OFFICIAL Moses Mbye [Discussion]

[avocadoontoast]

He didn't ever remotely come close to his price tag. His signing was like an anchor to the club, and I'm not surprised he felt like a burden. The club needs to learn from this.

He wasnt a burden at the time of recruitment when Ivan wanted him.....
The club has learnt.....thats why Hartigan and Madge dont overpay or pay huge money for players that the fans want....

That kind of stubbornness will only get the club so far. Given the position the club is in, it has no choice but to bite the bullet and pay overs for 1 or 2 quality players. They just need to be the right ones.

I agree but we will need to pay way overs unfortunately.

We've got a massive pile of money to spend for next year. We can afford to entice a player worth paying overs for.

As long as its the right player that we need....a leader and a hard worker would do me ....

I want someone who's a gamebreaker and a competitor.

I think thats what we all want...but with the youth we have we need an NRL hard working leader to show them the way....and by saying that Im not knocking Tamou...I dont know what he does with the kids in the background...

Tamou has been a bust imo.

 

[tig_prmz]

his defence was sound

Wow.
Could you set the bar any lower.
You must think Nofa's a defensive dynamo.

Can you say that anyone in our team's defence is sound?

But more importantly, I feel he let us down in the middle when he played hooker/lock but at centre and fullback, I felt very safe.

 

[TrueTiger]

He didn't ever remotely come close to his price tag. His signing was like an anchor to the club, and I'm not surprised he felt like a burden. The club needs to learn from this.

He wasnt a burden at the time of recruitment when Ivan wanted him.....
The club has learnt.....thats why Hartigan and Madge dont overpay or pay huge money for players that the fans want....

That kind of stubbornness will only get the club so far. Given the position the club is in, it has no choice but to bite the bullet and pay overs for 1 or 2 quality players. They just need to be the right ones.

I agree but we will need to pay way overs unfortunately.

We've got a massive pile of money to spend for next year. We can afford to entice a player worth paying overs for.

As long as its the right player that we need....a leader and a hard worker would do me ....

I want someone who's a gamebreaker and a competitor.

I think thats what we all want...but with the youth we have we need an NRL hard working leader to show them the way....and by saying that Im not knocking Tamou...I dont know what he does with the kids in the background...

Tamou has been a bust imo.

You could very well be right...but Madge is the one who wanted him here...

 

[BAGNF05]

He didn't ever remotely come close to his price tag. His signing was like an anchor to the club, and I'm not surprised he felt like a burden. The club needs to learn from this.

He wasnt a burden at the time of recruitment when Ivan wanted him.....
The club has learnt.....thats why Hartigan and Madge dont overpay or pay huge money for players that the fans want....

That kind of stubbornness will only get the club so far. Given the position the club is in, it has no choice but to bite the bullet and pay overs for 1 or 2 quality players. They just need to be the right ones.

I agree but we will need to pay way overs unfortunately.

We've got a massive pile of money to spend for next year. We can afford to entice a player worth paying overs for.

As long as its the right player that we need....a leader and a hard worker would do me ....

I want someone who's a gamebreaker and a competitor.

I think thats what we all want...but with the youth we have we need an NRL hard working leader to show them the way....and by saying that Im not knocking Tamou...I dont know what he does with the kids in the background...

Need someone with an aura who still competes at the highest level. Think Beau Scott to Parra, Luke Lewis or Ennis to Sharks, Steve Price to Warriors. Then a few other no nonsense hard workers.

 

[Harvey]


Thanks for the memories.
🤝

Unfortunately some of them are burned into my mind. Him running a kick into touch a couple of weeks ago is the most recent.

 

[Honkylips]

He didn't ever remotely come close to his price tag. His signing was like an anchor to the club, and I'm not surprised he felt like a burden. The club needs to learn from this.

He wasnt a burden at the time of recruitment when Ivan wanted him.....
The club has learnt.....thats why Hartigan and Madge dont overpay or pay huge money for players that the fans want....

That kind of stubbornness will only get the club so far. Given the position the club is in, it has no choice but to bite the bullet and pay overs for 1 or 2 quality players. They just need to be the right ones.

I agree but we will need to pay way overs unfortunately.

So be it. The forum can fawn all over kids like Laurie, Stefano and Blore all they like, and while they are good kids, they aren’t going to do it all themselves. We need to land someone big to accomodate them. If you want a player like Brandon Smith, it’s going to take a million a year. If we’re offering the same as sides like Melbourne and the Roosters, he’d laugh in our face.

Im with you. Im all for offering someone like Smith way overs

 

[jadtiger]

He will go well at the dragons in the number one or six & prove many people on this forum wrong.

Well why in the hell - didn't he do it here!!!!!!

By your comment then he must have been tanking.

Just a soft money sponge.

He was not given the opportunity here with Madge he kept on playing him in different positions & off the bench I’m pretty sure Griffin will put him in one position & that’s why he will excel there & the way Madge gave the captaincy to Tamou over Mbye was disgraceful no wonder why his heart was to play elsewhere & not at the tigers good luck to him & I for one hope he plays well he is definitely a top 17 & was not his fault that our club paid overs for him.

MBye has handled his exit with a certain amount of class however he has not been a good buy for our club.As far as losing the captaincy is concerned he deserved to because i have never seen a more inefective captain in my life.I hope he plays well for the drags except against us.

 

[tony soprano]

He's done a good job selling he's done us a favour he's not lost a cent.

Reynolds forfeited his wage

 

[earl]

Given the position the club is in, it has no choice but to bite the bullet and pay overs for 1 or 2 quality players. They just need to be the right ones.

Why do we need to do this ?

Laurie, Maumalo, Doueihi, Stef, Tuilagi, Blore, Luciano have all been good signings and none of them are marquee signings.

I reckon rinse and repeat. Keep looking to get top juniors. Upgrade the right players with fair money.

 

[BAGNF05]

Given the position the club is in, it has no choice but to bite the bullet and pay overs for 1 or 2 quality players. They just need to be the right ones.

Why do we need to do this ?

Laurie, Maumalo, Doueihi, Stef, Tuilagi, Blore, Luciano have all been good signings and none of them are marquee signings.

I reckon rinse and repeat. Keep looking to get top juniors. Upgrade the right players with fair money.

It’s unfair to ask players like Stef and AD to lead a team against teams full of origin and internationals. It’s borderline negligent.

 

[earl]

Given the position the club is in, it has no choice but to bite the bullet and pay overs for 1 or 2 quality players. They just need to be the right ones.

Why do we need to do this ?

Laurie, Maumalo, Doueihi, Stef, Tuilagi, Blore, Luciano have all been good signings and none of them are marquee signings.

I reckon rinse and repeat. Keep looking to get top juniors. Upgrade the right players with fair money.

It’s unfair to ask players like Stef and AD to lead a team against teams full of origin and internationals. It’s borderline negligent.

You reckon. I think they love it. I think if we get more players of that quality they will come good.

 

[BAGNF05]

Given the position the club is in, it has no choice but to bite the bullet and pay overs for 1 or 2 quality players. They just need to be the right ones.

Why do we need to do this ?

Laurie, Maumalo, Doueihi, Stef, Tuilagi, Blore, Luciano have all been good signings and none of them are marquee signings.

I reckon rinse and repeat. Keep looking to get top juniors. Upgrade the right players with fair money.

It’s unfair to ask players like Stef and AD to lead a team against teams full of origin and internationals. It’s borderline negligent.

You reckon. I think they love it. I think if we get more players of that quality they will come good.

Nobody loves nil 40 at HT mate

 

[avocadoontoast]

Given the position the club is in, it has no choice but to bite the bullet and pay overs for 1 or 2 quality players. They just need to be the right ones.

Why do we need to do this ?

Laurie, Maumalo, Doueihi, Stef, Tuilagi, Blore, Luciano have all been good signings and none of them are marquee signings.

I reckon rinse and repeat. Keep looking to get top juniors. Upgrade the right players with fair money.

I think the youth strategy is fine but they can’t do it on their own. They need a few strong older players to complement them. Tamou was meant to be one of those players but he’s been a massive flop.

We are three top line players and a couple of battle hardened quality players short of being a good team IMO.

 

[Snake]

I give Mybe credit at least he was honest tonight in the interview on ch9.

 

[tig_prmz]

I don't pay much attention to comments on Facebook but some comments on there mirror those on here. People are being unnecessarily unfair on Mbye.

 

[tigerfan59]

Good luck for the future Moses.Class act the way you are going about your departure and not bagging us out like other players have in the past.

 

[Blaze]

Anyone know what the deal he got at the drags? Obviously we are paying half for next year, any word on how much longer and how much they have given him?

 

[GNR4LIFE]

Anyone know what the deal he got at the drags? Obviously we are paying half for next year, any word on how much longer and how much they have given him?

Probably making up the rest of what he was on in 2022 with us. He’d still be on 800k next year with us tipping in half.

 

[Blaze]

Anyone know what the deal he got at the drags? Obviously we are paying half for next year, any word on how much longer and how much they have given him?

Probably making up the rest of what he was on in 2022 with us. He’d still be on 800k next year with us tipping in half.

Yeah cheers mate, I was more wondering about how much after that he has decided he is worth that’s all.

 

[Russell]

He wasn’t the player that lived up to his marquee status and that’s hardly his fault, you have to look at Pascoe, Egan and Cleary. I don’t blame him for taking the money on the table, if we had paid $450k for him or less his true worth he’d probably still be here next season. As people have said he seems like a decent bloke can talk a good game but he’s just an average footballer who probably could and should have had stints in reggies, but when you’re paying him what we were you can’t justify that. Time to move on for all parties wish him well can’t say there will be any good memories though.

I think a good point is, big money does not make you a Marquee player.

Mbye was never bought as a Marquee player and never played as a Marquee player.

It is a term that is thrown around too will nilly.

Teddy, Turbo, DCE, Walker, Munster etc. etc. are Marquee players.

Mbye was just a very ordinary NRL player that we threw twice as much at, as we should have.