OFFICIAL Oliver Gildart

[pawsandclaws1]

Someone watched them for 10 minutes and has written them off. Better go and tell Hartigan he's a fool.

He’s signing ESL players, while the Dogs are signing JAC, Burton, Dufty and TPJ. Fool seems like an appropriate word.

You have nailed it. Leave him in charge of the $ and this is what happens.

Who sorry?
So Madge is not in charge of recruitment when they are acceptable signings such as our young players but yet is in full control when they are signings that are unacceptable?

Is Hartigan or isn’t Hartigan our recruitment manager?

Maguire attracts the big names:anguished:

 

[happy_tiger]

I watched about 10 minutes of the Huddersfield v Wigan game ..and his tackle attempt on McQueen when McQueen scores was pathetic ......

Don't worry Hastings doesn't miss out .....three forwards are trying to put the ballcarrier down in a tackle in the lead up ...Hastings is standing tell everyone to go right and left when he should have been tying up the ballcarriers hands .....get the pass away to half who then hits McQueen .....

We got some Pommie Duds everyone .....yayyyyy.....

But but Hastings is going to save us from Brooks....right?

Hastings = Cronk ,Sterling ,Langer and Mortimer in some eyes ...yet is playing as the leader in a Wigan side looking at having it worst season since the late 70's / early 80's

And Gildart is in the same side

I hope they are both tanking big time ......

They both took Wigan to the grand final last year, and Hastings took lowly Salford to the grand final the year before that. Wigan this year have been butchered by injuries, and players are out of position (including Hastings).

If they were high class NRL players ( as is being suggested by many on the Forum ) they would be carrying this side ...they aren't ...they will be lower tier NRL players ...exactly what we have already ....I did note in earlier posts that Wigan had injury issues ...Lam admitted himself the reason he didn't release Hastings this season was for that exact reason ...saw it in a post game interview .....from memory their forward pack was pretty injury free ......at that time

By that logic Tedesco is useless, because his team has been faring no better than Wigan lately.
The ONLY reason Hastings hasn't been playing NRL is he decked DCE.

He didn't win that fight ......

Won the fight, lost his job.

Lost the fight ...lost his job ...remember mate it happened it my backyard ...Titans game during the Commonwealth Games played in Happy Rock

So, you witnessed it take place?

Heard from someone in blue ...if you get my drift ......

Ayyy the boys in blue.

Happys mates.

?

Don't believe everything you hear.

OK ...no worries

 

[Needaname]

Someone watched them for 10 minutes and has written them off. Better go and tell Hartigan he's a fool.

He’s signing ESL players, while the Dogs are signing JAC, Burton, Dufty and TPJ. Fool seems like an appropriate word.

You have nailed it. Leave him in charge of the $ and this is what happens.

Who sorry?
So Madge is not in charge of recruitment when they are acceptable signings such as our young players but yet is in full control when they are signings that are unacceptable?

Is Hartigan or isn’t Hartigan our recruitment manager?

Maguire attracts the big names:anguished:

I cannot either confirm or deny that statement.
??‍♂️

 

[earl]

I thought Hastings was pretty good. Very busy. Gildart not so good. He'll get absolutely monstered if he plays like that here.

Happy has turned into a Brooks fanboy lately.

Everyone should be a Brooks fanboy on his form this year. He has been great.

 

[earl]

I thought Hastings was pretty good. Very busy. Gildart not so good. He'll get absolutely monstered if he plays like that here.

Happy has turned into a Brooks fanboy lately.

He has always been trying his ring out and I never questioned that .....

The performance has equalled the effort lately ...and he deserves all of our praise for the last 6 weeks ...if our pussy cat forward pack showed the same heart Brooks has shown ...we'd be in a hell of a better place

What is even sadder is seeing our starting pack get monstered and then the bench comes on and does reasonably well. Stef's worst game was when he started.

The first thing that needs to be fixed is our starting pack. I wonder if Madge does anything like that now.

 

[ElleryHanley]

BIG concerns when Chris McQueen overpowers you...

Gildart made McQueen look like Jason Taumololo.

I remember Gildart coming up against Taumololo in an international. Went well in that match, until he got injured (not by Taumololo).

He is / was pre injury very evasive and great on his feet...legit speed...

Defense is debatable.

The concern for us is that POST injury he has not shown much in attack...and his D is poor.

I'd be more confident if we were getting the bloke from 3 years ago who scored a great try v NZ in the game you mentioned.

But we are getting a bloke who has been injured 1.5 of the last 2 years...and lacked explosiveness since his return.

Next season is still 9 months away...hopefully he returns to his best, as he will need at his peak to handle the NRL.

 

[JC99]

BIG concerns when Chris McQueen overpowers you...

Gildart made McQueen look like Jason Taumololo.

I remember Gildart coming up against Taumololo in an international. Went well in that match, until he got injured (not by Taumololo).

He is / was pre injury very evasive and great on his feet...legit speed...

Defense is debatable.

The concern for us is that POST injury he has not shown much in attack...and his D is poor.

I'd be more confident if we were getting the bloke from 3 years ago who scored a great try v NZ in the game you mentioned.

But we are getting a bloke who has been injured 1.5 of the last 2 years...and lacked explosiveness since his return.

Next season is still 9 months away...hopefully he returns to his best, as he will need at his peak to handle the NRL.

If he can stay fit he'll be alright. It's still his first couple games back, if he can finish the year and stay healthy, then have a good pre season he should be back to peak physical condition. He's only like 24 or 25 so he's in his prime

 

[earl]

'How come we don't look at English talent like Ricky Stuart does?'

Nek minnit

'Why are we looking at England?'

You gotta admit this is pretty funny. It might be different people stating these comments but that is the reality of this forum.

I have no idea how each of them will perform. We are going to find out though.

 

[weststigerman]

Someone watched them for 10 minutes and has written them off. Better go and tell Hartigan he's a fool.

He’s signing ESL players, while the Dogs are signing JAC, Burton, Dufty and TPJ. Fool seems like an appropriate word.

And in 2017-18 we signed Reynolds, Packer, Matulino, and Mbye. How did that go?

Not sure why there is a love affair with the dogs in this forum, they have more room in their salary cap because they have a roster who has won 2 games all season.

we're not exactly flying ourselves you know. we haven't beaten a full strength team all year.

We're also still paying Packer this year and Mbye next year. Hence we don't have the same space.

 

[TillLindemann]

BIG concerns when Chris McQueen overpowers you...

Gildart made McQueen look like Jason Taumololo.

I remember Gildart coming up against Taumololo in an international. Went well in that match, until he got injured (not by Taumololo).

He is / was pre injury very evasive and great on his feet...legit speed...

Defense is debatable.

The concern for us is that POST injury he has not shown much in attack...and his D is poor.

I'd be more confident if we were getting the bloke from 3 years ago who scored a great try v NZ in the game you mentioned.

But we are getting a bloke who has been injured 1.5 of the last 2 years...and lacked explosiveness since his return.

Next season is still 9 months away...hopefully he returns to his best, as he will need at his peak to handle the NRL.

Fair comment. I think given his age there's no reason he can't get back to his best, but we'll find out soon enough I guess.

 

[earl]

I watched about 10 minutes of the Huddersfield v Wigan game ..and his tackle attempt on McQueen when McQueen scores was pathetic ......

Don't worry Hastings doesn't miss out .....three forwards are trying to put the ballcarrier down in a tackle in the lead up ...Hastings is standing tell everyone to go right and left when he should have been tying up the ballcarriers hands .....get the pass away to half who then hits McQueen .....

We got some Pommie Duds everyone .....yayyyyy.....

But but Hastings is going to save us from Brooks....right?

Hastings = Cronk ,Sterling ,Langer and Mortimer in some eyes ...yet is playing as the leader in a Wigan side looking at having it worst season since the late 70's / early 80's

And Gildart is in the same side

I hope they are both tanking big time ......

They both took Wigan to the grand final last year, and Hastings took lowly Salford to the grand final the year before that. Wigan this year have been butchered by injuries, and players are out of position (including Hastings).

If they were high class NRL players ( as is being suggested by many on the Forum ) they would be carrying this side ...they aren't ...they will be lower tier NRL players ...exactly what we have already ....I did note in earlier posts that Wigan had injury issues ...Lam admitted himself the reason he didn't release Hastings this season was for that exact reason ...saw it in a post game interview .....from memory their forward pack was pretty injury free ......at that time

By that logic Tedesco is useless, because his team has been faring no better than Wigan lately.
The ONLY reason Hastings hasn't been playing NRL is he decked DCE.

This is some gold star posting. Hastings has been a star over there. Ben Barba was a star there but I think Bevan French is as well. We just got to wait and see. I think it's pretty clear they aren't as good as Tommy Turbo.

 

[earl]

I watched about 10 minutes of the Huddersfield v Wigan game ..and his tackle attempt on McQueen when McQueen scores was pathetic ......

Don't worry Hastings doesn't miss out .....three forwards are trying to put the ballcarrier down in a tackle in the lead up ...Hastings is standing tell everyone to go right and left when he should have been tying up the ballcarriers hands .....get the pass away to half who then hits McQueen .....

We got some Pommie Duds everyone .....yayyyyy.....

But but Hastings is going to save us from Brooks....right?

Hastings = Cronk ,Sterling ,Langer and Mortimer in some eyes ...yet is playing as the leader in a Wigan side looking at having it worst season since the late 70's / early 80's

And Gildart is in the same side

I hope they are both tanking big time ......

They both took Wigan to the grand final last year, and Hastings took lowly Salford to the grand final the year before that. Wigan this year have been butchered by injuries, and players are out of position (including Hastings).

If they were high class NRL players ( as is being suggested by many on the Forum ) they would be carrying this side ...they aren't ...they will be lower tier NRL players ...exactly what we have already ....I did note in earlier posts that Wigan had injury issues ...Lam admitted himself the reason he didn't release Hastings this season was for that exact reason ...saw it in a post game interview .....from memory their forward pack was pretty injury free ......at that time

By that logic Tedesco is useless, because his team has been faring no better than Wigan lately.
The ONLY reason Hastings hasn't been playing NRL is he decked DCE.

He didn't win that fight ......

Won the fight, lost his job.

Lost the fight ...lost his job ...remember mate it happened it my backyard ...Titans game during the Commonwealth Games played in Happy Rock

So, you witnessed it take place?

Heard from someone in blue ...if you get my drift ......

Cant believe that.
Don’t see DCE beating anybody in a knuckle.

Looks don't matter. Skill does.

 

[TillLindemann]

I watched about 10 minutes of the Huddersfield v Wigan game ..and his tackle attempt on McQueen when McQueen scores was pathetic ......

Don't worry Hastings doesn't miss out .....three forwards are trying to put the ballcarrier down in a tackle in the lead up ...Hastings is standing tell everyone to go right and left when he should have been tying up the ballcarriers hands .....get the pass away to half who then hits McQueen .....

We got some Pommie Duds everyone .....yayyyyy.....

But but Hastings is going to save us from Brooks....right?

Hastings = Cronk ,Sterling ,Langer and Mortimer in some eyes ...yet is playing as the leader in a Wigan side looking at having it worst season since the late 70's / early 80's

And Gildart is in the same side

I hope they are both tanking big time ......

They both took Wigan to the grand final last year, and Hastings took lowly Salford to the grand final the year before that. Wigan this year have been butchered by injuries, and players are out of position (including Hastings).

If they were high class NRL players ( as is being suggested by many on the Forum ) they would be carrying this side ...they aren't ...they will be lower tier NRL players ...exactly what we have already ....I did note in earlier posts that Wigan had injury issues ...Lam admitted himself the reason he didn't release Hastings this season was for that exact reason ...saw it in a post game interview .....from memory their forward pack was pretty injury free ......at that time

By that logic Tedesco is useless, because his team has been faring no better than Wigan lately.
The ONLY reason Hastings hasn't been playing NRL is he decked DCE.

This is some gold star posting. Hastings has been a star over there. Ben Barba was a star there but I think Bevan French is as well. We just got to wait and see. I think it's pretty clear they aren't as good as Tommy Turbo.

Of course they won't be as good as Tommy Turbo, and hence we won't be paying them as if they are as good as Tommy Turbo. Nonetheless Gildart will be an upgrade on Talau, and IMO Hastings will be an upgrade on Mbye, at a much better price.

 

[weststigerman]

Someone watched them for 10 minutes and has written them off. Better go and tell Hartigan he's a fool.

He’s signing ESL players, while the Dogs are signing JAC, Burton, Dufty and TPJ. Fool seems like an appropriate word.

And in 2017-18 we signed Reynolds, Packer, Matulino, and Mbye. How did that go?

Not sure why there is a love affair with the dogs in this forum, they have more room in their salary cap because they have a roster who has won 2 games all season.

So because we have a bad experience, we should never go for big names again? Bold strategy Cotten.

Going after multiple big names at the peak of their career is not an effective way to manage your salary cap.

Need another example? Titans. 9th last year, signed big name players with reputations this year, and are currently 10th.

People just love to whinge because they don't get the Christmas toys they asked for. Time to toughen up.

After the crap we got from so called big names in the past, I'm going to wait and see how this new recruitment plan works out.

 

[earl]

I watched about 10 minutes of the Huddersfield v Wigan game ..and his tackle attempt on McQueen when McQueen scores was pathetic ......

Don't worry Hastings doesn't miss out .....three forwards are trying to put the ballcarrier down in a tackle in the lead up ...Hastings is standing tell everyone to go right and left when he should have been tying up the ballcarriers hands .....get the pass away to half who then hits McQueen .....

We got some Pommie Duds everyone .....yayyyyy.....

But but Hastings is going to save us from Brooks....right?

Hastings = Cronk ,Sterling ,Langer and Mortimer in some eyes ...yet is playing as the leader in a Wigan side looking at having it worst season since the late 70's / early 80's

And Gildart is in the same side

I hope they are both tanking big time ......

They both took Wigan to the grand final last year, and Hastings took lowly Salford to the grand final the year before that. Wigan this year have been butchered by injuries, and players are out of position (including Hastings).

If they were high class NRL players ( as is being suggested by many on the Forum ) they would be carrying this side ...they aren't ...they will be lower tier NRL players ...exactly what we have already ....I did note in earlier posts that Wigan had injury issues ...Lam admitted himself the reason he didn't release Hastings this season was for that exact reason ...saw it in a post game interview .....from memory their forward pack was pretty injury free ......at that time

By that logic Tedesco is useless, because his team has been faring no better than Wigan lately.
The ONLY reason Hastings hasn't been playing NRL is he decked DCE.

This is some gold star posting. Hastings has been a star over there. Ben Barba was a star there but I think Bevan French is as well. We just got to wait and see. I think it's pretty clear they aren't as good as Tommy Turbo.

Of course they won't be as good as Tommy Turbo, and hence we won't be paying them as if they are as good as Tommy Turbo. Nonetheless Gildart will be an upgrade on Talau, and IMO Hastings will be an upgrade on Mbye, at a much better price.

I'm fairly confident Hastings is going to be a massive upgrade on Mbye. I'm not sure about Gildart but our outside backs have been poor. At least he is another option for us.

I assume we haven't broken the bank or gone close to it in signing these guys as well.

 

[earl]

Someone watched them for 10 minutes and has written them off. Better go and tell Hartigan he's a fool.

He’s signing ESL players, while the Dogs are signing JAC, Burton, Dufty and TPJ. Fool seems like an appropriate word.

And in 2017-18 we signed Reynolds, Packer, Matulino, and Mbye. How did that go?

Not sure why there is a love affair with the dogs in this forum, they have more room in their salary cap because they have a roster who has won 2 games all season.

So because we have a bad experience, we should never go for big names again? Bold strategy Cotten.

Going after multiple big names at the peak of their career is not an effective way to manage your salary cap.

Need another example? Titans. 9th last year, signed big name players with reputations this year, and are currently 10th.

People just love to whinge because they don't get the Christmas toys they asked for. Time to toughen up.

After the crap we got from so called big names in the past, I'm going to wait and see how this new recruitment plan works out.

Every Tigers supporter should realize this. Big names have been our worst performers. I like the Dogs signings but wait and see what happens.

 

[GNR4LIFE]

Someone watched them for 10 minutes and has written them off. Better go and tell Hartigan he's a fool.

He’s signing ESL players, while the Dogs are signing JAC, Burton, Dufty and TPJ. Fool seems like an appropriate word.

And in 2017-18 we signed Reynolds, Packer, Matulino, and Mbye. How did that go?

Not sure why there is a love affair with the dogs in this forum, they have more room in their salary cap because they have a roster who has won 2 games all season.

So because we have a bad experience, we should never go for big names again? Bold strategy Cotten.

Going after multiple big names at the peak of their career is not an effective way to manage your salary cap.

Need another example? Titans. 9th last year, signed big name players with reputations this year, and are currently 10th.

People just love to whinge because they don't get the Christmas toys they asked for. Time to toughen up.

After the crap we got from so called big names in the past, I'm going to wait and see how this new recruitment plan works out.

You go, you true supporter you. Gotta love blind faith.

 

[GNR4LIFE]

Someone watched them for 10 minutes and has written them off. Better go and tell Hartigan he's a fool.

He’s signing ESL players, while the Dogs are signing JAC, Burton, Dufty and TPJ. Fool seems like an appropriate word.

And in 2017-18 we signed Reynolds, Packer, Matulino, and Mbye. How did that go?

Not sure why there is a love affair with the dogs in this forum, they have more room in their salary cap because they have a roster who has won 2 games all season.

So because we have a bad experience, we should never go for big names again? Bold strategy Cotten.

Going after multiple big names at the peak of their career is not an effective way to manage your salary cap.

Need another example? Titans. 9th last year, signed big name players with reputations this year, and are currently 10th.

People just love to whinge because they don't get the Christmas toys they asked for. Time to toughen up.

After the crap we got from so called big names in the past, I'm going to wait and see how this new recruitment plan works out.

Every Tigers supporter should realize this. Big names have been our worst performers. I like the Dogs signings but wait and see what happens.

Maybe the problem is the club, not the player. It’s easy to blame the players every time.

 

[JC99]

Someone watched them for 10 minutes and has written them off. Better go and tell Hartigan he's a fool.

He’s signing ESL players, while the Dogs are signing JAC, Burton, Dufty and TPJ. Fool seems like an appropriate word.

And in 2017-18 we signed Reynolds, Packer, Matulino, and Mbye. How did that go?

Not sure why there is a love affair with the dogs in this forum, they have more room in their salary cap because they have a roster who has won 2 games all season.

So because we have a bad experience, we should never go for big names again? Bold strategy Cotten.

Going after multiple big names at the peak of their career is not an effective way to manage your salary cap.

Need another example? Titans. 9th last year, signed big name players with reputations this year, and are currently 10th.

People just love to whinge because they don't get the Christmas toys they asked for. Time to toughen up.

After the crap we got from so called big names in the past, I'm going to wait and see how this new recruitment plan works out.

Every Tigers supporter should realize this. Big names have been our worst performers. I like the Dogs signings but wait and see what happens.

Our "big names" haven't actually been good players though. Packer, Reynolds, Mbye etc were never marquee signings despite the club parading them as such

If we could land a big name that's genuinely a current top 5 player in their position that's a different story.

 

[Needaname]

Someone watched them for 10 minutes and has written them off. Better go and tell Hartigan he's a fool.

He’s signing ESL players, while the Dogs are signing JAC, Burton, Dufty and TPJ. Fool seems like an appropriate word.

And in 2017-18 we signed Reynolds, Packer, Matulino, and Mbye. How did that go?

Not sure why there is a love affair with the dogs in this forum, they have more room in their salary cap because they have a roster who has won 2 games all season.

So because we have a bad experience, we should never go for big names again? Bold strategy Cotten.

Going after multiple big names at the peak of their career is not an effective way to manage your salary cap.

Need another example? Titans. 9th last year, signed big name players with reputations this year, and are currently 10th.

People just love to whinge because they don't get the Christmas toys they asked for. Time to toughen up.

After the crap we got from so called big names in the past, I'm going to wait and see how this new recruitment plan works out.

Every Tigers supporter should realize this. Big names have been our worst performers. I like the Dogs signings but wait and see what happens.

Our "big names" haven't actually been good players though. Packer, Reynolds, Mbye etc were never marquee signings despite the club parading them as such

If we could land a big name that's genuinely a current top 5 player in their position that's a different story.

And which team has recently?