OFFICIAL Jarome Luai - #295

The_Patriot said:
What role do we think the anti Luai pro Madden camp influenced HBG into this decision.
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None
Weve seen enough..weve got better coming thru
Madden is a back up to the back up..a
Moh said:
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.
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More decent..less self serving..less ego
Luai has instigated his exit as he was exposed as no Batman,and totally outplayed by WTs journeyman in AD on less half his $$
Hes damaging his "brand" by staying and playing half hearted
I applaud Benji for once on making this difficult decision
 
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Red88_Tiger said:
Moses currently gets them up the ladder atm he’s their Batman. Worked well with Luai in origin. Young fullback coming to his time to shine with a good hooker rotation. Fair forward pack.
That’s my reasoning. Also convenient for Luai for the one year
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😵‍💫Parra will get what we are getting from him . Same shit different jersey .. he's not batman or Robin he's the dark shadow
We also have a decent hooker and young fullback and when all fit, a decent forward pack in comparison to Parra.
...Off chops.... IMO
 
HUNT 101 said:
😵‍💫Parra will get what we are getting from him . Same shit different jersey .. he's not batman or Robin he's the dark shadow
We also have a decent hooker and young fullback and when all fit, a decent forward pack in comparison to Parra.
...Off chops.... IMO
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They don’t need Batman. They need robin.
We don’t have a Batman
 
Lukic said:
It has to be one of Latu or Andrews. It would be madness to get Luai off our books just to sign another non-elite guy like Nikorima.
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Yeah 300k for the termination then spending another 6-700k for a replacement, plus an upgrade for Latu doesnt leave much change over from the original 1.2.

Kinda pointless if the point is to strengthen the squad
 
Lukic said:
It has to be one of Latu or Andrews. It would be madness to get Luai off our books just to sign another non-elite guy like Nikorima.
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When I first heard this mentioned I instantly thought it is surely someone just plucking something out of thin air and surely there is no substance to even thinking of signing an ageing 33y.o halve when we have a couple of the most promising halves in the NRL already on our books.
Kodi Nikorima is a very good player and one that has improved at around the 30 years of age mark due to him simplifying and being more confident with his game. Kodi is currently to one of the best halves in the NRL at creating genuine try scoring opportunities when his team is in the red zone and as we all know, that is currently our weakness.
But, as good as he is with his red zone attack, look at who he is working with both on the edges and fullback at the Dolphins compared to who we have?
So I think Kodi’s quality red zone attack is inflated by the quality players around him and if he was to play with us there is a big possibility he too would start struggling with his red zone attack based on much lesser attacking players to work with, although you would assume he would work very well with the likes of Samuela Fainu and Taylan May if they were fit and healthy and maybe Benji is thinking he is the type of attack minded halve to really unlock Jahream Bula ?
Who knows it could be a false rumour, but if true it does have some positives.
Could a potential Latu Fainu and Kodi Nikorima halves pairing have a similar playing style and effect to the Isaaya Katoa and Kodi Nikorima halves pairing ?
For the record I would not sign him, o would put trust in Douehi, Latu, Jock Madden and Javon Andrews to get the job done and not discounting that Josh Schuster could make an impact.
 
Have to laugh at all the HBG haters - they must think some debenture holder is sitting in an office at Wests Ashfield wondering how he can screw over WT again - i know lets tell Luai he can leave - totally laughable. This decision would have been made by the football dept and Shaun M. They whine that the club needs to be run more professionally and more business like and then when the club does just that they whinge and whine again. Luai for the money he is on just hasn't worked and getting him off the books early is a good decision.
 
TigerBurnsy said:
Rumours around is Parra is very interested, makes sense as he combines well with Moses, they do those 1 year deals (pezet) and they are desperate for signings, and at 800/900k they would probs do it
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Yeah i hear parra faves.
Risky 900k deal for them imo...hed be looking towards 28 at the end of next year...which id think hed do here also...the noise about PNGs imminent arrival late next season will be huge
 
Vicious said:
When I first heard this mentioned I instantly thought it is surely someone just plucking something out of thin air and surely there is no substance to even thinking of signing an ageing 33y.o halve when we have a couple of the most promising halves in the NRL already on our books.
Kodi Nikorima is a very good player and one that has improved at around the 30 years of age mark due to him simplifying and being more confident with his game. Kodi is currently to one of the best halves in the NRL at creating genuine try scoring opportunities when his team is in the red zone and as we all know, that is currently our weakness.
But, as good as he is with his red zone attack, look at who he is working with both on the edges and fullback at the Dolphins compared to who we have?
So I think Kodi’s quality red zone attack is inflated by the quality players around him and if he was to play with us there is a big possibility he too would start struggling with his red zone attack based on much lesser attacking players to work with, although you would assume he would work very well with the likes of Samuela Fainu and Taylan May if they were fit and healthy and maybe Benji is thinking he is the type of attack minded halve to really unlock Jahream Bula ?
Who knows it could be a false rumour, but if true it does have some positives.
Could a potential Latu Fainu and Kodi Nikorima halves pairing have a similar playing style and effect to the Isaaya Katoa and Kodi Nikorima halves pairing ?
For the record I would not sign him, o would put trust in Douehi, Latu, Jock Madden and Javon Andrews to get the job done and not discounting that Josh Schuster could make an impact.
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The thing about Nikorima, besides being able to create try scoring opportunities in the red zone, is his ability to play hooker as well as in the halves. Right now Api, who is also aging, is doing it alone. You bring on Nikorima to give Api a rest during a game and you lose nothing. At the moment, the young blokes we have in this position that are being talked up are unproven and Hope is just not a good option at all.

I would take him in a heartbeat at a good price and as long as we can still upgrade Latu and Samuela. We need the experience and depth, what have we got to lose by signing him.
 
Mccarry said:
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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If we can save almost $1m that is so very unlike WTs....sounds too good to be true which we know what that usually means.
Im suss on this figure...PR?
 
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