Brenden Santi [Discussion]

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Santi looks good in the lower grades, he was brilliant in the under 20's origin game. But I think Sue is better at lock, hope we can lock him up and then get a couple of big strong and fast backrowers to run good lines off Brooks on the fringes.
 
We won't be able to keep everybody we develop. Hopefully we keep the right ones though.

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Santi is excellent. Those comparing to Hyland and Ryan are kidding themselves.
We have so many great juniors we can't keep them all. I'd liked to have kept him though.
Parra would have paid a bit for him, as we wanted him
 
Bloody shame, but with a good crop of juniors we have to expect other teams are going to try and poach some of them. Especially a side like Eels who just cleaned house in a huge way.

Best of luck to him.
 
Mayer said on twitter he was guaranteed a top 25 spot which we could t do and more money then we could offer him. So seems fair enough for us he would have been a nsw cup 2nd tier and on 2nd tier money
 
Would have thought he was on the verge of the top25 squad for 2014 actually. Or getting real close to it.

Maybe he was but the Eels put a bigger cash offer and more of a guarantee for a spot in the 17.

Oh also, Mayer said Spence was offered a top 25 spot by Panthers too.
 
Looks to me like Mayer also confirmed Shaun Spence is going to Penrith but it's hard to understand exactly what he meant.

Grant Mayer ‏@gcmayer 4h
@banksy65 yes. Announced that last week. Guaranteed top 25 on money we could not Match. Dogs junior heading to parra. Can't keep em all.

Jordan Prime ‏@PrimeO 4h
@gcmayer @banksy65 Thats a real shame. Nice Kid can you confirm Shaun Spence heading to penrith ?

Grant Mayer
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@PrimeO @banksy65 we gave it a go to keep santi. won't do overs. Spence also top tier. With young talent coming through, tough calls made.

By saying Spence ALSO top tier I think he means that Spence has also been offered a top tier contract by Penrith and the Tigers aren't matching it. Could be wrong, he could mean that Spence is on our top tier but seems a strange way of putting it either way. He could just come out and say yes or no re: Spence.
 
As for Santi this is not a good move. Santi would have been close to playing NRL this year let alone next year. He'll captain Parramatta by 2016 imo.
 
He'll look good running off Sandow's forward passes.

Many on here have enthusiastically referred to his ability, but when I watched him in the 20's all I saw was a worker like Hyland with some missed tackles in him.

One we would have liked to keep, but I am sure there are plenty of others happy to take his place.
 
I am devastated…he was a future leader at the tigers...seeing him play the last few years he will be a very very good first grader.

People saying he is not a big loss i'm assuming have not watched him much...

But is this still speculation????
 
Watching him in the U20s Origin earlier this year Tigersmurf, he made a number of clean breaks and was very dangerous.
 
@tsjonathan said:
I am devastated…he was a future leader at the tigers...seeing him play the last few years he will be a very very good first grader.

People saying he is not a big loss i'm assuming have not watched him much...

But is this still speculation????
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No, Mayer has confirmed it.
 
Everyone is saying we can't sign everyone

Well we haven't signed everyone , and not even close to it

With Brooks and Moses unsigned still and a few more leaving , we still have a lot of work to do with our retention for 2014 and beyond
 
@pHyR3 said:
@Eye Of Da Tiger said:
Our club will always be the target of vultures such as the eels. Great juniors will attract rivals

Vultures such as the eels? we stole him off the dogs a year or two ago.
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Stole him ? The dogs let him go…and you have to ask why they let him go in the first place.

Now we have let him go..big deal. Good move Mick Potter. We have Sirro and Lovett local juniors coming through that will be our long term backrow. The more local juniors the better.
 
@Irvine said:
@pHyR3 said:
@Eye Of Da Tiger said:
Our club will always be the target of vultures such as the eels. Great juniors will attract rivals

Vultures such as the eels? we stole him off the dogs a year or two ago.

Stole him ? The dogs let him go…and you have to ask why they let him go in the first place.

Now we have let him go..big deal. Good move Mick Potter. We have Sirro and Lovett local juniors coming through that will be our long term backrow. The more local juniors the better.
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Which local juniors mate? We got forwards coming up who were Aussie school boy captains?
 
@tsjonathan said:
@Irvine said:
@pHyR3 said:
@Eye Of Da Tiger said:
Our club will always be the target of vultures such as the eels. Great juniors will attract rivals

Vultures such as the eels? we stole him off the dogs a year or two ago.

Stole him ? The dogs let him go…and you have to ask why they let him go in the first place.

Now we have let him go..big deal. Good move Mick Potter. We have Sirro and Lovett local juniors coming through that will be our long term backrow. The more local juniors the better.

Which local juniors mate? We got forwards coming up who were Aussie school boy captains?
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Big deal Aussie schoolboys..Matt Groat played 2 years running in Aussie schoolboys. A guy by the name of Daniel Irvine was captain and hooker of Australian schoolboys he edged out a guy by the name of Cameron Smith.
The dogs let him go for a reason and now we have.
 
Tigers though wanted to keep Santi. Mayer admitted as much. However with a top 25 contract and the lure of first grade a lot closer at Parra, you can't blame the kid for leaving. In terms of where Santi was with us, if he was close to cracking first grade here, he'd be playing a lot more State Cup than he has been. From that point of view, he'll jump the queue at the Eels and fair enough from his point of view. Good luck to him. Fair to say they could use a player of his attributes.
 
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