Signings, Suggestions & Rumours Discussion

[Coastie_Tiger]

I think WT have done relatively well to secure two rising stars and a seasoned game manager for around the $1.2m mark. Might be less if St George is paying some of Sullivan's freight over the next year or two.

Need to now concentrate solely on positions 3-5.

Yeah im with you from what we were left with options wise i think its the best possible outcome. I think Brooks and us has had its day. Sullivan and Fainu could be anything and heres hoping they are, Sezer is an sensible signing on a 1+1 deal if thats the way it goes down.
I don't believe we would be tipping in full freight for Sullivan despite what the Pascoe emailer said, look at Fainu it was 2 mil over 4 yrs then it came out it wasnt.
But you're 100% now we need to attack some outside backs also move a few on imo.

 

[TigerNeddyK]

Let’s all call this what it really is

Tartak gave us the Fainus

We owe tartak

We take sullivan for two more years and pay him full freight even though dragons didn’t want him

That’s the truth

Mate, please give it a rest ,, sleep or whatever because your negative and condescending comments are unfair and insulting towards people that have not even played for us yet. At least give them a go before you start posting insulting slanderous smears based on your opinion and zero evidence .. it’s not fair and it’s seriously close to just trolling.. 🤝

 

[Lestronge]

Just find it odd you single out Hastings.

It’s the anti brooks stuff , combined with releasing Hastings meshed into one horrible take /opinion .
I guess for me , I never fell for his pandering to the fans bullshit last year that had a lot of people saying “this is a leader right here” . I feel there’s some residuals from that as well .

 

[TigerNeddyK]

I think we should all temper our expectations. These guys are not established first graders. I'm more excited for next year than this one though because this year is clearly a write off and one of the worst years we've had.

Still I like Fainu and Sullivan. I think they will score some points. The issue will be can they defend.

It gives us some threats though. Our main threat for years has been Brooks and he isn't good enough to shoulder that load. Now we have two threats who are this point are clearly not as good as Brooks but maybe they can develop into better players over time.

Latu is a teriffic defender .. Andrew John’s like defender for a halfback , or even Kimmorly like ,, that front on low hit hard under the ribs halfback.. Sullivan goes ok as well .. Sezer knows his business also .. I really really like these signings , they are young and full of potential and drive to succeed , they could develop a real combination and I think that could be what Benji also is banking on

 

[Lestronge]

I agree with your point on Hastings. I don't get the obsession with him. He has left and to me it's a non-issue. Someone questioned me about why we are talking about him the other day and I stopped. I don't know why the topic keeps coming up. I keep waiting to watch him play a good game and it keeps not happening. Gamble looked to me like much more of a threat than Hastings yesterday. We should be talking about letting him go. Why did we let Gamble go ? He is killing it. Anyone interested ?

I am though interested in your comments about players coming through. Fainu is the most highly rated junior player to come through in years. Bula, Pole, Kit Laulilii, Stef, Matamua, Faagutu, TDS and others all have big wraps and a couple of them are doing well in first grade. Stef was picked for origin this year.

These are the guys that are going to bring us forward. I think we'll see a lot of changes in our squad over the next 5 years or so. The question is can we develop a team that wins some games.

Yep agree with everything . My post before this one answers the constant Hastings talk , I reckon .
Like I’ve said before Sullivan was kid before fainu was the kid . If we were in the nba/ nfl they would be top 3-5 draft picks of their respective years .
And chuck in the other fainu who looked the most likely forward on the field in the origin game , and if we were building a club , say nfl and got that much talent in one offseason , regardless of experience you’d be really really pumped about it .
The 3 kids are good . real good, they just have 35 year old origin halfbacks in front of them .

 

[TigerNeddyK]

Is it a 1 man team?

No mate, but the half plays a big role in how the team plays together

 

[TigerNeddyK]

If we don’t score more than 2 tries today it will again prove we have more attacking deficiencies than just the halves, so let’s wait and see.

I fail to see the logic,, How does it prove that ? To me it enforces the fact that the halves are a massive problem not minimise it .

 

[TigerNeddyK]

He fires out of the line and more often or not it comes off. However he doesn’t leave himself many alternative options. In Melbourne it works. In our side he will be well exposed.

Like Nofa is and Kepoa and now Toa ?? But at least when Olam does it he actually takes the player out of the play .👍🏼😉

 

[Dennisspicer1]

Is it a 1 man team?

Pretty much ponga.

 

[TigerNeddyK]

Anyone with half a brain knows the one player who’s carrying that team. It ain’t the 7

And the people with an entire brain know he is doing a very good job as the 7

 

[bptiger 0]

I think WT have done relatively well to secure two rising stars and a seasoned game manager for around the $1.2m mark. Might be less if St George is paying some of Sullivan's freight over the next year or two.

Need to now concentrate solely on positions 3-5.

I would like to know who the seasoned game manager is 🤔

 

[Telltails]

Same, a lot of the supporters on this forum seem overly fixated on Figures .. I do not get it at all., they also whinge that we cannot sign anyone then whinge and whine about the salary .. absolutely confuses the F out of me .. seems to be a lot of would be accountants that must just be jealous about what NRL players earn.. why worry when we have no control over it, it has no quantifiable effect on our enjoyment of the teams performance and as such it is not our problem .

Probably because it took has two to three years to address the cap issues that Cleary created through signing players on long inflated contracts that did not produce results.

 

[Dennisspicer1]

Almost everytime Ponga touched the ball he made a break through the Dolphins line, & on most occasions there were players backing him up.

When anyone in our team make a break ( not often )
They look for someone to offload the ball to,
And mostly no one there to pass it to.

 

[TigerNeddyK]

Almost everytime Ponga touched the ball he made a break through the Dolphins line, & on most occasions there were players backing him up.

When anyone in our team make a break ( not often )
They look for someone to offload the ball to,
And mostly no one there to pass it to.

Precisely! Combine this with the way that they stand flat footed when the playmakers do go to the line, and also seem to all be standing back till the 6th tackle as if they are preparing for a big team move/play n the 5th that is not even called and you see why we are easily contained . It is so frustrating and average , they are not backing up or supporting each other, it is so lazy

 

[dribble1963]

Yep, that's why we need to give the keys to fulton. Without his relationship with players and player management our recruitment would be much worse.

Yet to see him deal with anyone other than Tartak.

 

[Coastie_Tiger]

Just on the signing of Sullivan and the potential signing of Sezer, both were said to confirmed pending a medical. I've not seen that mentioned with any other players before, perhaps it has and ive not paid attention. Im guessing thats standard practice with us now given our history of signing guys with injuries.

 

[Stevec]

If we really want to have a strong roster we have to start making calls on a few that are occupying space In our top 30 but are yet to get a go in 1st grade
I would like to use last few rounds to see if Feledy ,Reilly ,Tumeth , Boyling , and anyone with potential can make it in the big league
If we are confident in the young ones we've just recruited then find out if we have one or two others already on board

 

[palms]

It is standard for every club regardless of the player. Have to do the due diligence.

 

[Eternal Tiger]

I want to hear how wonderful Flanagan is at building a roster AFTER he signs his son Kyle.

 

[tony soprano]

Yet to see him deal with anyone other than Tartak.

Point is at this point beggars cannot be choosers