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1-2 years max. About half to 2/3rds his current deal. We have space cap wise, and don't have the impact he can provide.

The same NAS that averages nearly 100m a game off the bench, tackles at 94% & has more tackle breaks Pole, Twal, Sione Fainu, Hunt, Sam Fainu & Seyfarth in 2025? All, while only playing part time in 12 games?

The club paid To'a to be a starter & will pay Taylan May to be the other. Makasini will be first cab off the rank. I'd be amazed if Naden is kept around as depth & Doueihi can shift to centre as well. They might look at a winger though, with Staines leaving.

Tui, Jack Hetherington & Jaidyen Hunt.....or Ray Stone. 4 different body types. I'll lay off NAS because people will cry. :)

Max Plath would be great

Lower value option- Jaiyden Hunt is still available.

He's pretty much bang on Pole size. Won't signing him give you 3 body shapes roughly the same in Sione & Pole with Moale? It'll just eat into development time. If we are adding to the middles, why get 5 cut outs of the same guy?

Drive everyone mad, but that is literally the WHY to why I'd take him. We are custard soft at times. Hell, I'd double down. NAS, Tui & Jack Hetherington. When one or 2 get suspended, Seyfarth comes in. The Tigers went from easy beats to somewhat competitive. I'd like to take us to...

Hell, if we can possibly get Nelson, double down & get Tui as well. Forward pack revised.

I would absolutely taking Nelson if he was an option. Ridiculous size, ridiculous amount of tackle breaks per game, ridiculous amount of offloads, tackles at 90% & averages 100m a game off the bench. Will he play 24 games a season? Probably not. But the impact on the field is something nobody...

Freddy would be an astute pick up. Probably built for #13, can play #9 & HAS played every forward role for the dominant Warriors KOE squad. Last 2 years he had significant 1st grade exposure but this year stepped down & the KOE side is the best in it's grade. He's that tweener type- nearly...

That's the improvement required

Freddy Lussick, Zyon Maiu'u & Talakai would be the targets I'd look at. If they could fandangle Jack Hetherington....

I'm notoriously a half-full guy, so this will no doubt get a few rolling eyes. 2025 was an improvement. I would argue at times significant. We really had 3 games where there was a significant score difference, which blew the F&A for us- R5 Broncos 46 Tigers 24, R10 Storm 64 Tigers 0, R21...

Actually- did a little digging. In 2019, when he first played significant time, his win percentage was 54%. 2020 up to 87%, 2021 up to 92% & 2022 up to 95%. In 2023 it dropped to 77% & increased in 2024 to 79%. So, those 2 years aside, his win ratio increases the longer he plays...

I'd be curious to see if his Penrith win strike rate increased the longer he played. It could then be argued that we are in the infancy stages at the Tigers. Samoa would have been coming from a low start base too. What percentage increase in success have they had since he's been in the squad...

Additionally- Maiu'u signed a 2 year deal with the Bulldogs, so unless you are extending the deal, it's a 1 year 'prove it' contract for a 22 year old athlete with well acknowledged ability. As many have said- there's not a 'lot' available. Here's one. And he isn't stopping the club from...

I'd still look at Zyon Maiu'u as that impact middle. Pick him up, he offers versatility between middle & the edge, runs hard & has that 'impact' in his style- he's not a plodder, he's more a Royce Hunt type. Thing is- you play him in KOE. If it doesn't work out- you don't lose much. But if he...

I have to imagine that a settled spine, more go forward & better strike out wide- practiced together over the off season- should smooth things out. I wonder how much Luai's 'better play' has actually coincided with Taylan May's 1st grade play? It also seems that Samuela almost broke out of his...

2024 Yeoh vs 2025 May (note- 1 game to go for May) Tackle Breaks- Yeoh- 74 May- 65 Post Contact Metres- Yeoh- 1416m May- 1284m Offloads- Yeoh- 29 May- 63 Tackles Made- Yeoh- 945, 20 missed 97.93% May- 985, 21 missed 97.91% Total Run Metres- Yeoh- 4133 @ 165m per game May- 3846 @ 167m per game