James Tedesco Signs with Roosters [Official]

[Tim Sheens]

Can you please make up your minds. A poster with 2 posts to his or her credit says his best mate says is done at the Bulldogs. Another says the Roosters.

See X and Y post of Jirksyr above.

 

[happy_tiger]

If Tedesco does leave, is he the highest calibre Tigers player ever to leave? For Balmain, people were filthy on Glenn Morrison and he was really not that standout a footballer, people lamented Tim Brasher's indecision.

For some reason I never really could picture Tedesco in another club's colours, but in hindsight he's threatened to or attempted to leave on both contract renegotiations. Actually Tedesco is one of the worst recent cases for players looking hard at jumping ship each time his contract is up, and the media nonsense that goes around and around.

And if I recall correctly from Farah's last contract, the one that got us in a lot of trouble, we ponied up because Titans came in with such a strong offer… and it hurt us in the long run.

Nobody is replaceable and I look forward to spending the warchest, if that's the way it goes.

Arthur Beetson would probably put up a might good argument

And from the Wests perspective everyone left in the late 70 and early 80's :bawling

 

[everett8]

If Tedesco does leave, is he the highest calibre Tigers player ever to leave? For Balmain, people were filthy on Glenn Morrison and he was really not that standout a footballer, people lamented Tim Brasher's indecision.

For some reason I never really could picture Tedesco in another club's colours, but in hindsight he's threatened to or attempted to leave on both contract renegotiations. Actually Tedesco is one of the worst recent cases for players looking hard at jumping ship each time his contract is up, and the media nonsense that goes around and around.

And if I recall correctly from Farah's last contract, the one that got us in a lot of trouble, we ponied up because Titans came in with such a strong offer… and it hurt us in the long run.

Nobody is replaceable and I look forward to spending the warchest, if that's the way it goes.

Arthur Beetson would probably put up a might good argument

And from the Wests perspective everyone left in the late 70 and early 80's :bawling

Wests lost a lot of players to Manly in the 70's and 80's. Tommy playing in Newtown colours was the hardest. Terry Lamb was a Canterbury junior so he returned home.

 

[GNR4LIFE]

As a Magpie fan in the late 90's it hurt to lose Hodgson to Parra. He was arguably the best player out of both Wests and Balmain at the time the JV was formed, so for him to leave sucked. Good thing he smartened up a few years later and came back home.

 

[Eddie]

Teddy is a very good player.

However lets look at some facts.

He has played 75 of a possible 126 games. So He has missed 51 games.

The only year he played 24 games was 2015 when we came 15th. The year he played the next most was 2013 when he played 19 games and we finished 15th.

Overall as a Tigers player he has been involved in 27 wins and 48 losses.

Reading some of this you would think he has led us to 2 Premierships.

We don't even win at 40% with him in the side.

My point is the sun will come up in the morning if he goes to the Chooks or Dogs.

 

[happy_tiger]

As a Magpie fan in the late 90's it hurt to lose Hodgson to Parra. He was arguably the best player out of both Wests and Balmain at the time the JV was formed, so for him to leave sucked. Good thing he smartened up a few years later and came back home.

I actually think losing Ainscough ,Hill ,Dymock , Wyer ,Britt and Jason Taylor in the mid 90's was far , far worse GNR

We really had the makings of a solid side

 

[kh_canada]

Looks like he has signed with the roosters.

Just been on the phone with one of the major sponsors for the chooks. Dealings through work.

He let me know it's just been done.

He often let's me know what's going on with them and has always been on the money.

I'd imagine informing the sponsors of upcoming signings is every club's first instinct…

Couldn't have said it better :unamused:

 

[Tim Sheens]

As a Magpie fan in the late 90's it hurt to lose Hodgson to Parra. He was arguably the best player out of both Wests and Balmain at the time the JV was formed, so for him to leave sucked. Good thing he smartened up a few years later and came back home.

I actually think losing Ainscough ,Hill ,Dymock , Wyer ,Britt and Jason Taylor in the mid 90's was far , far worse GNR

We really had the makings of a solid side

Axel would probably have been pretty young those several years earlier Happy.

 

[happy_tiger]

At least 50 pages to go until this thread gets to the Tuqiri status from memory

 

[goldcoast_tiger]

Meh, was a win/win dont you agree?

He had to go, i agree. But its funny thinking back to how adament some were that Cleary was our only hope. There was even a thread about how Moses being coached by Cleary at the WC would make him want him here. Well we signed Cleary and two days later Moses asked for a release lol. I think these guys were more loyal to JT than some care to admit, At the very least, they knew they could get away with stringing the club along under him. Not the case with Cleary.

If that's the case, they'd have signed before he was sacked, and just maybe they would have shown some sort of effort on the field for him.some of these blokes were wanting to get off the rickety old bus way before Cleary arrived and started the cleanup

As i said, they probably knew as long as JT was at the helm that they could milk it for as long as they wanted. JT wasn't exactly putting any pressure on them publicly to decide.

youre pretty right there

 

[Telltails]

Looks like he has signed with the roosters.

Just been on the phone with one of the major sponsors for the chooks. Dealings through work.

He let me know it's just been done.

He often let's me know what's going on with them and has always been on the money.

I'd imagine informing the sponsors of upcoming signings is every club's first instinct…

Couldn't have said it better :unamused:

Well sad day if that's the case. Couldnt believe it when we let him go once never thought it would happen twice.

Now up to a journalist to start attacking the bogus salary cap starting at the Roosters. Its like a big joke that everyone just sits back and accepts.

 

[jirskyr]

Teddy is a very good player.

However lets look at some facts.

He has played 75 of a possible 126 games. So He has missed 51 games.

The only year he played 24 games was 2015 when we came 15th. The year he played the next most was 2013 when he played 19 games and we finished 15th.

Overall as a Tigers player he has been involved in 27 wins and 48 losses.

Reading some of this you would think he has led us to 2 Premierships.

We don't even win at 40% with him in the side.

My point is the sun will come up in the morning if he goes to the Chooks or Dogs.

I very much agree, but you know what some people say, about being able to twist stats to suit your argument.

Tedesco also has one of the worst missed-tackle rates of active fullbacks and frankly his positioning still needs work.

In his defence, I would honestly say he's been a difference between actual bad results and potentially super bad results. You get what I mean, of all Tigers players of the last few years he's the main one who can claim to achieving consistent high performance regardless of how bad the team is going.

But I definitely believe we can move on, there is a positive about a clean-out, even of the high-profile players, that we've for so long been a club with a losing culture, and even if you lose big-name players, they are part of that losing culture. Sometimes the best way to fix a culture is to overhaul rather than patch it.

So long as the overhaulers have their heads on straight unlike the idiots who burned the 1999 merger money.

 

[Pawsandclaws]

Teddy is a very good player.

However lets look at some facts.

He has played 75 of a possible 126 games. So He has missed 51 games.

The only year he played 24 games was 2015 when we came 15th. The year he played the next most was 2013 when he played 19 games and we finished 15th.

Overall as a Tigers player he has been involved in 27 wins and 48 losses.

Reading some of this you would think he has led us to 2 Premierships.

We don't even win at 40% with him in the side.

My point is the sun will come up in the morning if he goes to the Chooks or Dogs.

Good facts Eddie. We've made a very good offer to him and if he doesn't like it, move on.

 

[goldcoast_tiger]

also Tedesco is one of the few we have with genuine speed.

 

[gallagher]

There's definitely a defeatist attitude throughout the club. These players moaning that we dont make the 8 instead of getting out there every week and doing something about it only highlights the fact.
I'd rather Woods and Tedesco stay but there's certainly a silver lining if they move on as long as Cleary can secure the right replacements.

 

[ricksen]

And if I recall correctly from Farah's last contract, the one that got us in a lot of trouble, we ponied up because Titans came in with such a strong offer… and it hurt us in the long run.

That was two contracts ago IIRC - back in 2008/9 or so. He was talking alot about wanting success etc., just as the current lot are, and from memory most were in agreement with him.
We then re-signed him under Potter, which was the stitch up deal (Potter wanted two years, old mate Nick Di Girolamo gave him four and a bottle of grange*).

* dramatisation, may not have happened.

 

[Pawsandclaws]

Wasn't the Roosters' offer around $800k per season? Can someone verify what that club is offering?

 

[jirskyr]

We then re-signed him under Potter, which was the stitch up deal (Potter wanted two years, old mate Nick Di Girolamo gave him four and a bottle of grange*).

* dramatisation, may not have happened.

Hahah probably included Sydney Water bill discounts as well.

 

[tig_prmz]

there cannot be any justfication to let teddy leave.

i'd sacrifice 3-4 high calibre players for him to stay.

 

[smoking_gun]

What ever any other club offers it's only gonna be equal to or less than what tigers can offer. Club has done all it can with financial offer as well as bringing in a coach renowned for rebuilding and getting the best out of a bad situation. If I was management I would say sign this week or move along so we can start the next phase with your u.

As been mentioned previously. It's not as if teddy or any of the other 3 have led tigers to any great heights, what's the worst that can happen if they leave? Miss the 8 again? No offence but tigers fans and management really over rate their juniors and a hell bent on local development to the point it's has been the real reason for the teams failures the last half a decade.