Latrell Mitchell Contract Discussion

[Curly_Tiger]

Its being reported everywhere that we've pulled our offer. If we were to sign him now we'd look pretty indecisive. Even though behind the scenes our stance might be justified, it probably wouldn't be good PR to reverse course from here. The more I think about it, the club probably believes he's a 90-95% chance of not coming here, so think that's enough to take this stance.

I'm not sure that'd be the view @GNR4LIFE, you could argue we'd look decisive if our actions here force the issue and we ultimately do get him on something more closely aligned to our terms

 

[TIGER]

Has he signed yet???
Hahaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa
You gullible fools!!!

I told all you fools from the start, players like Latrell Mitchell don't come to the Weststigers.
I really can't believe you actually thought it would happen.

Drone malfunction...

Someone is looking foolish..agreed..

Did you take my drone story seriously?

 

[GNR4LIFE]

Has he signed yet???
Hahaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa
You gullible fools!!!

I told all you fools from the start, players like Latrell Mitchell don't come to the Weststigers.
I really can't believe you actually thought it would happen.

And the Monday morning QB takes the field.

Note: I know you posted this at the beginning of this thread, but you eventually got sucked in like the rest of us. So that high ground your taking is a minor incline.

 

[Geo]

Has he signed yet???
Hahaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa
You gullible fools!!!

I told all you fools from the start, players like Latrell Mitchell don't come to the Weststigers.
I really can't believe you actually thought it would happen.

Drone malfunction...

Someone is looking foolish..agreed..

Did you take my drone story seriously?

Of course not..

 

[bptiger]

what pisses me off must is the time we wasted chasing a player who really didn't want to come. we have missed out on a few players that could define our season ahead. we could have signed tetavano and or capewell that would have made are pack so much stronger. we could have signed lomax as fullback and as a 1st choice kicker, all 3 off them would have made the tigers a much stronger club. but that's just my take. just another point to all those on here who say hold the money for 2021, DO WE PURE DEPRAVE SUPPORTERS REALLY WANT TO WAIT ANOTHER YEAR, I don't, we have the cap now sign what we need and we will have cap space next year to add others players , sick of waiting get it done.

Not one person has suggested we hold the money for 2021. Have a bex and lie down champion.

u want to to go back and learn to read, because there has been a few u want to wait to 2021. really don't get u why do u have to be so rude to people just airing there opinions.

If you think im going to scroll through 200 pages, you're mistaken. And maybe I was rude, but your post was pretty inflammatory to begin with.

inflammatory to who, I was just making a point and I thought we on this site are all pulling for the same outcome, for the tigers to get the best that we can. or is there another agenda, or do u have to be in a click to not get bagged.

 

[Moh]

@THE_POM - did LM cost us Brimson at all?

 

[Moh]

Has he signed yet???
Hahaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa
You gullible fools!!!

I told all you fools from the start, players like Latrell Mitchell don't come to the Weststigers.
I really can't believe you actually thought it would happen.

Drone malfunction...

Someone is looking foolish..agreed..

Did you take my drone story seriously?

I genuinely think some people did, one of the highlights of this thread. And really, a summation of it.

 

[TIGER]

Has he signed yet???
Hahaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa
You gullible fools!!!

I told all you fools from the start, players like Latrell Mitchell don't come to the Weststigers.
I really can't believe you actually thought it would happen.

And the Monday morning QB takes the field.

Note: I know you posted this at the beginning of this thread, but you eventually got sucked in like the rest of us. So that high ground your taking is a minor incline.

Initially I was against signing him, I warmed to the idea yes, but I never thought it would happen.

Latrell will sign with Souths, where he was always going to end up.

 

[BZN]

Geez Avo,
If the pain is that great, why put yourself through it?
You would have to be a masochist.
Move on.

I think you’re right, probably time to move on.

:+1: :fa-smile-o: :+1: :fa-smile-o:

 

[weststigers]

Stupid for not compromising the Club standards they want to achieve…?

what standards are they Geo? Never winning anything, ever? I've followed this club since I was old enough to follow rugby league but i've just about had enough.

Allowing players special treatment over others in the squad we have done that in the past...not a good way to build a winning culture...

As talented as Mitchell may be...if he wasn't the right fit for what we want to build..well next..

FWIW....from what I've been told Mitchell's management had agreed for him to come here ..then wanted changes in the contract ..to which WT weren't prepared to make..at this stage..

We still have interest in Mitchell..

IMO it shows we are going in the right direction...

chin up mate

My question is what club can he actually play for in 2020 if it's not us?

In reality...there would need to be a huge amount of musical chairs for another club to sign him for 2020. Possible, but not probable...

Do you think negotiations can be re-opened or has the comment by Pascoe saying that we've moved on killed off any chances?

It's a serious question...one of the best players in the NRL and he can't get an offer that he'll accept...are we just playing chess?

 

[TIGER]

Has he signed yet???
Hahaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa
You gullible fools!!!

I told all you fools from the start, players like Latrell Mitchell don't come to the Weststigers.
I really can't believe you actually thought it would happen.

Drone malfunction...

Someone is looking foolish..agreed..

Did you take my drone story seriously?

I genuinely think some people did, one of the highlights of this thread. And really, a summation of it.

Well if they did, it's confirmation that people will believe anything if it suits their bias.
Obviously I was just having a laugh at the whole situation.

My constant "has he signed yet" posts were also taking the piss out of everyone hanging on every piece of "news" to come out, I really enjoyed the whole ride.
Reading the stuff posted on here just shows how desperate we are to sign a quality player.

 

[Tiger5150]

Stupid for not compromising the Club standards they want to achieve…?

what standards are they Geo? Never winning anything, ever? I've followed this club since I was old enough to follow rugby league but i've just about had enough.

Allowing players special treatment over others in the squad we have done that in the past...not a good way to build a winning culture...

As talented as Mitchell may be...if he wasn't the right fit for what we want to build..well next..

FWIW....from what I've been told Mitchell's management had agreed for him to come here ..then wanted changes in the contract ..to which WT weren't prepared to make..at this stage..

We still have interest in Mitchell..

IMO it shows we are going in the right direction...

chin up mate

My question is what club can he actually play for in 2020 if it's not us?

In reality...there would need to be a huge amount of musical chairs for another club to sign him for 2020. Possible, but not probable...

Do you think negotiations can be re-opened or has the comment by Pascoe saying that we've moved on killed off any chances?

It's a serious question...one of the best players in the NRL and he can't get an offer that he'll accept...are we just playing chess?

My prediction is that the NRL will drop in at any moment excluding Burgess $$from Souffs cap, Mitchell signs with them and pressures Roosters for release.

 

[Cultured_Bogan]

Disappointing that it has come to this, but realistically Latrell's management has just torpedoed his chance of doubling his wage in 2020. If they were not going to release him to Souths and we're the only club with a serious bid he's basically back to playing reggies for Norths in 2020 for $450K instead of playing FG with Wests for most likely double that.

Hope Latrell tells his management to pull their heads out of their arses.

 

[Cultured_Bogan]

Has he signed yet???
Hahaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa
You gullible fools!!!

I told all you fools from the start, players like Latrell Mitchell don't come to the Weststigers.
I really can't believe you actually thought it would happen.

Drone malfunction...

Someone is looking foolish..agreed..

Did you take my drone story seriously?

I genuinely think some people did, one of the highlights of this thread. And really, a summation of it.

Well if they did, it's confirmation that people will believe anything if it suits their bias.
Obviously I was just having a laugh at the whole situation.

My constant "has he signed yet" posts were also taking the piss out of everyone hanging on every piece of "news" to come out, I really enjoyed the whole ride.
Reading the stuff posted on here just shows how desperate we are to sign a quality player.

You are the first to incessantly whinge that the club is useless and mediocre and never do anything to change our forever 9th situation. They attempt to do so and the whole time you take the pessimistic route and dump on everyone who had hopes that it would come to fruition and that the club might finally be a place that could attract a player of LM's calibre. And then when it does fall through at the 11th hour you piss on the ashes of everyone's flamed out hopes.

Dick move.

 

[Tigerlily]

Its being reported everywhere that we've pulled our offer. If we were to sign him now we'd look pretty indecisive. Even though behind the scenes our stance might be justified, it probably wouldn't be good PR to reverse course from here. The more I think about it, the club probably believes he's a 90-95% chance of not coming here, so think that's enough to take this stance.

LM would also look pretty silly if he suddenly agreed to our terms so I think as POM said it's pretty much ended our chances of signing him

Money makes people do silly things...The way I see it if LM did come back to the table all the negotiating power would be with the WTs.

 

[supercoach]

Mitchell will sign a one year deal with a club for a greatly reduced amount with the promise of another fat contract at the end of the one year deal. He will not be coming to the Tigers now. I say Souths or the Cowboys

 

[TIGER]

Has he signed yet???
Hahaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa
You gullible fools!!!

I told all you fools from the start, players like Latrell Mitchell don't come to the Weststigers.
I really can't believe you actually thought it would happen.

Drone malfunction...

Someone is looking foolish..agreed..

Did you take my drone story seriously?

I genuinely think some people did, one of the highlights of this thread. And really, a summation of it.

Well if they did, it's confirmation that people will believe anything if it suits their bias.
Obviously I was just having a laugh at the whole situation.

My constant "has he signed yet" posts were also taking the piss out of everyone hanging on every piece of "news" to come out, I really enjoyed the whole ride.
Reading the stuff posted on here just shows how desperate we are to sign a quality player.

You are the first to incessantly whinge that the club is useless and mediocre and never do anything to change our forever 9th situation. They attempt to do so and the whole time you take the pessimistic route and dump on everyone who had hopes that it would come to fruition and that the club might finally be a place that could attract a player of LM's calibre. And then when it does fall through at the 11th hour you piss on the ashes of everyone's flamed out hopes.

Dick move.

You don't seem to understand the difference between "hope" and "belief"

I was all for him being a Tiger (after my initial reservations) I was "hoping" we'd sign him.
But I didn't "believe" we would.
Why?

Because players like Latrell don't come to clubs like the Tigers.
if you don't like that fact it's not my fault.

 

[Cultured_Bogan]

Has he signed yet???
Hahaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa
You gullible fools!!!

I told all you fools from the start, players like Latrell Mitchell don't come to the Weststigers.
I really can't believe you actually thought it would happen.

Drone malfunction...

Someone is looking foolish..agreed..

Did you take my drone story seriously?

I genuinely think some people did, one of the highlights of this thread. And really, a summation of it.

Well if they did, it's confirmation that people will believe anything if it suits their bias.
Obviously I was just having a laugh at the whole situation.

My constant "has he signed yet" posts were also taking the piss out of everyone hanging on every piece of "news" to come out, I really enjoyed the whole ride.
Reading the stuff posted on here just shows how desperate we are to sign a quality player.

You are the first to incessantly whinge that the club is useless and mediocre and never do anything to change our forever 9th situation. They attempt to do so and the whole time you take the pessimistic route and dump on everyone who had hopes that it would come to fruition and that the club might finally be a place that could attract a player of LM's calibre. And then when it does fall through at the 11th hour you piss on the ashes of everyone's flamed out hopes.

Dick move.

You don't seem to understand the difference between "hope" and "belief"

I was all for him being a Tiger (after my initial reservations) I was "hoping" we'd sign him.
But I didn't "believe" we would.
Why?

Because players like Latrell don't come to clubs like the Tigers.
if you don't like that fact it's not my fault.

And it would have been fine if you left it at that. But you didn't.

Most of your posts in this thread have offered nothing except for sarcastic posts trying to get a rise out of people with a smattering of your actual opinion on the matter.

 

[Spud_Murphy]

Today's announcement from Pascoe was a shot across the bow at Mitchell's management. Discussions directly involving Latrell himself has been positive & every indication was given he would be joining but since dealing directly with his management that's when the games have started, many at the club believe he's not getting the full story from his management & hence the very public withdrawal today. There's still every chance he could join but the handling of this from his management team has been nothing short of disgusting !

"Since dealing with his management, that's when the games have started"
Who were they dealing with before?

We reached out to his management to arrange a meeting with Latrell which happened discussions where had via phone after between him prior to going on holidays, since we've now only been going through his manager that's when things started going sideways. An agreement was reached last week but since that "verbal" everything has been silent & his manager has in a way blocked any chance of moving forward. A meeting was arranged this week face to face but then got pushed back & then cancelled leading to todays annoucment

in your opinion do you think we'll still sign him, if he gets his managers in line? also any truth to the fox rumor?🙂

No I don't, it's not completely dead in the water but I think that door is closed. Yes JAC is 100% a target but it's a case of what the Storm think. 2 years to go on his contract, find it hard they would let him go easily. Bellamy is a man manager & it's family/personnel reasons he wants to leave Bellamy is the type to find a way to make it work.
Advantage we have is that Addo-Carr loves this club since he was a kid & dreamed of playing alongside Benji


Thanks @THE_POM. Sounds like a frustrating series of events for us. Any idea what our ‘Plan B’ is and who we may turn this bulk of money towards outside of Addo-Carr?

Brimson off the table now, Leilua the only other name that’s sounded fairly solid. Arrow? Frizell? Lomax?
Munster (rumours he’s unhappy at Storm)?

I think a few people in the know had said after the Matto release that the Tigers would come out of this far better off, but I’m yet to see anything to indicate we are and I hope we didn’t pull all our eggs in the LM basket?

Madge has a plan more than a Plan B, Pascoe's efforts to clear salary cap space has been massive & putting us in a really strong position. Leilua is 100% done for 2020 also trying are best to get Musgrove approved & registered for 2020. He's kept himself really fit & would be great to have onboard. Speaking in relation to the bulk amount of $$ for 2020 it's all a massive chess game waiting for the 1st piece to move. Latrell could be that piece just depending on where he goes.

Hi POM, thanks for your info. Sad that our pursuit of one of the games best players had to end like this. It’s very rare that we even get a chance to sign an elite player, but what can you do. Player managers have a bit of a history of stiffing our club, I’m sure everyone is over them.

Just wondering who we might be looking at for a fullback option now Mitchell has fallen through and Brimson re-signed with the Titans. Madge seemed pretty keen on picking up a fullback for next season - could Milford or Moylan come into the the picture again or do you think we might just stick with Thompson at fullback and chase a winger (JAC) instead? It’s great we’re getting Luciano and possibly Musgrove on board but we could still use a bit more spark in our backline.

 

[TheDaBoss]

okay

so even though we have publicly pulled out, of the contract saga


mitchell iis still a chance to come?