do we actually have a "recruitment" person, I thought Benji took on that job well- he has far too much on his plate already- he needs help

 

[hank37w]

I’m in a couple of SuperCoach groups on FB, and like clockwork, every single time we play, theres at least one person making a post, asking who she is.

Who said we can't attract talent?

 

[tigeress]

Stephano -has no steely backbone - that cannot b coached into him

Perhaps he doesn't have a 'steely backbone', but you watch him thrive at the Storm - and that's all that matters.

 

[426Tlgerland]

I hope after all this Stef stuff has been striving us all up Richo can finally come out this week and give us a name of new player coming to the club , and prey it’s not a reserve grader .
we also need him to come out wth
Pole upgrade and extended 3 years
Ruben Porter upgrade and extended 2 years
Solomona upgrade and extend 2 years
we then still need to replace Stef = Hunt
we still need another additional prop
back row ,

 

[Eternal Tiger]

With $2m to spend and an NRL condition that you must spend approx 95% of your Cap, and only a few spots available, we need to sign an elite player, on approx $800k.
Signing 3 or 4 mid tier players on 350 to 400k won't make us NRL compliant.
Everybody is off contract, not just the "available" list. Bateman has 2yrs left and he's seemingly on the move. Richo will have to prove his worth these next few months, we can all judge him in that time.

 

[twentyforty]

Do we actually have a "recruitment" person, I thought Benji took on that job well- he has far too much on his plate already- he needs help

When Richo made Fulton’s job redundant I thought he said he would do the job himself, with Benji having the right to refuse any potential signing.

 

[Vicious]

My understanding is we have slightly over 2 million to spend for 2025 as it stands.
IF we offload Bateman, Sullivan, Naden and possibly To’a that would mean we have 3 million to spend ?
If we could also medically retire Olam it could be over 3.5 million to spend.