Harry Grant

[Cultured_Bogan]

Didn’t make the 8 with him, where are we going to finish without him?
That’s the question you have to ask yourself

Unpopular opinion, In truth 2021 will be very skint

He’s a huge loss without doubt but if we get Roberts back to form and pick up Joe O I think we’ll be competitive. Adding Siro too would strengthen our defence.

While Liddle is not in his class, I think we will do OK with Liddle if he stays fit. We need him to stay fit so that Simpkin has time to come on so we're not tossing him in the deep end.

 

[GNR4LIFE]

Didn’t make the 8 with him, where are we going to finish without him?
That’s the question you have to ask yourself

Unpopular opinion, In truth 2021 will be very skint

He’s a huge loss without doubt but if we get Roberts back to form and pick up Joe O I think we’ll be competitive. Adding Siro too would strengthen our defence.

If all the dominos fall, I’m very excited about our pack. The spine is what’s going to cost us.

 

[avocadoontoast]

Didn’t make the 8 with him, where are we going to finish without him?
That’s the question you have to ask yourself

Unpopular opinion, In truth 2021 will be very skint

He’s a huge loss without doubt but if we get Roberts back to form and pick up Joe O I think we’ll be competitive. Adding Siro too would strengthen our defence.


If all the dominos fall, I’m very excited about our pack. The spine is what’s going to cost us.

Yep it’s the area of most concern. I’m confident AD will succeed at 6. Liddle will be fine if he remains healthy, Brooks and Mbye a bit of a worry but we know they can play.

 

[Deleted member 3518]

Didn't make the 8 with him, where are we going to finish without him?

That's the question you have to ask yourself

In the 8 . I’m going to pitch my flag on Douiehi , Brooks and Liddle Island .

 

[hammertime]

Didn't make the 8 with him, where are we going to finish without him?

That's the question you have to ask yourself

In the 8 . I’m going to pitch my flag on Douiehi , Brooks and Liddle Island .

Yep. The way I look at it is that none of the 3 are superstars, but they're all capable and all have the ability. Together, they may form a very capable combo. Particularly from a defensive perspective.

 

[Hangonaminute]

Didn't make the 8 with him, where are we going to finish without him?

That's the question you have to ask yourself

In the 8 . I’m going to pitch my flag on Douiehi , Brooks and Liddle Island .

If Douiehi plays 6, science help us
This team will do nothing as long as Brooks is our 7, and Liddle is tries hard but he's just not that 9 we need

 

[Russell]

Didn’t make the 8 with him, where are we going to finish without him?
That’s the question you have to ask yourself

Unpopular opinion, In truth 2021 will be very skint

He’s a huge loss without doubt but if we get Roberts back to form and pick up Joe O I think we’ll be competitive. Adding Siro too would strengthen our defence.

While Liddle is not in his class, I think we will do OK with Liddle if he stays fit. We need him to stay fit so that Simpkin has time to come on so we're not tossing him in the deep end.

Maybe Liddle will be so good that Simpkin never gets a real shot for the next 6-7 years.

That would disappoint alot of peeps on here.

 

[Cultured_Bogan]

Didn’t make the 8 with him, where are we going to finish without him?
That’s the question you have to ask yourself

Unpopular opinion, In truth 2021 will be very skint

He’s a huge loss without doubt but if we get Roberts back to form and pick up Joe O I think we’ll be competitive. Adding Siro too would strengthen our defence.

While Liddle is not in his class, I think we will do OK with Liddle if he stays fit. We need him to stay fit so that Simpkin has time to come on so we're not tossing him in the deep end.

Maybe Liddle will be so good that Simpkin never gets a real shot for the next 6-7 years.

That would disappoint alot of peeps on here.

Mate I would be hoping for that as much as the next person. I want every player here to realise their maximum potential and be world class players.

 

[mikey]

Pigs get go forward = better game by spine. Even Joe Average starts playing like a world-beater if the pigd lay the groundwork.
I'm happy with AD at 6/ Liddle at hooker/ Brookes at 7. Interested to see what transpires at FB.

 

[twentyforty]

Are player swap deals a good idea?
Depends who you ask, I guess.
Apparently Harry Grant is hoping for a Contract of $800k over 5 years?! That’s what Storm have Cammy on.
If Harry didn’t ask for the stint at WT chances are Storm may have signed him for half that figure?

 

[pawsandclaws1]

Didn’t make the 8 with him, where are we going to finish without him?
That’s the question you have to ask yourself

Unpopular opinion, In truth 2021 will be very skint

He’s a huge loss without doubt but if we get Roberts back to form and pick up Joe O I think we’ll be competitive. Adding Siro too would strengthen our defence.

While Liddle is not in his class, I think we will do OK with Liddle if he stays fit. We need him to stay fit so that Simpkin has time to come on so we're not tossing him in the deep end.

Maybe Liddle will be so good that Simpkin never gets a real shot for the next 6-7 years.

That would disappoint alot of peeps on here.

What you can guarantee is if Simpkin and Liddle are both playing well, other clubs will come calling.

 

[yeahcaz]

Are player swap deals a good idea?
Depends who you ask, I guess.
Apparently Harry Grant is hoping for a Contract of $800k over 5 years?! That’s what Storm have Cammy on.
If Harry didn’t ask for the stint at WT chances are Storm may have signed him for half that figure?

We should be offering 850 as our starting offer

 

[Jedi_Tiger]

Didn’t make the 8 with him, where are we going to finish without him?
That’s the question you have to ask yourself

Unpopular opinion, In truth 2021 will be very skint

He’s a huge loss without doubt but if we get Roberts back to form and pick up Joe O I think we’ll be competitive. Adding Siro too would strengthen our defence.

While Liddle is not in his class, I think we will do OK with Liddle if he stays fit. We need him to stay fit so that Simpkin has time to come on so we're not tossing him in the deep end.

Maybe Liddle will be so good that Simpkin never gets a real shot for the next 6-7 years.

That would disappoint alot of peeps on here.

would also dissapoint you Russell if Liddle didn't fire and Simpkin replaced him

 

[supercoach]

800 odd a year for a nine with no kicking game and only a solid passing game is a lot of money. Don’t get me wrong Harry is the best cattle dog I have seen in a long time. By that I mean his kick chase is second to none, his work rate and enthusiasm is unbelievable and just a all round good guy...but Liddle and Simkins may offer more in different areas.

Anyway got the feeling Harry will end up near the surf

 

[Lauren]

‘I’ll always be a Tigers player’: How season at Leichhardt set Grant on path to grand final​

By Christian Nicolussi​

October 5, 2024 — 4.45pm

Grand final week is always a time for players to reflect on the journey that helped get them to the biggest game of the year.
For Harry Grant, he will forever be grateful for his year at the Wests Tigers when part of a Melbourne swap deal with Paul Momirovski.

“I’ll always be a Wests Tigers player, which is pretty cool,” Grant told this masthead.
“I embraced being there. I was all in that season and what we could achieve.

“I learnt a lot about what it took to play first grade, week in and week out.
“It set me up to be in a good position when I did come back to the Melbourne Storm.”
Grant was in the Storm system but stranded behind gun starting hooker and captain Cameron Smith, while Brandon Smith was
the back-up dummy half.

Harry Grant will lead the Storm out on Sunday nightCredit:Getty

Believing Smith was about to retire at the end of 2020, Grant knew he needed to be playing regular football if he was any chance to beat Brandon Smith to the coveted No.9 jersey.

Storm coach Craig Bellamy recalled it being his idea. Then Tigers coach Michael Maguire said the swap deal was floated by his offsider Scott Woodward.

Grant was prepared to head to the other side of the world for 12 months, but was glad when the Tigers came knocking.

“It was my dad [Paul] who spoke about going to Super League for a year to change things up and learn a different style of footy,” Grant said this week.

“I went to Craig [Bellamy] with the idea, but he spoke about going to another NRL club.

“I was lucky I didn’t go to England because it was the COVID year. If I was there, I wouldn’t have played many games at all that season.

“It was a great adventure for me going to the Tigers. I got a lot of exposure and experience, and met some really cool people.

“When you have an opportunity to play NRL, you have to take it, and that’s what 2020 was for me.

Harry Grant teamed up with current Tigers coach Benji Marshall during his season at Leichhardt in 2020.Credit:Getty

“It hadn’t been done before, but I’d encourage other people to take that option up moving forward [if possible].

“I played 15 games that year and was picked for Origin. I was in Origin camp [in Queensland] when the Storm played in the grand final.”

Maguire loved Grant’s appetite for work and application to training, and will never forget the Leichhardt locals chanting his name when he came to the sideline for a well-earned spell one night.

“I’ll never forget the crowd chanting, ‘Harry, Harry’, because they appreciated all the effort he had put in from the time he got to the club,” Maguire said.

“He’s a great player. He works really hard at his game. He’s also very smart. What he is achieving now, he deserves everything because of the hard work he puts in.

“It was Scott Woodward who put the idea to me. We put it to the people down there [Melbourne], they liked the idea, and away we went.”

Bellamy has said on many occasions he never thought he would unearth a classy No.9 as quickly as he did following Smith’s exit.

The supercoach said Grant was always in the club’s long-term plans, and the move to the Tigers was never going to be for longer than 12 months.

“The idea was to give him some experience in first grade,” Bellamy said. “We knew how good a player he was, we knew Cameron was retiring, so it was a win-win for us, a win-win for Harry and a win-win for the Tigers.

“I think it was my idea. We said, ‘You go and play first grade because it will give you a better chance of doing the job better when you come back’. He agreed with that. It was a little bit of a selfish thing for us because we wanted him more than ready by the time Cameron retired. A year in the NRL helped that happen.”

Grant was elevated to captain this year, has arguably become the best hooker in the NRL, and said his last premiership dated back to his junior days with the Yeppoon Seagulls, just south of Rockhampton in Queensland.

The Storm held their main training session on Thursday at Leichhardt Oval – the inner-western Sydney ground familiar with Melbourne’s former Wests Tigers Shawn Blore and Harry Grant – and will complete their preparations at Accor Stadium.

‘I’ll always be a Tigers player’: How season at Leichhardt set Grant on path to grand final

Harry Grant’s loan spell with Wests Tigers in 2020 was revolutionary at the time. But it has paid off handsomely for the Storm.

www.smh.com.au

 

[hank37w]

Always thought he had a bit of a soft spot for us after his season here.

 

[Moh]

Love Harry.

We remain a soft spot for these guys so they can come back for a pay cheque in their 30s.

 

[TIGERS]

‘I’ll always be a Tigers player’: How season at Leichhardt set Grant on path to grand final​

By Christian Nicolussi​

October 5, 2024 — 4.45pm

Grand final week is always a time for players to reflect on the journey that helped get them to the biggest game of the year.
For Harry Grant, he will forever be grateful for his year at the Wests Tigers when part of a Melbourne swap deal with Paul Momirovski.

“I’ll always be a Wests Tigers player, which is pretty cool,” Grant told this masthead.
“I embraced being there. I was all in that season and what we could achieve.

“I learnt a lot about what it took to play first grade, week in and week out.
“It set me up to be in a good position when I did come back to the Melbourne Storm.”
Grant was in the Storm system but stranded behind gun starting hooker and captain Cameron Smith, while Brandon Smith was
the back-up dummy half.

Harry Grant will lead the Storm out on Sunday nightCredit:Getty

Believing Smith was about to retire at the end of 2020, Grant knew he needed to be playing regular football if he was any chance to beat Brandon Smith to the coveted No.9 jersey.

Storm coach Craig Bellamy recalled it being his idea. Then Tigers coach Michael Maguire said the swap deal was floated by his offsider Scott Woodward.

Grant was prepared to head to the other side of the world for 12 months, but was glad when the Tigers came knocking.

“It was my dad [Paul] who spoke about going to Super League for a year to change things up and learn a different style of footy,” Grant said this week.

“I went to Craig [Bellamy] with the idea, but he spoke about going to another NRL club.

“I was lucky I didn’t go to England because it was the COVID year. If I was there, I wouldn’t have played many games at all that season.

“It was a great adventure for me going to the Tigers. I got a lot of exposure and experience, and met some really cool people.

“When you have an opportunity to play NRL, you have to take it, and that’s what 2020 was for me.

Harry Grant teamed up with current Tigers coach Benji Marshall during his season at Leichhardt in 2020.Credit:Getty

“It hadn’t been done before, but I’d encourage other people to take that option up moving forward [if possible].

“I played 15 games that year and was picked for Origin. I was in Origin camp [in Queensland] when the Storm played in the grand final.”

Maguire loved Grant’s appetite for work and application to training, and will never forget the Leichhardt locals chanting his name when he came to the sideline for a well-earned spell one night.

“I’ll never forget the crowd chanting, ‘Harry, Harry’, because they appreciated all the effort he had put in from the time he got to the club,” Maguire said.

“He’s a great player. He works really hard at his game. He’s also very smart. What he is achieving now, he deserves everything because of the hard work he puts in.

“It was Scott Woodward who put the idea to me. We put it to the people down there [Melbourne], they liked the idea, and away we went.”

Bellamy has said on many occasions he never thought he would unearth a classy No.9 as quickly as he did following Smith’s exit.

The supercoach said Grant was always in the club’s long-term plans, and the move to the Tigers was never going to be for longer than 12 months.

“The idea was to give him some experience in first grade,” Bellamy said. “We knew how good a player he was, we knew Cameron was retiring, so it was a win-win for us, a win-win for Harry and a win-win for the Tigers.

“I think it was my idea. We said, ‘You go and play first grade because it will give you a better chance of doing the job better when you come back’. He agreed with that. It was a little bit of a selfish thing for us because we wanted him more than ready by the time Cameron retired. A year in the NRL helped that happen.”

Grant was elevated to captain this year, has arguably become the best hooker in the NRL, and said his last premiership dated back to his junior days with the Yeppoon Seagulls, just south of Rockhampton in Queensland.

The Storm held their main training session on Thursday at Leichhardt Oval – the inner-western Sydney ground familiar with Melbourne’s former Wests Tigers Shawn Blore and Harry Grant – and will complete their preparations at Accor Stadium.

‘I’ll always be a Tigers player’: How season at Leichhardt set Grant on path to grand final

Harry Grant’s loan spell with Wests Tigers in 2020 was revolutionary at the time. But it has paid off handsomely for the Storm.

www.smh.com.au

We are a development club. Which Madge apparently interpreted as being a development club for the Storm. We took a storm player and by doing so gave another club a free, no consequences capacity to develop 2 replacement hookers at once in first grade in response to Cameron Smith's retirement. What did we gain after that 'loan' was over? Nothing. What kind of loyalty does that build with young players in our system?

That's why the last few seasons have been so important for me. I'd rather have a couple of bad seasons getting a pipeline of players together instead of conveyor belt of mediocre band aid jobs that just make other clubs and player agents stronger.

Nice guy and everything, but Imagine if we could give Bula to another club to make all his early mistakes and then get him back a year later. Its crazy.

 

[Merlot]

Harry really hasn"t lived up to the hype has he

 

[Merlot]

doom sayers on here will say we trashed him as well