Signings, Suggestions & Rumours Discussion

Think Manase Fainu will be offered a train and trial at the tigers. Samuela fainu reposted a video of them in the sauna at the wests tigers facility. Manase had an ankle monitor on. Pure assumption based but I would say put your house on it.

What are your thoughts if he were to be signed?
 
Rock Hopper Steve said:
Yeah, at least Schiller has speed to recover a defensive mistake and get back to help mend his stuff up, with Skelton it's like turning the Titanic.

Different story defending near the try line though, if his defence is suspect, run a million try line drills over the summer.
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A bit like the pure Sheenius 100 passes and catches every day, that worked well. 🤣

Sounds pretty good in theory though.
 
Rock Hopper Steve said:
Yeah, at least Schiller has speed to recover a defensive mistake and get back to help mend his stuff up, with Skelton it's like turning the Titanic.

Different story defending near the try line though, if his defence is suspect, run a million try line drills over the summer.
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Schiller also has horrid hands at times, usually when the games on the line.
 
hank37w said:
A bit like the pure Sheenius 100 passes and catches every day, that worked well. 🤣

Sounds pretty good in theory though.
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Must admit I haven’t seen much of Schiller, have no idea of his defensive abilities, but he has some pace and that's something Skelton doesn't have.

Who knows, the change of scenery and new defensive coach could improve any issues.
 
Vicious said:
A common sense way of advising why ridiculous money spent on scouts travelling all over the place is no longer required in the modern world.
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Let me think about this 🤔
A management company sends the club a highlights video of a young kid that they just got to sign a contract giving there company a percentage of the kids earnings for his/her career.
The video shows all of their highlights against what type of opponent (who cares)
The kid looks good.
Just double checking that on the video there are no missed tackles, dropped balls etc.
I can see how that’s better than getting a person to go out and observe with their eyes if a kid has in their opinion what is required to be a chance to make the top grade.
I am of the older generation so maybe it just me living in the past 🤷‍♂️
 
Oldman said:
Let me think about this 🤔
A management company sends the club a highlights video of a young kid that they just got to sign a contract giving there company a percentage of the kids earnings for his/her career.
The video shows all of their highlights against what type of opponent (who cares)
The kid looks good.
Just double checking that on the video there are no missed tackles, dropped balls etc.
I can see how that’s better than getting a person to go out and observe with their eyes if a kid has in their opinion what is required to be a chance to make the top grade.
I am of the older generation so maybe it just me living in the past 🤷‍♂️
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Exactly mate
 
Oldman said:
Let me think about this 🤔
A management company sends the club a highlights video of a young kid that they just got to sign a contract giving there company a percentage of the kids earnings for his/her career.
The video shows all of their highlights against what type of opponent (who cares)
The kid looks good.
Just double checking that on the video there are no missed tackles, dropped balls etc.
I can see how that’s better than getting a person to go out and observe with their eyes if a kid has in their opinion what is required to be a chance to make the top grade.
I am of the older generation so maybe it just me living in the past 🤷‍♂️
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I would assume the highlight video gets the clubs attention.
Next step is "when and where is playing next" for my game day perusal to unleash my highly talented identification skills for the WT. Haha.
PS. What are his sprint times over 20m, 50m and 100m?
His height, weight and age.
 
Oldman said:
Let me think about this 🤔
A management company sends the club a highlights video of a young kid that they just got to sign a contract giving there company a percentage of the kids earnings for his/her career.
The video shows all of their highlights against what type of opponent (who cares)
The kid looks good.
Just double checking that on the video there are no missed tackles, dropped balls etc.
I can see how that’s better than getting a person to go out and observe with their eyes if a kid has in their opinion what is required to be a chance to make the top grade.
I am of the older generation so maybe it just me living in the past 🤷‍♂️
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Na man, you’re on it…
What young kids parents are choosing talking over an email over meeting someone face to face.
 
Oldman said:
Let me think about this 🤔
A management company sends the club a highlights video of a young kid that they just got to sign a contract giving there company a percentage of the kids earnings for his/her career.
The video shows all of their highlights against what type of opponent (who cares)
The kid looks good.
Just double checking that on the video there are no missed tackles, dropped balls etc.
I can see how that’s better than getting a person to go out and observe with their eyes if a kid has in their opinion what is required to be a chance to make the top grade.
I am of the older generation so maybe it just me living in the past 🤷‍♂️
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I’d sat the video footage is the starting point to determine if there is interest.
 
Oldman said:
Let me think about this 🤔
A management company sends the club a highlights video of a young kid that they just got to sign a contract giving there company a percentage of the kids earnings for his/her career.
The video shows all of their highlights against what type of opponent (who cares)
The kid looks good.
Just double checking that on the video there are no missed tackles, dropped balls etc.
I can see how that’s better than getting a person to go out and observe with their eyes if a kid has in their opinion what is required to be a chance to make the top grade.
I am of the older generation so maybe it just me living in the past 🤷‍♂️
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I've always said and thought it's what you DONT see in a video that is important to making a recruitment decision

The 4 missed tackles , wasted try opportunities , not working well with with the team in attack and defence, spotting opposition flaws , taking bad options etc

You don't see that in a highlights package
 
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