Brenden Santi [Discussion]

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might've been that we picked lovett over santi

we will soon even see other players like rudolph, rowe etc. leave the club in pursuit of a top 25 contract imo.
 
Real shame to see him go… He also stated that Brook's and Moses to re-sign which is obviously the silver-lining.
 
Don't see why we couldn't have kept him especially with benji gone? I mean, aysh is gone, miller, pettybourne i assume utai and lote too. Not to mention moltz whom simona inadvertently confirmed.

Oh well, maybe he didn't like the club or the eels went super overboard and we didn't want to risk it on an unproven player which is fair.
 
good young player from what i have heard we offered him 70000 but eels offered him 100000 and they told him he will be playing first grade next year i just hope we sign moses and brooks
 
@greektiger said:
good young player from what i have heard we offered him 70000 but eels offered him 100000 and they told him he will be playing first grade next year i just hope we sign moses and brooks
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If that's true then that doesn't seem like overs.

He'd also be a shoe in for the Parramatta First grade team as well - no doubt - however he'd be a big fish in a small and polluted pond.
 
@underdog said:
@greektiger said:
good young player from what i have heard we offered him 70000 but eels offered him 100000 and they told him he will be playing first grade next year i just hope we sign moses and brooks

If that's true then that doesn't seem like overs.

He'd also be a shoe in for the Parramatta First grade team as well - no doubt - however he'd be a big fish in a small and polluted pond.
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I dunno about these 'I heard…' stories.

100k isn't overs, but it's about what he's currently worth given he's completely unproven at NRL level. People often overestimate salaries, if you believed em all half the clubs would be about a million over the cap.
 
IF this is true I wouldn't be too upset.

The Eels will have paid massive overs as they have failed to recruit anybody in the top tier of players and as such focused on cherry picking where they could from others mid level (Norman) and juniors (Santi)

Add in it is a great possibility he walks straight into their 17 in Round 1 and it is a tempting offer for a young fellow.

Personally for the Wests Tigers needs and what we have I would prefer to see the retention of Fiagatusa to convert into a lock forward and rotate with Sue over the next year or so. He handled the State Cup transition far better last year then Santi did this season.

Wait for confirmation though
 
You would imagine the Eels have offered way over market value, or he figures he has a much better chance of cracking the NRL at parra. I thought he looked like a real work horse but really I never saw him as a skillful player. Anyway never like to see us let a good young kid slip through our fingers, they usually come back to bite us
 
@azsportza said:
Fox Sports reporter Christian Jantzen has tweeted that Brenden Santi is off to the Eels.

". @TheParraEels have secured 2011 Aust Schoolboys capt @BLJSanti from Wests Tigers. Future 1st grader for sure."

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Horrible to see him go, massive talent.
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We can't keep every junior but yes it does come to bite us.. Players like Matt Ryan, Isaac Liu and sharks guns are all our juniors that we let go and look at them now

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@tig_prmz said:
might've been that we picked lovett over santi

we will soon even see other players like rudolph, rowe etc. leave the club in pursuit of a top 25 contract imo.
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I'm a massive fan of Rowe and Rudolph.. But we gotta sign Joel luani a gun hooker

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it's a shame if this is infact the case. Santi was a player i think we needed basically because of his ability to do the little things. He has a great work rate. However, i can't blame the kid. I suspect he's been lured by the very real prospect of first grade next season. Whereas we could not make such promises. I suspect money won't have been an issue. They may've offered more but i suspect it wasn't a factor in the decision.

The reality is we can't keep them all. There are other decent prospects coming through so Santi's loss will be someone else's gain. Good luck to the kid though.
 
Can't say i'm that dissapointed - yes he has potential but he is a small backrower (95kg and only 181cm). He isn't a Wests Tigers junior having come from bulldogs only last year. He probably wouldn't see much first grade is one of those tackling machine types and would be a fulton replacement but Fulton is here for 3 more years. Reminded me of Matt Hyland who also left for Parra I think and hasnt ever seen first grade. We also have in Lovett and Sue better young backrowers and the couple of blokes from SG Ball - Matt Woods and Tatola, etc

While we have salary cap space - that doesen't mean should pay any more now then they were willing too before or the money is wasted.

Lastly given Parra's history of singings and thier club he is going to the strugglers - I don't remember too many people getting better at the eels

As for the comment above about look at them now - well never heard of Isacc Lui and Matt Ryan is being released by the team that winning the wooden spoon

From the U20s other then those who have resigned I only see Moses, Brooks and the young forwards up from SG Ball as nessecary plus perhaps Hoiter - Rowe hasnt been able to keep his fullback spot and Rudolph the same, i dont even think they make our u20s starting side at full strength
 
Not disappointed, would of liked to keep him but he didn't handle the step up to NSW Cup pretty well and is pretty small.
 
personally from santi's point of view you can see where he is coming from in moving on. at the tigers he probably has sue, fulton, thompson, lovett, murdoch masilla in front of him. at parra i cant see many in front of him so a chance of playing first grade regularly would be the key good on him
 
@Eye Of Da Tiger said:
Our club will always be the target of vultures such as the eels. Great juniors will attract rivals
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Vultures such as the eels? we stole him off the dogs a year or two ago.
 
@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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Besides which I can't recall that many players that left us for the eels?

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