Decent depth to have though, i guess.
Think Pole has continually impressed and with Hunt being a good bench impact, he's forced himself into the starting side.
Except we're in a situation where if he plays first grade for us this year we're stuck with him and a hefty salary next season as well. It's called cutting your losses
Tucker
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Thats one way to look at it. How do you know he wasnt short of a gallop? Maybe he was there to lead the pack?
Klemmer and his manager are at fault for having that clause in his contract then performing poorly, club would be crazy to keep him and play him this year to be stuck with him again next year
Tiger_Yoshi
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Hello Justin Olam…..
Chammis had Sheens and others that fed him info. They are now all gone and he's not happy he's been cut off
426Tlgerland
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Klemmer is not at fault , the clause is for this year so he hasn’t played poorly yet , it is 13 or 14 start this year and he stays next year , the club are trying to not use him so he can’t get 2026 extension due to costs , but to say it’s his fault is harsh , he was our best forward last year with Pole and Sam F , he had very little help from that cat Steph , now he has an opportunity to start with May which is 100 times better than last year , then Pole and Hunt come on , sound like a very strong winning combo that’s why he is being treated poorly , he probably plays very well this year due to the assistance from the new guys
Tucker
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Its not different.
The coach wanted him out so employed bully boy tactics to force his hand.
In this situation, the club want Klemmers money for next year. That could have been handled better than alledgedly telling him that we will purposefully not let you hit your trigger amount of games. Especially when the current coach agreed to that clause.
Tucker
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Klemmer hasnt played poorly. He was our best forward in 23 and even tough the impact was lacking, he was still providing in 24.
Maybe having a completely useless coach had more to do with it.
What a load of bullshit . He’s signed for another club , who’s shitty management of their playing roster re. MOLO , is the reason he’s not training with the main team . Because for all intents and purposes he doesn’t play for the wests tigers anymore .
Nah disagree . Chammas has a remit to deliver content per week. And he’s rehashing old news, fed to him by Klemmers manager , who knows full well klemmer is committed to the dragons . There’s no news about at the moment and this is muck raking.
Klemmers manager has fed this , because he’s negotiated his client into a corner , where’s he’s committed to the dragons and as such isn’t training with the main team.
For reference this happens in football all the time when a player commits to another club in their final year. They get banished to train with the reserves or by themselves .
His manager and the dragons ballsed this up. Not the tigers
Tucker
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Has he signed with them?
Yea exactly . The dragons asked the tigers to pull him. Which they did . They have gotten greedy with molo , who was supposed to just walk to whichever club wanted him , the rumour is Souths , but now they want coin , when they’d already negotiated for Klemmer. It’s amateur hour and typical flanno bullshit .
He’s committed to them . They can’t register the contract until molo is released , which is why they went to the nrl asking for the exemption .
This shit was sorted , hence why they asked for Klemmer to be stood down .
I wouldn’t train Klemmer with the main team either . He’s a dragons player , keeping his fitness up whilst he waits for his transfer .
426Tlgerland
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Yep has he signed with the dragons cause if he has he should be training with them just not playing for them
Tucker
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Right so nothing is organised at all.
Are they taking him full freight?…that’s rhetorical btw
426Tlgerland
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Club needs to clear this up. Not in the top 22 selected is a disgrace
Nah he hasn’t . The contract can’t get registered by the nrl , because of roster spots . So Molo has to go . Until then we are legally obligated to train and pay klemmer .
But like I said , he’s a dragons player wrapped in cotton wool waiting to go to the gong , using his old teams facilities in the mean time .
The guy was told a long time ago that he’s down the pecking order and might not get to his 14 games .its not mistreatment to tap a bloke on the shoulder and say “your down the food chain mate , if you can get a couple of years take it”
