David Klemmer #264

[Love_the_WestsTigers]

I don't understand why everyone is basing the reason that Klemmer will come to the WT's based on their friendship

Lots of blokes have been mates before and never played a game together

Tiger torch stated that we've already tabled an offer.
Are you aware?

We've probably tabled 30 offers to different players Demps

We need backrowers and centres , not overpriced props

We need a prop who is value for money who can do a set job every week

Not that I disagree, I reckon you only need 1 rep-level prop and the rest value-priced props, but the offer reported by TT was big, equal to any other at the club currently.

So that would put it beyond just friendship and in the realm of serious $$$.

Last time we expected big things from a big signing we got nothing for the big money we paid

and it sounded something like this "adam Blair"

TBH I'm a big fan of lower grade players and juniors who take the opportunity when presented and make it their own.
They seem more hungry and that's how talent is discovered

SUE is one example, a great example

 

[ricksen]

Anyone watching the game tonight….

Yeah, we don't need front rowers - we need centers and second rowers, LOL

We'll just keep picking Buchanan.....HAHAHAHA

Klemmer would be MASSIVE for us, fully needed IMO.

A rep level second rower would have been far more useful than a rep level prop in that squad today. Even with Grant only playing 20 mins, we still had three middle forwards go well over 100m (Woods, Sue, Ava).
We had no one on the edges to run a good line or even make a half-break.

 

[innsaneink]

Shades of Ben Creagh in Origin tonite

Embarrassing

 

[Tim Sheens]

Shades of Ben Creagh in Origin tonite

Embarrassing

Care to elaborate Ink?

 

[innsaneink]

He smacked Boyd in the mouth and then ran away

 

[tigerap]

Bulldogs have 5 or 6 players on 700k plus a season but yet we can't keep Moses,Tedesco and Brooke's together

What a joke league is becoming

Spot on!…League should manage the salary cap and TPA for all clubs.

 

[happy_tiger]

Bulldogs have 5 or 6 players on 700k plus a season but yet we can't keep Moses,Tedesco and Brooke's together

What a joke league is becoming

Spot on!…League should manage the salary cap and TPA for all clubs.

I'm not sure which players would be on 700 k from the Dogs .

 

[innsaneink]

I guess you missed his [This word has been automatically removed] slap last night hap?

 

[Bengal_Tiger]

In my opinion he's no worth the money, i haven't seen anything yet that makes him a 700k + player.

I would much rather
Matt Gillett 700k+ but wont leave Brisbane or QLD
Or
Tamou for around the same price
Or
Brenton Lawrence + Sio Siua Taukeiaho
Or
Brenton Lawrence + losia Soliola

Also throw in Elijah Taylor if we get him and take chance with Konrad Hurrell if the price is right.

 

[Tigertigertiger]

Straight swap….Lawrence for Cartwright ...seems like a good deal for both clubs

 

[teddy23]

Straight swap….Lawrence for Cartwright ...seems like a good deal for both clubs

I'd love to have Cartwright at the club but it's unfortunate cause it will never happen, Penrith will not let go of this fella and he seems to be very committed to the club as well :bash

 

[teddy23]

Representative forward David Klemmer is set to re-sign with Canterbury on a deal that will keep him at the Bulldogs until at least the end of 2018 NRL season.

Klemmer is one of a host of stars off contract at the end of 2016 at Belmore, including Moses Mbye, Josh Jackson, Greg Eastwood and Tony Williams.

Like most clubs the Bulldogs are negotiating their way through their playing roster for the coming season amid uncertainty as to how much the salary cap will rise over the coming seasons.

Klemmer, who is expected to re-sign by the end of the month, was keen to commit to the club for a longer term, but that uncertainty prevented that.

"We are in deep discussion at the moment, it is going really well, we just have to formalise a couple of things and it should be done," Klemmer told AAP.

"I have secured my future so it is all good. I am settled here, my family loves it and I always wanted to stay."

Klemmer's signing could pave the way for the Bulldogs to put the other pieces of their salary cap puzzle together.

Both Mbye and Jackson are expected to stay, while Williams may be Super League-bound.

Eastwood's preference is to stay with the Bulldogs but he has been linked to a move to St George Illawarra and Melbourne.

In March, Sam Kasiano recommitted to the Bulldogs for three more years.

Klemmer, 22, played all three State of Origin fixtures for NSW last season and is in the frame for a return to the Australian side to for Anzac Test. He played three Tests for the Kangaroos in 2014.

Well…..tbh he was never gonna come here with the club in the mess it is now I guess another player bites the dust.
Maybe make a play for Eastwood???

 

[teddy23]

Representative forward David Klemmer is set to re-sign with Canterbury on a deal that will keep him at the Bulldogs until at least the end of 2018 NRL season.

Klemmer is one of a host of stars off contract at the end of 2016 at Belmore, including Moses Mbye, Josh Jackson, Greg Eastwood and Tony Williams.

Like most clubs the Bulldogs are negotiating their way through their playing roster for the coming season amid uncertainty as to how much the salary cap will rise over the coming seasons.

Klemmer, who is expected to re-sign by the end of the month, was keen to commit to the club for a longer term, but that uncertainty prevented that.

"We are in deep discussion at the moment, it is going really well, we just have to formalise a couple of things and it should be done," Klemmer told AAP.

"I have secured my future so it is all good. I am settled here, my family loves it and I always wanted to stay."

Klemmer's signing could pave the way for the Bulldogs to put the other pieces of their salary cap puzzle together.

Both Mbye and Jackson are expected to stay, while Williams may be Super League-bound.

Eastwood's preference is to stay with the Bulldogs but he has been linked to a move to St George Illawarra and Melbourne.

In March, Sam Kasiano recommitted to the Bulldogs for three more years.

Klemmer, 22, played all three State of Origin fixtures for NSW last season and is in the frame for a return to the Australian side to for Anzac Test. He played three Tests for the Kangaroos in 2014.

Well…..tbh he was never gonna come here with the club in the mess it is now well another player bites the dust.
Maybe make a play for Eastwood??? very underrated player in my opinion

 

[Cultured_Bogan]

I said this ages ago. I know his sister and she said he was happy there and was unlikely to move.

 

[happy_tiger]

I said this ages ago. I know his sister and she said he was happy there and was unlikely to move.

But But But

He is friends with Woods CB , surely that has to count :unamused:

 

[jirskyr]

Well if TigerTorch is right and we had a big contract to offer Klemmer, hopefully that money can still be spent elsewhere.

I am not a fan of overpaying for props, I think you get great mileage out of 1 elite prop plus a bunch of cheaper hard heads.

Now a rep-level centre - that has my interest.

 

[happy_tiger]

Well if TigerTorch is right and we had a big contract to offer Klemmer, hopefully that money can still be spent elsewhere.

I am not a fan of overpaying for props, I think you get great mileage out of 1 elite prop plus a bunch of cheaper hard heads.

Now a rep-level centre - that has my interest.

How many of the rep centres will actually be centres ??

 

[Milky]

Well if TigerTorch is right and we had a big contract to offer Klemmer, hopefully that money can still be spent elsewhere.

I am not a fan of overpaying for props, I think you get great mileage out of 1 elite prop plus a bunch of cheaper hard heads.

Now a rep-level centre - that has my interest.

How many of the rep centres will actually be centres ??

We don't need any backs

Simona/Carr
Naiqama/Nofa

Is a pretty striking backline, what we need to do is completely scratch our 8-17 with the exception of a few players and then we will see results.

Until our forward pack is competing forget the backs, even if we had Mansour on one wing and Izzy on the other, we would still lose.

We have just about the worst forward pack in the game, until tough calls are made and the likes of Halatau and Buchanan are gone wsaid will continue to be dominated.

8\. Woods
9.
10\. Grant
11\. Lawrence
12\. Sue
13.

14\. Ava
15.
16.
17.

The unfilled numbers need to come from outside of the club, at the moment i have seen nothing from Aloai to suggest he is up to it, same with the rest of the players i have left out. Peats and Segeyaro would easily slot into our hooking position but unfortunatley the club is commited to developing juniors and signing 30 year old nuffies.

 

[magpiecol]

Ah, another rumour down the drain.

 

[ricksen]

Well if TigerTorch is right and we had a big contract to offer Klemmer, hopefully that money can still be spent elsewhere.

I am not a fan of overpaying for props, I think you get great mileage out of 1 elite prop plus a bunch of cheaper hard heads.

Now a rep-level centre - that has my interest.

How many of the rep centres will actually be centres ??

We don't need any backs

Simona/Carr
Naiqama/Nofa

Is a pretty striking backline

It really isn't - half of them wouldn't get a run at most other NRL clubs.
That said, I'd rather the money was spent on a backrower or two than a prop.