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Spot on - if the club is invoved it is not a TPA and it is part of his salary and in the cap.

He did say that and I thought at the time it could get him in hot water. That said there was no contract offered so the TPA and amount of $ could have been rubbish - Richo talking up the value to bend someone else's cap out of shape. The TPA is discussed in detail in a deep dive here.

Manly are susceptible to a player coming back on the inside shoulder of DCE. They push hard with their inside pressure so it is difficult to overcome the momentum of that effort. That play Luai put on Critta will work well agaisnt Manly.

Early shifts are pulling the compressed defence apart.

This next game is critical for us. Will hopefully provide a blueprint to knock the Eagles off next week

You can, no problems.

I think you will find that they are way smarter than to dabble in this sort of caper. They off things like the provision of financial advice, discounted rates for fianancial management and brown paper bags etc. Loose lips sink ships and it would only take one slip to have a salacry cap...

That would be OK; if we made a deal with AD. However, if the deal meant Wests Tigers could offer "unders" then it is a breach. There has to be complete separation of the the third party and the club. For example; we couldn't chat with Richo and say that if AD signs for X tell him that we'll top...

Your take on TPA are incorrect. TPAS are between player and a third party and can not be influenced or have anything to do with the club. Using a TPA as a lever to get a player to sign for less is a breach of the salary cap rules. Putting them in touch with a financial advisor etc isn't. I'm...

If that is the case through club would be in deep trouble. TPA can have nothing to do with the club. We know these types of thing go on but you won't get an admission from anyone so either way it is all speculation.

Watch the TDM pod where he interviews Tiny. It gives an insight into his mental health issues. It is pretty raw and covers the steps he is takng to straightening his life out.

Deep Dive 12: The Centre Crisis – How do we Get It Right in 2026 Let’s be honest – if there’s one part of the field that’s consistently let us down over the past few seasons, it’s our centres. Defensive lapses, clunky combinations, and stop-gap solutions have made the edges a glaring weakness...

BZN you need to so some homework and take your own advice on keeping the conversation honest and constructive. Let's look at the honest side first. You stated "You still have the Tigers in name". Firstly there is no you - there is only we. We are one club. If we look at how our club was named...

If we kept him for $400K he is good value, but I'm willing to bet that our best value for money player right now is Taylan May. Look AD is good value but if we think he is a starter and going to get us to the finals we are barking up the wrong tree. He could transition to be a good 13 but if...

This is a great outcome as I don't think we went overboard to keep him. AD put himself in this position because he is good at a lot of things but not great at any of them. As a result he is capabale of playing plenty of positions but he has deficiencies in all of them. If we take the rose...

Probably not the Kangaroo tour, but I have it on good authority that he will be one of the NSW halves in 26.

I'm looking forward to reading the article. We must have come in over the top of the other 15 clubs with a $750K offer.

So, they sky has not fallen. I am surprised.

I was fortunate to play under some good coaches and also coach a couple of Luai like players (not to anywhere near the same standard mind you). The difficult thing I found with these types of players is for the runners to get their cues right. They grow being told to run a spaces not faces and...

I think that many here expected that signing Luai on a $6 million deal was going to mark a new era in Wests Tigers history starting in 2025. In reality it became a case study in the brutal truth that marquee signings alone don’t fix systems. So let's look at why the club stumbled despite his...