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Embarrassing. This is the worst shape I have ever seen. When we go sideways it looks shocking. We punch forward off a hooker and no-one can read what he is doing. Against 12 men, with a forward pack who had played all close to 80, we had no idea to play quick through the middle with our backs...

1. Laurie 2. Staines 3. Talau 4. Naden 5. Nofo 6. Doueihi 7. Brooks 8. Stefano 9. Korisau 10. Klemmer 11. Kepaaoa 12. Papaali 13. Ofahangue 14. Pole 15. Blore 16. Twal 17. Simpkin Reserves (Extended Bench) 18. Junior Tupou 19. Aitasi James 20. Alex Seyfarth 21. John Bateman Not Picked...

It would make sense you don't want to announce your star halfback leaving the week of R1. So you would say if Moses is coming you would know this week as if its the week after, its probably at EELS. The timing of Moses saying its basically sorted and us re-signing Doueihi suggests Parra to me.

I think everyone is overanalysing the Arthur comment. To me it sounded like an 'in joke' and they both know what his decision is. To me, I felt from that interview he is staying at Parra.

I don't think Seyfarth. If we have a couple of injuries in the back row we have next to no replacements so we really need him.

1. Laurie 2. Nofa 3. Naden 4. Kespoa 5. Staines 6. Doueihi 7. Brooks 8. Stef 9. Api 10. Klemmer 11. Papi 12. Bateman 13. Ofahangue 14. Talau (Utility) 15. Pole 16. Twal 17. Blore 18. Matamua 19. W.Smith --> Simpkin --> Rua I think with our back row shortages, I don't want to see Talau put to...

Problem is now every cap has cash. Before this there were only a few. Now every club has an extra 1-2 mill depending on how they have aligned their contracts. And again, if other clubs are in the mix we are far less desirable.

Moses will stay at Parra. The cap rise has done nothing to help this situation. I am expecting Bateman to be announced tomorrow afternoon.

I think the Tigers are trying to do an XMAS present/announcement. I think you will see Bateman sign late in next week.

Thanks King. I still think the back row (11-13) is still incredibly light. We are only an injury away from exposing some guys not up to it. We have Papali, Blore and Bateman (maybe). If one of them go down we are looking at: Saukuru and Tuki (couldn't get a run in 2022 when everyone did)...

"IF" the article is correct, AD has a very over inflated opinion of himself.

I expect the Klemmer announcement to be done by Monday.

Woods is not good and worse than when he left with the new rules. However, I feel we are short a prop (depth wise), even if we do sign Klemmer. Woods on a baseline contract would be okay, but not much more than that.

It won't be a trial year though if they sign with other clubs before the season starts. We don't have the luxury of giving these guys 10 rounds and then choosing the 1-2 we want to persist with, as they will sign elsewhere. Knights, Bulldogs, Dolphins are heavily in the market for halves, and a...

Dragons fans seem to have inside mail seem "that Spencer has signed with them".

You can put a line through him. Thats him saying he wants to stay at Melbourne, but he doesn't want to sound too keen as he needs to get the best offer he can etc, and keep Tigers/Dolphins in too increase the offer.

I have heard the Simpkin one about the loan as I believe its been indicated Korisau will be 9 with a plan to use Nu Brown for a short interval as the backup, leaving Simpkin in reserve grade. But I can not get the Leniu one. He knocked back Melbourne and said he wanted to be a panther for life...

The Hollis rumour has been doing the rounds for a couple of weeks. I asked a Parra mate about him and he said he was in their flegg team for half of the year but went MIA after that (probably dropped). Also said he is a good player but just not physical enough.

Need to offer overs for both Leniu and Martin. Staines I am neither here nor there. If Penrith are baulking at 550k for Martin, we need to come in 20-25% more at about $750-800k for him to consider us. (He is not coming for slightly more people) Lenui Korisau Stefano Papaali Blore Martin...

Thoughts on trying to bring HTF down to the Tigers? He has been playing the whole year off the bench. Most weeks has been getting maximum 20 minutes and some weeks barely anything. Surely he can not be keen to stay if they play on keeping Tuilagi and Feldt? Has lightning speed as a winger or...