Latrell Mitchell Contract Discussion

[earl]

But I do think it covers a much bigger issue, which is that we need class players/ elite if we are going to move up.

We need some elite players don't we. I don't know what to do though other than develop them. It's hard to purchase elite players. How many elite players move each season ? We can get the level below elite but in the past we've overpaid these players when we don't have too.

 

[innsaneink]

Well i guess we will find out come monday the 6th of Jan 20, if LM has signed with us or not, as the Tigers are due back to training come monday mid morning .. !!

Really?

 

[swag_tiger]

Heard somewhere Latrell's third party deal may have fell though.

 

[tiger_one]

Heard somewhere Latrell's third party deal may have fell though.

........ third party deal ..... with which club ???

 

[HabboTiger]

Souths .....

 

[cochise]

Just goes to show how shonky some of this stuff is with other clubs … after signing Arrow they claim they cant afford LM, we don’t have enough in our cap to fit him in … a week later LM is about to sign a 3 year deal with them … !! that’s bulldust … let’s hope that the Roosters play hard ball and don’t allow the transfer for this season … and what’s does the NRL think of these types of signings where they can clearly see something is not right about it … nothing … !! Just goes to show that NRL itself is on the take … they allow the stronger clubs to get stronger and don’t care if the weaker clubs get weaker … !!



The NRL isn't on the take. He didn't sign with us because he didn't want to, same with Arrow. Regardless of the rubbish we're force fed, we are not an attractive club. The elite players don't want to play for us.

I still can't see how Souffs are an 'attractive' club... obviously that bonehead Crowe is the lure.
Won the title once this century (same as us) and have a supporter base filled with sycophants and toothless cretins.

Crowe, Bennett and they are the ‘pride of the league’ mate. Don’t you remember the statement from some bozo NRL boss a few years ago that if Souths are winning then rugby league wins? No bias there at all, just pure fact.

Who at the NRL said that?


No one, I got it wrong. It was a journalist and it was something like if South Sydney are going well, then Rugby League is going well. In all the hoo ha that went on at the time I thought one of the league officials said it after Souths we’re reinstated in the comp.

It is an old saying from the 60s, I think you are overreacting.

 

[Compass]

Well i guess we will find out come monday the 6th of Jan 20, if LM has signed with us or not, as the Tigers are due back to training come monday mid morning .. !!

And Easts and Souths return to training then too...big day!

 

[hsvjones]

Well i guess we will find out come monday the 6th of Jan 20, if LM has signed with us or not, as the Tigers are due back to training come monday mid morning .. !!

Not holding my breath on this one... If he turns up on Monday that for be the biggest WTF signing of all time for us.
Someone would of leaked this by now so I have moved on and hope we are focused on bringing JAC back before Souths create more salary cap space from no where..

 

[the_third]

So as I understand if the bunnies have to buy out or compensate roosters for letting Latrell go early it’s in the salary cap. Tigers also offered a mil, so nrl shouldn’t register a contract significantly under that. It looks a tough buy for the bunnies, or a big call by the nrl...

 

[gallagher]

So as I understand if the bunnies have to buy out or compensate roosters for letting Latrell go early it’s in the salary cap. Tigers also offered a mil, so nrl shouldn’t register a contract significantly under that. It looks a tough buy for the bunnies, or a big call by the nrl...

I don't think it works that way. For instance if we offered Brooks $650 to stay and the eels offered him$1mill , the NRL wouldn't have vetoed his contract with us.

 

[OzLuke]

Well i guess we will find out come monday the 6th of Jan 20, if LM has signed with us or not, as the Tigers are due back to training come monday mid morning .. !!

Not holding my breath on this one... If he turns up on Monday that for be the biggest WTF signing of all time for us.
Someone would of leaked this by now so I have moved on and hope we are focused on bringing JAC back before Souths create more salary cap space from no where..

I'd go on record as the biggest wtf signing in the history of rugby league!!!

But you are 100% correct on JAC. I think that is where we should be focusing our attention

 

[Moh]

Agreed, at least JAC wants to be here.

 

[stevied]

I know this has been said before but I think the strategy of building from the bottom, in other words sign a swathe of promising juniors from around the league and develop them patiently is really the way to go for the Tigers. As many have said, we just don't have the drawing power of other clubs to snare the marque players, actually we plain haven't earned any type of drawing power. Nearly all of our star players have come from within, Benji being the classic example. Maybe when we have begun to assemble a talented squad, established a stable coaching and management team we will begin to be attractive to the elite players, who should be signed based on need or an attempt to provide the icing on the cake. By developing players from the junior ranks there is a much better chance of establishing team harmony and avoiding attitudes of entitlement and selfishness. It's a proven recipe. Look at the Storm.

 

[Spud_Murphy]

I know this has been said before but I think the strategy of building from the bottom, in other words sign a swathe of promising juniors from around the league and develop them patiently is really the way to go for the Tigers. As many have said, we just don't have the drawing power of other clubs to snare the marque players, actually we plain haven't earned any type of drawing power. Nearly all of our star players have come from within, Benji being the classic example. Maybe when we have begun to assemble a talented squad, established a stable coaching and management team we will begin to be attractive to the elite players, who should be signed based on need or an attempt to provide the icing on the cake. By developing players from the junior ranks there is a much better chance of establishing team harmony and avoiding attitudes of entitlement and selfishness. **It's a proven recipe. Look at the Storm.**

On the flip side, look at Penrith with arguably the best junior nursery in the NRL - doesn't always work out so well.

 

[stevied]

I know this has been said before but I think the strategy of building from the bottom, in other words sign a swathe of promising juniors from around the league and develop them patiently is really the way to go for the Tigers. As many have said, we just don't have the drawing power of other clubs to snare the marque players, actually we plain haven't earned any type of drawing power. Nearly all of our star players have come from within, Benji being the classic example. Maybe when we have begun to assemble a talented squad, established a stable coaching and management team we will begin to be attractive to the elite players, who should be signed based on need or an attempt to provide the icing on the cake. By developing players from the junior ranks there is a much better chance of establishing team harmony and avoiding attitudes of entitlement and selfishness. **It's a proven recipe. Look at the Storm.**

On the flip side, look at Penrith with arguably the best junior nursery in the NRL - doesn't always work out so well.

You can always look at the negatives. I still stand by this approach. Obviously, there are many factors that combine to make a successful NRL team or club. Penrith is a huge junior nursery, probably the biggest in the league after Brisbane, and they likely haven't reached their potential as sleeping giants.This is because of instability of coaching, difficulty managing contracts and, last year a swathe of injuries. It doesn't alter the fact that, unless you are the Roosters or Souths (or teams that have small junior leagues), you need to build from the ground up. They don't even have to be local juniors anyway. The Tigers are nabbing talented youngsters from other clubs and hoping that a few of them will hit pay dirt. This is the way to go and I think Madge and the Wests management are finally realising this.

 

[TigerWest]

I know this has been said before but I think the strategy of building from the bottom, in other words sign a swathe of promising juniors from around the league and develop them patiently is really the way to go for the Tigers. As many have said, we just don't have the drawing power of other clubs to snare the marque players, actually we plain haven't earned any type of drawing power. Nearly all of our star players have come from within, Benji being the classic example. Maybe when we have begun to assemble a talented squad, established a stable coaching and management team we will begin to be attractive to the elite players, who should be signed based on need or an attempt to provide the icing on the cake. By developing players from the junior ranks there is a much better chance of establishing team harmony and avoiding attitudes of entitlement and selfishness. It's a proven recipe. Look at the Storm.

While it is a nice idea, how many times have we done this, then we get raided by other clubs who offer the kid the chance to play finals footy.
IMO, lets just get into finals footy first (i.e. buy some elite players) then continue to build our base, its been way too long and now we finally have some cash to do it, so lets just do it.

 

[stevied]

I know this has been said before but I think the strategy of building from the bottom, in other words sign a swathe of promising juniors from around the league and develop them patiently is really the way to go for the Tigers. As many have said, we just don't have the drawing power of other clubs to snare the marque players, actually we plain haven't earned any type of drawing power. Nearly all of our star players have come from within, Benji being the classic example. Maybe when we have begun to assemble a talented squad, established a stable coaching and management team we will begin to be attractive to the elite players, who should be signed based on need or an attempt to provide the icing on the cake. By developing players from the junior ranks there is a much better chance of establishing team harmony and avoiding attitudes of entitlement and selfishness. It's a proven recipe. Look at the Storm.

While it is a nice idea, how many times have we done this, then we get raided by other clubs who offer the kid the chance to play finals footy.
IMO, lets just get into finals footy first (i.e. buy some elite players) then continue to build our base, its been way too long and now we finally have some cash to do it, so lets just do it.

Nah, can't agree. For a start, we can't get the elite players and, secondly, we seem to repeatedly pay overs for so called 'top players' who end up being duds. Our 'build from the bottom' plans have failed because we haven't been able to hang on to our young stars. This has been because of poor management, ineffectual coaching and a failure to develop enough good, young players to fill out the roster.

 

[Tcat]

I know this has been said before but I think the strategy of building from the bottom, in other words sign a swathe of promising juniors from around the league and develop them patiently is really the way to go for the Tigers. As many have said, we just don't have the drawing power of other clubs to snare the marque players, actually we plain haven't earned any type of drawing power. Nearly all of our star players have come from within, Benji being the classic example. Maybe when we have begun to assemble a talented squad, established a stable coaching and management team we will begin to be attractive to the elite players, who should be signed based on need or an attempt to provide the icing on the cake. By developing players from the junior ranks there is a much better chance of establishing team harmony and avoiding attitudes of entitlement and selfishness. It's a proven recipe. Look at the Storm.

While it is a nice idea, how many times have we done this, then we get raided by other clubs who offer the kid the chance to play finals footy.
IMO, lets just get into finals footy first (i.e. buy some elite players) then continue to build our base, its been way too long and now we finally have some cash to do it, so lets just do it.

Nah, can't agree. For a start, we can't get the elite players and, secondly, we seem to repeatedly pay overs for so called 'top players' who end up being duds. Our 'build from the bottom' plans have failed because we haven't been able to hang on to our young stars. This has been because of poor management, ineffectual coaching and a failure to develop enough good, young players to fill out the roster.

Yeah. Have to agree. We've seen how attractive our club is to elite players. I'm a fan of building a strong club culture (lead by Madge) with junior talent amongst some experienced NRL players. Canberra has tried something different and it appears to be paying off for them. Im sick of paying overs for has beens and offering big bucks to princesses that think they are the be all and end all of the game and throwing it back in our faces. WTs fans should be ropable with how the LM situation has played out, we offered huge $$, his desired position and him basically ignore us.

 

[gallagher]

Ive been hearing about building the club through juniors since 1987 when Wests moved to Campbo.
Its not gong well.

 

[stevied]

Ive been hearing about building the club through juniors since 1987 when Wests moved to Campbo.
Its not gong well.

Going or gone?