David Nofoaluma #164

[Tiggerman]

hello Tigers fans, Souths have expressed interest in signing Nofoaluma as expressed in the news this morning however, it isn’t all gloomy on your guys end. Laurie and Mansour will be heading to you guys this year if Nofoaluma elects to take up the Souths offer, if he does he could potentially be heading there for the 2021 season.

Your team is also interested in signing Dallin Watene-zalezniak from the Bulldogs. He played his best football under Michael Maguire for the Kiwi international side. This signing is most likely for 2022 but nonetheless a good signing.

Not sure letting Nofa go early is worth it to get Mansour and Laurie. We’re getting Laurie in 2022 anyway and Mansour is a downgrade

As for DWZ he did play good under Madge but he’s been pretty average lately, he’s no fullback and not sure he’s that great a winger either

Thanks for the info though

Mansouris not a downgrade David has had ONE good year that is all

Imagine trading a dally m winger of the year for a bloke who’s just turned 30, just so we can get an unproven talent a year early. Mansour is a downgrade on almost every level. But it seems you’re the leader of the Nofoaluma hate club so I’m sure this won’t register with you very well

Who said anything about a trade
If Nofoaluma wants out we can't stop him
All we can do is keep him here to fulfil his contract
And what is the point in this situation of keeping someone here that doesn't want to be here
We should do what we need to to get Laurie here
If it means getting Mansour for 2 years Max on a heavily subsidised deal we still win
If Nofoaluma is on $400'000 this year and we can get Mansour for say $250'000 with kicking in the rest, it's a win win
We get Laurie
We save $150'000
We get Mansour who is no slouch despite what some of you think
He will more than hold his own
And if he is only costing us $250'000 he would be a perfect back up if he doesn't start
For $250'000 he is a perfect depth player
Just think about our wingers of the past in Molten, John Hopoate, Lola Milford, Hassan Saleh, Ahmad Bajouri, Balin Cupples, Robert Miles, Dean Collins, Jason Moodie, Mathew Rieck, Shannon McDonnell, Penrith Tagive, Geoff Daniela, Mitch Brown, Matt Utai, Joel Reddy, Jy Hitchcox, Kevin Naiqama, Delouise Hoeter, Jordan Rankin, Justin Hunt, Mahe Fonoa, Robert Jennings

Just let those names sink in a bit
Then have a reel good think
Is Josh Mansour really that bad
Or are we expecting to much
In my books he is better then all those names listed and probably a few more
Sure his best years may be behind him but he still offers plenty
Some people need to take their blindfolds off
Mansour would still be better now then over 90% of the wingers that have played for this club
A two year deal i think would be a smart deal at $250'000
It leaves us with more $ in the bank if Nofoaluma leaves
That can go towards a Crichton x 2 or Staggs or B Smith or Jahrome Hughes or Cameron McInnes

Regardless of whether Nofa leaves, we do not want nor need Mansour. What a waste of time and money.

I’d rather use AJ, Hoffman or any of our other juniors than commit to a bloke who is well past his prime and just chewing up a spot. The money saved can be used to attract other marquee players.

Surely our management team can see this.

 

[jadtiger]

hello Tigers fans, Souths have expressed interest in signing Nofoaluma as expressed in the news this morning however, it isn’t all gloomy on your guys end. Laurie and Mansour will be heading to you guys this year if Nofoaluma elects to take up the Souths offer, if he does he could potentially be heading there for the 2021 season.

Your team is also interested in signing Dallin Watene-zalezniak from the Bulldogs. He played his best football under Michael Maguire for the Kiwi international side. This signing is most likely for 2022 but nonetheless a good signing.

Not sure letting Nofa go early is worth it to get Mansour and Laurie. We’re getting Laurie in 2022 anyway and Mansour is a downgrade

As for DWZ he did play good under Madge but he’s been pretty average lately, he’s no fullback and not sure he’s that great a winger either

Thanks for the info though

Mansouris not a downgrade David has had ONE good year that is all

Mansour is a definite downgrade - you're kidding yourself to think otherwise.

a state of origin winger and semi final player don't think so

Wasn’t he dropped after one origin game? And making finals requires a good 25 players (at least)

Mansour
Played 7 games for Australia
Played 3 games for NSW
Our David
Played 0 games for Australia
Played 0 games for nsw

You wont be happy till you have booted Noffo out of our club and replaced him with somebody who is not as good.First it was Jennings and now Mansour.

 

[Jedi_Tiger]

hello Tigers fans, Souths have expressed interest in signing Nofoaluma as expressed in the news this morning however, it isn’t all gloomy on your guys end. Laurie and Mansour will be heading to you guys this year if Nofoaluma elects to take up the Souths offer, if he does he could potentially be heading there for the 2021 season.

Your team is also interested in signing Dallin Watene-zalezniak from the Bulldogs. He played his best football under Michael Maguire for the Kiwi international side. This signing is most likely for 2022 but nonetheless a good signing.

Not sure letting Nofa go early is worth it to get Mansour and Laurie. We’re getting Laurie in 2022 anyway and Mansour is a downgrade

As for DWZ he did play good under Madge but he’s been pretty average lately, he’s no fullback and not sure he’s that great a winger either

Thanks for the info though

Mansouris not a downgrade David has had ONE good year that is all

Mansour is a definite downgrade - you're kidding yourself to think otherwise.

a state of origin winger and semi final player don't think so

Wasn’t he dropped after one origin game? And making finals requires a good 25 players (at least)

Mansour
Played 7 games for Australia
Played 3 games for NSW
Our David
Played 0 games for Australia
Played 0 games for nsw



You wont be happy till you have booted Noffo out of our club and replaced him with somebody who is not as good.First it was Jennings and now Mansour.

mate the poster said Mansour played 1 game of state of origin he was incorrect
Mansour is as good as David
if we get Mansour and get Laurie a year early it is a good deal.

 

[Jedi_Tiger]

hello Tigers fans, Souths have expressed interest in signing Nofoaluma as expressed in the news this morning however, it isn’t all gloomy on your guys end. Laurie and Mansour will be heading to you guys this year if Nofoaluma elects to take up the Souths offer, if he does he could potentially be heading there for the 2021 season.

Your team is also interested in signing Dallin Watene-zalezniak from the Bulldogs. He played his best football under Michael Maguire for the Kiwi international side. This signing is most likely for 2022 but nonetheless a good signing.

Not sure letting Nofa go early is worth it to get Mansour and Laurie. We’re getting Laurie in 2022 anyway and Mansour is a downgrade

As for DWZ he did play good under Madge but he’s been pretty average lately, he’s no fullback and not sure he’s that great a winger either

Thanks for the info though

Mansouris not a downgrade David has had ONE good year that is all

Mansour is a definite downgrade - you're kidding yourself to think otherwise.

a state of origin winger and semi final player don't think so

Wasn’t he dropped after one origin game? And making finals requires a good 25 players (at least)

Mansour
Played 7 games for Australia
Played 3 games for NSW
Our David
Played 0 games for Australia
Played 0 games for nsw



You wont be happy till you have booted Noffo out of our club and replaced him with somebody who is not as good.First it was Jennings and now Mansour.

Also happy to not get Mansour if we dont get Laurie early and lose David and run with AJ and or Talau on the wings and save David's money for Crighton Staggs or Brandon Smith

 

[sleeve]

To me its simple.This is what we are willing to pay,take it or leave it.

 

[TigerWest]

Not sure what will happen, but one thing is for sure, Nofo will not be our saviour of the future.

Some say he is loyal, well then why has he continued looking at other options?

I'm OK if he stays or leaves, just make up his damn mind and get on with it.

 

[tony soprano]

What he going to do after football.

You’d think he has more chances of banking all his good will at tigers and would look after him more after football

 

[Goldust]

What he going to do after football.

You’d think he has more chances of banking all his good will at tigers and would look after him more after football

That’s a really good point.
If he is one club player ,he will always be loved here.no doubt he would be given some sort of youth/ambassador role ,as he seems like a pretty friendly dude.

 

[crazycat]

DWZ, is the dogs mbye

Do you realise how hilarious this statement is considering where we picked up Mbye.

Signing Mbye was a mistake, for 750K insane...
However of Reynolds, Packer and Mbye, Mbye has been on the field doing his thing. Not providing 750k of value but providing something! Better then the ZEROS watching the game from the crowd and leaving early. We could have had both Morris twins for 750k..

Anyway old whinges. Considering some are saying Mansour, I would prefer DWZ to Mansour. See no reason to sign a back, particularly a wing with Momo coming back into our squad.



. However,,

 

[Jedi_Tiger]

hello Tigers fans, Souths have expressed interest in signing Nofoaluma as expressed in the news this morning however, it isn’t all gloomy on your guys end. Laurie and Mansour will be heading to you guys this year if Nofoaluma elects to take up the Souths offer, if he does he could potentially be heading there for the 2021 season.

Your team is also interested in signing Dallin Watene-zalezniak from the Bulldogs. He played his best football under Michael Maguire for the Kiwi international side. This signing is most likely for 2022 but nonetheless a good signing.

Not sure letting Nofa go early is worth it to get Mansour and Laurie. We’re getting Laurie in 2022 anyway and Mansour is a downgrade

As for DWZ he did play good under Madge but he’s been pretty average lately, he’s no fullback and not sure he’s that great a winger either

Thanks for the info though

Mansouris not a downgrade David has had ONE good year that is all

Mansour is a definite downgrade - you're kidding yourself to think otherwise.

a state of origin winger and semi final player don't think so

Wasn’t he dropped after one origin game? And making finals requires a good 25 players (at least)

Mansour
Played 7 games for Australia
Played 3 games for NSW
Our David
Played 0 games for Australia
Played 0 games for nsw



You wont be happy till you have booted Noffo out of our club and replaced him with somebody who is not as good.First it was Jennings and now Mansour.

you probably won't be happy until we are paying 600k a year for 4 years to Nofoaluma at this next deal

 

[Telltails]

Clearly there is some interest in Nofa from other clubs. In the end he will look after his best interests I expect the club to do the same. Whether that sees him stay or go I'm ok with either.

 

[Furious1]

Man if this going to Souths stuff is real , we really should have traded Nofa to Melbourne for JAC . I was totally against it , as I thought Nofa deserved to be treated as a top guy and all that that entails . Seriously though , if Nofa did have intentions to go , he should have let us know when we were pursuing JAC. , as he was the one guy that would have got that deal over the line .

What if he didn't want to go?
.

Totally , but from all accounts we didn’t even ask him , as we treated him with the utmost respect . Ok , even from a funds allocation . We offered less than the dogs , in which we could have matched thier offer , as I’m assuming that was because we had funds allocated for Nofa.

That wouldn't have changed our offer, that is not how the club operates.

Wouldn’t it just have been sums though . Ie you want 2 elite wingers of which your willing to commit 600+500 so 1.1mil . If you pay one 700k , and say a mansour type 350k , wouldn’t you theoretically come out exactly the same ?

The idea is to get as many players under value as possible, that does allow you to over spend on some key players that turn your team into a contender. A winger, even JAC, are not the players you over spend on. You use that money on the true elite in the game that are transformational for your team.

Mate I love your passionate support of the club but can you wait until we have some success, maybe make the eight, with this magical strategy before singing about it so much. We’ve won nothing more than a couple of floggings of Brisbane and Canterbury lately.

lol, Just pleased we aren't making the mistakes of the past and over paying people to come here. Look at the mess that created before. JAC very early on had decided that he didn't want to come here.

My big thing is it’s not about the overpayment as much as the people we selected. We went with Mbye, Reynolds, Packer and BJ. Whoever thought those blokes were worth big money was plain wrong, had they overpaid four different players maybe we’re not in such a state.

I agree with that, the issue is if you are overpaying guys like Nofa or even JAC there is no room to move when those right guys become available.

I still won't place BJ is the same category as the others, he does some dumb things but can also turn a game and I expect a much better year from him in 2021, it was also only a 2 year contract so its a lot lower risk gamble than the other were. In saying that that contracts have sunk us for the past 3 years.

It’s all opinions but I think JAC is the type of guy you get value for, he’s no shrinking violet. **BJ on the other hand was horrendous considering his pay packet, I hope he makes up for it a bit this year but I really don’t see it, the guy has as always been an enigma.** Common sense trumps data sometimes.

Time will tell but i think he will have a good year. Pretty sure next year is an option in the clubs favour and he has already come back to training much fitter this year. Last year when he was given the ball early he was destructive but he was nowhere near fit enough to make any long lasting contributions in any games and with lack of fitness comes fatigue and ultimately poor decision making. He has always been a loose cannon, but throw in fatigue, poor form and family issues and it was an explosive mix.

 

[tony soprano]

DWZ, is the dogs mbye

Do you realise how hilarious this statement is considering where we picked up Mbye.

Signing Mbye was a mistake, for 750K insane...
However of Reynolds, Packer and Mbye, Mbye has been on the field doing his thing. Not providing 750k of value but providing something! Better then the ZEROS watching the game from the crowd and leaving early. We could have had both Morris twins for 750k..

Anyway old whinges. Considering some are saying Mansour, I would prefer DWZ to Mansour. See no reason to sign a back, particularly a wing with Momo coming back into our squad.



. However,,

Should of been fullback last year

 

[jadtiger]

hello Tigers fans, Souths have expressed interest in signing Nofoaluma as expressed in the news this morning however, it isn’t all gloomy on your guys end. Laurie and Mansour will be heading to you guys this year if Nofoaluma elects to take up the Souths offer, if he does he could potentially be heading there for the 2021 season.

Your team is also interested in signing Dallin Watene-zalezniak from the Bulldogs. He played his best football under Michael Maguire for the Kiwi international side. This signing is most likely for 2022 but nonetheless a good signing.

Not sure letting Nofa go early is worth it to get Mansour and Laurie. We’re getting Laurie in 2022 anyway and Mansour is a downgrade

As for DWZ he did play good under Madge but he’s been pretty average lately, he’s no fullback and not sure he’s that great a winger either

Thanks for the info though

Mansouris not a downgrade David has had ONE good year that is all

Mansour is a definite downgrade - you're kidding yourself to think otherwise.

a state of origin winger and semi final player don't think so

Wasn’t he dropped after one origin game? And making finals requires a good 25 players (at least)

Mansour
Played 7 games for Australia
Played 3 games for NSW
Our David
Played 0 games for Australia
Played 0 games for nsw



You wont be happy till you have booted Noffo out of our club and replaced him with somebody who is not as good.First it was Jennings and now Mansour.

you probably won't be happy until we are paying 600k a year for 4 years to Nofoaluma at this next deal

Not true,it is just that i dont believe in continualy criticizing one of our players who shows his passion on the field and continually makes more meters on the field than anyone else.
As for his salary 470k-480k would be reasonable for his next 3-4 years.

 

[Mighty_Tiger]

Man if this going to Souths stuff is real , we really should have traded Nofa to Melbourne for JAC . I was totally against it , as I thought Nofa deserved to be treated as a top guy and all that that entails . Seriously though , if Nofa did have intentions to go , he should have let us know when we were pursuing JAC. , as he was the one guy that would have got that deal over the line .

What if he didn't want to go?

you do what claery has done with Mansour that being your time in first grade will be limited he would have gone to Melbourne then and we would have had JAC

OMG you don’t get things at times.
We trade for JAC and he wouldn’t be here past 2021 either way. He didn’t want to come here anyway.
Very smart forcing a player who wants to be here to reserves to try and get a player who doesn’t.

What a great message to send to players & sure way to ensure no one comes here unless you pay well overs.....

That’s what you call dumb business

 

[Mighty_Tiger]

hello Tigers fans, Souths have expressed interest in signing Nofoaluma as expressed in the news this morning however, it isn’t all gloomy on your guys end. Laurie and Mansour will be heading to you guys this year if Nofoaluma elects to take up the Souths offer, if he does he could potentially be heading there for the 2021 season.

Your team is also interested in signing Dallin Watene-zalezniak from the Bulldogs. He played his best football under Michael Maguire for the Kiwi international side. This signing is most likely for 2022 but nonetheless a good signing.

Not sure letting Nofa go early is worth it to get Mansour and Laurie. We’re getting Laurie in 2022 anyway and Mansour is a downgrade

As for DWZ he did play good under Madge but he’s been pretty average lately, he’s no fullback and not sure he’s that great a winger either

Thanks for the info though

Mansouris not a downgrade David has had ONE good year that is all

Mansour is a definite downgrade - you're kidding yourself to think otherwise.

a state of origin winger and semi final player don't think so

Wasn’t he dropped after one origin game? And making finals requires a good 25 players (at least)

Mansour
Played 7 games for Australia
Played 3 games for NSW
Our David
Played 0 games for Australia
Played 0 games for nsw



You wont be happy till you have booted Noffo out of our club and replaced him with somebody who is not as good.First it was Jennings and now Mansour.

mate the poster said Mansour played 1 game of state of origin he was incorrect
Mansour is as good as David
if we get Mansour and get Laurie a year early it is a good deal.

You have had an agenda re Noffo for a long time, you don’t like him. That’s fine everyone is allowed to voice their opinion, just own it.

 

[the_third]

hello Tigers fans, Souths have expressed interest in signing Nofoaluma as expressed in the news this morning however, it isn’t all gloomy on your guys end. Laurie and Mansour will be heading to you guys this year if Nofoaluma elects to take up the Souths offer, if he does he could potentially be heading there for the 2021 season.

Your team is also interested in signing Dallin Watene-zalezniak from the Bulldogs. He played his best football under Michael Maguire for the Kiwi international side. This signing is most likely for 2022 but nonetheless a good signing.

Not sure letting Nofa go early is worth it to get Mansour and Laurie. We’re getting Laurie in 2022 anyway and Mansour is a downgrade

As for DWZ he did play good under Madge but he’s been pretty average lately, he’s no fullback and not sure he’s that great a winger either

Thanks for the info though

Mansouris not a downgrade David has had ONE good year that is all

Mansour is a definite downgrade - you're kidding yourself to think otherwise.

a state of origin winger and semi final player don't think so

Wasn’t he dropped after one origin game? And making finals requires a good 25 players (at least)

Mansour
Played 7 games for Australia
Played 3 games for NSW
Our David
Played 0 games for Australia
Played 0 games for nsw

If we were looking at mansour 3-5 years ago it would be different.

His last game for Australia 2017, last for nsw 2016.

He’s certainly not that player now.

 

[jadtiger]

hello Tigers fans, Souths have expressed interest in signing Nofoaluma as expressed in the news this morning however, it isn’t all gloomy on your guys end. Laurie and Mansour will be heading to you guys this year if Nofoaluma elects to take up the Souths offer, if he does he could potentially be heading there for the 2021 season.

Your team is also interested in signing Dallin Watene-zalezniak from the Bulldogs. He played his best football under Michael Maguire for the Kiwi international side. This signing is most likely for 2022 but nonetheless a good signing.

Not sure letting Nofa go early is worth it to get Mansour and Laurie. We’re getting Laurie in 2022 anyway and Mansour is a downgrade

As for DWZ he did play good under Madge but he’s been pretty average lately, he’s no fullback and not sure he’s that great a winger either

Thanks for the info though

Mansouris not a downgrade David has had ONE good year that is all

Mansour is a definite downgrade - you're kidding yourself to think otherwise.

a state of origin winger and semi final player don't think so

Wasn’t he dropped after one origin game? And making finals requires a good 25 players (at least)

Mansour
Played 7 games for Australia
Played 3 games for NSW
Our David
Played 0 games for Australia
Played 0 games for nsw

If we were looking at mansour 3-5 years ago it would be different.

His last game for Australia 2017, last for nsw 2016.

He’s certainly not that player now.

Its almost Anasta like in signing Mansour

 

[Jedi_Tiger]

hello Tigers fans, Souths have expressed interest in signing Nofoaluma as expressed in the news this morning however, it isn’t all gloomy on your guys end. Laurie and Mansour will be heading to you guys this year if Nofoaluma elects to take up the Souths offer, if he does he could potentially be heading there for the 2021 season.

Your team is also interested in signing Dallin Watene-zalezniak from the Bulldogs. He played his best football under Michael Maguire for the Kiwi international side. This signing is most likely for 2022 but nonetheless a good signing.

Not sure letting Nofa go early is worth it to get Mansour and Laurie. We’re getting Laurie in 2022 anyway and Mansour is a downgrade

As for DWZ he did play good under Madge but he’s been pretty average lately, he’s no fullback and not sure he’s that great a winger either

Thanks for the info though

Mansouris not a downgrade David has had ONE good year that is all

Mansour is a definite downgrade - you're kidding yourself to think otherwise.

a state of origin winger and semi final player don't think so

Wasn’t he dropped after one origin game? And making finals requires a good 25 players (at least)

Mansour
Played 7 games for Australia
Played 3 games for NSW
Our David
Played 0 games for Australia
Played 0 games for nsw



You wont be happy till you have booted Noffo out of our club and replaced him with somebody who is not as good.First it was Jennings and now Mansour.

you probably won't be happy until we are paying 600k a year for 4 years to Nofoaluma at this next deal



Not true,it is just that i dont believe in continualy criticizing one of our players who shows his passion on the field and continually makes more meters on the field than anyone else.
As for his salary 470k-480k would be reasonable for his next 3-4 years.

he does show passion for the club doesn't mean better players with better ability are not out there on the market to buy and doesn't mean we have to pay overs for him.

 

[Speed2burn]

hello Tigers fans, Souths have expressed interest in signing Nofoaluma as expressed in the news this morning however, it isn’t all gloomy on your guys end. Laurie and Mansour will be heading to you guys this year if Nofoaluma elects to take up the Souths offer, if he does he could potentially be heading there for the 2021 season.

Your team is also interested in signing Dallin Watene-zalezniak from the Bulldogs. He played his best football under Michael Maguire for the Kiwi international side. This signing is most likely for 2022 but nonetheless a good signing.

Not sure letting Nofa go early is worth it to get Mansour and Laurie. We’re getting Laurie in 2022 anyway and Mansour is a downgrade

As for DWZ he did play good under Madge but he’s been pretty average lately, he’s no fullback and not sure he’s that great a winger either

Thanks for the info though

Mansouris not a downgrade David has had ONE good year that is all

Mansour is a definite downgrade - you're kidding yourself to think otherwise.

a state of origin winger and semi final player don't think so

Wasn’t he dropped after one origin game? And making finals requires a good 25 players (at least)

Mansour
Played 7 games for Australia
Played 3 games for NSW
Our David
Played 0 games for Australia
Played 0 games for nsw

If we were looking at mansour 3-5 years ago it would be different.

His last game for Australia 2017, last for nsw 2016.

He’s certainly not that player now.


Its almost Anasta like in signing Mansour

I get a J reynolds feeling all over again unfortunately. Just on less money