Shawn Blore #235

[Tigerboy]

We could have easily promoted a dev player at the deadline if we wanted to gnr. We targeted him, as he's been viewed as a future rep player for years.
Panthers saying they released as another club offered him a long term deal. We signed him on an 18 month contract...
They offered him a longer deal and on decent money, he turned them down for us. Another Utoikamanu situation in a way. He didn't feel wanted and disagreed with some things the panthers did. Quite possibly an option on a third year, either club or player option.

I also like that Madge is signing leaders. Not egotistical assholes. Good, honest hard working players with the right attitude. That's how you build a club and a culture. Having players with the same values.
I see reckon Blore is a bigger version of ET that runs more like Luciano/Garner. A player with heart and courage, that defends hard but also runs hard. He'll need time to build up strength and match fitness after his injury but will be pushing for a bench spot and then lock soon enough.

Absolutely spot on mate, future starting lock forsure .

 

[Deleted member 3518]

From the sounds of it we’ve picked up the two best young forwards in NSW and possibly the country. Stefano and Blore are gonna be our future hopefully. We’ve got a really good amount of young guys ready for the future

Haha the write up of every young player we sign make them out like they are going to be a huge star, but I'm pleased with the signing.

To be fair, all the young players we’ve signed this year are all junior origin reps etc. Stefano clearly the highest rated prospect we’ve signed but this kid is probably #2, people who know footy rate him extremely highly.

The others seems good but we will have to see how we will go in first grade not every young rep turns Out to be a star

This bloke has the temperament to do so. Give him an offseason and watch him go with the likes of Stefano next year. I'm very impressed with how Madge is building our squad. We're going to have quite the forward pack in a season or two.

In theory it sounds good but in sad reality if one of them takes the game by storm in the next 1 or 2 seasons they will miraculously end up at the Roosters or a club who prefers to offer "incentives" outside their salary.
Contracts etc these days are such a laughable disgrace that signings are usually met with trepidation that once the player shows promise they are gone just as quick. That is probably the biggest gripe with our game nowadays IMO.

I get your sentiment, but honestly I don't think it happens as often as you are suggesting. Most top-tier footballers stay with their incumbent clubs, and actually it's the part players that get set aside when that happens, e.g. your Ryan Hoffmans when Storm were trying to protect their Top 3.

I'm trying to think legitimately, all-time, how many Wests Tigers players did we try hard to keep but were beaten by a glamour club? Prince went to Titans, they didn't even have a pedigree except for an open chequebook. Marty Taupau we didn't even counter-offer once Manly offered him a massive salary.

It's basically Tedesco and arguably Woods, though plenty of folks were happy to see Woods go at the kind of $$$ we were hearing.

Not that Roosters don't shop very successfully - they do - but they don't sign up every talented player from around the game, just the odd specific ones they are after. We've only suffered that once and Souths have been far worse off from Roosters poaching. Broncos and Storm being two other heavyweight sides, hardly ever (approaching never) signed an ex-Tigers player of note?

Sorry mate , I have to disagree on the Storm comment . They may not sign established first graders but just have a look through their backline this year , and in previous years other players, the storm have been very astute in signing tigers lower graders.
Their back line this year is
Papenhuyzen, Addo Carr , Vuni , Momo, Seve , the PNG kid , Hynes . 4 of the 7 either were highly rated tigers juniors or still at the tigers.
Throw in Lima , Hoffman and Koribete , and it’s pretty clear , we have been fertile ground for the storm in the past .

 

[jirskyr]

From the sounds of it we’ve picked up the two best young forwards in NSW and possibly the country. Stefano and Blore are gonna be our future hopefully. We’ve got a really good amount of young guys ready for the future

Haha the write up of every young player we sign make them out like they are going to be a huge star, but I'm pleased with the signing.

To be fair, all the young players we’ve signed this year are all junior origin reps etc. Stefano clearly the highest rated prospect we’ve signed but this kid is probably #2, people who know footy rate him extremely highly.

The others seems good but we will have to see how we will go in first grade not every young rep turns Out to be a star

This bloke has the temperament to do so. Give him an offseason and watch him go with the likes of Stefano next year. I'm very impressed with how Madge is building our squad. We're going to have quite the forward pack in a season or two.

In theory it sounds good but in sad reality if one of them takes the game by storm in the next 1 or 2 seasons they will miraculously end up at the Roosters or a club who prefers to offer "incentives" outside their salary.
Contracts etc these days are such a laughable disgrace that signings are usually met with trepidation that once the player shows promise they are gone just as quick. That is probably the biggest gripe with our game nowadays IMO.

I get your sentiment, but honestly I don't think it happens as often as you are suggesting. Most top-tier footballers stay with their incumbent clubs, and actually it's the part players that get set aside when that happens, e.g. your Ryan Hoffmans when Storm were trying to protect their Top 3.

I'm trying to think legitimately, all-time, how many Wests Tigers players did we try hard to keep but were beaten by a glamour club? Prince went to Titans, they didn't even have a pedigree except for an open chequebook. Marty Taupau we didn't even counter-offer once Manly offered him a massive salary.

It's basically Tedesco and arguably Woods, though plenty of folks were happy to see Woods go at the kind of $$$ we were hearing.

Not that Roosters don't shop very successfully - they do - but they don't sign up every talented player from around the game, just the odd specific ones they are after. We've only suffered that once and Souths have been far worse off from Roosters poaching. Broncos and Storm being two other heavyweight sides, hardly ever (approaching never) signed an ex-Tigers player of note?

Sorry mate , I have to disagree on the Storm comment . They may not sign established first graders but just have a look through their backline this year , and in previous years other players, the storm have been very astute in signing tigers lower graders.
Their back line this year is
Papenhuyzen, Addo Carr , Vuni , Momo, Seve , the PNG kid , Hynes . 4 of the 7 either were highly rated tigers juniors or still at the tigers.
Throw in Lima , Hoffman and Koribete , and it’s pretty clear , we have been fertile ground for the storm in the past .

Well firstly, the original comment from F2B was that
"In theory it sounds good but in sad reality if one of them takes the game by storm in the next 1 or 2 seasons they will miraculously end up at the Roosters or a club who prefers to offer "incentives" outside their salary."

I.e. buy a young player, but if he develops into a top-flight player, the top-tier comes come and scoop them up. This is basically not true of any player you mentioned. Paps was unproven behind Tedesco, JAC was just into his FG career, Seve was released via Broncos, Lima was past his best, Koroibete was also released and Hoffman wasn't anywhere near FG yet.

Momirovski is a pointless inclusion on account of being a temporary trade.

Have Storm signed a couple of Tigers players, arguably astutely? Of course, and honestly you can say that for just about every club. Literally, you can find 7 or 8 half-decent ex-Tigers ending up at any other club in the last 10+ years, I mean you are going back as far as Jeff Lima and Ryan Hoffman, so 15+ years.

In fact let me do it now in reverse: John Carlaw, Paul Whatuira, Billy Walters, (Harry Grant), Adam Blair, Robbie Rochow, Mahe Fonua, Tevita Metuisela. There's 7 decent ex-Storm players picked up by the Tigers.

If anything, Sharks are the side who very clearly picked up a stream of Tigers players over the years. But that again isn't the point, the point is whether or not top teams come and get your best juniors when they start proving themselves in FG. It doesn't really happen IMO with any consistency or frequency.

 

[bacon]

I've always heard Shawn Blore's name whenever it came to the lower grade cups and he seemed like a very decent player!
Excited to see what he can produce...love the way this team is headed!
Hopefully we can get memed for always finishing 8th, instead of 9th

 

[happy_tiger]

From the sounds of it we’ve picked up the two best young forwards in NSW and possibly the country. Stefano and Blore are gonna be our future hopefully. We’ve got a really good amount of young guys ready for the future

Haha the write up of every young player we sign make them out like they are going to be a huge star, but I'm pleased with the signing.

To be fair, all the young players we’ve signed this year are all junior origin reps etc. Stefano clearly the highest rated prospect we’ve signed but this kid is probably #2, people who know footy rate him extremely highly.

The others seems good but we will have to see how we will go in first grade not every young rep turns Out to be a star

This bloke has the temperament to do so. Give him an offseason and watch him go with the likes of Stefano next year. I'm very impressed with how Madge is building our squad. We're going to have quite the forward pack in a season or two.

In theory it sounds good but in sad reality if one of them takes the game by storm in the next 1 or 2 seasons they will miraculously end up at the Roosters or a club who prefers to offer "incentives" outside their salary.
Contracts etc these days are such a laughable disgrace that signings are usually met with trepidation that once the player shows promise they are gone just as quick. That is probably the biggest gripe with our game nowadays IMO.

I get your sentiment, but honestly I don't think it happens as often as you are suggesting. Most top-tier footballers stay with their incumbent clubs, and actually it's the part players that get set aside when that happens, e.g. your Ryan Hoffmans when Storm were trying to protect their Top 3.

I'm trying to think legitimately, all-time, how many Wests Tigers players did we try hard to keep but were beaten by a glamour club? Prince went to Titans, they didn't even have a pedigree except for an open chequebook. Marty Taupau we didn't even counter-offer once Manly offered him a massive salary.

It's basically Tedesco and arguably Woods, though plenty of folks were happy to see Woods go at the kind of $$$ we were hearing.

Not that Roosters don't shop very successfully - they do - but they don't sign up every talented player from around the game, just the odd specific ones they are after. We've only suffered that once and Souths have been far worse off from Roosters poaching. Broncos and Storm being two other heavyweight sides, hardly ever (approaching never) signed an ex-Tigers player of note?

Sorry mate , I have to disagree on the Storm comment . They may not sign established first graders but just have a look through their backline this year , and in previous years other players, the storm have been very astute in signing tigers lower graders.
Their back line this year is
Papenhuyzen, Addo Carr , Vuni , Momo, Seve , the PNG kid , Hynes . 4 of the 7 either were highly rated tigers juniors or still at the tigers.
Throw in Lima , Hoffman and Koribete , and it’s pretty clear , we have been fertile ground for the storm in the past .

Well firstly, the original comment from F2B was that
"In theory it sounds good but in sad reality if one of them takes the game by storm in the next 1 or 2 seasons they will miraculously end up at the Roosters or a club who prefers to offer "incentives" outside their salary."

I.e. buy a young player, but if he develops into a top-flight player, the top-tier comes come and scoop them up. This is basically not true of any player you mentioned. Paps was unproven behind Tedesco, JAC was just into his FG career, Seve was released via Broncos, Lima was past his best, Koroibete was also released and Hoffman wasn't anywhere near FG yet.

Momirovski is a pointless inclusion on account of being a temporary trade.

Have Storm signed a couple of Tigers players, arguably astutely? Of course, and honestly you can say that for just about every club. Literally, you can find 7 or 8 half-decent ex-Tigers ending up at any other club in the last 10+ years, I mean you are going back as far as Jeff Lima and Ryan Hoffman, so 15+ years.

In fact let me do it now in reverse: John Carlaw, Paul Whatuira, Billy Walters, (Harry Grant), Adam Blair, Robbie Rochow, Mahe Fonua, Tevita Metuisela. There's 7 decent ex-Storm players picked up by the Tigers.

If anything, Sharks are the side who very clearly picked up a stream of Tigers players over the years. But that again isn't the point, the point is whether or not top teams come and get your best juniors when they start proving themselves in FG. It doesn't really happen IMO with any consistency or frequency.

Whats was a Penny boy

 

[Deleted member 3518]

From the sounds of it we’ve picked up the two best young forwards in NSW and possibly the country. Stefano and Blore are gonna be our future hopefully. We’ve got a really good amount of young guys ready for the future

Haha the write up of every young player we sign make them out like they are going to be a huge star, but I'm pleased with the signing.

To be fair, all the young players we’ve signed this year are all junior origin reps etc. Stefano clearly the highest rated prospect we’ve signed but this kid is probably #2, people who know footy rate him extremely highly.

The others seems good but we will have to see how we will go in first grade not every young rep turns Out to be a star

This bloke has the temperament to do so. Give him an offseason and watch him go with the likes of Stefano next year. I'm very impressed with how Madge is building our squad. We're going to have quite the forward pack in a season or two.

In theory it sounds good but in sad reality if one of them takes the game by storm in the next 1 or 2 seasons they will miraculously end up at the Roosters or a club who prefers to offer "incentives" outside their salary.
Contracts etc these days are such a laughable disgrace that signings are usually met with trepidation that once the player shows promise they are gone just as quick. That is probably the biggest gripe with our game nowadays IMO.

I get your sentiment, but honestly I don't think it happens as often as you are suggesting. Most top-tier footballers stay with their incumbent clubs, and actually it's the part players that get set aside when that happens, e.g. your Ryan Hoffmans when Storm were trying to protect their Top 3.

I'm trying to think legitimately, all-time, how many Wests Tigers players did we try hard to keep but were beaten by a glamour club? Prince went to Titans, they didn't even have a pedigree except for an open chequebook. Marty Taupau we didn't even counter-offer once Manly offered him a massive salary.

It's basically Tedesco and arguably Woods, though plenty of folks were happy to see Woods go at the kind of $$$ we were hearing.

Not that Roosters don't shop very successfully - they do - but they don't sign up every talented player from around the game, just the odd specific ones they are after. We've only suffered that once and Souths have been far worse off from Roosters poaching. Broncos and Storm being two other heavyweight sides, hardly ever (approaching never) signed an ex-Tigers player of note?

Sorry mate , I have to disagree on the Storm comment . They may not sign established first graders but just have a look through their backline this year , and in previous years other players, the storm have been very astute in signing tigers lower graders.
Their back line this year is
Papenhuyzen, Addo Carr , Vuni , Momo, Seve , the PNG kid , Hynes . 4 of the 7 either were highly rated tigers juniors or still at the tigers.
Throw in Lima , Hoffman and Koribete , and it’s pretty clear , we have been fertile ground for the storm in the past .

Well firstly, the original comment from F2B was that
"In theory it sounds good but in sad reality if one of them takes the game by storm in the next 1 or 2 seasons they will miraculously end up at the Roosters or a club who prefers to offer "incentives" outside their salary."

I.e. buy a young player, but if he develops into a top-flight player, the top-tier comes come and scoop them up. This is basically not true of any player you mentioned. Paps was unproven behind Tedesco, JAC was just into his FG career, Seve was released via Broncos, Lima was past his best, Koroibete was also released and Hoffman wasn't anywhere near FG yet.

Momirovski is a pointless inclusion on account of being a temporary trade.

Have Storm signed a couple of Tigers players, arguably astutely? Of course, and honestly you can say that for just about every club. Literally, you can find 7 or 8 half-decent ex-Tigers ending up at any other club in the last 10+ years, I mean you are going back as far as Jeff Lima and Ryan Hoffman, so 15+ years.

In fact let me do it now in reverse: John Carlaw, Paul Whatuira, Billy Walters, (Harry Grant), Adam Blair, Robbie Rochow, Mahe Fonua, Tevita Metuisela. There's 7 decent ex-Storm players picked up by the Tigers.

If anything, Sharks are the side who very clearly picked up a stream of Tigers players over the years. But that again isn't the point, the point is whether or not top teams come and get your best juniors when they start proving themselves in FG. It doesn't really happen IMO with any consistency or frequency.

Whats was a Penny boy

Agree to disagree I guess . It comes down to how much you value each player. I personally think the juniors we lost to them , especially Hoffman , far outweighs the players you mentioned . To imply anyone on your list is real quality , is debatable . Even when Blair left , clearly , the storm had an idea he was a system player , which is probably why they didn’t do the boat in the driveway for him. I’m not arguing , I just don’t think the statement, “the top teams don’t come knocking” is true.
Didn’t Israel Folau grow up in Minto?
Manly are by far the worse though. And it’s not even close . They bus the kids in from wherever , within a 2 hour drive to Warringah. Pretty despicable, even by rugby league standards

 

[will1999]

really building a nice forward pack with Blore, Stefano, Musgrove, Mikaele, Twal, Aloiai, Leilua and Garner

 

[Cairnstigers]

Everyone forgets Eisenhuth,,

Who

 

[Cairnstigers]

Height — 191cm
Weight — 108kg


Solid frame in my opinion

There my stats
But I have a 6 pack in my stomach not on my stomach 🍺🍺🍺🍺🍺🍺

 

[Cairnstigers]

Everyone forgets Eisenhuth,,

Hooth needs to do something to make himself a tad more memorable.

One half of the Twuth ..enuff said ...go wash your mouth out with soap


 

[happy_tiger]

Everyone forgets Eisenhuth,,

Hooth needs to do something to make himself a tad more memorable.

One half of the Twuth ..enuff said ...go wash your mouth out with soap


Twuth hurts

 

[beanie123456]

The kid can play only problem was told he’s had 2 shoulder recos at this young age

 

[jirskyr]

Whats was a Penny boy

I'm not digging down to junior position or place of origins. I was just comparing smart purchases of players who were from another club.

Strongee took the current Storm backline and looked at home many of them were from Tigers origins. If you are going to drill down to junior level or debutant level, then the players in question either aren't Tigers juniors, or didn't debut for the Tigers either. JAC was a Souths boy and Koroibete was from Fiji, Seve was from Brisbane. Paps never played for Wests Tigers FG, neither did Hoffman. Jeff Lima is a Kiwi.

 

[balmain boy]

Whats was a Penny boy

I'm not digging down to junior position or place of origins. I was just comparing smart purchases of players who were from another club.

Strongee took the current Storm backline and looked at home many of them were from Tigers origins. If you are going to drill down to junior level or debutant level, then the players in question either aren't Tigers juniors, or didn't debut for the Tigers either. JAC was a Souths boy and Koroibete was from Fiji, Seve was from Brisbane. Paps never played for Wests Tigers FG, neither did Hoffman. Jeff Lima is a Kiwi.

Generally speaking juniors includes flegg/nyc. In which case all of the players listed bar addo carr is a junior.

 

[happy_tiger]

Whats was a Penny boy

I'm not digging down to junior position or place of origins. I was just comparing smart purchases of players who were from another club.

Strongee took the current Storm backline and looked at home many of them were from Tigers origins. If you are going to drill down to junior level or debutant level, then the players in question either aren't Tigers juniors, or didn't debut for the Tigers either. JAC was a Souths boy and Koroibete was from Fiji, Seve was from Brisbane. Paps never played for Wests Tigers FG, neither did Hoffman. Jeff Lima is a Kiwi.

Still got it wrong .....Seve was an Ipswich boy ..was how I knew about him

 

[Deleted member 3518]

Whats was a Penny boy

I'm not digging down to junior position or place of origins. I was just comparing smart purchases of players who were from another club.

Strongee took the current Storm backline and looked at home many of them were from Tigers origins. If you are going to drill down to junior level or debutant level, then the players in question either aren't Tigers juniors, or didn't debut for the Tigers either. JAC was a Souths boy and Koroibete was from Fiji, Seve was from Brisbane. Paps never played for Wests Tigers FG, neither did Hoffman. Jeff Lima is a Kiwi.

Kori , was a weapon dude . We all loved him, until SuperCoach Taylor decided , Jordan rankin was better . Which btw , got rid of JAC a year later . My point is we had our hands on all of them , and they were signed by the storm afterwards. Seve is a bit of a cheat , youre right , as he languished in the QRL for a few years after we released him .
But make no mistake , he was a hot commodity when he was coming through . I remember being pumped about him , and then ... crickets .
Same for paps . He was highly rated as well. Taylor was the worst ... I still can’t believe we didn’t take Hook Griffin above him . It was obvious at the time . And it’s not like Hook was an elite coach either . (I’m on a tangent ).
Anyways the top teams do raid us . But I’m sure they steal from each other’s plate more than ours.

 

[Cultured_Bogan]

Whats was a Penny boy

I'm not digging down to junior position or place of origins. I was just comparing smart purchases of players who were from another club.

Strongee took the current Storm backline and looked at home many of them were from Tigers origins. If you are going to drill down to junior level or debutant level, then the players in question either aren't Tigers juniors, or didn't debut for the Tigers either. JAC was a Souths boy and Koroibete was from Fiji, Seve was from Brisbane. Paps never played for Wests Tigers FG, neither did Hoffman. Jeff Lima is a Kiwi.

Kori , was a weapon dude . We all loved him, until SuperCoach Taylor decided , Jordan rankin was better . Which btw , got rid of JAC a year later . My point is we had our hands on all of them , and they were signed by the storm afterwards. Seve is a bit of a cheat , youre right , as he languished in the QRL for a few years after we released him .
But make no mistake , he was a hot commodity when he was coming through . I remember being pumped about him , and then ... crickets .
Same for paps . He was highly rated as well. Taylor was the worst ... I still can’t believe we didn’t take Hook Griffin above him . It was obvious at the time . And it’s not like Hook was an elite coach either . (I’m on a tangent ).
Anyways the top teams do raid us . But I’m sure they steal from each other’s plate more than ours.

Koroibete left before JT took over. He moved on at the mid season in 2014. JT started in 2015.

 

[Deleted member 3518]

Whats was a Penny boy

I'm not digging down to junior position or place of origins. I was just comparing smart purchases of players who were from another club.

Strongee took the current Storm backline and looked at home many of them were from Tigers origins. If you are going to drill down to junior level or debutant level, then the players in question either aren't Tigers juniors, or didn't debut for the Tigers either. JAC was a Souths boy and Koroibete was from Fiji, Seve was from Brisbane. Paps never played for Wests Tigers FG, neither did Hoffman. Jeff Lima is a Kiwi.

Kori , was a weapon dude . We all loved him, until SuperCoach Taylor decided , Jordan rankin was better . Which btw , got rid of JAC a year later . My point is we had our hands on all of them , and they were signed by the storm afterwards. Seve is a bit of a cheat , youre right , as he languished in the QRL for a few years after we released him .
But make no mistake , he was a hot commodity when he was coming through . I remember being pumped about him , and then ... crickets .
Same for paps . He was highly rated as well. Taylor was the worst ... I still can’t believe we didn’t take Hook Griffin above him . It was obvious at the time . And it’s not like Hook was an elite coach either . (I’m on a tangent ).
Anyways the top teams do raid us . But I’m sure they steal from each other’s plate more than ours.

Koroibete left before JT took over. He moved on at the mid season in 2014. JT started in 2015.

Oh so it was Potter ? Urgh . So many bad memories. Who was it they played instead of kori ? I remember feeling outraged at the time , when he was in reserves and moved mid season

 

[jirskyr]

Whats was a Penny boy

I'm not digging down to junior position or place of origins. I was just comparing smart purchases of players who were from another club.

Strongee took the current Storm backline and looked at home many of them were from Tigers origins. If you are going to drill down to junior level or debutant level, then the players in question either aren't Tigers juniors, or didn't debut for the Tigers either. JAC was a Souths boy and Koroibete was from Fiji, Seve was from Brisbane. Paps never played for Wests Tigers FG, neither did Hoffman. Jeff Lima is a Kiwi.

Still got it wrong .....Seve was an Ipswich boy ..was how I knew about him

Well actually that's not what I meant at all, I meant his schooling and in that regard I got it wrong, Gold Coast.

But you are splitting hairs, I'm not trying to claim all or none of these boys as Tigers juniors, I'm making the argument that every team signs decent players from every other team, whether or not they debuted for that team, or played NYC, or came from a town interstate.

 

[jirskyr]

Whats was a Penny boy

I'm not digging down to junior position or place of origins. I was just comparing smart purchases of players who were from another club.

Strongee took the current Storm backline and looked at home many of them were from Tigers origins. If you are going to drill down to junior level or debutant level, then the players in question either aren't Tigers juniors, or didn't debut for the Tigers either. JAC was a Souths boy and Koroibete was from Fiji, Seve was from Brisbane. Paps never played for Wests Tigers FG, neither did Hoffman. Jeff Lima is a Kiwi.

Generally speaking juniors includes flegg/nyc. In which case all of the players listed bar addo carr is a junior.

"Generally speaking" doesn't cut it here, there's too much width. Paps played U20s for both Tigers and Storm. JAC played Flegg for Souths and NYC for Sharks - so is he a Souths junior or a Sharks junior?

In fact by definition of including Flegg or NYC, any player you sign pre-first grade who plays 1 game in your U20s feeder becomes your junior. That makes Tommy Talau a Tigers junior not a Bulldogs junior. It makes Matt Lodge either a Penrith, Storm or Tigers junior, as he played NYC for all of them.