OFFICIAL Jarome Luai - #295

TheEnz said:
Jarome has never, nor will he ever, be worth $1.2m playing 6. The idea was that he would come across and move to 7, which was the position he played coming up through the ranks. He had showed glimpses at the panthers when cleary was injured, however that is a side with Yeo in it, who would probably be in the top 10 halves in the comp if he were to play at 7 or 6. At the tigers we needed him to play in the position that would give us the best bang for our buck and that was 6. The only problem with that is in my view you can have a good 7 with a crappy 6, however you cant have a good 6 with a crappy 7, and that's where our house of cards collapses. When i say a good 7 I don't mean Andrew Johns i mean a 7 who does better than an average job steering the ship and getting the attack to the right parts of the field to service the 6. We don't see that from AD (not his style) and we have not really seen it from Madden. Case in point is sexton and burton, burton was selected to play origin based on his last couple of seasons and would chime in with multiple line breaks and trys...now with a crap 7 he is playing like a busted backside. Unless Jerome suddenly becomes a 7 or we get a gun 7 that can organize the attack and set up the 6, than the best we can hope for is what we saw against the raiders where AD and Luai played that hybrid 6 and 7 depending which side the attack was.
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Latu Fainu
 
Leck said:
I understand that money is important, but what about integrity and standing by your word? In the end, you can’t take money to the grave, but your reputation will be etched on your epitaph and in people’s memories.

Unfortunately for me, I’ve lost respect for Jarome.
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The only people who care are a section of the Tigers supporter base. No one else cares or will judge him in a year or two, let alone the life time you seem to be implying. Look, if he was playing the house down, there would be a bigger outcry. But he’s been a borderline failure on the field for us. I can’t think of many games I’ve come away thinking “Luai is an absolute competitor”, yet I say that about Api almost every week. Who cares if he’s not sticking to his word. He’s doing the club a favour.
 
Leck said:
I understand that money is important, but what about integrity and standing by your word? In the end, you can’t take money to the grave, but your reputation will be etched on your epitaph and in people’s memories.

Unfortunately for me, I’ve lost respect for Jarome.
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All you have in this world is your balls and your words, and I don't break them for nobody.
 
GNR4LIFE said:
The only people who care are a section of the Tigers supporter base. No one else cares or will judge him in a year or two, let alone the life time you seem to be implying. Look, if he was playing the house down, there would be a bigger outcry. But he’s been a borderline failure on the field for us. I can’t think of many games I’ve come away thinking “Luai is an absolute competitor”, yet I say that about Api almost every week. Who cares if he’s not sticking to his word. He’s doing the club a favour.
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To some extent, that's true, because he has helped change our culture. However, I would argue that it was Benji not Jarome who has done that. I would even go so far as to say that Api and Twal have both been ‘captain courageous’ so far this year.
 
Leck said:
I understand that money is important, but what about integrity and standing by your word? In the end, you can’t take money to the grave, but your reputation will be etched on your epitaph and in people’s memories.

Unfortunately for me, I’ve lost respect for Jarome.
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You need to realise most of them say what you wanna hear
The game.is riddled with BS.
Just look at that purple mob down south
 
Leck said:
I understand that money is important, but what about integrity and standing by your word? In the end, you can’t take money to the grave, but your reputation will be etched on your epitaph and in people’s memories.

Unfortunately for me, I’ve lost respect for Jarome.
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Tell that to CEos when they tap players who they no longer want to see our their contract to make room for other ones.
Jarome is a four time premiership winner and will give WTs three years. He signed on to a club that was a three time wooden spoon club with a reputation of the worst run club in the league - plenty wouldn't go near us no matter how much we offered.
He has earned opportunities that have come his way.
 
Leck said:
I understand that money is important, but what about integrity and standing by your word? In the end, you can’t take money to the grave, but your reputation will be etched on your epitaph and in people’s memories.

Unfortunately for me, I’ve lost respect for Jarome.
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You cant take money to the grave, but you can feed your 4 children with it. I dont think any different of him. He came to the tigers for money, its only fitting he also leaves for money. Club is in a better place than when he got here. It business. Its life. Move on and enjoy him while we have him. I think his best is yet to come.
 
wstigers11 said:
He’s leaving so who cares. PNG’s problem. We are barely fielding a competitive team right now that’s the issue.
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What matters most now is that he gives the rest of his 18 months remaining at WTs his 110% commitment and not just go thru the motions like he recent weeks
We're still paying his not insignificant salary
 
wstigers11 said:
He’s leaving so who cares. PNG’s problem. We are barely fielding a competitive team right now that’s the issue.
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Luai played some amazing games at Penrith when Clearly was out Luai ran the show Playing fast and direct and straight and I don't understand why he doesn't do it at the Tigers

Dancing across field is an easy get for opposition defence's lines I am very disappointed in it

When he first came into grade I was a massive fan
 
Seasons not over yet and neither is his tenure at the club.

Everyone here will change directions with the prevailing winds like whatever they've spent years moaning about no longer exists. Just like with Adam Doueihi and Alex Twal. We've lost a couple of games with lots of lads out injured. We're in the top 6. The context of our defeat to the Sharks and Storm, 2 great sides, is yet to be seen.

People negging on here will change their tune regardless of what happens with Luai. This is actually the Wests Tigers post-rationalisation forum.
 
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