Signings, Suggestions & Rumours Discussion

Outside the box thinking here...

I think the COE could do with a new washing machine (May's VLOG doesn't indicate we have one). Keep the players upbeat and happy with a front loader.

Galvin for a washing machine...we win that trade. Screenshot_20250521_172825_Samsung Internet.jpg
 
with Galvin going I think we should really be looking at back up half options unless we have any juniors or reserve grade players that may be ready to be an back up option I don't see anyone being a back up to latu or luai in the squad besides Adam and mason who are both no where near first grade standard at the halves, maybe we can play api in halves buts something I don't think we want to rely on we do still have bud technically but I think souths would want him permanently after this year and considering the money he is on I think we would let him go so that's why I think its worth looking into any back up halves on the outer as a back up
 
Jolls said:
Maybe, but the issues in attack are pretty easy to see and fix. Galvin is trying to leant in FG and it isn't working. He has gone from passing too early to digging too far into the line and passing to players already in heavy traffic. He will eventually get there but the place to practice is in reggies. Soem goes for his penchant for running sideways - it cramps that attack - at least when Toa was gettign early ball he could make something of it.

Our centres and ingers, for the most part, aren't our defensive issue. It is our middle that has gone to sleep over the last three weeks, the pressure and chase have dropped right off and the result is staring us in the face.

You have hit the nail on the head in relation to having long periods without posession - which in this day and age really sucks the juice out of teams. If lack of energy is the outcome of having to do too much defence in succession then we need to identify the cause - this comes down to our own errors and poor kicking game. These can also be addressed; however, I keep coming back to the same point - if we could do it for the most part over eight weeks why have the wheels fallen off in the last three? Resolve that and I think we turn it around.
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I hate blaming referees Jolls, but momentum is very difficult to slow, whether you're going forwards or backwards. Watching the Storm game, we were on the backfoot from the outset and Melbourne were on the front. If the ref pulled up every forward pass, the Storm wouldn't have had that momentum, we get some football and it doesn't turn into a flogging. Not saying we would have won, just not been flogged. The ref can slow a side down by penalizing them or speed them up by not. He let Melbourne rip.
In the Souths game, he could have binned Mitchell but chose not to, even though the same act from a different players earned a trip to the bin. In a tight game, these decisions matter. We're not getting the 50/50 calls and we're not good enough to win without them.
 
88 said:
As a fan, I’m really not interested in a money transfer if Galvin leaves. Given the money that passes through the club’s books what is $150-200K get us as it doesn’t affect the cap?

If we aren’t going to hold strong and keep Galvin to his contract to stop this happening again in the future, then we have to leverage a trade for a key player. This should be non negotiable with any team that wants Galvin early. We have to get something out of it or we are still in the doldrums of being pushovers.
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Exactly what I was thinking...
What’s the point of an early release unless it help us improve our squad moving forward?!
 
Vicious said:
Pascoe was an easy bloke to dislike by many, but he obviously never intended to stuff things up.
It would appear Richo is now finding out how difficult it is to manage things correctly at a club such as Wests Tigers where players and their managers believe they can walk all over us.
No doubt Richo is working hard trying to get things right, but the lack of information being provided to long suffering fans is nowhere near good enough.
It’s understood he wants to keep player recruitment and retention negotiations a secret, but players such as Faagatu, Miller, Johanssen etc have all departed and fans get no official confirmation from Wests Tigers ?
BTR has virtually vanished this season.
When all we hear from the media is negativity about our club , it would be nice to hear some positivity from our own club media at times.
Richo’s regular feel good updates from last season have virtually disappeared, does that mean our clubs off field dramas are worse than what meets the eye ?
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Tbh I feel everything was going well til the Galvin stuff we were getting the updates and everything but after the Galvin stuff the world has seemed to fall down, as managers and media all treat us like shit and I think Richiis finding hard to deal with
 
tigerballs said:
I hate blaming referees Jolls, but momentum is very difficult to slow, whether you're going forwards or backwards. Watching the Storm game, we were on the backfoot from the outset and Melbourne were on the front. If the ref pulled up every forward pass, the Storm wouldn't have had that momentum, we get some football and it doesn't turn into a flogging. Not saying we would have won, just not been flogged. The ref can slow a side down by penalizing them or speed them up by not. He let Melbourne rip.
In the Souths game, he could have binned Mitchell but chose not to, even though the same act from a different players earned a trip to the bin. In a tight game, these decisions matter. We're not getting the 50/50 calls and we're not good enough to win without them.
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You are right, you only have to look at the wild swings in recent games how much momentum plays a part in the modern game.

The number of forward passes that are let go is ridiculous and certainly in the Melbourne game there were some poor calls. I get not wanting to blame the referees; they are following guidance as well. However, yes if one or two of them had been pulld up momentum would have changed; it probably wouldn't have changed the outcome except that the score was closer. We certainly didn't play well in that game but Melbourne defeinitley benefited from the poor calls.

As an aside the forward pass issue is easy to fix. The ball must be caught behind where the player releases the ball. There would still be line balls that get through; but 90% would be fixed and once you start penalising teams they will adapt quickly.

Unfortunately there is no will to do that at NRL HQ as it would affect the "flow" of the game.
 
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