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It’s simply called talent ID. Nobody was paying anything more than the bare minimum for players such as Cody Ramsay and Matt Dufty as bother clubs wanted them. The list goes on, Hugo Savaka was standing out in NSW Cuo for a solid 2 years and not a priority at the Roosyers until poor form forced...

I assume we are talking about Josese Lanyon? His ball running is his strength and by far the best part of his game. He also has good deception when taking the ball to the line as a running 13. His dummy half service is shaky at best and although he can pull off the occasionally solid hit, he is...

Much the same as Starford To’a, an injured shoulder in which the medical staff have deemed ok to play with does not mean you have to always run the ball at half pace.

Drinkwater is miles ahead of Bula, it’s not even close. One regularly breaks tackles, makes line breaks, scores tries, gets plenty of line break and try assists with his deceptive ball laying ability and the other does hardly any of this. Honestly what planet are you on of your think Drinkwater...

Regularly being dominant on NSW Cup for a couple of years before anyone took any notice of him being a potential NRL player. This is the same story for many players, yet some bozos still seem to believe NSW Cup or Qld Cup form counts for nothing.

They are at the very least equal to Bula in quality and for about 1/8 of the cost, it would leave is with plenty of cash to strengthen other areas. Even moving Averillo to his best position which is fullback would give is moment but another high quality centre. As an example Campbell Graham is...

When you have extreme low cost players such as Cody Ramsay and Matt Dufty playing very well and much better than our own fullback, you have to ask the question if we are getting, or if we are likely to get value for money? Is Samuela a better player than Jacob Preston, Tallis Duncan, Salesi...

I don’t play SuperCoach either. I play why do Wests Tigers continually fail to build a quality playing roster and it’s very clear we overpay certain players that our fans and management overrate, instead of spending that money on genuine quality match winning players.

Which estimates do you believe to be way off the mark? When it keeps being stated we do not have the cap space to go after any high profile players, it becomes quite clear we are over paying certain players within our current under performing roster.

Review of how our 2027 squad is shaping with estimated wages for each player. This clearly shows we often over estimate the value of our own players and by over paying them it leaves no salary cap space to even try and sign any true quality match winning players. Plenty of quality players are...

The 1.2 million figure might be inflated by the journos, but you would think there is at least truth that he is asking more than we are prepared to pay, otherwise it would have already been sorted. Extending Samuela’s contract should have been done 18 months ago, but that’s another story. It...

In saying all of this we need to forecast how much improved our own players will be in 2027. We can say we did not have sufficient back up depth in our back row this season, but it cannot be underestimated how much improved young players, particularly young forwards can be from one season to the...

He is a big mobile unit who probably hasn’t played as much NRL as he deserved to play throughout his career and we could certainly do worse, but he will be 29y.o in 2027, so I think we should be looking for younger or better options to in improve our edge back row depth. There are a few good...

Whe When we spot some talent not currently playing regular NRL, but definitely good enough to be playing regular NRL. Plenty that fot this description if they look hard enough.

W What has he done now?

I don’t understand how we supposedly have such high standards at training, yet we allow so much half paced, half hearted play in the actual games?

Yeah if you have a team containing plenty of high energy and aggressive minded players you can win anywhere. We don’t have enough of that within our current playing roster.

That’s assuming you believe a 36y.o Alex Johnston and a rapidly declining Brian To’o will be better quality players than a 21y.o flying machine who is already proving too good for Qld Cup and will be in his prime by 2028 when PNG enter the NRL competition.

With Samuela I reckon it’s a case of “If you are willing to pay Terrell and Jahream 1mil per season, I should be getting the same” And I would agree that Samuela is a more impactful player than the other 2.

I would have expected at least 5-6 PNG players in the starting lineup from game 1. I think it’s defeating the purpose if you are just going to have an international starting lineup up based in PNG and I reckon the PNG natives would feel the same way, A young PNG winger Dudley Dotoi who Wests...