OFFICIAL Starford To’a #253

No, not long term. I've been saying Toa is our best centre for 3 years now. I'm honestly shocked it's taken the rest of the forum this long to see it. But prior to '23 he has always been a guy who has had the skill to be a very good centre but not the work ethic. He seems to be a player that will rest on his laurels if given a long term contract rather than continue to earn it. Id rather pay a bit extra per season but only never extend him beyond 2 years at any given time.
Being our best Centre for the last 3 years 😂
That wouldn’t be too hard when you think about who our other centre’s have been.
 
No, not long term. I've been saying Toa is our best centre for 3 years now. I'm honestly shocked it's taken the rest of the forum this long to see it. But prior to '23 he has always been a guy who has had the skill to be a very good centre but not the work ethic. He seems to be a player that will rest on his laurels if given a long term contract rather than continue to earn it. Id rather pay a bit extra per season but only never extend him beyond 2 years at any given time.
Aligns with our 3 spoons perfectly. He has been inconsistent at best. It has been a complete transformation in 2025. Hope he continues it.
 
He’s had a couple of injuries, firstly ankle, then on his return a hammy. Played only 3 games last year.
Always looked a very skilful player in a team not travelling well.

Played 6 games - Half of them in Reserve Grade.
Has played Ressies every year he's been here - Bar this one (So far)
 
He’s had a couple of injuries, firstly ankle, then on his return a hammy. Played only 3 games last year.
Always looked a very skilful player in a team not travelling well

“Always” … I would disagree … he was average at best prior to this year …went missing most games … something has lit a fire under him this season ..hopefully it’s the arrival of the new boys … and not that he wants to get paid
 
Not usually a big stats guy but Herbie v To’a

17 runs v 12 runs on average
165m v 120m runs on average
2 hit ups v 0 hit ups on average
6.5 tackle busts v 4
8 errors v 12 errors

To’a should get paid about 2 thirds of Herbie’s freight.
Is this from 2025?

Should probably include pretty key areas for a backline player - LB, LBA, Tr, TA, etc.

Star is flying in those this season, hence the talk of his form.
 
To'a has always been super underrated around these parts. He was injury prone more than inconsistent. Always been a very effective player when afforded time and space. Obviously there was that Cowboys game a couple years back where he had one of the greatest performances by a centre in the game's history, but he had a lot of other good games that year when healthy. Now that he finally has a good finisher outside we've also seen him putting away his outside man too.

If we don't retain him Richo's seat needs to get a little warmer because he's bungled the Galvin situation, anchored us down with the Luai deal which is a shocker and hasn't delivered a great deal other than May and Turuva.
 
“Always” … I would disagree … he was average at best prior to this year …went missing most games … something has lit a fire under him this season ..hopefully it’s the arrival of the new boys … and not that he wants to get paid
But unlike Douehi who feels obligated to the Tigers for supporting him whilst injured, this guy( who is also regularly injured) puts a couple of games together and wants out. No loyalty there, disappointing.
 
But unlike Douehi who feels obligated to the Tigers for supporting him whilst injured, this guy( who is also regularly injured) puts a couple of games together and wants out. No loyalty there, disappointing.

Well…we don’t know if he wants out …but yeah …I’ll be disappointed if he walks ..im sure the Tigers offer to him will be a fair one
 
But unlike Douehi who feels obligated to the Tigers for supporting him whilst injured, this guy( who is also regularly injured) puts a couple of games together and wants out. No loyalty there, disappointing.
Where has he said he wants out?
 
we don’t know that he wants out, but as tiger fans we’ve seen this all before 🥲

Man ..if they lose both him and TDS …

They got to get out of this cycle of signing new players to replace those that leave …they got to sign new players and keep the good ones here already so they can improve the team …
 
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