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He paid too much for Luai. Got lucky with Terrell thanks to the Rousters. Richo did not want Taylan who virtually had to beg us to sign him. He paid too much for Turuva. We have virtually the same money to spend on our salary cap as every other NRL club, so no matter how anyone wants to spin it...

There is only one reason Richo loves talking profit, to justify his own over inflated wage. No idea how so many get sucked in to believing most of the crap that comes out of his mouth. Richo needs to focus on building us a genuine top 8 playing roster, otherwise we are wasting our time and money...

Our playing roster as it stands for 2026 cannot and will not make the top 8, blind Freddy can see that. So if we think hopefully finishing somewhere between 10th and 14th is a success, than Richo is doing a great job. If we are wanting or hoping to finish in the top 8 or better, then we are...

The NRL fund every dollar we spend on players within our salary cap. If Richo and Benji can’t get that right I don’t see how that’s the fault of the HBG ?

I’ll say it again, yes it would be nice to have a better quality player than Seyfarth in our top 17, but he is not the reason we are not making the top 8. Put him on the bench for any of the 5 teams currently still alive in the 2025 competition and they would still be in the same position they...

Exactly right about Melbourne Storm winning many more games than us each season and that is why I’ve made our player comparison with them. In summary Melbourne Storm and the other top quality teams in the NRL are top quality teams because their top tier players are far superior to ours. Many of...

As much as Wests Tigers fans hate to admit it, we are currently behind the top 8 teams due to our highly paid key players, strike players, game breakers being well behind these same players at the top 8 clubs. We love to blame the likes of Alex Twal and Alex Seyfarth, does anyone really believe...

Compare our middles to Melbourne Storm who are current Premiership favourites. They have Stefano Utoikamanu who most of our supporters think was no loss and believe we have a better replacement in Terrell May. Their other starting prop is Josh King who I really like as a player and would love...

As I said, my concern was never specifically with Samuela, it is with the team itself not having enough explosive speed and line break threat in comparison to most other NRL teams. Samuela himself is not slow for a big man, he has shown he has enough speed to hit gaps, make line breaks and score...

No way would they consider Ponga ahead of Bula.

I too was thinking that moving Samuela to the middle would a good option, until the last 8 weeks of the season when he again started to show his value as a tackle busting, line breaking and reacting edge. If he can consistently show this type of firm it would be crazy to change his position...

All 3 played for successful NSW u/19’s teams and just haven’t progressed as well as expected for one reason or another.

Great attitude and he’s a big bigger than I thought he was 👍

One day our club will learn to follow that same logic.

One or two superstar players makes a massive difference, it works that way in every team sport.

1 💯 You are smart enough to know our current playing roster is simply not good enough to win a premiership and we are banking on our emerging players to make the necessary improvements to make us genuine top 8 contenders in 2026. We should get further improvement from all 3 Fainu brothers and...

Correct, every team needs an elite fullback with x-factor. No question Bula has a certain element of that in his game, but does he have enough of it to elevate our current squad into the top 8 ? Once his contract is upgraded and extended he will become clearly our 2nd highest paid player behind...

They are already likely on the bench when we full strength, 13. Twal 12. KPP 11. Sam Fainu 10. Sione Fainu 9. Korisau 8. May 14. Doueihi or Latu Fainu 15. Seyfarth 16. Pole 17. Hunt It really doesn’t look too bad of a forward pack when we are full strength, but I do agree 2 good solid forward...

💯 agree the forwards need to lay a platform, that will never change. I suppose the question is are our forwards as bad as many of our supporters think they are ? We have 3 of the better emerging forwards in the NRL in Sam Fainu, Sione Fainu and Fonua Pole, all 3 should make further improvements...

I like Turuva and believe he has been one of our better players this season. Under our current playing roster he is one of the first players selected each week and rightly so. The point I was making is that IF we made a decision to recruit two genuine marquee players in our backline, it could in...