Lote Tuqiri thread

[Geo]

Who cares…...it appears done now.....Besides it has been

It is 180 days from the start date to the end date, end date included
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Or 5 months, 27 days
* 15,552,000 seconds
* 259,200 minutes
* 4320 hours
* 25 weeks (rounded down)

Since the Great Lortay Tuqiri was 1st linked to the Wests Tigers...........

People are still discussing exactly the same thing......... :laughing: :laughing: :laughing:

 

[Kul]

Like I said, it's got to be the next 48 hours or it's not happening.

If it does, you blokes can all thank the CEO for basically not losing his cool and negotiating way beyond what should be expected.

Personally, having a bloke in the team **who hasn't exactly been keen to come + has been unprofessional about it all**…........I just don't know how I feel about it.

Anyway, it will be over soon good or bad.

wow!

please provide evidence of this (hearsay in random online local newspaper articles from the UK is _not_ evidence)

 

[Snowy]

its happening again lol, we will not get any news this week imo.

 

[T-REXX]

Like I said, it's got to be the next 48 hours or it's not happening.

If it does, you blokes can all thank the CEO for basically not losing his cool and negotiating way beyond what should be expected.

**Personally, having a bloke in the team who hasn't exactly been keen to come + has been unprofessional about it all…........I just don't know how I feel about it.**

Anyway, it will be over soon good or bad.

ohh dont mate. stop. ur embarrassing your self.. Lote has not much about the whole thing other then papers printing crap. personally i think he has been pretty professional.. the only people building the hype us is this forum

 

[cnx_tigers]

How many of you blokes have been near training or the club the past week? Any of you? I am guessing not one of you.

This place is dead set not worth bothering with.

Kul, I'll PM you and then I'm officially done. Judge for yourself.

 

[Geo]

cnx_tiger…...You sound like the anti-chist of Silva....

If you know somethings not right with Lote's signing why not post it on here.....surely sources can be kept out of it.....

I think people would like to know....that's why they come here....It's a forum to discuss things Wests Tigers

Hope you stick around....you make sense to me.....

 

[Granto87]

How many of you blokes have been near training or the club the past week? Any of you? I am guessing not one of you.

This place is dead set not worth bothering with.

Kul, I'll PM you and then I'm officially done. Judge for yourself.

Mate calm down abit, this place is for every-one to have there say there is no need to criticise people on what they have heard. I have found this thread enjoyable over the long boring offseason always some-thing to read keep up the good posts guys.

 

[Guest]

cnx_tiger…...You sound like the anti-chist of Silva....

If you know somethings not right with Lote's signing why not post it on here.....surely sources can be kept out of it.....

I think people would like to know....that's why they come here....It's a forum to discuss things Wests Tigers

Hope you stick around....you make sense to me.....

I'll back Geo's comment, stick around champ. You're constructive with your posts and they're worthy of discussion.

 

[Buckets_of_blood]

cnx_tiger…...You sound like the anti-chist of Silva....

If you know somethings not right with Lote's signing why not post it on here.....surely sources can be kept out of it.....

I think people would like to know....that's why they come here....It's a forum to discuss things Wests Tigers

Hope you stick around....you make sense to me.....

Maybe he's sick of people that dont like what hes saying, having a go at him.

Too many here only hear what they wanna hear, if they dont like it then look out.
Its called the ostrich mentality.
Or you know those people that stick their fingers in their ears and go "waaaah wahaaah
waaaahh If i cant hear it then its not true"

 

[Kul]

How many of you blokes have been near training or the club the past week? Any of you? I am guessing not one of you.

This place is dead set not worth bothering with.

Kul, I'll PM you and then I'm officially done. Judge for yourself.

Mate I haven't read your PM yet and if you know something about it (the whole Lote thing) then sweet.
I'm not having a dig at you, instead i'm just commenting on how some people here jump for joy as soon as the words "Lote Tuqiri" and "Wests Tigers" appear in the same sentence, but then they all want to jump off the gap as soon as a report quotes Lote saying "yeah it's nice here in the UK, it would be a nice place to stay at"

:laughing: it is the off-season, isn't it! :smiley:

 

[Geo]

Maybe he's sick of people that dont like what hes saying, having a go at him.

Too many here only hear what they wanna hear, if they dont like it then look out.
Its called the ostrich mentality.
Or you know those people that stick their fingers in their ears and go "waaaah wahaaah
waaaahh If i cant hear it then its not true"

Hope your not refering to me Buckets…....I certainly won't be bawling if Lote doesn't turn up....die from laughing maybe....but I see your point.....

Don't think Iv'e had a go a cnx either....if so apologies cnx_tigers.....

 

[Buckets_of_blood]

No mate not referring to you

 

[towntiger]

Our membership drive is really struggling. There's a lot of pressure on the marketing people at the moment.

The CEO has gone to England for a reason. Contracts can be done via fax very easily and this one is not easy. Let's just say you can persuade people better face to face and that's what's got to be done. Pretty sad really.

All you blokes saying it was done 'months ago' are full of it. Honestly, absolutely full of it.

There's a lot of sponsors wanting to know one way or the other what's going on. People need to time to get stuff done and ready for promotions. I know this for a fact as a mate of mine puts a lot of $$$ into this footy club and has done for a long,long time and he's been told that it's not clear / the club is being stuffed around.

The next 48 hours will be crucial. Expect a big announcment….... or..... a "withdrawn offer" statement.

At least it will be over. Good or bad.

That's laughable - the membership has increased by over 1000 or at least 25% already. In this climate i would call that success and we still have over a month until season kick-off.

I have also seen the club has signed two new major sponsors worth well over a million dollars, i cant call that struggling.

 

[vlad]

http://www.smh.com.au/sport/happy-days-mcgrath-finds-new-love-20100203-ndgd.html" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

**LOTE'S NEW PLAN**

**_Speculation has been rife about the plans of former Wallabies and Waratahs winger Lote Tuqiri. The mail has been strong that Tuqiri, now playing in England for Leicester, is eyeing a return to Australia to play for the Wests Tigers in the NRL. But the latest word is that he might be back sooner than most anticipate. The Herald has heard that he could be in the Tigers strip as early as round four of this year's competition._**

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a new plan , eh ? round 4 , eh ?

that should another 4 pages to this thread ...

 

[Guest]

The circus continues…The word that stands out in the above article is SPECULATION...Seems the media are quite clueless about Lote's plans also.

 

[simonthetiger]

The next 48 hours will be crucial. Expect a big announcment….... or..... a "withdrawn offer" statement.

Nice…..so even with ur amazing insider knowledge,he is either gonna sign or not sign.

Cuttting statement,nice each way bet. :laughing: :laughing:

 

[softlaw]

The next 48 hours will be crucial. Expect a big announcment….... or..... a "withdrawn offer" statement.

Nice…..so even with ur amazing insider knowledge,he is either gonna sign or not sign.

Cuttting statement,nice each way bet. :laughing: :laughing:

Thanks for adding another top quality, helpful post STT. My Lote Lottery estimate is getting closer & closer…

 

[Geo]

http://www.smh.com.au/sport/happy-days-mcgrath-finds-new-love-20100203-ndgd.html

**LOTE'S NEW PLAN**

**_Speculation has been rife about the plans of former Wallabies and Waratahs winger Lote Tuqiri. The mail has been strong that Tuqiri, now playing in England for Leicester, is eyeing a return to Australia to play for the Wests Tigers in the NRL. But the latest word is that he might be back sooner than most anticipate. The Herald has heard that he could be in the Tigers strip as early as round four of this year's competition._**

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a new plan , eh ? round 4 , eh ?

that should another 4 pages to this thread ...

Forget Lote…..old news...

Well done Glen McGarth.....Happy days......guy deserves a break....

 

[Balmain_Bug]

Like I said, it's got to be the next 48 hours or it's not happening.

If it does, you blokes can all thank the CEO for basically not losing his cool and negotiating way beyond what should be expected.

Personally, having a bloke in the team who hasn't exactly been keen to come + has been unprofessional about it all…........I just don't know how I feel about it.

Anyway, it will be over soon good or bad.

I agree whole heartedly.
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Simonthetiger I disagree with your attack upon cnx tiger

 

[Balmain_Bug]

Geez, just gone back through this thread and Simon and co. were all saying Anderson Silva nailed it when he said it would be announced within 24 hours…................................2 months ago.

I've never read such a load of crap in my life.

There's reasons this thing has taken so long.

When membership is down and you can't use a marquee guy for image + when you can't use a guy for ticket sales + the said guy has been umming and arghing about the whole thing for ages, then you know it's not smooth sailing.

Logic 101 should tell you blokes that there's not a single reason legally this couldn't have been announced a month back.

Our membership drive is amongst the worst of all the sydney clubs. We are only 1000 odd up on the Roosters. No way in hell the club holds back this long on a positive anouncment when they are already desperate for sales.

And there's no way they'd be fobbing off legit sponsors who are asking "what's going on?". You don't tell long time club men and sponsors porkies to hide stuff like this.

If we get him, it will all be down to having a **very** patient CEO.

IMO we should have told him to go and jump a month ago. Anyone who's having second thoughts about wearing the Tigers jersey isn't needed.

Great post.