Robbie future

[The_Patriot]

Liddle and Simpkins are enough.

If both were injured or not immediately up to it we have Mybe and even Brooks who you could throw in. This would open it for Reynolds if he is still with us


We need 3 hookers in the squad. I’d look at Isaac Luke as the backup. He kicks goals at a high clip, played under Madge and a good locker room guy. Would provide some leadership for the young hookers. Not sure if he’s want to do that but it would be ideal.

I usually agree with your posts but on this one im out. ill take the two young guys with the knowledge we have two very capable utilities

 

[TYGA]

Liddle and Simpkins are enough.

If both were injured or not immediately up to it we have Mybe and even Brooks who you could throw in. This would open it for Reynolds if he is still with us


We need 3 hookers in the squad. I’d look at Isaac Luke as the backup. He kicks goals at a high clip, played under Madge and a good locker room guy. Would provide some leadership for the young hookers. Not sure if he’s want to do that but it would be ideal.


I usually agree with your posts but on this one im out. ill take the two young guys with the knowledge we have two very capable utilities

That’s good to hear. Not necessarily Luke but a veteran backup if one goes down due to Liddles injury history. If he goes down it’s a big ask for Simpkins to carry the load.

 

[WT2K]

You can purchase a Robbie 300 shirt at the Mary St entrance or online - cost $40 https://www.weststigers.com.au/news/2019/08/01/get-your-robbie300-shirt/

 

[jirskyr]

A Roosters fan all his life

Ivan Cleary, Johns brothers, Mitchell Pearce were all Balmain fans as kids. Doesn't necessarily mean anything when it comes to playing for a club, so I don't accept it as being respectable.

 

[matchball]

A Roosters fan all his life

Ivan Cleary, Johns brothers, Mitchell Pearce were all Balmain fans as kids. Doesn't necessarily mean anything when it comes to playing for a club, so I don't accept it as being respectable.

It was his dream to play for the Roosters. It happened. Good for him.
Not everyone gets to live out their dreams.

 

[jirskyr]

A Roosters fan all his life

Ivan Cleary, Johns brothers, Mitchell Pearce were all Balmain fans as kids. Doesn't necessarily mean anything when it comes to playing for a club, so I don't accept it as being respectable.

It was his dream to play for the Roosters. It happened. Good for him.
Not everyone gets to live out their dreams.

Bollocks

 

[matchball]

A Roosters fan all his life

Ivan Cleary, Johns brothers, Mitchell Pearce were all Balmain fans as kids. Doesn't necessarily mean anything when it comes to playing for a club, so I don't accept it as being respectable.

It was his dream to play for the Roosters. It happened. Good for him.
Not everyone gets to live out their dreams.

Bollocks

What's that even mean? State why you disagree instead of using a worn out cockney word.

 

[matchball]

A Roosters fan all his life

Ivan Cleary, Johns brothers, Mitchell Pearce were all Balmain fans as kids. Doesn't necessarily mean anything when it comes to playing for a club, so I don't accept it as being respectable.

It was his dream to play for the Roosters. It happened. Good for him.
Not everyone gets to live out their dreams.

Bollocks

https://www.sbs.com.au/news/james-tedesco-s-roosters-roots-run-deep

Read that and tell me it's bollocks.

 

[Spud_Murphy]

A Roosters fan all his life

Ivan Cleary, Johns brothers, Mitchell Pearce were all Balmain fans as kids. Doesn't necessarily mean anything when it comes to playing for a club, so I don't accept it as being respectable.

It was his dream to play for the Roosters. It happened. Good for him.
Not everyone gets to live out their dreams.

Bollocks

https://www.sbs.com.au/news/james-tedesco-s-roosters-roots-run-deep

Read that and tell me it's bollocks.

Yep he's a cock through and through.

 

[matchball]

A Roosters fan all his life

Ivan Cleary, Johns brothers, Mitchell Pearce were all Balmain fans as kids. Doesn't necessarily mean anything when it comes to playing for a club, so I don't accept it as being respectable.

It was his dream to play for the Roosters. It happened. Good for him.
Not everyone gets to live out their dreams.

Bollocks

https://www.sbs.com.au/news/james-tedesco-s-roosters-roots-run-deep

Read that and tell me it's bollocks.

Yep he's a cock through and through.

I don't get it. He is living his dream to play with the club he loved as a kid.
I'd do the same.
Can't blame him whatsoever for leaving.

 

[innsaneink]

Yeah.... I wonder if the Roosters had missed the finals for a decade and had won the spoon the year before they recruited him, and didn't give all their players unlimited everything & open ended credit cards......

But yeh it was his dream always 🤐

 

[Demps]

Reed Mahoney jumped into first grade and has looked good... especially for some one who is very short and not overly athletic.

No reason Liddle + Simpkin can't do the same next year.

 

[Guest]

I think we'll be fine with Jacob and Simpkins.

 

[Tiger_Bond]

A Roosters fan all his life

Ivan Cleary, Johns brothers, Mitchell Pearce were all Balmain fans as kids. Doesn't necessarily mean anything when it comes to playing for a club, so I don't accept it as being respectable.

It was his dream to play for the Roosters. It happened. Good for him.
Not everyone gets to live out their dreams.

Bollocks

https://www.sbs.com.au/news/james-tedesco-s-roosters-roots-run-deep

Read that and tell me it's bollocks.

Yep he's a cock through and through.

I don't get it. He is living his dream to play with the club he loved as a kid.
I'd do the same.
Can't blame him whatsoever for leaving.

The problem is that he is a scum bag selfish mercenary. The Tigers stood by him through thick and thin and I'm certain the money wasn't that far apart. He had 2 options:

Option 1: Stick with the Tigers and create something great with the club that developed him, who were also loyal to him and become a legend at our great establishment; or

Option 2: Go to the soul less "glamour" club and buy, I mean win a competition where they will forget him once he is over the hill.

He chose option 2. Just because he supported the Roosters growing up means nothing. I believe Robbie Farah was a Bulldogs fan as he grew up but he is loyal whether you like him or not. Another example is (correct me if I'm wrong) Andrew and Matty Johns grew up as Tigers fans and never came near our club because they were loyal to the club that developed them.

I'm not naive, if the money was so far apart, I am understanding of the club switch but I don't think the money offered to Tedesco was too far apart.

 

[hammertime]

I think we'll be fine with Jacob and Simpkins.

If not, we get Robbie to pull a skando

 

[jirskyr]

A Roosters fan all his life

Ivan Cleary, Johns brothers, Mitchell Pearce were all Balmain fans as kids. Doesn't necessarily mean anything when it comes to playing for a club, so I don't accept it as being respectable.

It was his dream to play for the Roosters. It happened. Good for him.
Not everyone gets to live out their dreams.

Bollocks

What's that even mean? State why you disagree instead of using a worn out cockney word.

Bollocks that it was his dream to play for the Roosters. Bollocks meaning rubbish, crap, BS, malarkey.

His "dream to play for Roosters" is a retro-fitted narrative that only serves to cosy up to the Roosters supporters after the fact. Had he signed with Bulldogs or Raiders or someone else, he would have come out and said how he always admired those clubs and was keen to play for them.

Yeah he supported the Roosters as a kid, despite growing up in Ryde and moving to Camden, which is the best possible Tigers mix, but because his junior side was red-white-blue. Maybe Tigers should mandate every team have a non-NRL colour scheme to avoid this nonsense in future.

But most footballers do not end up playing for the team they supported as kids - just not feasible. Doesn't mean anything. Robbie Farah was a mad Bulldogs fan as a kid. Johns boys were avid Balmain fans as kids and if one of them had signed for Balmain back in the day, I am sure they would have said "I always wanted to play for Balmain".

Even if you take Tedesco's comments at face value, which I don't, but he isn't all that convincing anyway.

>From about six until I started at the juniors at the Tigers I was a Roosters fan. Freddy, he was the main guy I wanted to be like.

So there was an end date on his Roosters supporter period, coinciding with joining the Tigers. He wrote something in his diary when he was 11. Tedesco played for the Tigers for 8 seasons including NYC; by comparison the most Tiger-est player ever, Wayne Pearce, only played 11 seasons for Balmain.

If it was his dream to play for the Roosters, why did he come through Wests juniors, play for Wests rep sides and sign 3 consecutive contracts with Tigers (NYC, 2012, 2014)? Why did he only start playing for the Roosters when he was 25? Why did he negotiate with Dragons in 2012 and then actually sign with Raiders in 2014?

For someone with a dream to play for the Roosters, he certainly took the long way around to get there and had to be talked into it by Miniciello, who only happened to become friendly with Tedesco because he couldn't get picked for the Kangaroos and toured with the Italian side during the World Cup.

And as others have said, it was his dream to play for Roosters once he found out about their brown paper bags and off-field unlimited credit.

Well I say bollocks to Tedesco.

 

[weststigers]

Play on Robbie!!

 

[matchball]

A Roosters fan all his life

Ivan Cleary, Johns brothers, Mitchell Pearce were all Balmain fans as kids. Doesn't necessarily mean anything when it comes to playing for a club, so I don't accept it as being respectable.

It was his dream to play for the Roosters. It happened. Good for him.
Not everyone gets to live out their dreams.

Bollocks

What's that even mean? State why you disagree instead of using a worn out cockney word.

Bollocks that it was his dream to play for the Roosters. Bollocks meaning rubbish, crap, BS, malarkey.

His "dream to play for Roosters" is a retro-fitted narrative that only serves to cosy up to the Roosters supporters after the fact. Had he signed with Bulldogs or Raiders or someone else, he would have come out and said how he always admired those clubs and was keen to play for them.

Yeah he supported the Roosters as a kid, despite growing up in Ryde and moving to Camden, which is the best possible Tigers mix, but because his junior side was red-white-blue. Maybe Tigers should mandate every team have a non-NRL colour scheme to avoid this nonsense in future.

But most footballers do not end up playing for the team they supported as kids - just not feasible. Doesn't mean anything. Robbie Farah was a mad Bulldogs fan as a kid. Johns boys were avid Balmain fans as kids and if one of them had signed for Balmain back in the day, I am sure they would have said "I always wanted to play for Balmain".

Even if you take Tedesco's comments at face value, which I don't, but he isn't all that convincing anyway.

>From about six until I started at the juniors at the Tigers I was a Roosters fan. Freddy, he was the main guy I wanted to be like.

So there was an end date on his Roosters supporter period, coinciding with joining the Tigers. He wrote something in his diary when he was 11. Tedesco played for the Tigers for 8 seasons including NYC; by comparison the most Tiger-est player ever, Wayne Pearce, only played 11 seasons for Balmain.

If it was his dream to play for the Roosters, why did he come through Wests juniors, play for Wests rep sides and sign 3 consecutive contracts with Tigers (NYC, 2012, 2014)? Why did he only start playing for the Roosters when he was 25? Why did he negotiate with Dragons in 2012 and then actually sign with Raiders in 2014?

For someone with a dream to play for the Roosters, he certainly took the long way around to get there and had to be talked into it by Miniciello, who only happened to become friendly with Tedesco because he couldn't get picked for the Kangaroos and toured with the Italian side during the World Cup.

And as others have said, it was his dream to play for Roosters once he found out about their brown paper bags and off-field unlimited credit.

Well I say bollocks to Tedesco.

You're entitled to your opinion. Good day to you sir.

 

[Furious1]

Reed Mahoney jumped into first grade and has looked good... especially for some one who is very short and not overly athletic.

No reason Liddle + Simpkin can't do the same next year.

Exactly and you only have to look at the frame of Cam Smith to realise you can be very, very good without being big.

 

[OzLuke]

A Roosters fan all his life

Ivan Cleary, Johns brothers, Mitchell Pearce were all Balmain fans as kids. Doesn't necessarily mean anything when it comes to playing for a club, so I don't accept it as being respectable.

It was his dream to play for the Roosters. It happened. Good for him.
Not everyone gets to live out their dreams.

Bollocks

https://www.sbs.com.au/news/james-tedesco-s-roosters-roots-run-deep

Read that and tell me it's bollocks.

Yep he's a cock through and through.

I don't get it. He is living his dream to play with the club he loved as a kid.
I'd do the same.
Can't blame him whatsoever for leaving.

The problem is that he is a scum bag selfish mercenary. The Tigers stood by him through thick and thin and I'm certain the money wasn't that far apart. He had 2 options:

Option 1: Stick with the Tigers and create something great with the club that developed him, who were also loyal to him and become a legend at our great establishment; or

Option 2: Go to the soul less "glamour" club and buy, I mean win a competition where they will forget him once he is over the hill.

He chose option 2. Just because he supported the Roosters growing up means nothing. I believe Robbie Farah was a Bulldogs fan as he grew up but he is loyal whether you like him or not. Another example is (correct me if I'm wrong) Andrew and Matty Johns grew up as Tigers fans and never came near our club because they were loyal to the club that developed them.

I'm not naive, if the money was so far apart, I am understanding of the club switch but I don't think the money offered to Tedesco was too far apart.

you might be misreading money offered as "official money offered" and games of golf.....