Signings, Suggestions & Rumours Discussion

[Dennisspicer1]

Keppie is really scraping the barrel. KoE contract at best.

And if South's have that amount of money they can spend on Fifita,
Why can't the bastards put a bit more towards keeping Sullivan.

 

[weststigerman]

Good for the Rabbitohs, they will go from last to top 4 next season with not so many injuries and some added strike.
What a back row Cameron Murray, David Fifita and Tallis Duncan.
We can only wish we had something half that good.

Fifita may have once been the best young back rower in the NRL, but in 2025 he can’t make the starting side for the wooden spoon favs. Injuries and work ethic have slowed him down.

Samuela is quality fully fit and KPP should be a good addition, we need to find a 13.

 

[clontarfkid]

I don't see tomorrow as Anything for Benji.

If we pull a miracle win against the dogs I will be impressed. Ofcourse we are going to loose.

If it's by one try or 5. .. Look normally I appreciate a fight adn seeing the guys give it a go.
... Now I am kinda over it. Sorry just feeling burned out as a WT fan.

Depends how we lose and by how many
Benji struggling for cred and a half century will be a problem

 

[Wa_Mag_Tig]

Our team is what it is. Let"t see what they can pull. 6 weeks. A chance more likely no chance. I put on my Colours my slippers my hoody. The blanket my best mate's wife knitted for me. Win Lose i will still wake up a Wests Tiger. Give me a spoon and i will still cook a worthy heathy meal. BE A WESTS TIGER. Live it Love it

 

[Wa_Mag_Tig]

Tom Ale Benji

 

[balmain boy]

And if they are not prepared to?

We riot until they do.

 

[balmain boy]

WE need a Laundy..but they definitely DONT fall out of trees!

He wanted us, HBG said no

 

[balmain boy]

Is anyone else putting their hand up to offer more funding ?

Has HBG put the club up for sale for us to find out ?

 

[weststigers]

Gov debt rates are tiny compared to private debt.
The Federal Government also borrows at a smaller rate then the state government. One of the cuts that Howard did was the aid to state governments. So you saw the debt "saved" be transfered to the state governments who paid a higher interest rate.

.. I could cut into all this. I don't think people care!

I care though about the next generation. The education cuts have hurt and we have seen a real shift in the classrooms. Kids are not paying attention. High school grads are going School -> Couch.
The smarter ones are going School -> Uni -> couch... The more active of those go and get a crappy job somewhere.... if they can.

Yes this "cut cut cut" mentality is to blame. Uni funding got cut, along with State gov funding. So the State gov's balanced their budgets by gutting TAFE. This leading to the great Hairdresser shortage of 2006, where the Immigration department bulk imported Hairdressers and short order cooks! ... Why because we gutted TAFE and did not train people up.

What people don't get: Unemployed/under-employed bums are just great at paying off debt..NOT!

This is the last I'll respond on this. The rates I gave you were RBA rates. The government does borrow from the RBA and also raises money in the bond markets. This is easy to fact check and I don't need you to lecture me in how finance and the economy works. I have multiple qualifications and lots of experience...particularly in the banking and finance sector.

I'm not talking about interest rates one may have access to from a typical retail bank.

The other stuff you wrote is your opinion which I have no comment on. I'm not interested in Keating, Hawke, Howard, Rudd, Gillard bashing. It wasn't the point of the original comment. I told you this was not a political discussion, but a financial one. This is not the place for either to be fair to the other forum users.

 

[Camel2281]

I see by your avatar that you live local mate have you felt the pain yet I fear there could be a second one in the mail for me because they don't pull you over and it takes longer than a week to come out.

I use Waze GPS app in my car and ppl put up when they see the cops or cameras so haven't been done

 

[king_sirro]

Dragons beat the top of the table Raiders with a rookie and Kyle Flanagan in the halves. Oh and their main metre eating prop was Klemmer.

I keep hearing how we don’t have the roster to compete and it’s not coaching. I think our roster looks way worse than it actually is because we have a budget footballing department.

I dont think thats a game to judge. Dragons were always a massive chance to win that. I tipped them. Raiders have been flat for a while and just getting the job done, while NRL teams simply dont keep losing. They always eventually win. That wasn't Flanagan and Klemmer leading a team to beat Canberra, that was Canberra having the loss that has been coming and the football gods doing what they always do

 

[BBTF]

Saints have been great this year. Even though we are close to them on the ladder, they are far far above us. They have been competitive in every match pretty much. They have looked really good. They have copped some horrendous refereeing, There squad is not a heap better than ours but they get alot more out of their forward pack. There whole pack contributes (not just stats wise either).

 

[vlad]

Saints have been great this year. Even though we are close to them on the ladder, they are far far above us. They have been competitive in every match pretty much. They have looked really good. They have copped some horrendous refereeing, There squad is not a heap better than ours but they get alot more out of their forward pack. There whole pack contributes (not just stats wise either).

far far above us but we beat them in our only meeting this year

 

[426Tlgerland]

Sooo good. Gotta love Twally! Loved when he refused to toast Isaac Moses haha Nice cameo from Jaxson 'Rampage' Rahme too.

Yep Twally food exceptional , no toasting grub mosses was the best ,

 

[426Tlgerland]

And if South's have that amount of money they can spend on Fifita,
Why can't the bastards put a bit more towards keeping Sullivan.

Because they are smarter and tougher operators , we have paid big money for years to have players play else where , it hasn’t changed

 

[Vicious]

Has HBG put the club up for sale for us to find out ?

Anyone can make an offer to buy the club can’t they ?

 

[TYGA]

Saints have been great this year. Even though we are close to them on the ladder, they are far far above us. They have been competitive in every match pretty much. They have looked really good. They have copped some horrendous refereeing, There squad is not a heap better than ours but they get alot more out of their forward pack. There whole pack contributes (not just stats wise either).

St George have bought older experienced players to run near bottom of the table. Cook, Gutherson, Holmes, Klemmer etc will all regress or retire. Flanno does it well however, time will tell if they ever improve. I wouldn’t look at St George as a model rather Canberra. They bought all junior reps over many years.

 

[Vicious]

Saints have been great this year. Even though we are close to them on the ladder, they are far far above us. They have been competitive in every match pretty much. They have looked really good. They have copped some horrendous refereeing, There squad is not a heap better than ours but they get alot more out of their forward pack. There whole pack contributes (not just stats wise either).

I agree, but something noticeable is they have good speed across the park and are capable of slick ball movement.

 

[Tucker]

Anyone can make an offer to buy the club can’t they ?

Everything has a price.

 

[Vicious]

Everything has a price.

Correct.
I find it funny that over the past few years so many of our supporters were so knowledgeable about what was happening behind the scenes and wanted to blame Lee Hagipatelis for our on field issues, yet he was our only backer putting his hand in his pocket to try and help us and now we are crying poor saying we don’t have enough money being injected into our football club side of things ?
Anyway today’s game is huge in the context that the Bulldogs are always trying to screw us over, we need to make a statement with our physicality and intent and should have plenty of motivation to do so.
If we don’t stand up and be counted I think it confirms we will need to make more hard hitting recruitment and retention decisions than we might think is needed.