Collis - Officially GONE

[jirskyr]

Danos » Mon 13 Jul, 2009 6:11 pm
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tiger3 wrote:
My mail is that the Club is not happy about this one…
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Who delivers you're mail? Weren't you the one saying Collis was staying put at the Tigers?

All I'm saying is that it is my understanding the Club were hoping to hold on to him. This was not the situation they wanted. Up until very recently he was staying.

As far as I'm concerned now,it's the very best scenario for him and he deserves the success that will come to him next year. It is absolutely criminal to take on a 16 year old Australian School Boy and then diminish his confidence and game by putting clowns in the halves for the last 3 years. They've done it with Lawerance as well,only he has TNT and not Crab Man outside of him. Like I said, I think Stuart and a different training approach will be just what he needs.

No need to worry about my mail mate,my posty is rock solid! :wink:

Thank you Mrs Collis, you can calm down now.

People have been challenging the management to clean out the playing roster, and now it's happening. Inevitably we are going to lose someone who people are 50/50 about retaining.

I think the sentiment is mostly consistent - good young kid, has not produced in a few seasons but still has potential. Time for someone else to gamble on him and for us to move onto youth prospects. For mine, writing was on the wall the way Ayshford (edit) played and was re-signed during Collis' injury period.

 

[pearce_off]

All clubs operate with a finite resource pool. I would have been happy to keep Collis but he would not have been worth his last contract amount, which would have had a component based on his "potential". He hasn't delivered on that potential for whatever reason. Therefore the club's only rational move would be to pay him a reduced rate. I can understand that would have been a step back for Dean and his only option was to look elsewhere. Completely rational and reasonable behaviour from both the club and the player.
As others have said, I would have been sad if this happened 3 years ago - but I am OK with it now. In the time Dean has had to assert himself, Lawrence has started from scratch and far surpassed him.
If he does fire at the Sharks all well and good - but he was NEVER going to reach his "potential" at the tigers.
For mine he has never played aggressively enough or appeared motivated enough to play first grade.
Despite never being forum favourites, I'll always consider the contributions of Elford and Whaturia to far exceed anything Collis ever gave us.

 

[Defiant]

Seems more and more like a win/win situation.

Most here are happy and the Sharkes fans are overall thrilled with the signing with only a small minority against.

 

[tiger_tigers]

i agree with some …deno was never going to accheive his ambitions at the tigers ...i wish him the best of luck at the sharks and hope he finally becomes the player we all know he is capable of .....

 

[AmericanHistoryX]

All clubs operate with a finite resource pool. I would have been happy to keep Collis but he would not have been worth his last contract amount, which would have had a component based on his "potential". He hasn't delivered on that potential for whatever reason. Therefore the club's only rational move would be to pay him a reduced rate. I can understand that would have been a step back for Dean and his only option was to look elsewhere. Completely rational and reasonable behaviour from both the club and the player.
As others have said, I would have been sad if this happened 3 years ago - but I am OK with it now. In the time Dean has had to assert himself, Lawrence has started from scratch and far surpassed him.
If he does fire at the Sharks all well and good - but he was NEVER going to reach his "potential" at the tigers.
For mine he has never played aggressively enough or appeared motivated enough to play first grade.
Despite never being forum favourites, I'll always consider the contributions of Elford and Whaturia to far exceed anything Collis ever gave us.

Post of the week. :exclamation:

 

[tigergirlz]

Hope the Sharks teach him how to tackle.
Much prefer Ayshford and Lawrence, with a back up utility player.
No great loss in my eyes.

 

[Tigerdale]

best of luck deano…...injury has really hampered his progress, and i get the feeling we never got to see his best.

at the same time, we couldn't really justify paying him bucketloads of cash to keep him, given our salary cap situation.

 

[Liddy]

I wish him the best of luck too….

He didn't really kick on to be the player that we all thought he could be. Might have something to do with the coaching...... :imp: :imp: :imp:

Maybe a change of scenery will do him good.

 

[matty_tiepie]

you watch him have a blinder of a year with the sharks and he will say it was the fresh start i needed

 

[Tigerpete]

you watch him have a blinder of a year with the sharks and he will say it was the fresh start i needed

And i won't be surprised when he does. I'm not convinced that Collis leaving is a good thing. I just hope we don't regret having him slip through the fingers.

 

[Staks]

I have no doubt if he stays injury free he will play for NSW.

Sheens has now lost two "big" centres in Tagive and Collis and replaced them with…........ ?

 

[badger]

Unfortunately here is yet another example of one of our outstanding talents destined to play his best footy with another team, probably against us,after learning his craft at the tigers. There should be a lot of happy so called supporters who did nothing but dump on Morris, Collis, Halateu and Sheens. One to go and there's nothing to whinge about.

 

[Gobbs]

Lawrence will play a dozen Origin games before Collis comes anywhere near to pulling a Sky Blue jersey on. People have got to accept the bloke never managed to make the consistent step up to First Grade. The hype and expectation surrounding him as a junior resulted in him not being able to live up to the promise many believe he had in him. He wasn't the first and won't be the last. As a fan, I was frustrated watching his 77 Games of First Grade, waiting for him to explode, dominate with this supposed class. During this time, I saw Lawrence and now Ayshford exert more brilliance than Collis has ever displayed on the field. I now look forward to the next generation of Centres, hoping they get a chance to impress. The Davis', Pritchard's, Akeripa's and now Daniela joining the current pair of Ayshford and Lawrence. Depth, talent, ability. Let's see it in 2010.

 

[Geo]

I have no doubt if he stays injury free he will play for NSW.

Sheens has now lost two "big" centres in Tagive and Collis and replaced them with…........ ?

Daniela and Tupou…probably at half the cost.......

 

[simonthetiger]

I have no doubt if he stays injury free he will play for NSW.

Sheens has now lost two "big" centres in Tagive and Collis and replaced them with…........ ?

Daniela and Tupou…probably at half the cost.......

Exactly…..but that goes against the "Sheens is a mug" line.

 

[MGB]

Time will tell if it's a good move, really depends on recruitment and how the spare cash is used.
Collis played some good footy but hard to justify a decent salary over the last couple of seasons through a mixture of injury and poor form. I think if he gets a good run without hamstring issues etc. he will become a very good player.

 

[Staks]

I have no doubt if he stays injury free he will play for NSW.

Sheens has now lost two "big" centres in Tagive and Collis and replaced them with…........ ?

Daniela and Tupou…probably at half the cost.......

Daniela is big ?

Tupou is a centre ?

 

[Chadman_s_Ghost]

It's a pity- always liked Collis, even when he was out of form & getting hammered on here.

If he's fit, that big right mitt of his will be slipping passes to a 'flying' Luke Covell out wide a bit next season.

 

[alex]

I have no doubt if he stays injury free he will play for NSW.

Sheens has now lost two "big" centres in Tagive and Collis and replaced them with…........ ?

Ayshford and Daniella

 

[derailed]

I have no doubt if he stays injury free he will play for NSW.

Sheens has now lost two "big" centres in Tagive and Collis and replaced them with…........ ?

Daniela and Tupou…probably at half the cost.......

Daniela is big ?

Tupou is a centre ?

Do you really think we need three centres - Lawerence, Tagive and Collis. If they played on the same team one of them would have to be on the wing anyway so why not sign a big specialist winger to replace them?