OFFICIAL Jarome Luai - #295

stephen said:
Still a long way to go for our club but a few big moments lately seem to indicate we might have finally turned the corner.
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It all starts at the top with a professionally run administration. This is actually how it should be. Seems weird for us to be praising what should be the bare minimum, but thus is the depth of the hole that we are crawling up out of.
 
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watersider said:
Munster is exciting to watch and a great player. Obviously knew what was best for him and stayed at the storm, despite probably having better contracts elsewhere. Not really wanting to talk Munster down or anything, he's great, and the Aus selectors obviously agree with you. I just think given he's older and his play isn't always consistent, along with admitting issues with alcohol, I think you could argue luai is a better option for a big long-term contract.
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Munster was horrible in 2023. He's regressing and 3 years older than Luai. Obviously a big game player and great origin player but I think with Mam and Dearden coming through he doesn't have much longer in the origin arena post-30
 

Let’s celebrate the signing of Jarome Luai with a poem!​

poem = [“The Tigers have signed a new star”, “A five-eighth who’ll go far”, “Luai’s his name”, “And he’s got game”, “He’ll take the Tigers to the top of the bar!”] random.shuffle(poem) for line in poem: print(line) </code>

There you have it! A fun poem to celebrate the signing of Jarome Luai. 🎉🎉🎉
 
watersider said:
Munster is exciting to watch and a great player. Obviously knew what was best for him and stayed at the storm, despite probably having better contracts elsewhere. Not really wanting to talk Munster down or anything, he's great, and the Aus selectors obviously agree with you. I just think given he's older and his play isn't always consistent, along with admitting issues with alcohol, I think you could argue luai is a better option for a big long-term contract.
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Munster was great in origin game 1 but quiet the rest of the series. He was also very poor for Storm most of the year based on the eye test and was underperforming for Australia when they lost to NZ by 30
 
rugbygoated said:
Munster was horrible in 2023. He's regressing and 3 years older than Luai. Obviously a big game player and great origin player but I think with Mam and Dearden coming through he doesn't have much longer in the origin arena post-30
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Beggars can’t be choosers. I’ll take Luai thanks. Imagine being a Saints fan and having to get excited about Ronald Volkman in comparison.
 
Todd Packer said:
Munster won't go down in history at all because he chose the safety of Melbourne over testing himself.
He'll anonymously fade into history once his playing days are done.
Luai has a chance to be remembered forever.
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Exactly. If you can’t get pumped by this, somethings wrong.
 
Luai's comments in the SMH were very interesting. It seems Canterbury were a lot closer to getting him than some of us thought. He talked about his brothers at the club and described Ciraldo as his second father. it'd be interesting to see what the clincher was for him coming to WT. Was it money or something else?
 
Todd Packer said:
Munster won't go down in history at all because he chose the safety of Melbourne over testing himself.
He'll anonymously fade into history once his playing days are done.
Luai has a chance to be remembered forever.
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If Luai succeeds at Tigers, he will be remembered as a better player. To turn this rabble around is one of the great achievements. If Luai fails, his legacy will be tainted and the "nothing without Cleary" statement will be somewhat justified. But what won't change is he's a 3-series origin player (1 win), 3 time premiership winner, played a big part in Samoa to a world cup final (first tier 2 nation in history), and won 2 minor premierships. That is a resume ANY player would be happy to retire with
 
coivtny said:
Luai's comments in the SMH were very interesting. It seems Canterbury were a lot closer to getting him than some of us thought. He talked about his brothers at the club and described Ciraldo as his second father. it'd be interesting to see what the clincher was for him coming to WT. Was it money or something else?
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Of course it was the money. He wasn’t coming here for 800k. It’s naive/ignorant to think otherwise. Was even the first thing he mentioned in the presser. That’s not to say he hasn’t bought into Benji’s vision. He’s for five years. He hasn’t really got a choice.
 
Honestly we had to be prepared to pay overs to get a big name player here, hell we have to pay overs to get a second rate player here. I think he is a huge signing for the club & one we desperately needed, talent attracts talent. He is hopefully the signing that helps us turn the corner & makes other talented players take notice of the club & consider joining us & not just using us to drive their price up.
 
GNR4LIFE said:
Of course it was the money. He wasn’t coming here for 800k. It’s naive/ignorant to think otherwise. Was even the first thing he mentioned in the presser. That’s not to say he hasn’t bought into Benji’s vision. He’s for five years. He hasn’t really got a choice.
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You and I don't know what Canterbury offered but I'll bet it was a lot more than $800k. It may have been close to our offer which would mean money wasn't the deciding factor.
 
coivtny said:
Luai's comments in the SMH were very interesting. It seems Canterbury were a lot closer to getting him than some of us thought. He talked about his brothers at the club and described Ciraldo as his second father. it'd be interesting to see what the clincher was for him coming to WT. Was it money or something else?
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Can only assume by what he said in the PC about wanting to prove himself, if he went to the dogs with Ciraldo and the handful of former Panthers there i guess people would still question whether its him or them.
At least now he is the man he's been handed the keys for 25 and he wants to deliver he seems confident he can deliver thats admirable i guess.
Wouldnt have hurt we offered more how much more thats up for debate but it is still reportedly more.
He wants to stand on his own 2 feet apart from Api he's really got the chance to do that in tigers colours.
 
Coastie_Tiger said:
Can only assume by what he said in the PC about wanting to prove himself, if he went to the dogs with Ciraldo and the handful of former Panthers there i guess people would still question whether its him or them.
At least now he is the man he's been handed the keys for 25 and he wants to deliver he seems confident he can deliver thats admirable i guess.
Wouldnt have hurt we offered more how much more thats up for debate but it is still reportedly more.
He wants to stand on his own 2 feet apart from Api he's really got the chance to do that in tigers colours.
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I think you on the money. I think it was the money and the challenge combined.
 
GNR4LIFE said:
Exactly. If you can’t get pumped by this, somethings wrong.
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Strange game implying people arent pumped because they offer an opinion Munster would have been a bigger name signing.

Nothing to do with levels of excitement for the Luai signing. Thats in your head.
 
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