Signings, Suggestions & Rumours Discussion

[Tom Shines]

wouldn’t that be up to richo to squeeze more out or do they give him a set figure and say make it work.

Well… I heard they have one person assessing the upcoming junior talent whilst the likes of Canterbury have seven …i don’t know the process of how they would get more people into these roles but you would assume the Owners reps would need to approve it ?

 

[gregjm87]

when your replacement for Ezra at 6 is Ben Hunt, I’d say that’s a pretty stacked/talented squad.

Agree. As I said amongst the top teams.
What is a better spine.
Walsh/Cobbo. Papenhuyzen
Hunt/Mam. Munster
Reynolds. Hughes
Paix. Grant/Wishart

Similarly the starting pack has 2 of the best middles in Haas and Carrigan. These 2 are better than any 2 middles of any other club. But after them it's just kids and journeyman. Edges are decent but nothing special. No strike weapon and no defensive enforcer. When comparing their whole pack not just the best 2 but 8-17 to other sides are they any better than other top teams?
Add in their outside backs are no better on paper than any other side.

 

[tigahhh]

I will hate Galvin until the day he dies. Just like Mitch Moses.
Complete and utter ©unts

me too, disrespectful af

 

[gregjm87]

Ok. I took this as giving up on the field. I don’t think they have given up on the field and you’d hope that remains whether we come 9th or last.

Normally they only give up on field after they give up at the front office. The next month will be telling.

 

[Tom Shines]

me too, disrespectful af

Looking forward to the game against him later this season…

 

[Wezt]

Looking forward to the game against him later this season…

We’re gonna get smoked…

 

[Rock Hopper Steve]

Man, it's a gloomy day outside and even worse on the net Google news sport has five negative Tigers articles, didn't take long for those mongrels to stick the knife in.
They're like sharks feeding on a whale carcass, come from everywhere when blood is in the water.

 

[Kelce68]

He appointed assistant coaches for a Start, You might add he didn't get beat 64 Blot..

😂 You must've missed the 56-18 by Melbourne and the 50-12 by Canberra.

Are we gonna pretend that those aren't in the exact same category of loss?

- He's turned them into a better side than we are, You've obviously not watched them?

😂 Yet they're behind us and have a worse differential.

'Better Side'

The next few weeks will re-enforce that for those a little slow on the uptake.
- Coming from a higher base? Spoonbowl was a 'Higher Base' OK?

You honestly think I was referring to only last year? They played in a grand final three years ago... The same year we won our first spoon.

Are you drunk?

- More familiarity, There's plenty of new Guys - Plenty of young guys, Plenty been moved on this year

I didn't say there wasn't new guys. I said they've got more familiarity.

We started the year with two new wingers, a centre that barely played last year, a fullback that hadn't played since august, a brand halves combination that didn't start doing much together until January, which has been blown up 2 months ago. We started this year with a new prop pairing, a new edge pairing and multiple new faces on our extended bench.

....so yeh, more familiarity. Like, across the board.

Captain has been MIA most of the year,
Oh, And Ryles is 6 months into the job.

You can bang on about their standpoint in recruitment

'Bang on'. I made a correct point 😂

You can't just brush off context around your 'facts' as irrelevant and 'banging on' 😂

- Facts are we were seen as the club with the best recruitment for 2025.

Haha, you love 'Facts are' as a sentence starter aye... 😂

'Facts are...', 'we were seen as...' by whom? How is that a fact? Are IOU talking about somebody's arbitrary, subjective opinion kn our recruiting?

We've always got plenty of excuses, I love it....

I don't. We're due some luck.

We're due a chance to see most of our best side on the paper for a while.

Something we've barely seen.

Like, at all.

Latu and Luai, our likely and best halves pairing moving forward, haven't even started a game together yet and people want to lambaste everyone at the club re; recruitment.

Goodness me.

 

[Tom Shines]

We’re gonna get smoked…

I think that’s one game they will get up for….

 

[Kelce68]

Parra lost their captain, have been without their best player (whos the 2nd or 3rd best half in the game) and were equally as bad as us last year.

They're not really doing any worse than us and probably slightly better all things considered.

They're below us.

That's literally the only metric that matters.

But we can add their worse differential to it if we want...

They've had more of their squad available for longer this year. They've been without Moses, granted, but that's about it.

 

[Tito Santana]

Looking forward to the game against him later this season…

I don’t care if we lose. I just want him to get KOed

 

[Buttface]

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What is about shitting on your previous employer that these pricks get off on? You develop and debut them early, and then release them early so they can earn buckets and still they wanna shite on us.
My boss when I was an apprentice was a good bloke, the next was Jim Masterton for about 18months, both taught me a lot and set me up for a life career, I still love them both for it.

 

[Needaname]

Disappointing last few days tbh..

Pretty high on Richo but nothing but releasing players and nothing brought in or even an extension for Api or Tao etc..

Surely he knows us fans are upset as we are the ones paying for this and do expect something.

The deadline was yesterday and the club has not even advised who they upgraded internally even though no one deserves it.

Fingers crossed for some good news soon.

June 30 is the deadline for mid season signings external to transfer to a club. Players can be upgraded or signed for next year at any stage.

 

[Buttface]

I don’t care if we lose. I just want him to get KOed

You know that won’t happen.
But I do remember Blore snapping Brown in half, that was entertaining.

 

[magpies forever]

June 30 is the deadline for mid season signings external to transfer to a club. Players can be upgraded or signed for next year at any stage.

Agree, but a couple of more depth signings to assist this year;s second half would have been very, very useful. Our depth sucks big time

 

[Tcat]

30th June has come and gone. Nothing fell out of the trees and a couple of trees got cut down. For about the 15th year in a row we are wiping the current season and focusing on the rebuild for next year, hoping it may bear fruit.

Every year I get frustrated at this time of the year as exactly the same thing happens as the years gone by for exactly the same reason. You can set your watch by it, the mid season grind starts to hit and we hit the wall with a massive crash. Our good players start to go backwards and our average players take the word plod to another level.

My love of the club will always be there but my interest has never been this tested. Sorry for the rant

I feel you. Friday nights game for some reason did something to me and it wasn't even that bad. I usually have the shits for a few hours and then I'm good again, but not this time. I actually think I'm done with the club. It should be fun supporting your club, but it's just pathetic now. I don't think we will ever get any better and I fail to see how we will come close to winning a comp in the next 5 years.

 

[mtd#2]

Its disappointing that we couldn't snag anyone pre 30 June. Can only put it down to the quality of players on offer vs our current need. Its better not to sign anyone than to sign someone for the sake of it.

Ive got mail from a pretty reliable source that there are 1-2 VERY GOOD signings lined up for 2026... Obviously they can't be discussed publicly, but if true, I am somewhat glad we can "Do a Gus"... Time will tell!

 

[Kelce68]

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I won't be losing a lot of sleep over kids who've left the club being cheeky on socials.

There's not a lot of wisdom shown by anyone at this age and from what Galvin has shown in the past, it's probably on-brand.

Hopefully these kids, or especially Tallyn, look back at the club for allowing them the opportunity to start afresh somewhere else and not stand in their way.

But I won't be holding my breath.

 

[Wezt]

How much is Royce hunt on?

 

[ROZELLE.O.G]

Unfortunately this year is no different to past years
A tigers team with limited depth/quality cattle
A Tigers team that releases first graders from the squad as the year progressed
A Tigers team that seasons over mid way thru the year
The team has improved marginally but the above remains the same

Richo needs to start recruiting players that are ready to compete and start adding quality depth, they don't need to be stars. Royce Hunt needs to go and now, he has wasted a Top 30 spot for a player that we could rely on to play in our team. We need to add depth to our pack and we need middles that are better defensively.

Also getting a Lachie Ilias, Jack Cole or Schneider organising half to free up Luai is a necessity. Latu Fainu isn't an 80 minute player, he is great for impact off the bench but we need structure and toughness.

Richo can take a leaf out of Ciraldo's book and get numbers in utility players that are going to have a crack rather than trying to get an overpaid gun.

Cannot believe we are only 30 odd points better off in differential than last year.