Connor Watson

[GNR4LIFE]

News just in, despite all this back and forveve

Covfefe.

Covfefe trumps forveve!

SAD!

It's bigly. Absolutely tremendous.

JOBS JOBS JOBS

 

[Tim Sheens]

Oh dear another 50 page thread coming up….

50 pages we have over a year to talk about that one more like 500

Only about four and a half months until we can open talks on November first :slight_smile:

Try end of 2018…N Cleary is contracted till the end of 2019 ...unless the Panthers have already given him permission to negotiate with a view to a release...

Maybe start a N Cleary thread in the lead up...Highly doubt it will come to that...Gus will insure he is locked in well before then..

SG has his years mixed up then.

 

[Fade_To_Black]

I really don't understand how this league is fair at all and it makes me sick.
Teams like us keep developing players to only lose them to the big clubs but it rarely come back the other way. They don't lose players until they are past there time and have to sign with clubs like ours to cash up retirement. E.g is the Sharks win the comp last year and have a great squad however keep signing quality players and resigning heaps of others also. Dugan would not come cheap considering he believes he is worth a million a season. Most clubs lose players after winning a comp but not them.
Roosters are another club - Sign Teddy from us and still manage to resign all there other top quality players without the NRL even thinking something is suss.. Now if they keep Watson that is just another quality player they have. Try and tell me there is NO brown paper bags or partners getting massive paid jobs to work 1 or 2 hours a month somewhere.. Maybe our club need to do this ??

People can call me "sour grapes" and I know our club has been run bad for a while but I am really not enjoying watching the game anymore as its always the same clubs that make the finals.
We all sit on this forum just hoping our club is even in the conversion for a quality player and most times its just there manager using us to lift the price or the size of the Brown Paper bag..

I have said it for a long time now I believe all players should be paid through the NRL and there should be a cap on TPP to players.. Any money over the cap should be put back into facilities and juniors.

I do believe we are on the right track though and have full faith in Coach and CEO..

One thing I'll say about Cronulla, because I do agree about Roosters, but Cronulla have won a comp fairly on the cheap I think, kind of like Tigers did in 2005.

They have guys like Lewis, Gallen coming off contract in the next years.

And Bird having left covers Dugan really.

Cronulla's cheating is more drug related than salary cap.
They were also lucky to have Bird, Holmes etc play at a high level quite quickly in their careers before their asking price skyrocketed. They also had a few ordinary, low-priced players hit their straps ie Feki, Leutele, Prior etc
But they still had some high-end players commanding big salaries last year, they would of been right on the limit if not over it IMO.
The decision to hit the drug cheats with massive, insanely excessive penalties : ie 6-week bans to be served in the pre-season was a big catalyst for the Sharks success. It was the most pathetic punishment imaginable.

Yeah and Tedesco reneged on the Canberra deal.. took less money to stay at the Tigers because he "wanted to play his mates"… no dodgy TPAs at the Tigers... such crap..

Not sure what you are getting at BB.
Tigers couldn't afford to keep Te Maire Martin at our club for a measly $80k because we would've been over the cap so there are definitely no dodgy TPA's at our club unfortunately.

 

[Geo]

One thing I'll say about Cronulla, because I do agree about Roosters, but Cronulla have won a comp fairly on the cheap I think, kind of like Tigers did in 2005.

They have guys like Lewis, Gallen coming off contract in the next years.

And Bird having left covers Dugan really.

Cronulla's cheating is more drug related than salary cap.
They were also lucky to have Bird, Holmes etc play at a high level quite quickly in their careers before their asking price skyrocketed. They also had a few ordinary, low-priced players hit their straps ie Feki, Leutele, Prior etc
But they still had some high-end players commanding big salaries last year, they would of been right on the limit if not over it IMO.
The decision to hit the drug cheats with massive, insanely excessive penalties : ie 6-week bans to be served in the pre-season was a big catalyst for the Sharks success. It was the most pathetic punishment imaginable.

Yeah and Tedesco reneged on the Canberra deal.. took less money to stay at the Tigers because he "wanted to play his mates"… no dodgy TPAs at the Tigers... such crap..

Not sure what you are getting at BB.
Tigers couldn't afford to keep Te Maire Martin at our club for a measly $80k because we would've been over the cap so there are definitely no dodgy TPA's at our club unfortunately.

Don't know where you get that…the option for 85K was in our favour...Panthers offered substantially more ..Martin asked for a release..which was granted ...seems the Panthers could afford to keep him either given they released Martin to North Queensland ..sensing a pattern here...

 

[innsaneink]

Someones seeking attention again….oh dear, quick, change the subject

If you don't like it don't read it or comment it. Plenty of other threads for your needless posts.

The irony

 

[HabboTiger]

The Forum will melt down when he re-signs with Penrith.

Guaranteed to happen

 

[05TIGZ]

Someones seeking attention again….oh dear, quick, change the subject

If you don't like it don't read it or comment it. Plenty of other threads for your needless posts.

The irony

You follow smoking gun around like a bad smell. He is not interested, move on.

 

[Fade_To_Black]

Cronulla's cheating is more drug related than salary cap.
They were also lucky to have Bird, Holmes etc play at a high level quite quickly in their careers before their asking price skyrocketed. They also had a few ordinary, low-priced players hit their straps ie Feki, Leutele, Prior etc
But they still had some high-end players commanding big salaries last year, they would of been right on the limit if not over it IMO.
The decision to hit the drug cheats with massive, insanely excessive penalties : ie 6-week bans to be served in the pre-season was a big catalyst for the Sharks success. It was the most pathetic punishment imaginable.

Yeah and Tedesco reneged on the Canberra deal.. took less money to stay at the Tigers because he "wanted to play his mates"… no dodgy TPAs at the Tigers... such crap..

Not sure what you are getting at BB.
Tigers couldn't afford to keep Te Maire Martin at our club for a measly $80k because we would've been over the cap so there are definitely no dodgy TPA's at our club unfortunately.

Don't know where you get that…the option for 85K was in our favour...Panthers offered substantially more ..Martin asked for a release..which was granted ...seems the Panthers could afford to keep him either given they released Martin to North Queensland ..sensing a pattern here...

Thought that was what the gospel was- that WT didn't even have the wiggle room in the cap space to offer TMM minimum wage? You can only go roughly by what you hear I guess

 

[innsaneink]

Someones seeking attention again….oh dear, quick, change the subject

If you don't like it don't read it or comment it. Plenty of other threads for your needless posts.

The irony

You follow smoking gun around like a bad smell. He is not interested, move on.

Do I?
You're assuming, junior… Lol
Please show me where?
Stop following me like a bad smell complaining I'm following someone like a bad smell

The irony... Dopey don't get it

 

[GNR4LIFE]

Someones seeking attention again….oh dear, quick, change the subject

If you don't like it don't read it or comment it. Plenty of other threads for your needless posts.

The irony

You follow smoking gun around like a bad smell. He is not interested, move on.

At the same time you seem to follow Ink around everywhere.

 

[05TIGZ]

If you don't like it don't read it or comment it. Plenty of other threads for your needless posts.

The irony

You follow smoking gun around like a bad smell. He is not interested, move on.

Do I?
You're assuming, junior… Lol
Please show me where?
Stop following me like a bad smell complaining I'm following someone like a bad smell

The irony... Dopey don't get it

You've been raining on his parade the minute he started posting again. If your so jealous, go and find someone who can give you inside info so we can pat you on the back lol. Or even better follow your ex to the roosters, you will be missed as much as he is lol lol lol.

 

[Nucky_Thompson]

The irony

You follow smoking gun around like a bad smell. He is not interested, move on.

Do I?
You're assuming, junior… Lol
Please show me where?
Stop following me like a bad smell complaining I'm following someone like a bad smell

The irony... Dopey don't get it

You've been raining on his parade the minute he started posting again. If your so jealous, go and find someone who can give you inside info so we can pat you on the back lol. Or even better follow your ex to the roosters, you will be missed as much as he is lol lol lol.

Surely people can see smoke gun info is not coming through. His probably just geeing u all up.

 

[underdog]

The irony

You follow smoking gun around like a bad smell. He is not interested, move on.

Do I?
You're assuming, junior… Lol
Please show me where?
Stop following me like a bad smell complaining I'm following someone like a bad smell

The irony... Dopey don't get it

You've been raining on his parade the minute he started posting again. If your so jealous, go and find someone who can give you inside info so we can pat you on the back lol. Or even better follow your ex to the roosters, you will be missed as much as he is lol lol lol.

I like your posts Ink, but have to say, 05TIGZ is 100% correct - you DO take jibes and swipes at SG when you can.

All good though - healthy banter is just that - healthy.

 

[GNR4LIFE]

The Lol lol lol's are back.

 

[GNR4LIFE]

The Lol Lol Lol's are back.

Reminds me of the time a few months ago someone had a pretty infamous meltdown.

http://weststigersforum.com/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=28595&start=54

 

[wonka]

Well look's like Yoss had the inside goss.

 

[GNR4LIFE]

You follow smoking gun around like a bad smell. He is not interested, move on.

Do I?
You're assuming, junior… Lol
Please show me where?
Stop following me like a bad smell complaining I'm following someone like a bad smell

The irony... Dopey don't get it

You've been raining on his parade the minute he started posting again. If your so jealous, go and find someone who can give you inside info so we can pat you on the back lol. Or even better follow your ex to the roosters, you will be missed as much as he is lol lol lol.

Surely people can see smoke gun info is not coming through. His probably just geeing u all up.

I'm not trying to get on the hate wagon, rather giving an honest opinion. To me, his info is no more reliable than other posters who give supposed inside info. By my count I'd say he only has about a 50% strike rate. Tiger Torch will always be the undisputed king of inside info.

 

[earl]

I don't get the negative comments towards Smoking Gun. He has got it right as well. I also don't care who has the best inside info.

Keep the info coming.

 

[Guest]

Cut the crap guys.

 

[innsaneink]

Hes not coming