Fiji club to be tigers feeder club?

[pawsandclaws1]

@LeichhardtTiger :grin:

 

[newtiger]

Next media article will have the Tigers relocating to Fiji.

I would quite enjoy going to Fiji every 2 weeks for our home games.

 

[TheDaBoss]

Next media article will have the Tigers relocating to Fiji.


I would quite enjoy going to Fiji every 2 weeks for our home games.

Titans may as well move to Bali...since they go there every time finals come around

 

[TYGA]

Next media article will have the Tigers relocating to Fiji.


I would quite enjoy going to Fiji every 2 weeks for our home games.

I’d get the Jetstar specials for sure. Watch the game spend a few days on the islands and head back on a Monday.

 

[newtiger]

Next media article will have the Tigers relocating to Fiji.


I would quite enjoy going to Fiji every 2 weeks for our home games.


I’d get the Jetstar specials for sure. Watch the game spend a few days on the islands and head back on a Monday.

Here is a conversation with the wife, “is it okay if I go to the Tigers next home game” yeah no problem.
By the way it’s in Fiji **********.

 

[tony soprano]

Next media article will have the Tigers relocating to Fiji.


I would quite enjoy going to Fiji every 2 weeks for our home games.

Titans may as well move to Bali...since they go there every time finals come around

Like we can talk

 

[Geo]

The Fiji Team will be in Ron Massey

 

[TYGA]

Next media article will have the Tigers relocating to Fiji.


I would quite enjoy going to Fiji every 2 weeks for our home games.


I’d get the Jetstar specials for sure. Watch the game spend a few days on the islands and head back on a Monday.


Here is a conversation with the wife, “is it okay if I go to the Tigers next home game” yeah no problem.
By the way it’s in Fiji **********.

That won’t work the wife and kids will be booking on my credit card.

 

[Demps]

Interesting.
A lot of great Fijian players have came through.

 

[WT2K]

Fiji is a step closer to joining the NRL.

In a major move towards the expansion of the NRL competition into the Pacific Islands, local Fijian team, the Kaiviti Silktails, will field a team in the NSWRL Ron Massey Cup competition next season - with the Cronulla Sharks joining forces with the Silktails.

Beating the Wests Tigers to form an alliance with the Silktails, the Sharks will help develop the next-generation crop of Fijian stars by exposing them to the club’s coaches, training facilities, fields and programs and other key resources.

The Sharks logo will also feature on the Silktails jersey when they debut in the Ron Massey Cup, which sits below the current NSW Canterbury Cup.

The Silktails boast around 80 contracted players including women, a junior academy list and it’s senior men’s team.

The relationship between the Silktails and the Sharks is two-pronged with Cronulla eager to aid the development and open the pathways for a fresh wave of Fijian talent into the NRL, while also having the first opportunity to potentially sign the next Maika Sivo or Semi Radradra.

Fiji have made no secret of their desire to be part of the NRL one day, raising their level of funding towards the growth of the sport locally and in-return, their increased level of professionalism.

An indication of the country’s potential was evident in the Fijian national team’s 44-18 Oceania Cup victory over Samoa earlier this month.

The Sharks and NSWRL chief executive David Trodden will announce the historic partnership at a press conference on Wednesday.

The Ron Massey Cup is a semi-professional development level rugby league competition run jointly by the NSWRL and Country Rugby League and is comprised of 13 teams drawn from the Sydney metropolitan area.

As has been the case with the inclusion of the PNG Hunters in the QLD Intrust Super Cup competition, the ultimate goal of including a Fijian side into the Ron Massey Cup is that players from the small island progress to the NSW Canterbury Cup or NRL.

Outstanding Melbourne Storm centre Justin Olam is a product of the Hunters.

In an interview with Triple M last week, NRL chief executive Todd Greenberg forecast the growth and expansion of the game by the arrival of a Fijian side into the NSWRL competition.

“There’s a fair bit of work going on around our board table at the moment (on expansion),’’ Greenberg said.

“It’s not just expansion at the NRL level, and I’ve said this before, whenever you say expansion it’s, ‘more teams, where are you going?’

“But next year we bring Fiji into the NSW competition. We’ve already got PNG in our QLD Cup competition.

“To have NSW as a fully-fledged state competition we need some regional centres to have NSW Cup teams and teams below that.

“So expansion is multifaceted, it’s not only at the elite level, it’s also at the level below.’’

(Daily Telegraph)

 

[mike]

Damn & Bugger.

 

[BalmainJnr]

Fiji is a step closer to joining the NRL.

In a major move towards the expansion of the NRL competition into the Pacific Islands, local Fijian team, the Kaiviti Silktails, will field a team in the NSWRL Ron Massey Cup competition next season - with the Cronulla Sharks joining forces with the Silktails.

Beating the Wests Tigers to form an alliance with the Silktails, the Sharks will help develop the next-generation crop of Fijian stars by exposing them to the club’s coaches, training facilities, fields and programs and other key resources.

The Sharks logo will also feature on the Silktails jersey when they debut in the Ron Massey Cup, which sits below the current NSW Canterbury Cup.

The Silktails boast around 80 contracted players including women, a junior academy list and it’s senior men’s team.

The relationship between the Silktails and the Sharks is two-pronged with Cronulla eager to aid the development and open the pathways for a fresh wave of Fijian talent into the NRL, while also having the first opportunity to potentially sign the next Maika Sivo or Semi Radradra.

Fiji have made no secret of their desire to be part of the NRL one day, raising their level of funding towards the growth of the sport locally and in-return, their increased level of professionalism.

An indication of the country’s potential was evident in the Fijian national team’s 44-18 Oceania Cup victory over Samoa earlier this month.

The Sharks and NSWRL chief executive David Trodden will announce the historic partnership at a press conference on Wednesday.

The Ron Massey Cup is a semi-professional development level rugby league competition run jointly by the NSWRL and Country Rugby League and is comprised of 13 teams drawn from the Sydney metropolitan area.

As has been the case with the inclusion of the PNG Hunters in the QLD Intrust Super Cup competition, the ultimate goal of including a Fijian side into the Ron Massey Cup is that players from the small island progress to the NSW Canterbury Cup or NRL.

Outstanding Melbourne Storm centre Justin Olam is a product of the Hunters.

In an interview with Triple M last week, NRL chief executive Todd Greenberg forecast the growth and expansion of the game by the arrival of a Fijian side into the NSWRL competition.

“There’s a fair bit of work going on around our board table at the moment (on expansion),’’ Greenberg said.

“It’s not just expansion at the NRL level, and I’ve said this before, whenever you say expansion it’s, ‘more teams, where are you going?’

“But next year we bring Fiji into the NSW competition. We’ve already got PNG in our QLD Cup competition.

“To have NSW as a fully-fledged state competition we need some regional centres to have NSW Cup teams and teams below that.

“So expansion is multifaceted, it’s not only at the elite level, it’s also at the level below.’’

(Daily Telegraph)

Well that sucks.

 

[2005magic]

Well, what the heck happened? Did WT drag their feet, did NRL HQ delay something, were Sharks competing with WT for this to happen? Seems strange (not to be usurped by Sharks) just that WT were very quiet on this.

 

[jadtiger]

We have certainly missed a golden opportunity here.Very disappointing

 

[happy_tiger]

I knew we should have cheated the cap and got into Dank and the Peptides scandal

Nice guys indeed finish last

 

[TheDaBoss]

thats just depressing


the only way to lighten the mood is a signing

@WestTigersOffical

 

[boonboon]

Actually I don't mind this - would have cost us money and effort that is better spent on developing our own areas and nsw country areas where we have a more natural connection

 

[momo_amp_medo]

Nothing to stop us poaching “good ones”!

 

[old_man_tiger]

Nothing to stop us poaching “good ones”!

Exactly. Let the gummies pay for it out of the medical funds they put aside to help gallen recover from years of drug abuse. Then sign who you like.

Don't care if we never develop another player, as long as we have youth in the system in the lower grades.

 

[gallagher]

Nothing to stop us poaching “good ones”!

That's the bottom line isn't it. Developing players is a bit old hat.