Signings, Suggestions & Rumours Discussion

[Tim Sheens]

Oh FFS, let it go.

 

[Tom Shines]

Yes...it leans that way. Lighten up

Funny you were lecturing me about respect the other day

 

[tigahhh]

He was under contract for that already next year and had three clubs interested in him … he is probably on more

he would’ve had to go to the super league, no other team was interested ain’t no way we paid him the same amount

 

[wonka]

Bateman was on 700k with us...does that mean the Cowboys are paying more?

You just want this to be the narrative. You have no idea what the details of the deal are.

Are we not paying a fair chunk of his contract cause sookie Benji don't want him anymore.
Don't worry he is still getting 700 half from us.

 

[Tom Shines]

he would’ve had to go to the super league, no other team was interested ain’t no way we paid him the same amount

The article I posted the last time said another NRL club and the SL club ..,

What makes you think otherwise? We overpay players regularly

 

[tigahhh]

The article I posted the last time said another NRL club and the SL club ..,

What makes you think otherwise? We overpay players regularly

because Adam was offered the same amount and skelton is on $230k - they are both in our 17. Jock will not be

 

[tigahhh]

Are we not paying a fair chunk of his contract cause sookie Benji don't want him anymore.
Don't worry he is still getting 700 half from us.

did you actually support this club? because it doesn’t sound like it

 

[bigsiro]

Yes true but hopefully you get what I am trying to say.
Royce Hunt has been a fail, Jack Bird disappointing.
The season started well till the Galvin saga followed by Tallyn but still an improvement.
AD has an offer but still hasn't accepted and with his new manager I doubt he will. Then 2026 i have the feeling we will go through it all again with Bula.

I would hope we have learned our lesson.
If a player wants to go then don’t muck around, get rid quick.

 

[weststigers]

One is publicly toxic and the club is trying to move on from him … the other has three teams competing for him

Maybe because the Broncos made the offer so good? We've released players before with a chip in from us and the player decides were they go even when 2 clubs are interested.

The offers could all be the same and he chose us? Maybe the Broncos paid him out and he signed for less than 350? You have no idea and neither does anyone. The deal could be done a million different ways.

By the way. Who are these 3 clubs? You mean Hull FC in the Super League? The league where their entire salary cap is 2.1 million pounds? They were looking for a cheap half, not getting into a bidding war. I don't know the 3rd club you are referring to.

 

[teddy23]

The Jahream Bula situation is setting some alarm bells in my head if I’m being completely honest.

He’s an excellent player and I really want to keep him, and maybe this is a selfish perspective from me but to see the damage that Issac Moses has done to this club and align yourself with him does worry me. Plus all the BS that is following like him attending other games with his manager, why not go with friends or family? It’s a little fishy to me, especially given who his manager is.

I’m hearing that Jayden Campbell is being shopped around and is a free agent come November 1st.

If Moses/Bula start to try manipulate the situation and try rewinding the clock. I would be lining up Jayden Campbell as a fullback as I believe that’s his best position and telling them both to kick rocks.

 

[weststigers]

Are we not paying a fair chunk of his contract cause sookie Benji don't want him anymore.
Don't worry he is still getting 700 half from us.

I know. That's my point. Clubs pay their players to play elsewhere. Tom was making the point we are taking on Maddens full salary or "maybe more" because there were 3 clubs interested.

 

[weststigers]

Funny you were lecturing me about respect the other day

Observing your posts are negative is not disrespect. Stop being so defensive. I know there's a happy and positive Tom in there somewhere.

 

[The Chad]

at $350k at least for a guy that played here for a couple of years and was pretty ordinary…

That’s my opinion …your entitled to have a different one

$350k is actually your opinion.

Nowhere, anywhere, is it reported he is signed to the Tigers for $350k a season.

Just like Bud Sullivan isn't on $750k as some might have people believe.

 

[weststigers]

The Jahream Bula situation is setting some alarm bells in my head if I’m being completely honest.

He’s an excellent player and I really want to keep him, and maybe this is a selfish perspective from me but to see the damage that Issac Moses has done to this club and align yourself with him does worry me. Plus all the BS that is following like him attending other games with his manager, why not go with friends or family? It’s a little fishy to me, especially given who his manager is.

I’m hearing that Jayden Campbell is being shopped around and is a free agent come November 1st.

If Moses/Bula start to try manipulate the situation and try rewinding the clock. I would be lining up Jayden Campbell as a fullback as I believe that’s his best position and telling them both to kick rocks.

Thankfully, the Tigers have the option to extend Bula on 900k. Moses cannot stop that.

 

[Tom Shines]

$350k is actually your opinion.

Nowhere, anywhere, is it reported he is signed to the Tigers for $350k a season.

Just like Bud Sullivan isn't on $750k as some might have people believe.

Why would he sign here for less when he was contracted next year at that amount and has three teams competing for him ?

Who said that about Bud ? I corrected that guy you might find

 

[upthetigers]

The Jahream Bula situation is setting some alarm bells in my head if I’m being completely honest.

He’s an excellent player and I really want to keep him, and maybe this is a selfish perspective from me but to see the damage that Issac Moses has done to this club and align yourself with him does worry me. Plus all the BS that is following like him attending other games with his manager, why not go with friends or family? It’s a little fishy to me, especially given who his manager is.

I’m hearing that Jayden Campbell is being shopped around and is a free agent come November 1st.

If Moses/Bula start to try manipulate the situation and try rewinding the clock. I would be lining up Jayden Campbell as a fullback as I believe that’s his best position and telling them both to kick rocks.

I'm not turning against Bula just yet he is a talent and there is the Fijian connection I would think he sees a future here

 

[wonka]

did you actually support this club? because it doesn’t sound like it

After supporting this club from inception and just being crap for the past 14 years nothing ever changes. Every club goes up and down but we hold the record for longest finals drought.
We don't need more depth players half of our starting 17 is depth quality, we need 1st grade players.

 

[bomberbrown]

Thankfully, the Tigers have the option to extend Bula on 900k. Moses cannot stop that.

I like the positivity that you have. One word "Bullying" changes that. I would like to think his father inlaw won't allow it but you never know.
Has anyone thought that the Jock signing is just in case Jerome decides to leave?

 

[The Chad]

The first one that comes immediately to mind is Dylan Walker …would he have been an asset to the team as an acquisition mid season ? What are your thoughts on that?

Maybe? It's not as if he's suddenly become the answer to all the Eels problems. Until the last 3 weeks, he's been a bench player.

Question is- how much is he getting to be a bench player?

Molo. I don't know if he upgrades our current top 3-4 middles. Terrell May, Pole, Sione Fainu, Twal...he's probably somewhere between Sione & Twal. What kind of upgrade to the squad does that offer?

If we had signed the best fullback available, to compete with Bula, it wouldn't be a good signing. Players added need to upgrade the squad.

KPP upgrades the second row.
May upgrades centre.


Dylan Walker may have been a marginal upgrade. I think the horror & dismay at the Tigers recruitment, POST Jock Madden's announcement, has been nothing short of delirium.

Suddenly Jock is on more than ever before, Bud Sullivan's contract has increased by $100k over what has ever been reported, Bula's gone, Luai's gone...

This place whips itself into a frenzy as soon as one outlandish remark is made.

 

[The Chad]

Why would he sign here for less when he was contracted next year at that amount and has three teams competing for him ?

Who said that about Bud ? I corrected that guy you might find

Why would he?

Because, like every other player that gets released by every other club in the NRL, it's MORE LIKELY that the Broncos will be paying a small portion of his contract to have him off the books.

If the Broncos chip in $175k of his $350 (that is only his guaranteed contract for 2026), the Tigers would pay $175. They might pay him $200k in 2027. Who knows? What were his options? Maybe the SL contracts were the same as what I posted? There is no certainty, and in fact, for a player unable to secure regular 1st grade football, more likely the outcome is his next contract value was lower.

I never said YOU quoted Bud was $750k. But you also now acknowledge that you can't take 'belief' as fact. Someone wrongly believes Bud was on $750k. Didn't make it so.

Why are you so aggressive about this today?