Signings, Suggestions & Rumours Discussion

kade7 said:
Richo is moving behind the scenes
the early release for large is a factor here
batemen has been told he will likely start the season in nsw cup

the tigers are willing to chip in but nowhere near 200k
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It would be a miracle if any rival team was willing to pay Bateman any more than 400k tops and even that’s pushing it.
 
Vicious said:
An ageing uninterested John Bateman will offer nothing more than what Seyfarth, Sukkar or Tumeth could offer.
Seyfarth would be earning about a third of what Bateman is being paid and Sukkar and Tumeth would be earning a sixth of what Bateman is being paid.
No idea why Wests Tigers keep ending up with some of the most overpaid contract in the history of the game.
Sullivan and Klemmer’s contracts are even worse and I don’t mind either of them as players, just they are both getting paid more than double of their true value.
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All (no, sorry, most) clubs go through periods where they overload on a miss.

Saifiti, Hynes, Hastings, Latrell, RCG, Schuster, et al.

Even Penrith had a time, not too long ago, where they were clogged with bad contracts that needed to be cleared. Moylan, Lewis, RCG, Jennings.

The Roosters at one stage last year had Cheese out the door on a healthy contract. Ditto for Melbourne and NAS.

It happens a lot. The better clubs do their best to make sure it happens less.

And, importantly, they keep winning whilst they're sorting it out.
 
It’s ok to say get rid of Bateman , but where are we getting a replacement, he may not be making breaks but his defence is very good , so we pull up some kid from nsw cup ,,who really should be playing a-grade to replace him , this would ensure we get another wooden spoon
 
I trust the character assessments Richo is making. It's not blind faith, as he has the resume. He understands what it takes to get us from here to where we need to be. If he has assessed Bateman as not having the required levels of commitment, then I back him in. In terms of culture and on field performance, give me a committed lower tier NRL forward over a disgruntled John Batemen any day of the week. From the outside looking in it sure as hell looks like he is not committed to the cause.
 
bptiger 0 said:
It’s ok to say get rid of Bateman , but where are we getting a replacement, he may not be making breaks but his defence is very good , so we pull up some kid from nsw cup ,,who really should be playing a-grade to replace him , this would ensure we get another wooden spoon
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Given a NSW Cup player (Porter) outperformed him, I don't think we'll have too much trouble finding someone at the same level as Bateman. We do need to finalise things quickly so we can hurry up and replace him while there are other players available.
 
weststigerman said:
Given a NSW Cup player (Porter) outperformed him, I don't think we'll have too much trouble finding someone at the same level as Bateman. We do need to finalise things quickly so we can hurry up and replace him while there are other players available.
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Porter is also an international (Cook Islands) (and a reserve grader).

Thereby making the original post even more hilarious.
 
weststigerman said:
Given a NSW Cup player (Porter) outperformed him, I don't think we'll have too much trouble finding someone at the same level as Bateman. We do need to finalise things quickly so we can hurry up and replace him while there are other players available.
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I know it's all the rage on here to slam Bateman but he wasn't anywhere near as bad as people make out on here and much better then Porter. Look I think it's prob not going to work out him staying but he was not the problem - his only genuinely poor game was his last one when the relationship fell apart and honestly if a senior player was angry at how the club was being run well we did come last 3 years in a row so mayby he was right
 
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