Signings, Suggestions & Rumours Discussion

[Moh]

That pack is missing a "come follow me" type leader when the going gets tough. It's full of ability but we need a Sam Burgess. And how could you not have Sione? He is coming along fantastic and will be better than Pole quite comfortably

Whoa yes, love Sione. Def makes the bench.

 

[tigahhh]

Whoa yes, love Sione. Def makes the bench.

he really has become a quick fan favourite.

 

[tigahhh]

Am I the only person who thinks we will resign Star for 1 year he’ll then go to Perth and then we’ll slot Makasini in.

us signing taylan and richo not ruling out debuting makasini sometime at the end of the year says to me maybe star will be testing the market 🙁

 

[crazycat]

It’s a disagreement. It’s like if you made a statement saying Latu Fainu was the future of this club and I replied to you saying no, Mason is. That’s not me saying you have no right to your opinion. I said it was wasted energy, cos I believe it is. But I never said it was wrong to death ride, just for me personally, it’s pointless. It’s a forum, people disagree. Not every disagreement is trying to deprive the other person of a voice.

Dang that is just so rational...

There can only be one way this ends:

"two men enter, one man leaves!"

 

[derekderekson]

us signing taylan and richo not ruling out debuting makasini sometime at the end of the year says to me maybe star will be testing the market 🙁

Makasini is a left side only center and Star is on the right only.
Benji speaks very highly of Star and seems happy at the club.
I would say it’s more likely he about to extend a further 2 years.

 

[weststigerman]

us signing taylan and richo not ruling out debuting makasini sometime at the end of the year says to me maybe star will be testing the market 🙁

First of all, To’a is not off contract until end of next year.

Also, there is no guarantee that either of May and Makasini play centre in first grade. Neither of them should be a walk up start at this stage of where they are at.

 

[tigahhh]

Makasini is a left side only center and Star is on the right only.
Benji speaks very highly of Star and seems happy at the club.
I would say it’s more likely he about to extend a further 2 years.

ah okay hope so

 

[tigahhh]

First of all, To’a is not off contract until end of next year.

Also, there is no guarantee that either of May and Makasini play centre in first grade. Neither of them should be a walk up start at this stage of where they are at.

he’s a free agent November 1

 

[crazycat]

I agree Kobe’s form has been average this year, and no he’s probably not much better than what we have, but we just played a baby Giraffe at 13 on the weekend. Don’t get me wrong, he did a fine job as a baby giraffe, I seen a young boy go up to him with a carrot 🥕 after the game.
Until we start getting two points for feeding zoo animals, we need a better run-on NRL Lock/prop asap.
Preferably both, and preferably now.

Yea, totally agreed.

I just feel between Seyfarth and Hunt we have asked our bench a huge job to stand up. At the start of the year they have done exactly that.

Were really covering 2 missing positions in a starting Prop/lock and a starting second rower. May seems to be better as a propoholic and boy he fits that bill.

Benji has made a real miscalculation in leaving our pack so underpowered.

 

[Mighty_Tiger]

Yes he is. He’s been playing there a lot and it’s the spot Madge has been playing him and we promised him before this season. View attachment 23917

If you actually watched him play he plays as a prop in Madge rotation - he isn’t a lock.

 

[mtd#2]

Benji has made a real miscalculation in leaving our pack so underpowered.

we were right in the to get corey horsburgh... so if that fell our way, our pack would have been quite strong..

I think our recruitment is more strategic at the moment as opposed to buying for the sake of buying.

 

[mtd#2]

I just read that Ryan matterson is on 600k a year at Parra and he exercised his option to stay 🤣🤣

If Herbie Farnworth is still on the market nov 1 we should be speaking to him I reckon..

Would you pay Haas 1.5 mill and sl his brother too? I see kleese played lock tonight, is he any good there?

 

[Ecto-1]

If you actually watched him play he plays as a prop in Madge rotation - he isn’t a lock.

He’s been playing 13 but being used as a prop same as we do with Twal. But Madge isn’t using him as a ball playing 13 which is more his game which I think is one of the reasons he’s not in form.

 

[mtd#2]

If we get Fifita by some sort of miracle, we are a bench player away from being complete.

8. May
10. Pole
11. KPP
12. Fifita
13. Sammy F

15. Twal
16. Hunt
17. Sione F/<Recruit>/Bird/Seyf

I don't think Samuela is a ball playing 13... I think that's Terrell..
But it means we need another top tier prop to replace him.

 

[rugbygoated]

I think we will get the wooden spoon. Hard draw. Last round vs titans is another spoonbowl showdown and they will outpoint us. We have the worst coach in the game. No resilience. And haven't recovered from the Galvin saga. The club should fold. Sick and tired of ref blaming all the time. Win a game! Win by more than 4 points so that refereeing decisions aren't the difference. Luai in origin camp only makes it harder. Play raiders 2 days after origin. Week after play manly off a bye at their home. Then roosters most likely without luai with moses out of origin. Then Warriors in NZ. Titans at Leichhardt is a tough one. Interesting to see how eels vs titans game goes in 2 weeks with no Moses for parra

 

[Tom Shines]

us signing taylan and richo not ruling out debuting makasini sometime at the end of the year says to me maybe star will be testing the market 🙁

Richo also said he has got players knocking on his door asking for extensions …. Toa is likely one

 

[Rock Hopper Steve]

I think we will get the wooden spoon. Hard draw. Last round vs titans is another spoonbowl showdown and they will outpoint us. We have the worst coach in the game. No resilience. And haven't recovered from the Galvin saga. The club should fold. Sick and tired of ref blaming all the time. Win a game! Win by more than 4 points so that refereeing decisions aren't the difference. Luai in origin camp only makes it harder. Play raiders 2 days after origin. Week after play manly off a bye at their home. Then roosters most likely without luai with moses out of origin. Then Warriors in NZ. Titans at Leichhardt is a tough one. Interesting to see how eels vs titans game goes in 2 weeks with no Moses for parra

Man FFS you're supposed to be a Tigers supporter all you do when you post is bag the club from all angles.
Why put us that want the club to do well through your misery, show some positively.

 

[BlackWhiteGold]

The ‘special’ talent who snubbed rugby to pledge future to Benji and the Tigers​

By​

June 13, 2025 — 7.30pm

Senior Wests Tigers officials are quick to point out that there are only five more weeks before Heamasi Makasini turns 18 and is eligible to play in the NRL.

To put the excitement surrounding Makasini – who was the only 17-year-old picked in the under-19s NSW Origin team this week – into perspective, the Tigers have not ruled out pitching him into the centres in first grade this year, and have already quickly to sign him until the end of 2028 season.

A goal-kicking left centre who is still attending Newington College, Makasini said he was more than comfortable committing to a long-term league deal – and ignoring advances from rugby – because “the Tigers are where my home is”.

“I had interest last year from Japan with the Panasonic Wild Knights, they tried to get me over and asked me to tour their facility, while I also met with the Waratahs,” Makasini said on Friday. “But the Tigers are home. I’m a local junior, I can see something brewing at the club, and I want to be a part of it.”

Makasini grew up in Orange before moving to Camden when he was 11, where he began his rugby league career with Campbelltown City Kangaroos in 2018. He had barely played the 13-man code until then because his family loved union – including his father, Moses, who played Test football for Tonga and professionally in France.

Makasini represented the Australian under-18s rugby side last year, while also somehow being crowned league’s Harold Matthews league player of the year.

Tigers CEO Shane Richardson has long been a fan of Makasini, and rated him the equal of any junior he has come across.

“Heamasi is as talented a kid as I’ve seen in my 30 years of working in rugby league, and I don’t say that lightly,” Richardson said.

“He’s special. He’s a major part of what we’re doing moving forward. Benji has a huge rap on him. He’s not only a magnificent athlete, but he’s a really humble kid from a great family.

“We’ve signed him until the end of 2028. You have to see him with the ball in his hand to appreciate what I’m saying. There’s no downside to him at all.”

Heamasi Makasini scores for Australia’s U18 rugby side against the New Zealand Barbarians last year.CREDIT: GETTY IMAGES FOR RUGBY AUSTRALIA

Richardson confirmed there was nothing stopping 108kg Makasini making his NRL debut before the season was over.

The Tigers this week signed Taylan May on a train-and-trial deal for the remainder of 2025, with the former Panther to need at least a month of training before returning to football, which is likely to be via reserve grade, said Richardson.

The club last week signed English back-rower Kai Pearce-Paul, while it has already been well documented they have made inquiries about Brisbane’s Adam Reynolds.

 

[Buttface]

I think we will get the wooden spoon. Hard draw. Last round vs titans is another spoonbowl showdown and they will outpoint us. We have the worst coach in the game. No resilience. And haven't recovered from the Galvin saga. The club should fold. Sick and tired of ref blaming all the time. Win a game! Win by more than 4 points so that refereeing decisions aren't the difference. Luai in origin camp only makes it harder. Play raiders 2 days after origin. Week after play manly off a bye at their home. Then roosters most likely without luai with moses out of origin. Then Warriors in NZ. Titans at Leichhardt is a tough one. Interesting to see how eels vs titans game goes in 2 weeks with no Moses for parra

You lost me at you “think”
No private school games on tonight?

Rugby; where you go when you’re shite at league.

 

[Buttface]

The ‘special’ talent who snubbed rugby to pledge future to Benji and the Tigers​

By​

June 13, 2025 — 7.30pm

Senior Wests Tigers officials are quick to point out that there are only five more weeks before Heamasi Makasini turns 18 and is eligible to play in the NRL.

To put the excitement surrounding Makasini – who was the only 17-year-old picked in the under-19s NSW Origin team this week – into perspective, the Tigers have not ruled out pitching him into the centres in first grade this year, and have already quickly to sign him until the end of 2028 season.

A goal-kicking left centre who is still attending Newington College, Makasini said he was more than comfortable committing to a long-term league deal – and ignoring advances from rugby – because “the Tigers are where my home is”.

“I had interest last year from Japan with the Panasonic Wild Knights, they tried to get me over and asked me to tour their facility, while I also met with the Waratahs,” Makasini said on Friday. “But the Tigers are home. I’m a local junior, I can see something brewing at the club, and I want to be a part of it.”

Makasini grew up in Orange before moving to Camden when he was 11, where he began his rugby league career with Campbelltown City Kangaroos in 2018. He had barely played the 13-man code until then because his family loved union – including his father, Moses, who played Test football for Tonga and professionally in France.

Makasini represented the Australian under-18s rugby side last year, while also somehow being crowned league’s Harold Matthews league player of the year.

Tigers CEO Shane Richardson has long been a fan of Makasini, and rated him the equal of any junior he has come across.

“Heamasi is as talented a kid as I’ve seen in my 30 years of working in rugby league, and I don’t say that lightly,” Richardson said.

“He’s special. He’s a major part of what we’re doing moving forward. Benji has a huge rap on him. He’s not only a magnificent athlete, but he’s a really humble kid from a great family.

“We’ve signed him until the end of 2028. You have to see him with the ball in his hand to appreciate what I’m saying. There’s no downside to him at all.”

Heamasi Makasini scores for Australia’s U18 rugby side against the New Zealand Barbarians last year.CREDIT: GETTY IMAGES FOR RUGBY AUSTRALIA

Richardson confirmed there was nothing stopping 108kg Makasini making his NRL debut before the season was over.

The Tigers this week signed Taylan May on a train-and-trial deal for the remainder of 2025, with the former Panther to need at least a month of training before returning to football, which is likely to be via reserve grade, said Richardson.

The club last week signed English back-rower Kai Pearce-Paul, while it has already been well documented they have made inquiries about Brisbane’s Adam Reynolds.

He kicks goals too.
I had to read it twice as I lost concentration after “goal kicking left centre”.
Sounds exciting.