Signings, Suggestions & Rumours Discussion

[lathami]

No intel but Olam appears in this pic Bula posted yesterday. Players seem to be given access to photos from that week's training by the club's digi content dept. Mason posted a few yesterday too.

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Saw him myself on Tuesday at training, he’s a dead duck! Shot, knees packed it in. Even worse Toa had hands like feet, dropped nearly every ball that came his way!
Don’t rate him l, we need the other May brother, desperately.
With Olam out, I’ve got Faatape or naden to go with Doueihi. I see a lot of upside in Faatape l, hess as ps more than Toa!

 

[Tigrr2]

Naden playing like a star

 

[Rock Hopper Steve]

Naden playing like a star

He will make the round 1 team on that performance.

 

[crazycat]

I love the Seyfarth signing(guessing he was low balled).Baby Giraffe is all grown up now and playing for his family.The TDS talk is rubbish,JMK just resigned X2 at Redcliffe ,knocked back Wayne to Souths. Ciraldo ain t worth squat if he cant pull Mahoney's head in,And Mohoney ain t worth squat if he doesnt knuckle down and play like he did at Parra

I like the Seyfarth signing, particularly as were just missing so much at the front.

He has the body to improve, he puts in... Plus were just missing so much up front with MR 16 minutes and Papalii gone.

While Maloney may not be at Parra Grand Final form, I note The bulldogs came 6th and Maloney seemed to be doing a decent job. If Canterbury want to punt him, sure, whatever, dogs you do you.... IMHO total madness. I reckon though they would be looking at the Cheese not TDS. Da Silva is a little surplus here and I am sure teams are looking at him, but he hasn't proven to much on the field. Hope he stays and learns some Api goodness, but if he goes, Latu could step in. ....

Now that I think about it. Lachlan Galvin appears to have the fitness and conditioning of a 9. If he did a year of MMA like say Damien Cook did he would be devistating.

 

[Tito Santana]

Saw him myself on Tuesday at training, he’s a dead duck! Shot, knees packed it in. Even worse Toa had hands like feet, dropped nearly every ball that came his way!
Don’t rate him l, we need the other May brother, desperately.
With Olam out, I’ve got Faatape or naden to go with Doueihi. I see a lot of upside in Faatape l, hess as ps more than Toa!

Give him the Christian Welch medical payout.

Sign Taylan May and another good centre.

 

[upthetigers]

He will make the round 1 team on that performance.

Really deserved that try.

 

[old_man_tiger]

Nadens best never been his problem, its his worst that got him banished from first grade. Let's see if he's forgiven but I'd have him ahead of doueihi every doueihi of the week

 

[gregjm87]

Which Eels forwards would you like in our side ?
Hopgood and maybe Jack Williams are the only ones I would want from them.

Most of them.
Paulo: better than all our props except possibly May.
Hopgood, Matto (though I wouldn't actually want him back) and JOffa better lock options than any of ours and the latter two better props than our bench options.
Cartwright, Lane, Tuilagi, Guymer would all get a start in our backrow or on our bench.

 

[weststigerman]

Would have liked to keep Willet but I don’t think he’s going to be anything more than a fringe first grader at best.

Very tall, but not overly strong or fast. I think you need one or the other. It’s the same reason why Lobb can’t take the next step.

 

[Vicious]

Most of them.
Paulo: better than all our props except possibly May.
Hopgood, Matto (though I wouldn't actually want him back) and JOffa better lock options than any of ours and the latter two better props than our bench options.
Cartwright, Lane, Tuilagi, Guymer would all get a start in our backrow or on our bench.

Maybe 2 years ago, not now.
Most of these players you have mentioned are now on the wrong side of 30 and played like battle weary old men last season.
Tuilagi runs the ball well, but has an error or two in him every game and is a suspect defender. Guymer shows potential, but he wouldn’t be starting for us.
If your opinion is correct, the Eels should beat us by 50 next week.

 

[Camel2281]

Yes but he was putting those kind of numbers when he was with us. Bellamy will be tearing him one for that low performance. If he’s still doing that despite being at one of the best clubs, he’s not gonna get game time.

He's a pillow

 

[Dr_Ice]

Would have liked to keep Willet but I don’t think he’s going to be anything more than a fringe first grader at best.

Very tall, but not overly strong or fast. I think you need one or the other. It’s the same reason why Lobb can’t take the next step.

Lobb makes Willett look like Usain Bolt

 

[Camel2281]

😂😂😂
I swear some folks here are only Virtual Footy Fans!!

It's not like the Warriors scored 5 Tries in the first 25 minutes
(Entire length of Storms starting Props first stint)

Bit hard to make metres without the ball.

So they ran straight through his defence as well?

 

[Rock Hopper Steve]

Really deserved that try.

Can't believe how well he went mate, just needs to curb the aggression and he's useful.

 

[gregjm87]

So they ran straight through his defence as well?

No. 24 tackles 0 misses 2 ineffective. Storm were rubbish (hardly surprising given they named like 3 first graders) but Utoikamanu was decent. Just nothing one bloke can do in a team getting belted. He did seem to try but, not sure I could have said that at the back end of last year when he was in the same position.

 

[ancient_magpie]

Maybe 2 years ago, not now.
Most of these players you have mentioned are now on the wrong side of 30 and played like battle weary old men last season.
Tuilagi runs the ball well, but has an error or two in him every game and is a suspect defender. Guymer shows potential, but he wouldn’t be starting for us.
If your opinion is correct, the Eels should beat us by 50 next week.

Tuilagi was terrible when he was with us.

 

[batboy]

Maybe 2 years ago, not now.
Most of these players you have mentioned are now on the wrong side of 30 and played like battle weary old men last season.
Tuilagi runs the ball well, but has an error or two in him every game and is a suspect defender. Guymer shows potential, but he wouldn’t be starting for us.
If your opinion is correct, the Eels should beat us by 50 next week.

Those ‘battle weary old men’ the same ones that put 60 points on your darlings in their last NRL game?

 

[gregjm87]

Maybe 2 years ago, not now.
Most of these players you have mentioned are now on the wrong side of 30 and played like battle weary old men last season.
Tuilagi runs the ball well, but has an error or two in him every game and is a suspect defender. Guymer shows potential, but he wouldn’t be starting for us.
If your opinion is correct, the Eels should beat us by 50 next week.

I hardly claimed they are 50 points better. Just that there are plenty of good forwards in their side that are better than some of the ones in ours. Yes a few of them are 30 and starting to slow slightly but they are hardly past it. Not sure why we can't acknowledge that our side has plenty of holes in the pack that many of these players could fill.

It's not like the same can't be said for their team. They've no 9 where as Api is one of the best in the comp.
I agree with your assessment of Tuilagi but it would be similar to how I currently describe Sam Fainu. Of course i think Fainu has much more potential to become a far better player so I'd pick him before Tuilagi but I believe currently there 3rd string choice is better than Seyfarth.

Obviously May is another who would walk straight into their team. Outside of the hooker position they are slightly stronger. Including the hooker I'm not sure, maybe lean our way.

 

[Vicious]

I hardly claimed they are 50 points better. Just that there are plenty of good forwards in their side that are better than some of the ones in ours. Yes a few of them are 30 and starting to slow slightly but they are hardly past it. Not sure why we can't acknowledge that our side has plenty of holes in the pack that many of these players could fill.

It's not like the same can't be said for their team. They've no 9 where as Api is one of the best in the comp.
I agree with your assessment of Tuilagi but it would be similar to how I currently describe Sam Fainu. Of course i think Fainu has much more potential to become a far better player so I'd pick him before Tuilagi but I believe currently there 3rd string choice is better than Seyfarth.

Obviously May is another who would walk straight into their team. Outside of the hooker position they are slightly stronger. Including the hooker I'm not sure, maybe lean our way.

Fair enough.
I think and hope Seyfarth could surprise a lot of our supporter base this season as he is now getting a proper chance to cement himself on our right edge.

 

[TurnStyle]

Royce Hunt and Naden looking real sharp tonight .. Naden hitting his potential playing with Luai would be outstanding, he has real talent when his head is right !! Go the Tigers

I like Naden, but - as with To'a - I seem to be perennially hoping for him to play like I've seen he can and string a decent number of games together.
... Or a number of decent games...
A decent number of decent games.