Signings, Suggestions & Rumours Discussion

[teddy23]

Well I agree with Milky on the fact that Dylan Edwards will be a star, but I don't think we should just offer him that fullback spot straight away. Maybe something like this.

1\. Connor Watson
2\. David Nofaluma
3\. Moses Suli
4\. Taine Milne
5\. Dylan Edwards
6\. Cooper Cronk
7\. Luke Brooks

And after Cronks contract is finished, this is if we can't get Nathan Cleary

1\. Dylan Edwards
2\. David Nofalumo
3\. Moses Suli
4\. Taine Milne
5\. Buy a winger avaliable in 1-2 years
6\. Connor Watson
7\. Luke Brooks

 

[Sabre]

Gela_moseby was vey good as a fullback. Broke all sorts of try scoring records in the U/20's

This seem like a pretty do-able backline:
1\. Gideon Gela-Mosby
2\. David Nofoaluma
3\. Taane Milne
4\. Moses Suli
5\. Dane Gagai
6\. Connor Watson
7\. Luke Brooks

or:

1\. Connor Watson
2\. David Nofoaluma
3\. Taane Milne
4\. Moses Suli
5\. Gideon Gela-Mosby
6\. Josh Reynolds
7\. Luke Brooks

Like the first option ….. Reynolds option ONLY at a reasonable/realistic price. We should not be throwing high $s at him. Please

First option would be my preference too. Nice well rounded backline with lots of quality without spending too much money. It would also allow us to go after some good forwards.

 

[Wayne_Turner]

Nofoa to fullback if we have no interest in Dugan.
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Sign:-

Daniel Tupou - To play on the wing and mentor Suli in the centres.

Tyrone Roberts - Promise him 5/8 in first grade,and can be goal kicker.Will be cheaper than J. Reynolds.

Ben Matulino - Prop to replacement Woods.

Among others…

 

[TJ21]

Nofoa to fullback if we have no interest in Dugan.
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Sign:-

Daniel Tupou - To play on the wing and mentor Suli in the centres.

Tyrone Roberts - Promise him 5/8 in first grade,and can be goal kicker.Will be cheaper than J. Reynolds.

Ben Matulino - Prop to replacement Woods.

Among others…

Like it!

 

[marzie]

Latrell Mitchell or Connor Watson for fullback if we're not after Dugan
Cronk or Johnson for the halves, Josh Reynolds if we any get either of them
Matulino, Packer for front row
Gagai, Ferguson centre/wing?

 

[tig_prmz]

Nofoa to fullback if we have no interest in Dugan.
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Sign:-

Daniel Tupou - To play on the wing and mentor Suli in the centres.

Tyrone Roberts - Promise him 5/8 in first grade,and can be goal kicker.Will be cheaper than J. Reynolds.

Ben Matulino - Prop to replacement Woods.

Among others…

tupou a mentor? 😕

tyrone roberts is too similar to brooks, we need a 5/8 definitely.

matulino is probably 99% done deal to come here though

 

[ricksen]

He's my first choice signing but apparently the NRL have refused to register him. Surely with the situation we are in the Tigers could mount a decent case to get him back into the game. He would be ideal pick up at a reasonable price.

The NRL will register domestic violence offenders
The NRL will register drug dealers
The NRL will register assault offenders
The NRL will register MATT BLOODY LODGE

The NRL won't register a guy who pisses in his own mouth? That'll do me

Yes because was the only thing Carney did wrong :unamused: Oh thats right it wasn't. It was only his 76th offence, not to mention the things the clubs covered up. I suspect if you ask a few Canberra board members, they would tell you a few stories.

There was once incident in Goulburn where toddy came out of the rsl club pissed off his face, decided it would be fun to jump across about half dozen cars bonnets. Witnessed it with my own eyes. Never made the news.

That did make the news - http://www.nrl.com/todd-carney-in-trouble-again/tabid/10874/newsid/53930/default.aspx

 

[cqtiger]

I think Cronk will retire after this year and work fulltime in the media.

 

[TJ21]

Latrell Mitchell or Connor Watson for fullback if we're not after Dugan
Cronk or Johnson for the halves, Josh Reynolds if we any get either of them
Matulino, Packer for front row
Gagai, Ferguson centre/wing?

Mitchell & Watson still under contract
Johnson will remain in NZ
I dont think we can wait til SOO 3 for cronk but would tty somehow to get him a coaching gig to mentor brooks
Gagai is helping with the recruitment drive in Newcastle
I love the passion reynolds plays with and think that would be beneficial for our squad
Hopefully we can get either matulino or packer but would ensure we re sign ava first
No to fergo & dugan. Need players on board who care more about the team!!

 

[Harvey]

I would go after Tyrone Roberts. Could play 1 or 6 and kick goals. Is not a super star but a pretty good first grader

 

[TJ21]

I would go after Tyrone Roberts. Could play 1 or 6 and kick goals. Is not a super star but a pretty good first grader

Agree harvey. Fills many holes and should come at a good price

 

[ricksen]

Ivan would have a good handle on what Cronk is doing given they share management - so I imagine he's retiring if the rumours of going after Reynolds are true.
To be honest, the Dogs can't have more than 20c to throw at him with their roster, so it'd be a logical move for him given we're the only club in Sydney with half $$ available. Not sure I agree with it, but it makes sense.

If we could get Edwards, I'd look to play him on a wing for 12 mths with Gordon at #1, and then transition to #1 in 2019.

If we're going to persist with Taylor at 13, we'll need more from our other forwards in terms of metre eaters, given he's more of an old school 13 rather than an extra prop as other teams have these days. Thus I'd be happy to throw a fair few $$ at the prop rotation as well as another experienced back rower.

I desperately want Cronk - he's the sort of guy that would help change the culture instantly, and would draw others to the club like flies to ointment. Would be a tremendous mentor to Brooks as well.

 

[cqtiger]

Ivan would have a good handle on what Cronk is doing given they share management - so I imagine he's retiring if the rumours of going after Reynolds are true.
To be honest, the Dogs can't have more than 20c to throw at him with their roster, so it'd be a logical move for him given we're the only club in Sydney with half $$ available. Not sure I agree with it, but it makes sense.

If we could get Edwards, I'd look to play him on a wing for 12 mths with Gordon at #1, and then transition to #1 in 2019.

If we're going to persist with Taylor at 13, we'll need more from our other forwards in terms of metre eaters, given he's more of an old school 13 rather than an extra prop as other teams have these days. Thus I'd be happy to throw a fair few $$ at the prop rotation as well as another experienced back rower.

I desperately want Cronk - he's the sort of guy that would help change the culture instantly, and would draw others to the club like flies to ointment. Would be a tremendous mentor to Brooks as well.

I'd take Gordon for a year or two. He wouldn't break the bank and he is still playing good footy and a damn good goalkicker.

Yes please.

I'd also take Gireura?? Ok he's not playing at the top of his game right now but you don't lose talent overnight.

 

[TJ21]

Ivan would have a good handle on what Cronk is doing given they share management - so I imagine he's retiring if the rumours of going after Reynolds are true.
To be honest, the Dogs can't have more than 20c to throw at him with their roster, so it'd be a logical move for him given we're the only club in Sydney with half $$ available. Not sure I agree with it, but it makes sense.

If we could get Edwards, I'd look to play him on a wing for 12 mths with Gordon at #1, and then transition to #1 in 2019.

If we're going to persist with Taylor at 13, we'll need more from our other forwards in terms of metre eaters, given he's more of an old school 13 rather than an extra prop as other teams have these days. Thus I'd be happy to throw a fair few $$ at the prop rotation as well as another experienced back rower.

I desperately want Cronk - he's the sort of guy that would help change the culture instantly, and would draw others to the club like flies to ointment. Would be a tremendous mentor to Brooks as well.

Ricksen would consider playing ET at 9 with the hope Esan Marsters Is ready for FG?
I agree with cronk, he instantly makes us a better club in every way both on and off the field. Also would give a lot of other players the confidence to sign on!

 

[gatorman]

If we resign Ava he is going to need to step up.

Averaging 87m is part of the reason we didn't have enough go forward.

Even if we get Matulino and Packer we need one more prop with aggression such as a Vete but I gather he is looking at the Titans.

 

[Russell]

As we have dough - I would spend, how much it takes to get Johns to mentor Brooks.

It would be worth every penny (would not come off the cap either).

He's committed to us - we now need to commit to him.

 

[TJ21]

Swap deal moses for matagi and vave

 

[ricksen]

Ivan would have a good handle on what Cronk is doing given they share management - so I imagine he's retiring if the rumours of going after Reynolds are true.
To be honest, the Dogs can't have more than 20c to throw at him with their roster, so it'd be a logical move for him given we're the only club in Sydney with half $$ available. Not sure I agree with it, but it makes sense.

If we could get Edwards, I'd look to play him on a wing for 12 mths with Gordon at #1, and then transition to #1 in 2019.

If we're going to persist with Taylor at 13, we'll need more from our other forwards in terms of metre eaters, given he's more of an old school 13 rather than an extra prop as other teams have these days. Thus I'd be happy to throw a fair few $$ at the prop rotation as well as another experienced back rower.

I desperately want Cronk - he's the sort of guy that would help change the culture instantly, and would draw others to the club like flies to ointment. Would be a tremendous mentor to Brooks as well.

Ricksen would consider playing ET at 9 with the hope Esan Marsters Is ready for FG?
I agree with cronk, he instantly makes us a better club in every way both on and off the field. Also would give a lot of other players the confidence to sign on!

Marsters is an interesting one - not sure the club rates him too highly if he's playing centre every week in ISP.

Further on the Gordon/Edwards thing - doesn't necessarily have to be Edwards. Signing Gordon for 12 mths allows us to chase a promising FB in the 20s (or thereabouts) from elsewhere, and ease them in. Most clubs have an elite FB in place, so we can offer an opportunity that others can't.

 

[TigersDenNZ]

Not too much a suggestion more of a querie.

To me it seems like the style we play is just hot or cold, we play off the cuff, and score weird tries from broken play that you dont really expect.

I feel like when we come up against well structured sides (i.e storm or cowboys) we play well because its a hard style to plan a defense against, structured defence tends to struggle against unstructured attack.

However when we play against known attacking sides (i.e raiders or panthers) they run rings around us.

Im quite suprised that the overwhelming consensus is keen to sign josh reynolds. No doubt he is a game braker and when he fires the dogs usually win, i just feel like he is the personification of the current tigers. Very hot and cold, hard to predict if hell be on or off and pretty off the cuff aswell.

If we had of signed widdop or foran or end up signing cronk (doubtful), then i imagine our entire style changes and becomes alot more structured.

Myquery is do we want to keep our current style (i.e sign reynolds) and hope that we are able to improve it for results. Or do we prefer changing it up i.e a typical foran or widdop type structure.

Warriors became genuine the minute foran stepped up. He changed them single handedly.

My concern is that reynolds has the potential to fall into our current style and there is the chance that he doesnt change anything… for some games anyway.

Also, when do we become genuine contenders? Is it realistic to expect a couple marquee signings automatically make us contenders next year or do we accept that its a 3 - 4 project? Or anyone think we can do something this year?

 

[TJ21]

Not too much a suggestion more of a querie.

To me it seems like the style we play is just hot or cold, we play off the cuff, and score weird tries from broken play that you dont really expect.

I feel like when we come up against well structured sides (i.e storm or cowboys) we play well because its a hard style to plan a defense against, structured defence tends to struggle against unstructured attack.

However when we play against known attacking sides (i.e raiders or panthers) they run rings around us.

Im quite suprised that the overwhelming consensus is keen to sign josh reynolds. No doubt he is a game braker and when he fires the dogs usually win, i just feel like he is the personification of the current tigers. Very hot and cold, hard to predict if hell be on or off and pretty off the cuff aswell.

If we had of signed widdop or foran or end up signing cronk (doubtful), then i imagine our entire style changes and becomes alot more structured.

Myquery is do we want to keep our current style (i.e sign reynolds) and hope that we are able to improve it for results. Or do we prefer changing it up i.e a typical foran or widdop type structure.

Warriors became genuine the minute foran stepped up. He changed them single handedly.

My concern is that reynolds has the potential to fall into our current style and there is the chance that he doesnt change anything… for some games anyway.

Also, when do we become genuine contenders? Is it realistic to expect a couple marquee signings automatically make us contenders next year or do we accept that its a 3 - 4 project? Or anyone think we can do something this year?

If we can snag cronk we automatically become more structured and play finals footy. I also think with moses and teddy gone this now becomes brookes team and that in itself will create a little more structure in attack