Signings, Suggestions & Rumours Discussion

[Nelson]

Okay now that the rumour has come to fruition, does anyone know who Logan Dillon and Tommy Talau (not sure of spelling) are? Heard a few weeks back that we’d signed Momirovski, Dillon and Talau.

Dillon - http://www.mapsports.com.au/news/175-dillon-signs-with-wests-tigers-until-2020.html

I don't know if Talau is confirmed yet but he's a 2018 Australian Schoolboys rep from the Bulldogs. Plays 5/8.

 

[Newtown]

Okay now that the rumour has come to fruition, does anyone know who Logan Dillon and Tommy Talau (not sure of spelling) are? Heard a few weeks back that we’d signed Momirovski, Dillon and Talau.

Both played for Bulldogs in the 2018 SG Ball Cup final. Dillon at wing and Talau at five eighth.

 

[Newtown]

We dont sign some second-choice backrower and some people do their nut. What if CHN didn't even want to sign for us?

What nonsense from some of you.

This team almost made the finals, so the team is capable, as it is. We've only released average footballers, no big losses for 2019.

There isn't really much reason to think he wouldn't have wanted to sign for us. He was very close to signing with us last year (as he has said himself). The Bulldogs have better depth in their 2nd row than us, so it's not like they offered more in terms of opportunity. The Bulldogs are (supposedly) financially quite constrained, so we should have been able to compete on $. The 4 years is long but at least it's 4 years for a bloke in his early 20's and not 4 years for a 29 or 30 year old.

It seems to me like we might have someone else (better) in mind and while I like the idea of us being ambitious it's very risky. Sometimes you just have to take what the market throws up and improve by degrees and I think he's a much better prospect than Chee Kam, Aloiai, McQueen or Rochow on an edge.

Could it be Merrin?

 

[Geo]

We dont sign some second-choice backrower and some people do their nut. What if CHN didn't even want to sign for us?

What nonsense from some of you.

This team almost made the finals, so the team is capable, as it is. We've only released average footballers, no big losses for 2019.

Almost eh…woooooooooooo

 

[The_Patriot]

This club has struggled off and on the field for years.

The coach responsible for giving us some stability looks to be leaving in 2 years if not before.

Its hardly a place and high quality in demand player is going to want to come and play.

I think people need to readjust their thinking, we arent going to sign top liners!

 

[izotope]

Did I just come to the eels forum. We can 9th which was about means we score another 2 wins and we r equal 5th right now. That is a field goal v Broncs and catching a ball v Knights and we are in the 8

The problem is that we are fringe dwellers and we are conditioned and expected to accept that close enough is good enough. Well I think we are entitled to feel upset not making the finals yet again after starting so well - why are we always lamenting about a dropped catch or a missed tackle that could have got us over the line? Surely we can find some tough nut motivator to stop us clocking off throughout the season, Craig Bellamy does it for the Storm.
Most of all I feel sorry for a guy like Chris Lawrence who has busted everything for the the tigers but may never feel the exhilaration of a finals series - loyalty is forgotten once you retire.

Chris Lawrence played in a final series some years ago against the Warriors. I remember him missing a high ball on the Wests Tigers line.l

thats wouldnt be the game where we decided to run it on the last with 1 minute left and turn it over on the 50 for one k. inu to score on the bell?

 

[851]

Did I just come to the eels forum. We can 9th which was about means we score another 2 wins and we r equal 5th right now. That is a field goal v Broncs and catching a ball v Knights and we are in the 8

The problem is that we are fringe dwellers and we are conditioned and expected to accept that close enough is good enough. Well I think we are entitled to feel upset not making the finals yet again after starting so well - why are we always lamenting about a dropped catch or a missed tackle that could have got us over the line? Surely we can find some tough nut motivator to stop us clocking off throughout the season, Craig Bellamy does it for the Storm.
Most of all I feel sorry for a guy like Chris Lawrence who has busted everything for the the tigers but may never feel the exhilaration of a finals series - loyalty is forgotten once you retire.

Chris Lawrence played in a final series some years ago against the Warriors. I remember him missing a high ball on the Wests Tigers line.l

thats wouldnt be the game where we decided to run it on the last with 1 minute left and turn it over on the 50 for one k. inu to score on the bell?

Warriors 2011, Rowdy dropped the kick, bloody Inu got it and somehow scored the match winning try, right on fulltime. :frowning:

 

[will1999]

have we got a round 1 team for next year thread up yet last year there was one in the middle of the season

 

[Tiger_Steve]

This thing about Ivan staying or going has nothing to do about not wanting to talk to reporters or to give them fuel for a story

It's about Ivan telling the 100000 + tigers fans Australia wide what he is doing so we can all have some confidence in our future and our direction
So at this point of time Ivan said he is contracted for the next 2 years
It would be nice to hear ivan say he will honour that contract 100% and he fully intends to carry our club well into the future
It would also be nice to hear we are signing some key players in these areas
The problem is I dont think there are any answers for these at the moment
Our season is over
I would like a little clearer information in signings and coaching from our CEO
they need to come out with some kind of weekly or monthly news letter going through all the important issues from our club
This is one area that we seem to be very poor at communicating
It they wish to hold their support base together and to continue to grow this support base then they need to pull their finger out now and communicate with us

Dont leave us all in the DARK

You’re preaching to the converted! Cut and paste this post as an email to Pascoe:
<ceo@weststigers.com.au></ceo@weststigers.com.au>

 

[Newtown]

Did I just come to the eels forum. We can 9th which was about means we score another 2 wins and we r equal 5th right now. That is a field goal v Broncs and catching a ball v Knights and we are in the 8

The problem is that we are fringe dwellers and we are conditioned and expected to accept that close enough is good enough. Well I think we are entitled to feel upset not making the finals yet again after starting so well - why are we always lamenting about a dropped catch or a missed tackle that could have got us over the line? Surely we can find some tough nut motivator to stop us clocking off throughout the season, Craig Bellamy does it for the Storm.
Most of all I feel sorry for a guy like Chris Lawrence who has busted everything for the the tigers but may never feel the exhilaration of a finals series - loyalty is forgotten once you retire.

Chris Lawrence played in a final series some years ago against the Warriors. I remember him missing a high ball on the Wests Tigers line.l

thats wouldnt be the game where we decided to run it on the last with 1 minute left and turn it over on the 50 for one k. inu to score on the bell?

Yes I'm sure it was. Hard to forget.

 

[Russell]

We dont sign some second-choice backrower and some people do their nut. What if CHN didn't even want to sign for us?

What nonsense from some of you.

This team almost made the finals, so the team is capable, as it is. We've only released average footballers, no big losses for 2019.

There isn't really much reason to think he wouldn't have wanted to sign for us. He was very close to signing with us last year (as he has said himself). The Bulldogs have better depth in their 2nd row than us, so it's not like they offered more in terms of opportunity. The Bulldogs are (supposedly) financially quite constrained, so we should have been able to compete on $. The 4 years is long but at least it's 4 years for a bloke in his early 20's and not 4 years for a 29 or 30 year old.

It seems to me like we might have someone else (better) in mind and while I like the idea of us being ambitious it's very risky. Sometimes you just have to take what the market throws up and improve by degrees and I think he's a much better prospect than Chee Kam, Aloiai, McQueen or Rochow on an edge.

Maybe he was made an offer etc. and rejected us.

 

[WswWt]

Wouldn’t mind a warrior or two.

 

[wonka]

Maybe next year's motto should be "Wests Tigers Get in Deep 2019"
home of the depth player plunging down the ladder.

 

[jirskyr]

We dont sign some second-choice backrower and some people do their nut. What if CHN didn't even want to sign for us?

What nonsense from some of you.

This team almost made the finals, so the team is capable, as it is. We've only released average footballers, no big losses for 2019.

Almost eh…woooooooooooo

I'm not saying it's a good result, I'm saying that a team that finishes 9th has every reason to believe they can improve a little and play finals a year later.

Boosting the roster maked it potentially easier, but fundamentally the roster has shown it is capable.

 

[gallagher]

Maybe next year's motto should be "Wests Tigers Get in Deep 2019"
home of the depth player plunging down the ladder.

How about
"In plod we trust"

 

[GNR4LIFE]

We dont sign some second-choice backrower and some people do their nut. What if CHN didn't even want to sign for us?

What nonsense from some of you.

This team almost made the finals, so the team is capable, as it is. We've only released average footballers, no big losses for 2019.

Almost eh…woooooooooooo

I'm not saying it's a good result, I'm saying that a team that finishes 9th has every reason to believe they can improve a little and play finals a year later.

Boosting the roster maked it potentially easier, but fundamentally the roster has shown it is capable.

Didn’t work when we finished 9th in 2016.

 

[Tiger_Steve]

Unite, Commit, Come 9th!

 

[WT2K]

Maybe next year's motto should be "Wests Tigers Get in Deep 2019"
home of the depth player plunging down the ladder.

How about
"In plod we trust"

Maybe we can go with..
"always next year"

 

[gallagher]

Maybe next year's motto should be "Wests Tigers Get in Deep 2019"
home of the depth player plunging down the ladder.

How about
"In plod we trust"

Maybe we can go with..
"always next year"

Its been used too many times. we need something new.

 

[gallagher]

We dont sign some second-choice backrower and some people do their nut. What if CHN didn't even want to sign for us?

What nonsense from some of you.

This team almost made the finals, so the team is capable, as it is. We've only released average footballers, no big losses for 2019.

Almost eh…woooooooooooo

I'm not saying it's a good result, I'm saying that a team that finishes 9th has every reason to believe they can improve a little and play finals a year later.

Boosting the roster maked it potentially easier, but fundamentally the roster has shown it is capable.

Didn’t work when we finished 9th in 2016.

Since 2012, every time we've improved our ladder position we've followed it up with a lower position the following year.