Signings, Suggestions & Rumours Discussion

I have waited about 12 years to watch a competive football team, so another few years to wait till our own nursery produces a strong team is a better prospect than throwing a ton of cash at a player like Tedesco who is at the back end of his career. I remember the media gave us hell for not signing Funicane and he certainly has not done much for the Sharks, so Iam not sure what he would have done for us.

Target players in their prime or kids on the way up, no more John Paul Young’s….yesterday heroes
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A struggling team such as ours cannot afford to pass up a player like Teddy.
I’m a big advocate that a good young player will always be superior to a good old player, but similar to Api, Teddy is no standard ageing player, he would bring a massive amount of experience and confidence to our struggling club.
If he does come surely it will be to play fullback and what better way for a young talent such as Bula to fast track his learning than watching and learning from Teddy.
Bula could be exceptionally good for us in the centres or on the wing for a couple of years before taking over from Teddy as our fullback.
 
tigermate said:
Our forwards

In more than 50% of the games we’ve lost we’ve won the stats

We just haven’t had a conductor to setup the final plays to score

That’s all we’ve missed.

Hastings would’ve done this.

That’s what everyone on here is missing.

We’ve won the stats!!!! Just haven’t converted to points.

And before everyone says hastings doesn’t have many assists etc… all he needs to do is setup the movements

Trying to convince people that we would’ve been near the top 8 with him this year is a waste of time … like trying to teach my 6yr old nephew algebra.

For all those that supported my comments I’m glad we have a majority of people on here who understand footy … for the rest of you ,

you’re an unfortunate product of Wests tigers mediocrity / luke brooks fandom / and just pure blind fan hope … I feel sorry for you lol
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Our forwards are better, but not elite. We still need to build on this as a strength and the rest will come from it. Look at the Warriors for instance; most of their recruits this year were in their forwards.
Why would they bother wasting money their when they already have Tohu Harris, Fonua Blake, Bunty Afoa?
 
Vicious said:
A struggling team such as ours cannot afford to pass up a player like Teddy.
I’m a big advocate that a good young player will always be superior to a good old player, but similar to Api, Teddy is no standard ageing player, he would bring a massive amount of experience and confidence to our struggling club.
If he does come surely it will be to play fullback and what better way for a young talent such as Bula to fast track his learning than watching and learning from Teddy.
Bula could be exceptionally good for us in the centres or on the wing for a couple of years before taking over from Teddy as our fullback.
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Teddy is signed until end of 25. I’m not even sure why he would be in the conversation?
 
king_sirro said:
The thing is we have gone backwards because of injuries. Yes the start to the year was horrendous, but 2 things have to be acknowledged there.

1. Brooks had no pre season and AD returning from major knee surgery. Both needed games under their belt, and that started to show in the Parra game where AD unfortunately got injured again.

2. I believe Benji acknowledges the tactics in the early rounds were all wrong and he takes a lot of blame for it.

We then adjusted our tactics, Brooks got some games under his belt, and Api found his feet. We looked better then we have in years. Then we lose Api and Brooks for extended periods....game over.

I don't care what your thoughts are (not u Earl) on AD and Brooks, the fact is, any team that loses its 2 starting halves and hooker n captain will fail miserably which we obviously did.

A smarter start to the year by the coaches and not losing Api and Brooks I believe we are around 8th to 10th.

IMO we are much better then last year.

Bulldogs have only lost Kikau yet they get a free ride with commentators continually pointing out their so called injury woes. Losing 3 of our spine barley gets a mention. Its disgusting.
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Prehaps, but you’ve got to remember Douehi was mostly playing fullback when he got injured. I think he just moved back to 5/8 that game.
 
Needaname said:
Prehaps, but you’ve got to remember Douehi was mostly playing fullback when he got injured. I think he just moved back to 5/8 that game.
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True. But if we use AD at half we will always be bottom 4 team. Time to move on from this experiment. So much better on its way. But could provide depth at least for KOE. Anyway what ever AD could do at 6. Teddy would do but 5 times better - more speed, better defence, better passing and support game. Only thing AD has is a big boot. So can see so many better options in my opinion. Especially if we want to be in top half or ladder rather than bottom.
 
Needaname said:
Prehaps, but you’ve got to remember Douehi was mostly playing fullback when he got injured. I think he just moved back to 5/8 that game.
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Still a spine player though. Also that plays into the "mistakes" part the coaches acknowledge playing him at 1. I think he played 2 games out of 7 at fullback, so not "mostly". AD'S game at 5/8 when he got injured was his best all round performance for some time after a horrible start to the year from him.
 
I would throw up in my mouth a little if that jacksss ever came back. To leave the club at his absolute peak, win 2 Premierships, then come back when he’s finished, in the guise of some LeBron “I want to win a comp with the club I started with“ BS would be insulting beyond belief. Thankfully, it won’t happen. Uncle Nick would have his whole post-playing career sorted, He’s a made man. Latte sipper for life.
 
Tiger_claws said:
I am not talking about Toa. We have some seriously good kids, Heath Mason, Luke Laulilii (forgive spelling) are just two names that a outside backs that will surpass a run down Teddy within a couple of years. I don’t accept your loyalty point when it comes to him. They gave him the keys to the castle not once but twice and he crapped on us. The club made big decisions based on him staying. His heart was never in it for us. This my opinion and I am extremely strong on giving him a miss.
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I just want to win games now and in the short term,…. People talking about kids that are years away…how many fans are gunna be left by then?
 
earl said:
This one cracked me up. I love all the Hastings comments. It's hilarious. We had Hastings dudes. We came last. Sure we've gone backwards this year but only because there is another team in the comp.
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Gone backwards after acquiring 4 international forwards… Hastings never got a chance to play behind this years pack ..
 
Fallen Angel said:
I would throw up in my mouth a little if that jacksss ever came back. To leave the club at his absolute peak, win 2 Premierships, then come back when he’s finished, in the guise of some LeBron “I want to win a comp with the club I started with“ BS would be insulting beyond belief. Thankfully, it won’t happen. Uncle Nick would have his whole post-playing career sorted, He’s a made man. Latte sipper for life.
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Uncle Nick moves on from players pretty quick when they lose a step
 
Vicious said:
A struggling team such as ours cannot afford to pass up a player like Teddy.
I’m a big advocate that a good young player will always be superior to a good old player, but similar to Api, Teddy is no standard ageing player, he would bring a massive amount of experience and confidence to our struggling club.
If he does come surely it will be to play fullback and what better way for a young talent such as Bula to fast track his learning than watching and learning from Teddy.
Bula could be exceptionally good for us in the centres or on the wing for a couple of years before taking over from Teddy as our fullback.
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Totally agree 💯
1yr perfect but 2yrs max
Teddy working daily to fine tune our 21yr old rookie fullback would be invaluable for Bula's development. Great for all our junior backs coming through.. let's develop these kids to be 10yr Tiger First graders.. be patient and develop them properly.. imagine Bula with all his natural gifts having Tedesco's brain.. what a weapon we'd have..
 
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