Balance

[Snapper]

One of my concerns is the balance .
As we all know Wests Tigers have a very young team. Which makes it very exciting for the future.
At the same time the lack of experience is concerning.
The balance between starting your career, peak of your career and that end of your career seems to be out of balance.
Is a concern for me.
A large amount of our players are young and are in the beginning of their career. At the present this makes it affordable and under the salary cap.
This means all these young players will hit their peak at the same time.
Which will put a lot of pressure on our affordability and salary cap in the future.
I don't know what the answer is maybe I'm just thinking too far ahead.
I just hate losing good quality players to other teams.
IMO

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[stevetiger]

I'm not a fan of experience. It hasn't helped us much in the past.

I think that good players that are on the park (not injured) in the right positions with a good game plan wins games.

 

[littletiger]

Taylor has some sort of plan that we have no idea about…

 

[pHyR3]

i reckon he's front loading a few contracts for this year and maybe 2016 too.

we've lost so many players (especially Blair), signed so few yet the club says we will not be making a purchase for 2015 AND are essentially using our whole cap.

 

[tsjonathan]

I would be very interested to know if the tigers have the most local juniors (Incl Keebra) out of any club in the NRL?

 

[Goose]

I would be very interested to know if the tigers have the most local juniors (Incl Keebra) out of any club in the NRL?

Possibly. It also depends on what is defined as a junior.
Our first choice side would include a number of local juniors and pathway players.
Tedesco (wests)
Noffa (wests)
Lawrence (Wests)
Moses (Tigers)
Brooks (Tigers)
Sue (Wests)
Sironen (Tigers)
Woods (Tigers)
Farah (Debateable Tiger)

Simona and Halatau arrived as young players, but not sure they are juniors? At worst pathway players.

We are strong in the development side of things.

 

[tig_prmz]

I would be very interested to know if the tigers have the most local juniors (Incl Keebra) out of any club in the NRL?

i have never followed NRL juniors so i personally always look at what club they first made their debut- for eg simona/fifita are btown juniors but played their first game at tigers so i consider them our juniors.

 

[happy_tiger]

The balance isn't good , its that simple

 

[cktiger]

The balance isn't good , its that simple

The perfect match - an unbalanced team for unbalanced fans!

 

[Masterton]

The balance isn't good , its that simple

The perfect match - an unbalanced team for unbalanced fans!

As my mate asked after the Bengals got shoved out the playoffs, "Why do we always support teams with so much potential that achieve so little?" I could only suggest it reflected our personality.

 

[InBenjiWeTrust]

I would say it depends, I would take better younger player any day e.g. Moses vs Anasta, Simona vs Lawrence,
Lodge vs Galloway, Santi vs Halatau, Naiqama vs Lulia, Tedesco vs McDonnell.
Furthermore, I would argue that this 'unbalanced' team is much better regardless of experience of the 'older' team.
IMHO, the criteria is not experience, but the quality of a player.
To site Ian C 'if you are good enough, you are old (experienced) enough' :slight_smile:
Go Tigers :sign:

 

[Snapper]

I would say it depends, I would take better younger player any day e.g. Moses vs Anasta, Simona vs Lawrence,
Lodge vs Galloway, Santi vs Halatau, Naiqama vs Lulia, Tedesco vs McDonnell.
Furthermore, I would argue that this 'unbalanced' team is much better regardless of experience of the 'older' team.
IMHO, the criteria is not experience, but the quality of a player.
To site Ian C 'if you are good enough, you are old (experienced) enough' :slight_smile:
Go Tigers :sign:

I agree to a certain point . There is about 19 players at the average age of 19 years old to 21 use old.
19 players and and haven't hit a peek yet.
When they do hit the peak the Price of there contract is going to increase.

22 years old to 24 years old there is 8 players.

That's 27 players you have to fit under the cap.
And be able to afford them.
???

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