Signings, Suggestions & Rumours Discussion

TopTiger said:

Have our eyes on a few others”: Tigers earmark recruitment drive after Schuster link​

The Tigers have been heavily linked with a play for Josh Schuster in recent days.​

The Wests Tigers have squashed any talk that they will make a play for Josh Schuster, but could have their eye on other players at the Manly Sea Eagles.

The Tigers have been heavily linked in recent days with a play for Schuster, despite the fact he is on contract with the club until at least the end of 2024.

The worthiness of his rumoured $800,000 per year deal has been debated ad nauseum in recent times, with injuries preventing him from featuring in even half of Manly's games so far this year.

It has been revealed he has lost almost six kilograms in a bid to return to full fitness though after playing a staring role for the club in a big win over the Canberra Raiders during his return match in the Nation's capital on Sunday.

So interested the Tigers were rumoured to be in Schuster following the addition of ex-Manly talent scout Scott Fulton, that it was revealed Schuster's agent and the Tigers were spotted at dinner.

That is now seemingly unlikely to come to anything though, with Wide World of Sports reporting the Tigers don't see Schuster fitting into their plans, although they could target other young Manly players.

"He goes okay but we don't think he is a good fit for us," a Tigers source told Wide World of Sports.

"We do have our eyes on a few others though."

That comes with the Tigers having released Joe Ofahengaue to the Parramatta Eels on Tuesday afternoon just minutes before the team list deadline.

That has allowed Ofahengaue to line up for the blue and gold this weekend, but has also freed up significant funds on the salary cap for the joint venture.

While it's being reported they could use those funds, combined with a reduced wage for Luke Brooks, to target Newcastle Knights and recalled State of Origin second-rower Tyson Frizell, a raid on the Sea Eagles would appear not to be out of the question.

The Sea Eagles, who have already let Alec Tuitavake and Viliami Fifita go this year to the St George Illawarra Dragons, will be unwilling to lose any more players, but with a talented crop of youngsters on the books, only bolstered by Monday's immediate signing of Jake Arthur, they are a club who plenty of rivals could be looking at with players unable to break into first-grade.
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Fake news..... can assure you that we want him, the question now is does he want us?
 
Telltails said:
Someone re signed him at the end of last season till 2025 mid season in - gone. How can you trust that anyone is capable of forward thinking when managing the roster based on the actions of this week. They are either all on the same page or they are not.
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Yep, would love to hear their justification on the re-signing followed by the release. Why the change of heart.
 
hank37w said:
Didn't mind us taking a game to NZ after all the sacrifices the Warriors made over COVID to keep the NRL competition alive when sporting competitions all around the world came to a stop.

Fact of the matter is that we are just a nice club, probably too nice, too nice and too dumb for our own good when we actually need to be ruthless to be successful.

We were probably the only side to make some sort of concessions towards the Warriors in gratitude for what they did to keep the competition alive, and you can certainly argue that hat we did was probably to our detriment.

The way things look at the moment I see the release of Joe as a poor move at this point in time, where we strengthen an opposing club that are having injuries issues, especially when that club has done nothing in the past to assist us.

I should probably wait and see who we replace Joe with to make up the numbers and can only hope that it is a good signing in a position that strengthens us, but going on past experiences, I see this just as dumb as sacking a coach with no replacement lined up or releasing players mid season and throwing Noddy under the bus, basically ensuring we got the spoon.

As I have stated elsewhere, what other club does stuff as dumb as this and St.George come to mind with their coaching fiasco and it's probably no coincidence that they are last on the ladder along with us.
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I can’t forget how they refused to let Utoikamanu go for a whole season and playing him off the bench with a token total of 11min over 3 games.
 
batboy said:
You're just not listening....

I said Staines won't sign here to play 2nd grade (Especially after achieving so much more than both current wingers and FB) as you accurately pointed out.
Then I mentioned Ngutlik - A second string Winger.
DING DING!!

The likes of Feledy are top grade next year - Hill will be back from an ACL, Saukuru is going well in 2nds...
These guys (And Ngutlik) Are back up Outside Backs - Staines is not.

I'd actually prefer Staines over Nofoaluma (Although Nofoaluma is going well atm)
But one is signed for another 2.5 years, On massive money - And one is not...
Jnr Tupou will also cost us big money to keep beyond Christmas.

If we can get Staines to play ressies for a couple hundred a year - I'm all for it!!
Why not, We'd all love to have premiership winning backup lined up for a fill in at firsts when required.
Unfortunately, blokes with those sort of miles in them - Don't wait around in ressies...

Especially at a bottom 8 club.
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Jeez you must have been watching a different Charlie Staines to the rest of us. There was me thinking he was more or less the definition of a fringe first grader and it turns out he's the next Greg Inglis.
 
2041 said:
Jeez you must have been watching a different Charlie Staines to the rest of us. There was me thinking he was more or less the definition of a fringe first grader and it turns out he's the next Greg Inglis.
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Hardly....
I'm not the one hoping to re-sign him!!
But I think there's more in him than the Marion Seves', Paul Momirovskis', Junior Paugas' of the comp...
Showed more in a few games than most of our outside backs have shown in years....
Says a little something about where we're at moreso than him.

He might be happy to play second fiddle at a comp winning club
- We're not that... And like I originally said - I couldn't see him staying here to be a backup.
(Hopefully someone reads it that time)
 
tony soprano said:
Da Silva ahead of everyone.

Left field idea bring him in for when api playing origin.
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He’s only just started playing Flegg and hasn’t even played a game of Cup.

Beyond that, he can’t even play NRL this year - he isn’t old enough under the rules.

Under NRL rules you need to be 19 to play.
 
Canadian Club said:
He’s only just started playing Flegg and hasn’t even played a game of Cup.

Beyond that, he can’t even play NRL this year - he isn’t old enough under the rules.

Under NRL rules you need to be 19 to play.
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You have to be 18, not 19.

I agree though Da Silva probably isn’t ready for NRL yet.

I expect a debut sometime late in ‘24.
 
KingRobbie said:
You have to be 18, not 19.

I agree though Da Silva probably isn’t ready for NRL yet.

I expect a debut sometime late in ‘24.
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My bad, for some reason I thought they could only debut the year they were turning 19.

Still think it would be a terrible debuting an 18 year old dummy half. Teams would send the middles at him all game. No way his body is ready to handle that yet.
 
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