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      Signing Suggestions & Rumours
      Contracts, Recruitment & Rumours • rumours • • MacDougall

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      @jrtiger said in Signing Suggestions & Rumours:

      cannot wait to watch this thread implode tomorrow, regardless of whether DL makes his way across. strap yourselves in

      I don’t see Laurie being here tomorrow. Just assuming that’s the case, no inside sources. Next week is a different story

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      Politics Super Thread - keep it all in here
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      @curly_tiger said in Politics Super Thread - keep it all in here:

      I believe the impeachment is designed to prevent Trump running again in 2024
      I also don’t believe he will be running in 2024 regardless

      Yes, I believe it is possible to prevent him running again without a 2/3 majority and only requires a majority vote.

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      Lets have some fun~3 word story
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      @Fraction cameron smith would…

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      Cricket Season Thread
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      @tiger_steve said in Cricket Season Thread:

      @cochise said in Cricket Season Thread:

      @tiger_steve said in Cricket Season Thread:

      @happy_tiger said in Cricket Season Thread:

      Thoughts

      https://www.msn.com/en-au/sport/news/australia-announce-extended-squads-for-test-series-against-south-africa-and-t20i-series-against-new-zealand/ar-BB1d7bqB?li=AAHAbBJ&ocid=hplocalnews

      As a test playing nation we are lost.
      Wade, Head, Wade,Head - whose turn is it? We don’t know how to fill our middle order, or opener, because there is no long form first class cricket being played. Also our bowlers are soooooi lucky to be flying under the radar. Twice this summer they couldn’t take 20 wickets against a C grade batting line up.
      Jye Richardson for Stark a real chance - but of course Richardson hasn’t bowled more than 4 overs in a row for like forever. So how do we make a comparable judgment?

      T20 slowly killing the game.

      Well that’s what I was trying to say but you said it much more concisely. There’s a first😀

      More than that …a miracle …a miracle

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      Latrell Mitchell Contract Discussion
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      I’ll do what needs to be done. Thread closed

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      Coronavirus Outbreak
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      JD Tiger

      So when someone posts things which are deemed to be garbage or nonsense, they get deleted and ridiculed, and called crazy and loony tunes.

      Does anyone really think that that sort of censorship will change minds, educate people, enlighten others to the ‘correct’ point of view? I guess that the intention is to spare others from the nasty words, but I don’t know. It seems most people chatting in here have pretty fixed views, one way or another, allowing only one side to put forward their viewpoint, or belittling their views when they are allowed, I wonder what people think that will achieve.

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      JAC
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      Riveting discourse.

      See yall here in 2022

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      Robbie Farah..Discussion Thread.....
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      Alright, enough is enough. This thread by and large has been an absolute disgrace and more than half of the posts in this thread are nothing short of complete and utter garbage.

      It ends now. Thread closed. If anyone wants to start a new thread, I suggest you think long and hard about it. Unless it is contains FACTUAL and RELEVANT information concerning Robbie Farah’s position at the Wests Tigers, it will be deleted. If anyone wants to argue, find another forum to post on.

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      Ivan Cleary - THREAD..
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      Best result would be for Parra to beat Penrith by two and then lose their points for fielding a 14th man.

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      Soccer talk and Banter , keep it all here
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      @hobbo1 said in Soccer talk and Banter , keep it all here:

      @happy_tiger said in Soccer talk and Banter , keep it all here:

      @hobbo1 said in Soccer talk and Banter , keep it all here:

      @happy_tiger said in Soccer talk and Banter , keep it all here:

      6 straight wins for WHU …4th in the League

      1st time they have won 6 straight from the start of a calendar year in their 125 year history

      Bad news is they face Liverpool next in the League and in form Man U in the Cup

      You’s have had 2 draws then 4 straight wins “in the league” plus you’ve played 2 more games than anyone else in the top 8

      #falsehopeloser

      Dumbo 4 wins in the League 2 wins in the Cup …4+2=6

      Not my fault you won’t play teams with Covid

      Make sure you bash Liverpool

      Beating Doncaster and Stockport don’t count

      Lower League powerhouses …if they beat us they win the Cup …

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      James Tedesco Signs with Roosters [Official]
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      Well this thread went off topic quickly.

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      Confirmed: Matterson released from Wests Tigers.
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      @Kazoo-Kid 🤣 stinks of him trying to fit that jab in anywhere he could.

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      2019 Coaching saga -Thread
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      @:

      https://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/sport/nrl/sport-confidential-jts-retirement-treat-dogs-sniff-opportunity-in-klemmers-exit/news-story/2150dd3ea5649a3eb819fdd85e0a5562

      CLEARY’S EXIT HITS PLAYERS HARD

      OVERLOOKED in Ivan Cleary’s walkout at the Wests Tigers is the impact it has had on some of the players Cleary coaxed into joining the club, believing in what he was preaching.

      Most notably Russell Packer.

      Packer refused to speak to Cleary when news first emerged that the coach was potentially leaving for Penrith and, now that the news has been confirmed, any chance to repair the relationship has passed the point of no return.

      The players are most upset that they bought what Cleary was selling, in some cases packing up their families to join the club.

      That Cleary notified the players by text was also received poorly.


      Oh and JT brought a 1967 Shelby GT500 Super Snake

      Packer and Matulino are not playing for love.
      They should be grateful to Cleary for the healthy contracts they got that encouraged them to sign with us, and should now be ready to lift their game under a coach who may demand a bit better from them.

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      Pascoe sanctioned by the NRL
      Wests Tigers Discussion • justinpascoe • • Tiger_Steve

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      @Elderslie_Tiger said in Pascoe sanctioned by the NRL:

      name

      Todd? Are you out there? What’s your stance on player managers manipulating signings? Hello? Todd?
      Can someone please pull our games CEO out of Politis’s ring so he can do his job!

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      What song are you listening to right now?
      General Discussion • music • • Cultured_Bogan

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      @cochise said in What song are you listening to right now?:

      @magpies1963 said in What song are you listening to right now?:

      @cochise said in What song are you listening to right now?:

      @magpies1963 said in What song are you listening to right now?:

      @mike said in What song are you listening to right now?:

      G’day Mike : I’ve just listened to 4 of the rockinest 💃 , bopinest 🕺 , foot tappin 👻 and hand clappin 👏 👏 songs ever from around the same time period as Credence, that I downloaded from Spotify.

      I Want To Take You Higher…Sly and the Family Stone Brown Sugar…The Rolling Stones Way Down Yonder…The Swinging Blue Leans Mockingbird…Johnny O’Keefe
      Still haven’t got my head around how to cut and paste a song on here from YouTube though…but I will sooner or later.

      Here is one of them.

      Thanks to You Cochise 👍 , I just spent a really enjoyable 1/2 hour watching JOK…This Is Your Life
      Gee…it’s to bad you youngsters weren’t around at the birth of Rock N Roll.

      Its ok, I got the best part of it!!!

      Probably the 1st movie I was allowed to go to without my Mum taking me was “Rock Around The Clock” with Bill Haley and the Comets.
      It was on at the Burwood Palatial picture theatre.

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      Lote Tuqiri thread
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      @supercoach said in Lote Tuqiri thread:

      I get the feeling TNT is going to be on the side lines for a long time, so I think its going to be a long time before we see the two in action together sadly. On Lotte can only be a plus for the club on and off the field. Okay I would have loved to have Lima or Burgess but Lotte will go okay and a old head will be very handy out wide in those close games we always seem to loose

      Context :fa-frown-o:

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      Corona impact on NRL...?
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      Not a WT article and hope it’s OK to post.
      Just found this a good read in preference to our fluff pieces.

      In the trenches as one: How Warriors rose from 2020’s darkest day
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      Dan Walsh
      NRL.com Reporter
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      Roger Tuivasa-Sheck’s youngest son started crawling for the first time last week, while his dad was more than 2000km away.

      “Oh man, I think about going home all the time, especially when I’m watching a milestone like that on my phone,” the Warriors captain says.

      "Just [the idea of] being with my kids and being with my partner.

      "I’m pretty lucky. My partner, she’s a tough girl. She’s got her parents any my siblings back home helping out. If she wasn’t then it’d be a different story.

      “But I’m just glad she’s got her support there and I’ve got mine here with my teammates.”

      Tuivasa-Sheck is going on four months away from his young Auckland-based family, a sacrifice that will stretch past 150 days by the end of the regular season.

      Warriors assistant coaches Stacey Jones and Tony Iro carry the same burden.

      So too football manager Dan Floyd, gear steward Laurie Hale, head of performance Craig Twentyman, physio Jed Smethurst and half a dozen other club staffers.

      Todd Payten’s wife and kids have touched down in Australia but are still in quarantine ahead of their entry into the Warriors’ COVID-19 bubble.

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      Payten: We all know what we are walking into
      A 50-strong contingent of players and staff on the Central Coast that endured one of the toughest periods in club history, an achievement in itself given the regular tumult and upheaval the Warriors have come to make their own over 25 years.

      A series of sacrifices that has them still within striking distance of the finals – however unlikely a top eight surge may be – when many predicted a complete collapse by this point in the season.

      A series of sacrifices that just might prove the making of the club, and the waking of the NRL’s long-regarded sleeping giant.

      “There’s no window-dressing it. Earlier this year the club was at a pretty low point,” CEO Cameron George says from New Zealand.

      Stephen Kearney was told his time was up in a mid-season call that bewildered some players and felt like a betrayal to others given his stature in camp.

      Ninety points were conceded in losses to South Sydney and Melbourne either side of Kearney’s sacking.

      “There comes a time when you’re bleeding, bruised and battered,” George says.

      "You’ve got sleepless nights and you’re full of stress, and at that point you decide what you stand for.

      "We have an exceptional group of men and women that got confronted with that, and they’ve decided what we stand for.

      "There was a point in time where everyone accepted that the rest of this season was what it was, we weren’t going home.

      "That acceptance took away the uncertainty. And when you’re thinking about that uncertainty, it’s hard to fully commit yourself to whatever you’re doing.

      "Since then, there’s been a huge shift, on and off-the-field, in performance. They’re well and truly in the trenches together.

      "The staff have done a wonderful job as a whole. There’s a huge contingent over there without family.

      “They’re doing an amazing job at helping these players flourish under extreme and difficult circumstances. The boys are repaying that on the field, you can see the bond between all of them.”

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      Warriors v Knights - Round 16
      That bond is one Payten heard talked about often during his first 18 months with the club in Auckland.

      But not until the Warriors relocated to keep the NRL season alive, committing to “living in each other’s pockets” along the way, did he see it truly take hold within his squad.

      Tuivasa-Sheck, the multimillion-dollar face of the club, is seeing the same, a shift that keeps him from jumping on a plane across the Tasman.

      “We’re finding that we’re all in this together, and it’s something no club has really done before,” he says.

      "We’re all in the bubble together. So you either get sick of each other or you work out your issues. That’s what we’re doing.

      "A lot of us don’t have family here. And yeah you do get sick of each other, all the time. But that’s how families work and that’s how you get through it.

      "I’m proud that I’m here, and my family is too, sticking it out for the club. The way we’re playing and growing as a team, it makes it worth it.

      “You know you’re doing it for the right reasons, it makes the weeks go a lot easier.”

      Already though, despite the 2021 season still being seven months away, the Warriors are confronted with having to do it all again.

      With international borders still closed and COVID-19 not going away anytime soon, George and club powerbrokers are doing their due diligence on relocation options for next year.

      Tuivasa-Sheck and fellow senior leader Tohu Harris have both hosed down suggestions they would look to leave the Warriors if the club is forced to play out of Redcliffe or the Central Coast next year.

      But a guarantee is just as hard to give when there is so little certainty about the Warriors scenario next season, as individuals and a collective.

      “I’m playing for the Warriors and I’m just focusing on right now because that’s all we can do,” Tuivasa-Sheck says of reports Super Rugby’s Auckland Blues approached him about a 2021 code switch.

      "There’s been no contact to me. I think it’s just people putting two and two together with where we are and what can happen.

      “We actually don’t know what 2021 is going to hold, so you might as well enjoy what you can right now.”

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      Match Highlights: Bulldogs v Warriors
      There is no ill-feeling at all toward David Fusitu’a, Ken Maumalo, Leivaha Pulu, Agnatius Paasi or King Vuniyayawa – the five Warriors who returned home to be with their families a month ago.

      There are several lessons learned if they’re asked to saddle up again under incoming coach Nathan Brown.

      Significantly, there is also seven months to work with as well.

      “We want to know now what we’re in for next year,” George says.

      "There’s so many questions around it obviously, but there won’t be any last minute decisions.

      "Once we have the info around that, once we’ve done the leg work, we’ll be able to present it to the players and go from there.

      "One of the key learnings from this year is, if we go again, we go as one.

      “Not trying to negotiate border exemptions in split groups, there’s a lot of things that we have the time to work out with certainty this time around.”

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      David Nofoaluma re-signs until 2025..
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      so is the fourth year a club option or not?
      if not that is dissapointing we will likely have a Mansour situation on our hands and wanting to offload him

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      Aaron Woods - Signs with Bulldogs 2018 - Sharks 2018 [Official]..
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      The only hesitation that I have with the Warriors is the slight hangover from the super league debacle, when as new teams, they and the cows went with the Murdoch/Ribot circus. The bulldogs and panthers etc will never be forgiven.

      Conversely, a Bledisloe win would be a long overdue shot in the arm for union here.

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      Aloiai
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      What i find interesting is an old article on NRL about why Matterson left the club.

      Matterson is understood to still be in contact with the likes of Benji Marshall Alex Twal and childhood friend Josh Aloiai, though other Tigers are believed to still feel let down by his walk out.

      Well 2 have already gone this last season…

      Never said about $ but that’s why Aloiai left so seems more likely now was all about $.

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