Signings, Suggestions & Rumours Discussion

Vicious said:
Depends if we want to give the bulk of our NSW Cup team an opportunity to continue their impressive push towards the finals, or if we want to penalise players by making them play in our NRL team?
I can tell you one thing, Javon Andrews is the real deal and is improving each and every week.
We get plenty of criticism for our pathways and I am critical of letting too many good ones go, but whoever was responsible for getting Javon Andrews to the club has come up with a master stroke.
He is 💯 ready for NRL, but as good as he is, it will likely be too big of an ask to trigger our NRL team to start winning so maybe it’s not worth the heartache of playing him in our NRL team at the moment.
I rate Doueihi higher than most, I rate Latu Fainu very highly, I rate Galvin and I acknowledge what Luai has achieved, but Andrews has more potential than all of them.
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Andrews was originally in the Tigers pathways before heading north.
He is a returning Tiger!
 
pawsandclaws1 said:
The reality is the very good coaches usually sign with clubs who have strong rosters, strong financial backing and are resource rich. This is not the WTs at present.
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Yep compare Wests Tigers to the three last premiership winning clubs - then we will start comparing the resources that Wests Tigers coaches have to work with and why we are in a holding pattern.
Fans have got their heads in the sand if they still think changing coaches will make significant difference. - may have worked 15 years ago before the rot became ingrained and player managers began overseeing the best interest of their clients.
Benji/Richardson had some cred with players that the club hasnt - one down another to go. Who in their right mind with any credibility would be brave enough to take it on ? Sheens might be up for another pay out.
Would love a public forum with the coaches and players that have been through the club - moved on or sacked - and let them tell it like it is - then we might get somewhere.
 
Jedi_Tiger said:
who knows we could have let Toa go and gone after Manu with cash
nah we went for Averillo, hood player however we shoukd have gone for better
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1. Manu getting on in years.
2. Probably wanted too many dollars
3. Just doesn't like the Tigers.
You take the best you can afford who are willing to come here.
Not always that simple to get what you want or what the forum thinks is best.
 
balmain boy said:
If Benji has zero ability to reflect upon his actions and learn from them (as he constantly says he's doing) then he has no place as a head coach.

He had ideas, he was given the freedom to execute them. They failed, now the club has no option but to follow a more proven path
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What is being dished up at the moment is certainly not good enough, but I think we have to give Benji a bit more time to see if he can be smart enough to correct more of our problem areas which includes depth recruitment, team selection, game plan and execution, interchange usage etc
Personally I would be wanting to see sone big improvement in these areas by round 12 next season, otherwise we might have to bite the bullet and find another coach.
Surely you are impressed with how Javon Andrews is developing, continue to be impressed with Solo Saukuru and I thought Ethan Roberts showed some more good signs off the bench for us against the Bulldogs.
I also thought Tony Sukkar had a great game for us in NSW Cup yesterday. He will be a very good player this time next year and we would be silly to go through the learning phase and than let players like Saukuru and Sukkar go just when they are starting to fulfill their potential.
 
Telltails said:
Yep compare Wests Tigers to the three last premiership winning clubs - then we will start comparing the resources that Wests Tigers coaches have to work with and why we are in a holding pattern.
Fans have got their heads in the sand if they still think changing coaches will make significant difference. - may have worked 15 years ago before the rot became ingrained and player managers began overseeing the best interest of their clients.
Benji/Richardson had some cred with players that the club hasnt - one down another to go. Who in their right mind with any credibility would be brave enough to take it on ? Sheens might be up for another pay out.
Would love a public forum with the coaches and players that have been through the club - moved on or sacked - and let them tell it like it is - then we might get somewhere.
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Good post.
 
Tiger Stripes said:
1. Manu getting on in years.
2. Probably wanted too many dollars
3. Just doesn't like the Tigers.
You take the best you can afford who are willing to come here.
Not always that simple to get what you want or what the forum thinks is best.
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Spot on mate, you can only go after who's available and the best fit at the time, what else do people think is going to happen, you start to get an itch, then a pain and the next thing you know you're yanking a superstar centre out of your butt.
 
Telltails said:
Would love a public forum with the coaches and players that have been through the club - moved on or sacked - and let them tell it like it is - then we might get somewhere.
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That is exactly what is needed, but HBG believe they are world class sports administrators.

The debenture system means the club is held to ransom by the same people that have failed us for years.

I'm almost positive there are good and reasonable Magpies administrators who can't get a crack at running the club because it's impossible to vote on our administration.

The whole place is totally out of touch with the fans and without the fans, you have no club. Blaming the players/assistants/coaches is all BS in the context of the wider issues at the club - fix the macro issues before focusing on anything else.
 
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  • Sione Fainu
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  • Sunia Turuva
  • Terrell May
  • Jeral Skelton
  • Jack Bird
  • Royce Hunt
  • Heamasi Makasini
  • Taylan May
  • Jared Haywood

Every single player to play for our club since our last finals appearance (thank AI) - That is 138 players.

I don't think another signing or two is really going to make any difference.
 
Tiger Stripes said:
1. Manu getting on in years.
2. Probably wanted too many dollars
3. Just doesn't like the Tigers.
You take the best you can afford who are willing to come here.
Not always that simple to get what you want or what the forum thinks is best.
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1. how do you know how much Manu wanted contract wise ? he has only now become available
2 We certainly are not in the picture now regardless as we have spent that potential cash and position on Averillo
 
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