Signings, Suggestions & Rumours Discussion

[Jedi_Tiger]

Tyson Gamble named in the halves for Broncos
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and Jordan Rankin in Parramattas 21

How did we let them gp😡😡😡😡😂😂😂😂

no mention in the media about us moving on rankin and Gamble

 

[The_Patriot]

Good luck to Tyson.

He deserves a change of luck.

Could really stamp himself here. Still only 24.

 

[Guest]

Good luck to Tyson.

He deserves a change of luck.

Could really stamp himself here. Still only 24.

Hope he kills it. Couldn't agree more.

He's a kid that really did carve up the Qld Cup.

 

[The_Patriot]

Good luck to Tyson.

He deserves a change of luck.

Could really stamp himself here. Still only 24.

Hope he kills it. He deserves a change of luck.

Has played two games.

One in an abysmal Wests Tigers side smashed by the Raiders. The other at the Broncos where he was knocked out cold in the first hit up.

He has what the Broncos need. Good organisational game, never shuts up, calls the the forwards on to the ball and never gives up on a play.

Could not be any worse than Dearden or Croft and will allow Milford to roam the field.

 

[Mighty_Tiger]

Wests Tigers ward off NRL rivals to tie down young hooker Jake Simpkin on lengthy deal


https://www.foxsports.com.au/nrl/nrl-premiership/nrl-2021-wests-tigers-resign-jake-simpkin-dragons-prop-daniel-alvaro-hails-the-football-whisperer-joe-wehbe/news-story/7db092a49b8e7bff4dcc17a2d03c1851

With all the doom and gloom at the moment, this is super welcome news. Thanks for your limited service Liddle, all the best at the bulldogs next season

Liddle won't have to call anyone. There'll be plenty lining up for him.

There is no reason why we cannot have two hookers of quality in the squad. Liddle is a loyal and fine player for WTs. I want him at WTs.

Quite a few on this forum are like 'the grass is always greener on the other side':thinking_face:

When we had Tedesco - 'he is past it, we must play him at the center'. We better swap him with Moylon, or Wighton.
Papahuyzen - he is too small, he is not ready.
or
Cini - he is slow, cannot play defence, he is not ready.

I have said from last year simpkin was the future not liddle. I'm prepared to put head on chopping block Simpkin will play origin for QLD one day

He’s got Harry in front of him?

And Mahoney.
QLD is taking over from Kings Cross.

 

[Cairnstigers]

Noticed Mbye and DCE having a serious discussion after the game. Wondering if one of them or both are on their way to Broncos?

Nah
They were discussing pay packets

Yeh, You’re probably right just talking about investment opportunities relative to the RBA”s monetary policy.

Evans said ...”I earn more than you “
Mbye replied.. “ yeah but I get to bludge more “

Evans says I get 1'100'000 a game
Evans then says you only get $900'000 a season

Mbye says
You play 25 full 80 minute games a year so that's $550.00 per minute
I only play 25 games at the most and usually off the bench or about 40 minutes a game average so that's $900.00 per minute
So suck that Cherry

 

[hobbo1]

Noticed Mbye and DCE having a serious discussion after the game. Wondering if one of them or both are on their way to Broncos?

Nah
They were discussing pay packets

Yeh, You’re probably right just talking about investment opportunities relative to the RBA”s monetary policy.

Evans said ...”I earn more than you “
Mbye replied.. “ yeah but I get to bludge more “

Evans says I get 1'100'000 a game
Evans then says you only get $900'000 a season

Mbye says
You play 25 full 80 minute games a year so that's $550.00 per minute
I only play 25 games at the most and usually off the bench or about 40 minutes a game average so that's $900.00 per minute
So suck that Cherry

?

 

[JC99]

Gagai and Staggs on the market, please please please we need to have a look at one of these guys

 

[Cairnstigers]

Wests Tigers ward off NRL rivals to tie down young hooker Jake Simpkin on lengthy deal


https://www.foxsports.com.au/nrl/nrl-premiership/nrl-2021-wests-tigers-resign-jake-simpkin-dragons-prop-daniel-alvaro-hails-the-football-whisperer-joe-wehbe/news-story/7db092a49b8e7bff4dcc17a2d03c1851

With all the doom and gloom at the moment, this is super welcome news. Thanks for your limited service Liddle, all the best at the bulldogs next season

Liddle won't have to call anyone. There'll be plenty lining up for him.

There is no reason why we cannot have two hookers of quality in the squad. Liddle is a loyal and fine player for WTs. I want him at WTs.

Quite a few on this forum are like 'the grass is always greener on the other side':thinking_face:

When we had Tedesco - 'he is past it, we must play him at the center'. We better swap him with Moylon, or Wighton.
Papahuyzen - he is too small, he is not ready.
or
Cini - he is slow, cannot play defence, he is not ready.

I have said from last year simpkin was the future not liddle. I'm prepared to put head on chopping block Simpkin will play origin for QLD one day

Who's head
Happy has two so he won't miss one

 

[facepalmer]

Gagai and Staggs on the market, please please please we need to have a look at one of these guys

Gagai is a big time no from me. The dude is so inconsistent at NRL level. Only shows up in contract years and for rep games. He's not strong mentally and I believe he would be awful at a club that was performing badly.

Which is why we are absolutely odds on to land him.

 

[happy_tiger]

He is tiny ..like smaller than Preston Campbell tiny

Apparently 187cm & 90 kgs in the old money that's 6 feet and 14 stone

Please see the article I raised and then look at the picture ...you'll understand my comments ...looks like 2 different guys

 

[happy_tiger]

Wests Tigers ward off NRL rivals to tie down young hooker Jake Simpkin on lengthy deal


https://www.foxsports.com.au/nrl/nrl-premiership/nrl-2021-wests-tigers-resign-jake-simpkin-dragons-prop-daniel-alvaro-hails-the-football-whisperer-joe-wehbe/news-story/7db092a49b8e7bff4dcc17a2d03c1851

With all the doom and gloom at the moment, this is super welcome news. Thanks for your limited service Liddle, all the best at the bulldogs next season

Liddle won't have to call anyone. There'll be plenty lining up for him.

There is no reason why we cannot have two hookers of quality in the squad. Liddle is a loyal and fine player for WTs. I want him at WTs.

Quite a few on this forum are like 'the grass is always greener on the other side':thinking_face:

When we had Tedesco - 'he is past it, we must play him at the center'. We better swap him with Moylon, or Wighton.
Papahuyzen - he is too small, he is not ready.
or
Cini - he is slow, cannot play defence, he is not ready.

I have said from last year simpkin was the future not liddle. I'm prepared to put head on chopping block Simpkin will play origin for QLD one day

Who's head
Happy has two so he won't miss one

I'm voting to hand the pointy end of Qld to the PNGian's ...Cairns up

 

[TigerNeddyK]

It’s going to be hard to sign players until we have an idea of who our coach will be next year.

As if it's not hard enough already ? no decent player will join us until we can prove we don't suck and that might be never lol

We have a fair bit of money to spend next year. It’s pretty clear Maguire won’t be here so cut him now and try and salvage what we can. It’s become evident that representative players don’t want to play for him.

We've got money but players still won't come here, been that way before Madge was here. We never sign genuine stars unfortunately

That's partly down to who we are as a club and also the coaches we've brought on board. Potter and Taylor had limited appeal to players and Ivan panic bought. Deserved or not evidence suggests established players with multiple options don't want to play for Madge. We need to move on to someone else.

I don't think it'll make a difference unless we get one of the super coaches. It's career suicide coming to play for us unless you're a rookie trying to get some first grade so you can get signed elsewhere

Players want to earn good money and win. They don't want to go to a club with an old fashioned disciplinarian that loses all the time. If we can get someone in that has good man management skills and is decent tactically, we might start winning some games. I think we have the squad to upset a few teams. Once that happens we might start getting some players through the door.

Before we start getting tactical the players actually have to start wanting to win, and that's on the culture from top to bottom. Whole join needs a clean out.

If they got rid of Madge today I guarantee you we'd see a different attitude this week.

I would almost guarantee it, needs to happen this week

Don't think it'll happen this week 851

Wishful thinking on my part, I am just over this bad team selections, no game plan and no commitment every week.

Why? Do you not think it is cutting edge to pick Mbye every week as a super sub to come on and immediately and relentlessly catch the ball and look to pass it to somebody , anybody else no matter what sort of a position they are in so that Mr no line breaks and no tackle busts and no try assists ever can admit to the entire world that we are getting nothing from him and he feels he would be better off some where else? That is a winning team culture right there! And no matter how well Madden plays Brooks will ensure safe turnovers on the 5th tackle .... his chip kick to the opposition fullback is reliable, and he is consistent, and Madge is looking for consistency....... not class, competitiveness and desire, but bland consistency..... when Madge says he will make changes, he means musical chairs but with no chairs removed and no new players ever getting a run.... just the players that got flogged last week will change the number that they wear...... that is the extent of Madges genius and his tactics and strategy that he is gifting to us West’s Tigers fans on a weekly basis for 3 years now.... he 18 wins from 53 games..... you gotta love it and his flay attacking style where the players overrun the dummy half, but only by standing in front of him when the ball is played, not overrunning the ball, which is impossible because they stand still and refuse to run onto the ball, and they never ever back up the ball carrier looking for an offload, this would be stupid because how could they all. Always be set for the next -lay if they are bust playing football and 3hats in front if them by actually supporting the ball carrier? ?????. OMG I GIVE UP .... please sign a new coach...... this guy is killing me!

 

[Needaname]

Wests Tigers ward off NRL rivals to tie down young hooker Jake Simpkin on lengthy deal


https://www.foxsports.com.au/nrl/nrl-premiership/nrl-2021-wests-tigers-resign-jake-simpkin-dragons-prop-daniel-alvaro-hails-the-football-whisperer-joe-wehbe/news-story/7db092a49b8e7bff4dcc17a2d03c1851

With all the doom and gloom at the moment, this is super welcome news. Thanks for your limited service Liddle, all the best at the bulldogs next season

Liddle won't have to call anyone. There'll be plenty lining up for him.

There is no reason why we cannot have two hookers of quality in the squad. Liddle is a loyal and fine player for WTs. I want him at WTs.

Brandon Smith was happy to sit behind Cameron Smith
I do not think Liddle will want to play second fiddle to simpkin when he shoukd start at dogs or Titans or warriors

Sorry mate but Wade Egan is better than both our Hookers combined.
Big reason for why the Warriors are travelling well.

 

[Mighty_Tiger]

Gagai and Staggs on the market, please please please we need to have a look at one of these guys

Big no to Gagai and we won’t be the highest bidder on Staggs

 

[Needaname]

Wests Tigers ward off NRL rivals to tie down young hooker Jake Simpkin on lengthy deal


https://www.foxsports.com.au/nrl/nrl-premiership/nrl-2021-wests-tigers-resign-jake-simpkin-dragons-prop-daniel-alvaro-hails-the-football-whisperer-joe-wehbe/news-story/7db092a49b8e7bff4dcc17a2d03c1851

With all the doom and gloom at the moment, this is super welcome news. Thanks for your limited service Liddle, all the best at the bulldogs next season

Liddle won't have to call anyone. There'll be plenty lining up for him.

There is no reason why we cannot have two hookers of quality in the squad. Liddle is a loyal and fine player for WTs. I want him at WTs.

Here's a reason.
Liddle's a quality player that will snapped up by a top 8 club.
He's nobody's second fiddle.

Just throwing it out there he can't get a run in on the worst team in the comp at the moment.

He has the running game but needs to work on service

Yeah......because our mob's great at identifying actual talent aren't they.

Loved Sheens ability to find talent.
The Fan did something on Ruben Wiki last year and Vossy mentioned a whole heap of super talents discovered by him.

Brooks was one of his finds.

Actually Moses was. Brooks grew up playing for all our feeders. Moses was signed unwanted from Parramatta. Can’t credit Sheens for finding something that he did have to search for but I will credit him for identifying Moses.

 

[Cairnstigers]

Wests Tigers ward off NRL rivals to tie down young hooker Jake Simpkin on lengthy deal


https://www.foxsports.com.au/nrl/nrl-premiership/nrl-2021-wests-tigers-resign-jake-simpkin-dragons-prop-daniel-alvaro-hails-the-football-whisperer-joe-wehbe/news-story/7db092a49b8e7bff4dcc17a2d03c1851

With all the doom and gloom at the moment, this is super welcome news. Thanks for your limited service Liddle, all the best at the bulldogs next season

Liddle won't have to call anyone. There'll be plenty lining up for him.

There is no reason why we cannot have two hookers of quality in the squad. Liddle is a loyal and fine player for WTs. I want him at WTs.

Quite a few on this forum are like 'the grass is always greener on the other side':thinking_face:

When we had Tedesco - 'he is past it, we must play him at the center'. We better swap him with Moylon, or Wighton.
Papahuyzen - he is too small, he is not ready.
or
Cini - he is slow, cannot play defence, he is not ready.

I have said from last year simpkin was the future not liddle. I'm prepared to put head on chopping block Simpkin will play origin for QLD one day

Who's head
Happy has two so he won't miss one

I'm voting to hand the pointy end of Qld to the PNGian's ...Cairns up

Does that count as one vote or two
You would be safe in Gladstone
You couldn't give that place away

 

[tony soprano]

Gagai and Staggs on the market, please please please we need to have a look at one of these guys

Gagai is a big time no from me. The dude is so inconsistent at NRL level. Only shows up in contract years and for rep games. He's not strong mentally and I believe he would be awful at a club that was performing badly.

Which is why we are absolutely odds on to land him.

Fergo would be a circuit breaker

 

[Jedi_Tiger]

Wests Tigers ward off NRL rivals to tie down young hooker Jake Simpkin on lengthy deal


https://www.foxsports.com.au/nrl/nrl-premiership/nrl-2021-wests-tigers-resign-jake-simpkin-dragons-prop-daniel-alvaro-hails-the-football-whisperer-joe-wehbe/news-story/7db092a49b8e7bff4dcc17a2d03c1851

With all the doom and gloom at the moment, this is super welcome news. Thanks for your limited service Liddle, all the best at the bulldogs next season

Liddle won't have to call anyone. There'll be plenty lining up for him.

There is no reason why we cannot have two hookers of quality in the squad. Liddle is a loyal and fine player for WTs. I want him at WTs.

Brandon Smith was happy to sit behind Cameron Smith
I do not think Liddle will want to play second fiddle to simpkin when he shoukd start at dogs or Titans or warriors

Sorry mate but Wade Egan is better than both our Hookers combined.
Big reason for why the Warriors are travelling well.

Egan was ordinary at Penrith still is ordinary Liddle is better than him

 

[Lauren]

Wests Tigers ward off NRL rivals to tie down young hooker Jake Simpkin on lengthy deal


https://www.foxsports.com.au/nrl/nrl-premiership/nrl-2021-wests-tigers-resign-jake-simpkin-dragons-prop-daniel-alvaro-hails-the-football-whisperer-joe-wehbe/news-story/7db092a49b8e7bff4dcc17a2d03c1851

With all the doom and gloom at the moment, this is super welcome news. Thanks for your limited service Liddle, all the best at the bulldogs next season

Liddle won't have to call anyone. There'll be plenty lining up for him.

There is no reason why we cannot have two hookers of quality in the squad. Liddle is a loyal and fine player for WTs. I want him at WTs.

Here's a reason.
Liddle's a quality player that will snapped up by a top 8 club.
He's nobody's second fiddle.

Just throwing it out there he can't get a run in on the worst team in the comp at the moment.

He has the running game but needs to work on service

Yeah......because our mob's great at identifying actual talent aren't they.

Loved Sheens ability to find talent.
The Fan did something on Ruben Wiki last year and Vossy mentioned a whole heap of super talents discovered by him.

Brooks was one of his finds.

Actually Moses was. Brooks grew up playing for all our feeders. Moses was signed unwanted from Parramatta. Can’t credit Sheens for finding something that he did have to search for but I will credit him for identifying Moses.

Thanks for the clarification @Needaname.

The original point of my post was that we could use someone like him(with a keen eye for talent) in our personnel department. His first-hand experience with coaching and game knowledge would be handy in a compilation of things such as our football operations, scouting and roster management.