Signings, Suggestions & Rumours Discussion

[Odessa]

Harsh. He has won premierships at 3 clubs plus trophies at NSW and NZ. Tim Sheens by comparison has only won 4 Premierships over a much longer career.

Clearly Madges' approach has a short half-life but to give him no credit is harsh.

Billy Slater will turn them around next year and they will be top 4 again

 

[TigerBurnsy]

i heard read say it today which confirmed it but heard a whisper we have been offered a few halves services for next year

be interesting to see who

I reckon we’re a decent chance at Ezra mam, ready been saying whispers it’s either Madge or him at broncos

 

[Vicious]

No coach is successful without a good squad. You need to look at the seasons any coach was successful and look at their squads/clubs/ resources , support, and then compare that to what they are coming to before you realistically consider that trey can make an improvement.

I 💯 agree that any coach needs the required quality of players to be able to get the desired results and it’s as clear as day that we lack class out wide even at full strength and we clearly do not have the required depth in certain positions.
The recent signings of Jake Averillo and Jayden Brailey help fill a couple of voids, but it’s not enough, we are still short of an NRL quality back up centre, we really need two when you consider Jake Averillo will also likely be our best back up fullback.
We also ideally need one more NRL quality back up winger, one with genuine speed would be nice.
We need an NRL quality back up edge back rower and an NRL quality 13 if we could find someone, but there are simply none out there at the moment.
We also ideally need an extra NRL quality prop, but we would need o offload one of May, Pole, Twal, Fainu, Hunt or Seyfarth before we can realistically add another proven NRL quality prop.

The problem being Benji has chosen most, if not all of our current squad and he has also chosen or been well aware of the risk in paying our high cost players even though they have not yet done anything to prove they are elite players capable of providing value for the big money contracts we have agreed to pay them.

 

[Cultured_Bogan]

Finals just 5/11 seasons plus a wooden spoon. Hardly inspiring but looks great to a WT fan.

5/11 is infinitely better than 0/15.

They also went to a GF too.

 

[Fainu Brothers]

I reckon we’re a decent chance at Ezra mam, ready been saying whispers it’s either Madge or him at broncos

Mam would be electric in the right environment. Not sure we can afford a marquee by the sounds of it.

Volkman would have to be 1 of the halves.
Nathan Cleary 2
Walker 3
Sandon Smith 4

 

[weststigerman]

I reckon we’re a decent chance at Ezra mam, ready been saying whispers it’s either Madge or him at broncos

We have three 6s already at the club. If we sign a half it has to be a 7 and AD would need to leave.

 

[Fish88]

I reckon we’re a decent chance at Ezra mam, ready been saying whispers it’s either Madge or him at broncos

Mam has been diabolical. But knowing us we would sign him to play 7 and be a controlling half. God I hope we don’t go there.

 

[Jedi_Tiger]

volkman in for latu

 

[Fish88]

volkman in for latu

With Latu unable to train without hurting himself we may need another half!

 

[Garrry]

I honestly dont believe Marshall will be gone, the HBG are not going to pay out up to 4 million to pay him out as I hear there are no clauses. We are stuck

I honestly didn't believe HBG would've paid Richo (the best signing ever at the tiger's) 3 year's salary to leave but they did.
Richo has been there done that, you could see change was happening but HBG fkd it

 

[EllisFan]

i heard read say it today which confirmed it but heard a whisper we have been offered a few halves services for next year

be interesting to see who

Bet it rhymes with File Shenanigans

 

[jirskyr]

5/11 is infinitely better than 0/15.

They also went to a GF too.

Yeah but 1/15 is ALSO infinitely better than 0/15. My point is: it's rather slim pickings, which is to be expected, and although I would welcome a Brad Arthur appointment, I would compel myself to have very low expectations. BA is not a proven winner, he's a decent coach who can sometimes get results under certain circumstances. Tigers have been proven to rarely provide the circumstances for a middle-range coach to succeed.

By comparison Madge Maguire reached the finals 5/12 times in his career, 3 NRL clubs and 2 premierships, so by any measurement Madge has the superior output of the two. But you'd never invite Madge back.

 

[balmain boy]

Bloody Bula, how frustrating he is. He definitely is very fast. When Weekes got away against Canberra I said to my mate "Bula will catch him easy" and he did. Missed the tackle, but pace wise he is very fast. Then last week he gets on the outside of Suli about 5 times and Suli gets him every time. Maybe his initial excelleration is poor and thats why he looks like he could break through but never does.

Yes, that's correct. He has extremely low levels of acceleration. But after 50m he can generate decent levels of pace. Problem is acceleration is what wins you matches. Creates breaks, scores tries. It's not often you get the opportunity to run 50-70m in order to reach your top speed.
Doeuihi is very similar to Bula in that regard. He can teach a top speed eventually and be reasonably fast. But over 20m he's slow as a tortoise.

 

[balmain boy]

Injuries are a factor that every team has to deal with ..although other teams seemingly have much better depth ..

If the upgrade to the Top 30 is indeed fact ..I would suggest it’s because they are being paid a salary that forces the club to put them into the Top 30 next season even if they won’t be playing NRL ..as they have done numerous times in the past for better or worse ( normally worse )

And that would be a huge mistake, and one that we can ill afford. Everyone in the top 30 must be able to contribute in first grade. If we were to take a punt on a youngster who's path is blocked at another club, that's one thing. But to promote someone who's years away and we know that, is insulting to everyone involved with the club

 

[Fish88]

And that would be a huge mistake, and one that we can ill afford. Everyone in the top 30 must be able to contribute in first grade. If we were to take a punt on a youngster who's path is blocked at another club, that's one thing. But to promote someone who's years away and we know that, is insulting to everyone involved with the club

We always have about 4-5 players that are light years from first grade and are in our top 30. No good clubs would do this. We continue to do it and expect different results.

 

[jadtiger]

We always have about 4-5 players that are light years from first grade and are in our top 30. No good clubs would do this. We continue to do it and expect different results.

What is worse is that we toss them into first grade a year or 2 too early and expect brilliant results every game.We kill players progress not develop it.

 

[Halbrowne61]

I reckon we’re a decent chance at Ezra mam, ready been saying whispers it’s either Madge or him at broncos

But do we really need another half/5-8 !
Are u clutching at whoever’s available or thinking about what we need to go with what we've got !

 

[balmain boy]

MADGE CONNECTION?

West Tigers second rower Alex Seyfarth is reportedly being shopped to rival clubs, including the Brisbane Broncos where there is a possibility of him linking up with the man that handed him his first grade debut Michael Maguire after being him through the grades and from reports Madge is a huge fan of Seyfarth would is on about $475,000 with two year left on his contract the Tigers would have to fit some of the bill.

#ReigningPremiers #BronxNation2026

** Hopefully it’s just speculation from that webpage.
** I know we overlay nearly every player on our books, but I would be shocked if Seyfarth is being paid anymore than 400k maximum

He's definitely on that much.
I've said it numerous times, the reason our cap is stuffed is because the likes of Toa, Seyfarth, Turuva and many others are all on 450-500k. We pay depth players way too much and that leaves us with not enough cash to spend on actual top quality players

 

[Flippedy]

Mam would be electric in the right environment. Not sure we can afford a marquee by the sounds of it.

Volkman would have to be 1 of the halves.
Nathan Cleary 2
Walker 3
Sandon Smith 4

Not sure we’re the right environment for Mam.

 

[Flippedy]

But do we really need another half/5-8 !
Are u clutching at whoever’s available or thinking about what we need to go with what we've got !

No we need a half, a real half, a game controlling half. We’ve been devoid of a real halfback since Scott Prince left.