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I'll try for a third time: please say who you think the Tigers should have signed instead, who is available now for minimum salary.

Again, he's the 29th player in a list of 30. Do I think Kotoni Staggs would "bully" Aublix Tawha or Delouise Hoeter in opposed training? I mean, yeah, quite possibly - that's why they're fourth or fifth choice on the depth chart. The bar we're trying to clear with this signing isn't Taylan May...

Who did you have in mind for the 29th spot in the top 30, on minimum salary?

There really couldn't be a better encapsulation of fan forums than slating the current incumbent at a position who appears to be just about to be re-signed and instead wish casting as a replacement a player who has never played the position and doesn't appear to be anywhere near the club's plans.

Clauses in contracts that are deemed unconscionable cannot be enforced regardless of whether both parties agreed to them. If the court determines that Parra refusing to either re-sign Lomax or let him play elsewhere in the NRL is a restraint of trade it won't matter what Lomax signed.

I can only speak for myself, but here's my take. I moved to Australia about 20 years ago and happened to end up in Balmain. I picked the Tigers because they were clearly the local team, and over time I've picked up various Tigers-supporting friends, been a member since 2009 and generally gone...

Whoever told you that may be the last person on the planet who thinks Rugby 360 is ever going to happen.

At that age what we need is good players, and as many of them as possible. If a decent half becomes available, you take them. Most of them won't work out so you'd be bonkers to turn down talent on the basis that you have someone else ahead of them in the development ladder.

I seem to recall having exactly this conversation 12 months ago about how we had too many halves and where were they all going to play. Turns out the answer was "Souths and the Bulldogs".

I'll have a go at this too. I don't give a toss about Wests or Balmain. I am, and have always been, a Wests Tigers fan, therefore there is nothing to "differentiate". I don't like HBG because they have demonstrated over and over and over again that they couldn't run an egg and spoon race let...

They probably assume they can just slander him to the NRL integrity unit to weasel their way out of a payout as and when they decide to get rid of him. They're incompetent, immoral scum and I will never trust that anything they do is in the interests of anything but their own pathetic egos.

Well that's it, I'm officially done. I have just sent my email to the club asking for my membership, and that of my son, to be cancelled. I've put up with a lot over the past 15 years and I've poured money into the club: merchandise, attending games, travelling interstate and internationally. I...

They're out of their depth, pure and simple. They're not very intelligent or experienced people with a an unhealthy dose of Dunning Kruger syndrome.

Can someone repost the contact email for the clowns? I'm emailing the club to cancel my membership and want to make sure to CC them.

Yes I'm aware of that. But while we're just reciting cliches I'll add: every man has his price.

It's entirely possible. If you look at how PVL runs the comp, it becomes pretty clear that his main priority is keeping the broadcasters and the first grade clubs happy. If the broadcasters are happy, the money keeps rolling, which funds the annual grant to franchise owners, which means they...

V'Landys doesn't give a monkeys. He's shown on multiple occasions that provided the clubs aren't complaining, the broadcast money keeps rolling and the inner circle of cronies have their snouts in the trough he's not exactly pushing a reform agenda. If mugs like us are prepared to keep throwing...

Thought everyone could do with some light relief. Spotted yesterday in Perth.

No, it's really not irrelevant. This club needs to start producing junior talent in waves. It is never, ever going to become competitive by signing first grade players in free agency: that just burns up cap space and creates unbalanced rosters with a few stars and a bunch of dross. We need to be...

Except there's a salary cap, which means how much you give individual players directly influences the ability to get the best team on the field. And some of us aren't stupid so want to know how that's all being balanced. I mean, we could probably get Payne Haas if we offered him five million...