Recent content by Lukic

You also start the season against a team with match fitness when you don't have any. It's such a big scheduling disadvantage. Total disgrace we got it again. They'd never give it to a club like the Roosters, Broncos etc

Good signing. Great depth and passable off the bench for 30 mins or so. Hopefully we can move Hunt on to free up some cap and get the Bird for Brown swap over the line.

Madge is clearly a good coach. Won an SL title, won 2 premierships, flogged Aus with the Kiwis and won origin decisively in his only attempt. You don't win this being lucky. Let's call a spade a spade, those teams we had under him were not good. Totally forgettable players who fizzled out of...

The fact we had basically no injuries and limped into 13th is what makes it a fail for me. With some worse injury luck we easily finish 15th or worse.

Turuva's fine. Average to above average winger. Somewhere in that 10-15 range of best wingers in the comp. Absolutely no need whatsoever to replace him. Also surprised Nofoaluma hasn't been mentioned as one of our best wingers. He's quite literally our club's all time leading try scorer and for...

One thing that's stood out to me is that he's grown even taller. He's like 195cm now and could still be growing. Has there ever been a half that tall that's been successful? Guys that size aren't quick off the mark and he'll always be an easy target in tackles unless he bulks up significantly.

The following recruits played a significant amount for us this year: Luai Terrell May Turuva Skelton These guys also played a fair amount: Taylan May Bird Hunt We also had Doueihi return and stay healthy for most of the year, while the only losses of note from last year's team are...

Extending Taylan and dumping Bud in the same day is incredible. Well done Richo.

Luai's a 6 who needs a seven. He's been playing much better of late. He won't live up to his contract as a player. He's an above average nrl player who made a career out of playing the easiest role in the greatest team of the modern era. But we had money to spend and he has helped attract...

I think we're still gonna run into the same problem we've had for years in that neither Luai or Fainu are 7s, they're both 6s. Luai's been so much better playing as a true 6 and his last few weeks have been good. But we're gonna suffer without a real organising 7. I can't help but feel...

Luai's best half in Tigers colours. Extend May ASAP

Turuva and Skelton have both been good. Both are sadly a bit limited in their ceiling, Turuva for his lack of size and Skelton for his lack of pace. However unlike in years gone by, wing isn't a position of weakness and they're a perfectly capable duo for a finals level team.

Brooks should probably head to the ESL. Not really sure what team would take him on. He's gonna be 32 next year at best is a fringe first grader at this point.

We've had some better luck with injuries this year and scheduling a little more fortunate, but it's a huge step in the right direction. With that said there were also a number of games earlier in the year where we outright robbed by the refs, so we could also have been competing for a top 8...

Credit where credit is due since Doueihi has stepped into 7 he's looked a lot better. He's also willing to actually take the line on which is making a huge difference. He still does a little bit too much of the random jinking and cutting inside which disjoints our attack, but when he's direct...