Addo Carr signs with Storm...

@tigerap said:
As long as we made him an offer I'm happy…he has chosen his destiny...I'm happy for him....

What I am sick of is paying overs to keep/attract players.
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I'm happy for him too.
Paying overs has nothing to do with this but face reality that to get quality players to play for us we need to pay them more… even to get average players to play here we need to.
 
When will people realise the sad and unfortunate truth.
We are a transition club.
A club that young players of potential feel like that have a chance to show their wares only for a better opportunity to come up if they manage to turn their football around.
BB is right,
Think about it people.
The last high profile player we signed was Adam Blair.
Before that we had Ben Teo debut with us and play less than 1 season before signing with Brisbane.
Blake Austin; Played 14 or so first grade games for the Panthers at one stage starting halfback for a series of games until he gets injured the following year plays out that year *2012* in the centres in reserve grade before signed with us.
Martin Taupau: Was the next front-rower off the rank at the bulldogs and was probably happy with plying his trade and earning a spot until the club chose to sign klemmer before his first first grade game to a $1 000 000 dollar 3 yr deal. So he signs with us.
Well we know how Addo Carr has now gone.
But throw in Martin, Seve and Liolevave in the mix.

It is hard, i think the club clings to the local juniors hoping that they will be more loyal.
The problem is they aren't usually the most talented of the bunch.
It's good to see the club is going beyond the usual reach of Keebra Park, Ryde and the South West and looking in the Illawarra and Central Coast was is evident in the NYC coz that bunch are good.

In ways I really respect what the Titans are doing.
And they are travelling well, they really have the sort of team that the Tigers in a similar position would envy. The problem is it is much easier for the Titans to chop and change their roster then us since they don't really have that identity like a Newcastle or us where the fans know every player even before they kick around in lower grades watching them have a blinder against 14yr olds just praying that one day they will play first grade for the same club.
 
Honestly, it is a no brainer:

Stay and be coached JT; or
Go to MELB and be coached by Belamy

He has made the right decision for his future. We need to move on and develop another winger; drop him now, we don't need to be his learning curve, leave that to MELB. Time will tell with JAC.
 
I don't care who the player is (and I rate JAC even though he had a poor game last night) the club has said it made a "very competitive offer" for him to stay for the next few years and I will always support not paying overs. We have seen the club pushed to the brink for this reason and we should only offer what we can afford in the light of the player's experience and value to the team. If another club wants to offer more and the player wants to take it then fine, we can use that money elsewhere; there are plenty of wingers out there looking for a start and there must be one or two good ones amongst them.
 
@sideline eye said:
I don't care who the player is (and I rate JAC even though he had a poor game last night) the club has said it made a "very competitive offer" for him to stay for the next few years and I will always support not paying overs. We have seen the club pushed to the brink for this reason and we should only offer what we can afford in the light of the player's experience and value to the team. If another club wants to offer more and the player wants to take it then fine, we can use that money elsewhere; there are plenty of wingers out there looking for a start and there must be one or two good ones amongst them.
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They more than likely offered him a competitive offer all too late. It would have been then that JAC decided to try and renege on Storm and obviously the Storm have enough balls to stand their ground.
Can't see talent if they tripped over it.
 
sideline eye, ur going on what the club wants u to hear. i hear that Jac wanted to sign for a lot less 2 months ago and was told he could look elsewhere.
 
They must intend to play him otherwise just release him I expect to see him picked a few more weeks yet at least until the possibled and probables are defined one way or another.
 
Disappointing outcome, I thought our club would have been smart enough to realise we have no depth on the wing and no real emerging talent coming through that we could blood for next season. Rankin and Hunt are stop gap solutions at best.
 
We must be the laughing stock of the NRL. We had a chance to snap up a very promising young winger for not a lot of money, who loved the club and we let him walk. It is no wonder this club is on skid road
 
@willow said:
Disappointing outcome, I thought our club would have been smart enough to realise we have no depth on the wing and no real emerging talent coming through that we could blood for next season. Rankin and Hunt are stop gap solutions at best.
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Neither of those 2 are decent wingers and everyone knows it except for the powers that be
 
@sideline eye said:
I don't care who the player is (and I rate JAC even though he had a poor game last night) the club has said it made a "very competitive offer" for him to stay for the next few years and I will always support not paying overs. We have seen the club pushed to the brink for this reason and we should only offer what we can afford in the light of the player's experience and value to the team. If another club wants to offer more and the player wants to take it then fine, we can use that money elsewhere; there are plenty of wingers out there looking for a start and there must be one or two good ones amongst them.
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Yes, the good one's are playing for Storm.
 
I'm at a loss why the club would not try and hang onto the best winger it has. It's not like we have any wingers setting State Cup and NYC alight.

Any decent wingers off contract this season?
 
@willow said:
I'm at a loss why the club would not try and hang onto the best winger it has. It's not like we have any wingers setting State Cup and NYC alight.

Any decent wingers off contract this season?
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Not at the "competitive price" management want to pay, morons
 
@willow said:
I'm at a loss why the club would not try and hang onto the best winger it has. It's not like we have any wingers setting State Cup and NYC alight.

Any decent wingers off contract this season?
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Mansour.

But are we really going to pay overs for a winger? He'd be going for more than 500k
 
Hmm, I'd love to see Mansour at the club but it defies all logic to pay the sort of money he can now command when we could have kept JAC for half of that (probably half anyway).
 
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