Andrew Fifita

[everett]

I would love to keep Gibbs as his defence is great. He has got better with age.

I would rather lose Fifita than Woods and let Daniela, Moors, Flanagan and Utai go and convince Payten to retire to free up money for Blair. I would keep Brown as he is developing into a fine player.

A pack with Farah, Blair, Ellis, Galloway, Gibbs, Heightington, Dwyer, Woods, BMM and Fulton is the key to a premiership.

 

[glebe_tiger]

I will be very angry if he leaves

….like many others here no doubt.

 

[Kul]

I'm going to make the assumption that Andrew will try and get a deal with his brother, making it harder for us to keep him.

But still, im not a fan of losing fifita. He has been a great tallent for years both in the NYC and NRL. It's not often that you get gun forwards at such a young age and here we apparently are trying to offload him…

It doesn't make sense, especially if there is other fat that can be cut.
\
\
Posted using RoarFEED

 

[happy_tiger]

Problem that many bottom clubs have is they usually have to pay overs to get gun players to sign with them . Fifita will be the same imo They will end up spending 20% more than other clubs to get his signature and probably offer something to his brother as Kul just mentioned . There is no use in spending more than a young gun is worth to keep him . i think we need to see more consistancy from Fifita to warrant keeping him at this stage if someone offerred $350 k we would be better off letting him go Keep Woods and BMM and get Blair

 

[hybrid_tiger]

I'm going to make the assumption that Andrew will try and get a deal with his brother, making it harder for us to keep him.

But still, im not a fan of losing fifita. He has been a great tallent for years both in the NYC and NRL. It's not often that you get gun forwards at such a young age and here we apparently are trying to offload him…

It doesn't make sense, especially if there is other fat that can be cut.
\
\
Posted using RoarFEED

I doubt the club is trying to offload him.

 

[Goose]

If they offer him $350k, good luck to him, take the money and run…..we would prob offer him half that I'd imagine, I know that you cant put a price on a chance to win a premiership, but..... $175k a year would be a nice price :slight_smile:

 

[cktiger]

Have to agree with Goose.
You never know what's going to happen in your career - injury could put you out early.
Fifita would be crazy to knock back an offer like the one mentioned.
In saying that I hope we can keep him somehow . :slight_smile:

 

[Cultured_Bogan]

If they offer him $350k, good luck to him, take the money and run…..we would prob offer him half that I'd imagine, I know that you cant put a price on a chance to win a premiership, but..... $175k a year would be a nice price :slight_smile:

I think you're bang on there Goose. For a young bloke who is starting to find consistency in all areas of his game, I think anything above $200K is above what he's worth at this point.

Props don't usually mature until their mid 20's and I'm not a huge fan of locking up props in their late teens-early 20's on large sums as it inflates their value once they do mature.

That said, I don't want to lose him as he is a fantastic young prospect along with Woods and BMM. But if it means losing him to big bucks in order to retain a number of other promising youngsters, I know where I'd be laying my cash.

 

[Lisa]

Fifita or Gibbs?

 

[tigerbenji]

I dont know if fifita is playing all that well, like a few others @ the moment, but if he can get $350,000 i would tell him to take it . He is a very good prospect but not worth that amount of money @ this stage of his career. But would like to see him stay.

 

[hybrid_tiger]

IMO his defense and work rate has improved out of sight this year. He looks fit, is playing much longer minutes and is often making three tackles a set at times.

However his attack seems to have suffered as a result, he is just not having the impact with ball in hand that he should.

 

[Cultured_Bogan]

IMO his defense and work rate has improved out of sight this year. He looks fit, is playing much longer minutes and is often making three tackles a set at times.

However his attack seems to have suffered as a result, he is just not having the impact with ball in hand that he should.

I said this last week, as his defence has improved, he appears to crabwalk and rely on the fend as a weapon.

He needs to hit the line and hit it at speed like Dwyer.

 

[happy_tiger]

IMO his defense and work rate has improved out of sight this year. He looks fit, is playing much longer minutes and is often making three tackles a set at times.

However his attack seems to have suffered as a result, he is just not having the impact with ball in hand that he should.

I said this last week, as his defence has improved, he appears to crabwalk and rely on the fend as a weapon.

He needs to hit the line and hit it at speed like Dwyer.

Unlike Dwyer he needs to have much better ball security though

 

[westTAHger]

maybe the opposition are much more wary of him this year, and are beginning to handle him better, limit the metres he makes.
run straight, run hard, run at speed, then see how opponents cope with that.

 

[angeman]

i prefer fifita coming in after 15-20 minutes when galloway comes off. just to keep the momentum going and because fifita's strength is fending and breaking the line whereas in the first part of the game it is more of a traditional prop (gibbs) role

 

[supercoach]

Last night you would not have known he was on the field, his first stint was just non existent

 

[Demps]

Rate him high and hope he gets a good deal that keeps him at the club long term.
I see him in the future plans, hope the coach and such feel the same way.
He will get offers thrown at him from everywhere so hopefully he genuinely wants to stay with the tigers.

 

[Guest]

He needs to take a look at Galloways running game in so far as big Keith hits the line and keeps moving forward, Fifita has to start using his legs more and trying to drive forward in attack while bringing the ball out of the Tigers half. The fend is a great weapon to have when isolating a player one on one, but all too often Fifita has 3 blokes hitting him at once.

While it was his defence which I was critical of last year, he's really worked hard on bringing it up to speed this season, he just needs to find a better balance with his running game.

 

[Eddie]

Might be time for a stint back on the bench to increase his effectiveness. I wouldn't expect miricles from young forwards. Took Galloway about 5 or 6 years in the grade to become a consistent starter. We showed paitence there and eventually it materialised. Fifita for mine would be better used in short burts off the bench. He is just struggling with the week in week out grind which is no surprise for a young forward in his second season

 

[Vicious]

Potentially a very good footballer and he`s shown plenty of glimpses of what he can do throughout this season. Back when he was playing u/20`s he got deep and steamed onto the football, was virtually uncontrollable and would have run through brick walls. Last night the way he was running the football he would not have broken through the banner they had for Farah`s 150th game!