Signings, Suggestions & Rumours Discussion

[hammertime]

Heard it here first, to’o to tigers is done!!!!

Just like how we signed Blaze for 3 years?

 

[Johnnycash]

Just like how we signed Blaze for 3 years?

If you read my immediate post right after that you’d know that was sarcasm.

 

[JB9918]

If you read my immediate post right after that you’d know that was sarcasm.

So is this one sarcasm?

 

[Johnnycash]

So is this one sarcasm?

No sir 🫡 . Not putting to much out there for the journalist ……..

 

[Roar_Power]

Looks alright:

1 Bula
2 To'o
3 Olam
4 Turuva
5 Skelton

 

[Tom Shines]

No sir 🫡 . Not putting to much out there for the journalist ……..

What makes you so sure about this one ?

 

[BAGNF05]

No sir 🫡 . Not putting to much out there for the journalist ……..

Hard to get excited by a rumour that seems far fetched but his 200 running metres per game and 127 tackle breaks would instantly make us a competitive outfit.

 

[Halbrowne61]

Looks alright:

1 Bula
2 To'o
3 Olam
4 Turuva
5 Skelton

Especially
If you add Galvin at 6 and Luai at 7 !

 

[boonboon]

Just like how we signed Blaze for 3 years?

Or when the same poster said Benji told him Moses will be at Tigers in 2024

 

[crazycat]

Too right, the media fawn over Robbo like he is the second coming of Jack Gibson or the like. Most coaches would excel with his roster every year, Robbo in my opinion has under achieved

Not with who he has lost.

Look Robbo has had a good squad. But not a brillant one.
Tedesco is top level and he has a good halves pairing in Keary/Walker. Easts have lost a fair bit of it's forward pack and were showing signs of trouble. Somehow he steer'd that ship right.

He is no Jack Gibson or Wayne Bennett. But the guy clearly can coach.

Just look at Anthony Siebold with a good squad, now there is a guy who can't coach.

 

[WestsTigers4VR]

My personal team for next year (including plausible rumours)

1)Jahream Bula
2)Jeral Skelton
3)Adam Doueihi
4)Justin Olam
5)Sunia Turuva
6)Lachlan Galvin
7)Jarome Luai
8)Royce Hunt
9)Apisai Koroisau
10)David Klemmer
11)Alex Seyfarth
12)Samuela Fainu
13)Kobe Hetherington

14)Latu Fainu/Tallyn Da Silvaa
15)Alex Twal
16)Fonua Pole
17)Sione Fainu

 

[bptiger 0]

Do clubs still even do back ended deals? They are recipes for disaster.

The I thought the NRL banned them

 

[Tito Santana]

Looks alright:

1 Bula
2 To'o
3 Olam
4 Turuva
5 Skelton

What id be doing realistically:

1 Mason
2 Bula
3 Olam
4 Turuva
5 Skelton

 

[Tito Santana]

My personal team for next year (including plausible rumours)

1)Jahream Bula
2)Jeral Skelton
3)Adam Doueihi
4)Justin Olam
5)Sunia Turuva
6)Lachlan Galvin
7)Jarome Luai
8)Royce Hunt
9)Apisai Koroisau
10)David Klemmer
11)Alex Seyfarth
12)Samuela Fainu
13)Kobe Hetherington

14)Latu Fainu/Tallyn Da Silvaa
15)Alex Twal
16)Fonua Pole
17)Sione Fainu

On behalf of all WT fans, please never post with Douhei in the team again.

 

[Kaito]

Fantasy line-ups never work a season out... Team
can look a lot different with one signing or release

 

[Kaito]

Injuries etc. Too hard to pick a team right now smh

 

[hsvjones]

I see Hunt is calling for Tigers to add Horsburgh as they would make a great team together as they both don't back down.

Good to see recruits trying to get other there as well. Starting to like Hunt already

 

[Odessa]

Heard it here first, to’o to tigers is done!!!!

Which forward did they get ?

 

[Halbrowne61]

On behalf of all WT fans, please never post with Douhei in the team again.

Unfortunately Tito I think you’ll find he will be somewhere around the team, so you’ll just have to grin and bear it !

 

[Tigers_Wests]

Royce Hunt has inked a three-year deal with the Wests Tigers – now he hopes to be joined by one-time nemesis, and the man he famously labelled a “weak-gutted dog”, Corey Horsburgh.

The Tigers announced on Tuesday they had signed Hunt until the end of 2027 after Cronulla agreed to cut the Samoan international loose from the remaining 12 months of his deal.

Hunt will add some experience and grunt to the pack – and if things go to plan, fiery Raiders forward Horsburgh will be joining him at the joint venture next year.
The pair memorably clashed during a game in 2023, with Hunt saying at the time, “I’ve never seen a front-rower hide behind his halfback”.

Horsburgh was suspended for the return bout late last season, but Hunt told this masthead at the time: “I still have a debt to settle with him. Hopefully he doesn’t cry this time. we’ll lock horns and see who comes out on top. I’m a bit heavier than him. He’s got that ‘dad bod’.

Hunt was delighted to have sorted his future, and said he would love the chance to strike up an on-field combination with ‘Big Red’.

“I spoke to their recruitment guy and [the Tigers] are keen on Big Red. He’s a good guy and would be a great buy,” Hunt told this masthead. “I was actually at Canberra with him for a while. We’re two guys who won’t back down. If they get him, we can go there and ramp up their forward pack.
“I’m sure we’ll get into the wrestling room and throw down a few times. I haven’t seen him since that game in Canberra.”

The 29-year-old met with Tigers coach Benji Marshall at a local cafe in Padstow, and liked his vision. Jarome Luai, a fellow Samoan, is also bound for Concord next year and Dragons utility Jack Bird was spotted taking a tour of the Tigers’ facilities on Tuesday.

“I met Benji on Monday last week, and it moved really fast. It was pretty much done Tuesday. He was pretty cool. He said to me there were a lot of kids, and he wanted someone with experience to get to that next level.

“I told him, ‘I can help you with that’, and how at the Sharks we had built a good culture where the young boys weren’t afraid to ask for help, and they know ‘steel sharpens steel’. If they come for our spots every week, it makes the older boys better, the younger boys better, and it raises the overall standards at the club.

“He also spoke about me wanting to play more minutes, and I told him I’d earn every minute you give me.”

Hunt was given permission to test the market in June because of the abundance of middle forwards at Cronulla.

After the Sharks added Addin Fonua-Blake to a pack that already featured Braden Hamlin-Uele, Tom Hazelton, Oregon Kaufusi, Toby Rudolf, Jack Williams and Jesse Colquhoun, Hunt was resigned to continuing his career elsewhere.

South Sydney showed brief interest, but the Tigers moved quickly following the departures of middle men Stefano Utoikamanu and Isaiah Papali’i, who play their last games on Friday at a packed Campbelltown Sports Stadium before linking with Melbourne and Penrith respectively.