OFFICIAL Apisai Koroisau #263

[Nelson]

Official 3 year deal with Ivan, not great cap management from Ivan though, they already have 2 or 3 hookers

Katoa is off contract and presumably won't be re-signed after this. They needed an upgrade at hooker, it's been a weakness there for a while.


I may be biased, but my mates son plays hooker at Penrith, and is signed past this year. He goes alright, I actually think their attack looks better when he plays.

Is that Wayde Egan? He definitely goes alright but he's not an 80 minute prospect at his age and I imagine he and Koroisau will both have a spot in the 17. Koroisau can play 80 but he'd be more effective and less likely to get injured if he's playing 50-60 minutes a week. Egan gives pretty good service but Koroisau can spark attack in his own right and Penrith probably need some focus taken off Cleary.

 

[Spud_Murphy]

Just caught up with NRL 360 and Pooper stated Api Koroisau will be signing with the Dogs for 3 years announced this week...

:face_with_rolling_eyes: :thinking_face: :flushed:

Hmmmm...Bulldog, Panther? I can see the likeness ?

 

[Elderslie_Tiger]

@Spud_Murphy
Someone should tell Appi that Ivans a bus not a coach

 

[AnotherOne]

Someone should tell Appi that Ivans a bus not a coach

Not a bus....a fraud

 

[Jimmy]

Far out I was hyped for the doggies...their spin would have been great....Ivan ruining other teams not just us

 

[851]

Official 3 year deal with Ivan, not great cap management from Ivan though, they already have 2 or 3 hookers

Katoa is off contract and presumably won't be re-signed after this. They needed an upgrade at hooker, it's been a weakness there for a while.


I may be biased, but my mates son plays hooker at Penrith, and is signed past this year. He goes alright, I actually think their attack looks better when he plays.

Is that Wayde Egan? He definitely goes alright but he's not an 80 minute prospect at his age and I imagine he and Koroisau will both have a spot in the 17. Koroisau can play 80 but he'd be more effective and less likely to get injured if he's playing 50-60 minutes a week. Egan gives pretty good service but Koroisau can spark attack in his own right and Penrith probably need some focus taken off Cleary.

Yeh sorry mate forgot to mention his name, but you are right it is Wayde, they also have Kenny.

 

[Snake]

I get the feeling the club is building for long term goals , hence not over paying for another older type that is injury prone ...glad he is getting on the Panthers bus !

 

[TYGA]

I can tell you as a fact the Bulldogs had penciled in Api and Ese Ese. I was at an event at Belmore and they were telling everyone the deal was done a week ago. Panthers must have paid big as the dogs were offering 500k.

Contracts are strange in the NRL clubs with space and cash seem to miss out more than any other sport in the world .

 

[Tigerboy]

@TYGA grab Ese’Ese

 

[jirskyr]

I can tell you as a fact the Bulldogs had penciled in Api and Ese Ese. I was at an event at Belmore and they were telling everyone the deal was done a week ago. Panthers must have paid big as the dogs were offering 500k.

Contracts are strange in the NRL clubs with space and cash seem to miss out more than any other sport in the world .

Old Bulldogs have had a bad run lately of getting new players up to the line and failing to get them across, and for those almost-deals becoming public knowledge.

 

[WT2K]

Wests Tigers are pleased to announce that representative hooker and dual premiership winner Apisai Koroisau has agreed to join the club from the start of the 2023 NRL season.



The 29-year-old Koroisau — who is contracted with the Penrith Panthers for the 2022 campaign — has signed with Wests Tigers on a two-year deal with a mutual option for the third season.

A Berala Bears junior, Koroisau made his NRL debut for the South Sydney Rabbitohs in 2014, going on to win the Grand Final later that season.

The talented dummy-half has played 145 NRL games across eight seasons with the Rabbitohs, Panthers and Sea Eagles, and was an instrumental piece in Penrith’s premiership success in 2021.

On top of winning two grand finals across his career, Koroisau has played at the highest level in rugby league — featuring in 13 Tests for Fiji before making his State of Origin debut for New South Wales earlier this year.

Wests Tigers Director of Football Tim Sheens said he was thrilled to see Koroisau sign on with Wests Tigers ahead of the 2023 season.

“We’re very pleased to have secured Apisai from the start of the 2023 season,” Sheens said. “He not only adds a further level of experience in a key position of the spine, but he has shown himself to be successful alongside Head Coach Michael Maguire previously in his career.

“It is always a big positive to sign a player with international and State of Origin experience, and what Apisai has achieved at both club and representative level will be a great addition to what we are building here.”

“On behalf of everyone at Wests Tigers, I’d like to share how pleased we are to have signed Koroisau from the start of 2023,” Wests Tigers CEO Justin Pascoe added.

“He will join us with a wealth of experience to his name, having represented Fiji on the international stage and the Blues in State of Origin, and we look forward to him and adding plenty to our club in the coming years.”

 

[WT2K]

Fantastic signing. Well done WT.

 

[Demps]

🔥🔥🔥

2023, top 8 season.

 

[TillLindemann]

🔥🔥🔥

2023, top 8 season.

Better than that brother!

 

[TheDaBoss]


@PenrithPanthers

 

[swag_tiger]

Papali'i and now Api, Sheens hasn't sat down and waited recruitment wise. Add the re-signing of Twal to that and it's great recruiting so far.

 

[Demps]

Stefano extended next plz.

🙏

 

[Coastie_Tiger]

Berala bears junior didnt know that my local club as a kid.

 

[aturkey]

These last few weeks we have had some of our best recruitment in 10 years. Imagine not wanting Sheens at the club lol

 

[TCL]

Great signing. I think? I don’t know why but I am not as excited as a think I should be.