For what it’s worth. My cousin spoke with Luai’s manager at Port Mac touch last week (they are mates). He said Luai hasn’t signed anything but ‘he will be at the tigers from 2025’. No idea how much or how long or anything else
Luai is generally regarded in rugby league circles as one of the better blokes in the NRL.
A mate has been in origin camp for the past 3 years and said fox, to’o and Luai are the best blokes in the team. Give the most to fans, treat the staff the best (apparently RCG is the worst bloke)
Just saw the Warriors announced Villiami Vailea is leaving. He is young and very athletic. He’s a bit raw but I reckon he would be a great pick up (if only we had a couple of roster spots to pick up players like that)
I just don’t see how the PNG team works, if it’s based out of cairns it would be a big strain on players travelling all the time. If it’s based in PNG they will not attract any other talent.
Government funding is a real thing though. DFAT have been pulling the strings For the Government funded...
He wants to come back to Sydney. We were the club that approached him. In the end he decided to stick it out in France for the rest of the year. He will be back with an NRL club next year.
Mitch had agreed at around $250k to come to the tigers this year back when we were after Moses. We went silent to focus on Moses and by the time we came back to him he thought he had been brushed and so had already told Catalans that he would stay for the year and knocked us back. We then...
Totally agree that you need specialists centres and can’t keep dumping blokes like Talau and Kapoa there. All I’m saying is the days of Gidley, Lyon and Gasnier creating from the centres are gone. They mainly need to be able to defend and catch and pass. If a centre is in your top 5 highest paid...
Sorry mate, I don’t understand the point you are trying to make.
The ‘craze’ of making it all about your fullback is because they touch the ball the most. You can’t base your attack on feeding a centre lots of ball and hoping they create. Having one player marked is going to happen in any...