weststigers
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Sorry...but are you suggesting inner west players get some sort of leg-up at the club?
Literally all our juniors come out of the Magpies.
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Literally all our juniors come out of the Magpies.
GNR4LIFE
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Humphreys is alright, but hardly a guy as a fan I’d be checking threads every day for updates on and sweating an announcement. Mid signing at absolute best and isn’t really better than any options we currently have.
No you are misinterpreting what I am saying.
I don’t think Wests Tigers look after our junior players as a whole as good as they should and this includes our South-West based juniors and our Balmain District juniors and our players recruited from outside of these areas at a young age.
What I am saying is we are not going out of our way to try and include many of our South-West based juniors in our future too 30 plans, so it can rightly or wrongly give a feeling they are not being prioritised from that area.
Like anything in life you need a little bit of give and take to win over the trust of many in the South-West and despite plenty of words to say that is what we are planning, our actions have not been backing that up very well.
weststigers
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Sorry mate...from my count there are 15 players you could consider pathways or juniors...13 are from Wests. How do you reconcile your comments with reality?
Balmain (2)
Adam Doueihi
Tony Sukkar
Western Suburbs (13)
Alex Seyfarth
Heath Mason
Heamasi Makasini
Jared Haywood
Josese Lanyon
Kit Laulilii
Luke Laulilii
Tino Tavana
Jock Madden
Solomone Saukuru
Fonua Pole
Lachlan Broederlow
Will Craig
Having S. Fainu on one side, and KPP on the other was great.
It really stretched the oppositions defense.
TV Ted Ellery
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Seyfarth is a Dundas Shamrocks junior.
Broederlow is a Bulldogs junior who joined Balmain in Ball.
Haywood is a Penrith junior who joined Balmain in Matts.
Madden is a Knights junior who I believe went straight into our KOE team.
Pole is a Storm junior who joined Balmain in Ball.
Lanyon is a Dogs junior who went straight into our Flegg team.
Jock Madden is from the Hunter region, but good recruitment from Wests Tigers at that time got him to our club as a talented young junior representative player.
Out of your list 2 have already departed as of 2027.
5 are currently unsigned for 2027 and most if not all are very unlikely to be resigned.
2 of them being Adam Doueihi and Fonua Pole are thriving and currently very important parts of our NRL team, although we are now seeing some of our fans turn on Adam Doueihi.
Alex Seyfarth is also a current t NRL regular, but not wanted by many of our fans and there were rumours not so long ago that he was being shopped around.
2 of them being Heamasi Makasini and Jared Haywood are emerging as likely NRL regulars for the foreseeable future.
Josese Lanyon and Tino Tavana have made their NRL debuts this season and are locked in for 2027, but are yet to establish themselves as NRL regulars for 2027 and beyond.
Actions speak much louder than words. There are fans on both sides of the fence that agree with that Statement.
Tino Tavana needs a sprint and strength coach this off season.
I think he is quite strong and he gets an A+ for the heart and courage he plays with, but he definitely needs to improve his speed if that is possible and he needs a big improvement on his overall defence.
Is he on a Development/Train & Trial or Top 30 contract for next season?
If we are being honest he is not quite good enough to command a top 30 spot just yet, but if he can somehow improve his speed and more importantly improve his defence, he could become a very handy player and then be deserved of a top 30 position.
I think Saukuru was initially in the Bulldogs system too wasn’t he?
TV Ted Ellery
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Yeah, that's right. His dad brought Sol and his brother across from the Dogs when he joined our coaching ranks.
I thought seyfart was from dundas shamcocks
supercoach
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If we lined our forward pack against nearly all the teams they would get beaten by 20 metres in a 100 metre dash. Our backline would struggle also. The game is all about explosive acceleration. We have a couple of guys who are quick over the length of the field, but we don’t have anyone who can hit top speed in a step or two. You need speed for both defence and attack. Once our first line of defence is penetrated the alarm bells go off because we lack the speed to mop up
Buttface
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Having 2 good 2rf is what we been missing for a decade.
Our pathways development from a large junior nursery is beyond poor and that impacts the first grade side, our cap, our coach and the makes a mockery of the "development club" title that we are supposed to be.
Developed who in the last 10 years since Teddy walked that looks even close to be a rep player let alone a nucleus of quality FG players?
Meanwhile let's keep asking why our FG coaches are pushing s$#t uphill.
Developed who in the last 10 years since Teddy walked that looks even close to be a rep player let alone a nucleus of quality FG players?
Meanwhile let's keep asking why our FG coaches are pushing s$#t uphill.
mtd#2
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We had great defence for the first 7 rounds.. so something did change for the better. then it changed again for the worse.
Buttface
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I’d go with Paul Gallen and Ben Johnson
king_sirro
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Seyfarth was Balmain and Jock was Newcastle
