OFFICIAL Jarome Luai - #295

There’s one guy who comes out of all these dramas looking like a million bucks, and that’s Api. Given the way he’s carried this team the last 3 years, the blood, sweat and tears he has expended, if there was one player you could excuse for saying “F this. I’m out,” it’s him. Maybe he’s a masochist. Poor bastard.
Yet...somehow, he still receives a lot of hate from our fans.

The guy is a beast and easily our most incluencial player on the field.
 
It’s been a long time coming.
I haven’t enjoyed his stay with us one bit.
Batman?
Pigs arse.
Great decision by the club.
Cut the dead wood.

Sounds like a Soggy Sao party.
The Art dept at Wests Tigers are busy creating a cutout of Nathan Cleary which will be directed toward the sun on game day - Jerome has been instructed to not move outside that shadow for the entirety of the game. - After reviewing every Penrith game for the past 5 years it has been identified that Jerome gets totally lost once he moves outside this projected shadow.
Apparently there is concern that not enough material can be sourced to recreate an authentic chin.
 
Agreed by who?
WTs and Luai?
Thats all.fine and dandy, still.need another interested party to cough up.almost a mill
Looks like he pockets 300k to terminate the contract, he could sign somewhere for 1 year at 1.2m and be ahead, or for 600k and be behind...sounds like its somewhat of a mutual agreement for him to move on. Assuming nrl 360 are correct....big assumption.
 
We will sign another half.

Can't go into next season with Latu, Doueihi, Madden and Andrews...someone will sit on the bench as backup...we need one more.

Word around is Nikorima...could be a good 14 that can fill halves and hooker.
Wow, Nikorima has been great this year. But Latu has to get first crack at 7.
Nikorima would be coming to play 14 and only starting to cover injuries.

Dolphins would be mad to get rid of him instead of George Williams.
 
Wow, Nikorima has been great this year. But Latu has to get first crack at 7.
Nikorima would be coming to play 14 and only starting to cover injuries.

Dolphins would be mad to get rid of him instead of George Williams.
Yeah I think an experienced half is a good shout. At least he can break the line too.

We saw this year, everyone will get game time when injuries hit, so your depth needs to be first grade standard.

Hooker and backrow need some attention still.
 
Javon Andrew’s has been going alright .. he’s is my choice to step up as 5/8 next season. The question now is do we bring in Latu or keep going with Doueihi at 7 .. ??
Keep Doueihi at 7. Latu and Andrews duke it out for the 6 in the pre season and the best performer gets first shot. Someone will be injured at some point, so they'll be playing eventually.
 
We will sign another half.

Can't go into next season with Latu, Doueihi, Madden and Andrews...someone will sit on the bench as backup...we need one more.

Word around is Nikorima...could be a good 14 that can fill halves and hooker.
Nikorima is so underrated imo, I wouldn’t start him but he’s been super classy as a 2nd fiddle to katoa and as a backup he can create a try, if he signed if honestly be very happy
 
If we get 900k back out of Luai’s money then for me this will be the best negotiation of a player exit in Tigers history.

Adam Doueihi is an experienced running half with a strong long kicking game. We then have an upcoming running half in Javon. That is balance. Keeping Luai doesn’t make us more balanced - we have ball running halves.

The ball playing half remains the question. We have a solid back up in Madden. Everyone of us wants Latu to show he is the answer and then show it over time.

Either way, we have dealt with a constraint (too much money in 5/8s) now we need to deal with lack of depth and figure out the ball playing half thing.
 
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