Signings, Suggestions & Rumours Discussion

[Speed2burn]

Aloiai is overrated his defence is the problem I rate all the above players better than him.

It ain’t hard to look good when you’re competing for spots against Eiso and 4 hit ups a game Packer. I think we overrated Aloiai a bit

 

[cochise]

Question: would people rather Widdop (1y)/Noffa (3y) or Laurie (4y)/Mansour(2y). If I had to choose I would probably take Laurie/Mansour

Hard call. Both scenarios have upside and downside.
On Nofoaluma, I really want him to re-sign as I value loyalty but if I’m honest, as footballers I thing him and mansour are interchangeable

Certainly not sure of why, but Nofo hasn’t seemed to be showing loyalty atm?

But I do think wingers are the easiest position to change, quick blokes are coming through every day.

I’ve heard Nofoaluma is getting itchy feet about wanting to play semi final footy and also thinks his value has gone up. You could call that disloyal but you could also call it fair. I think we are heading towards finals footy but we regressed on field in 2020 and maybe he’s had enough. I hope he stays though.

One hot season and he's out to play semis? He's the only other long term player aside from Brooks that can be associated with the repeated past failures. Bit rich to have good season and then start getting bullish about wanting finals footy. If that's his attitude he can go. Stay and build something here, or do a Tedesco/Moses/Woods and parachute into an already successful outfit. Good luck.

There is a reason why this club has not played finals in 10 seasons ..Nofoaluma should sign or move on ,obviously has tickets on himself ,wIngers are a dime a dozen Bigger / faster and can tackle ! Brooks
**will be lucky to see out the full season in the top grade.**

How about instead of bashing our halfback we support him...how many dally m position awards have we got in our current squad? Exactly

In a season where basically only nofa and Luciano had a good year, Brooks seems to be the common go to man for criticism

Maybe the reason we have no Dally M players is because of Brooks ......


Didn't Latrell say he didn't want to be our Marquee player .....gives you his opinion on Brooks ...I'm not saying LM's word is be all and end all ... ...even JAC thinks he is better off playing behind a 2 game veteran ......how many other players who rely on tries and try assists think the same about Brooks .....

Even during our golden period of 09-11 we couldn’t sign anybody so that is a myth. Who was our biggest signing? (Apart from Ellis)

Lote

So that’s it?

You aked for the biggest signing.

 

[Spud_Murphy]

Question: would people rather Widdop (1y)/Noffa (3y) or Laurie (4y)/Mansour(2y). If I had to choose I would probably take Laurie/Mansour

Hard call. Both scenarios have upside and downside.
On Nofoaluma, I really want him to re-sign as I value loyalty but if I’m honest, as footballers I thing him and mansour are interchangeable

Certainly not sure of why, but Nofo hasn’t seemed to be showing loyalty atm?

But I do think wingers are the easiest position to change, quick blokes are coming through every day.

I’ve heard Nofoaluma is getting itchy feet about wanting to play semi final footy and also thinks his value has gone up. You could call that disloyal but you could also call it fair. I think we are heading towards finals footy but we regressed on field in 2020 and maybe he’s had enough. I hope he stays though.

One hot season and he's out to play semis? He's the only other long term player aside from Brooks that can be associated with the repeated past failures. Bit rich to have good season and then start getting bullish about wanting finals footy. If that's his attitude he can go. Stay and build something here, or do a Tedesco/Moses/Woods and parachute into an already successful outfit. Good luck.

There is a reason why this club has not played finals in 10 seasons ..Nofoaluma should sign or move on ,obviously has tickets on himself ,wIngers are a dime a dozen Bigger / faster and can tackle ! Brooks
**will be lucky to see out the full season in the top grade.**

How about instead of bashing our halfback we support him...how many dally m position awards have we got in our current squad? Exactly

In a season where basically only nofa and Luciano had a good year, Brooks seems to be the common go to man for criticism

Maybe the reason we have no Dally M players is because of Brooks ......


Didn't Latrell say he didn't want to be our Marquee player .....gives you his opinion on Brooks ...I'm not saying LM's word is be all and end all ... ...even JAC thinks he is better off playing behind a 2 game veteran ......how many other players who rely on tries and try assists think the same about Brooks .....

Even during our golden period of 09-11 we couldn’t sign anybody so that is a myth. Who was our biggest signing? (Apart from Ellis)

Lote

So that’s it?

Happy provided a larger list in answer to your question if you go back a page.

 

[Speed2burn]

Question: would people rather Widdop (1y)/Noffa (3y) or Laurie (4y)/Mansour(2y). If I had to choose I would probably take Laurie/Mansour

Hard call. Both scenarios have upside and downside.
On Nofoaluma, I really want him to re-sign as I value loyalty but if I’m honest, as footballers I thing him and mansour are interchangeable

Certainly not sure of why, but Nofo hasn’t seemed to be showing loyalty atm?

But I do think wingers are the easiest position to change, quick blokes are coming through every day.

I’ve heard Nofoaluma is getting itchy feet about wanting to play semi final footy and also thinks his value has gone up. You could call that disloyal but you could also call it fair. I think we are heading towards finals footy but we regressed on field in 2020 and maybe he’s had enough. I hope he stays though.

One hot season and he's out to play semis? He's the only other long term player aside from Brooks that can be associated with the repeated past failures. Bit rich to have good season and then start getting bullish about wanting finals footy. If that's his attitude he can go. Stay and build something here, or do a Tedesco/Moses/Woods and parachute into an already successful outfit. Good luck.

There is a reason why this club has not played finals in 10 seasons ..Nofoaluma should sign or move on ,obviously has tickets on himself ,wIngers are a dime a dozen Bigger / faster and can tackle ! Brooks
**will be lucky to see out the full season in the top grade.**

How about instead of bashing our halfback we support him...how many dally m position awards have we got in our current squad? Exactly

In a season where basically only nofa and Luciano had a good year, Brooks seems to be the common go to man for criticism

Maybe the reason we have no Dally M players is because of Brooks ......


Didn't Latrell say he didn't want to be our Marquee player .....gives you his opinion on Brooks ...I'm not saying LM's word is be all and end all ... ...even JAC thinks he is better off playing behind a 2 game veteran ......how many other players who rely on tries and try assists think the same about Brooks .....

Even during our golden period of 09-11 we couldn’t sign anybody so that is a myth. Who was our biggest signing? (Apart from Ellis)

Lote

So that’s it?


Happy provided a larger list in answer to your question if you go back a page.

Yeah my bad, I missed it

 

[Speed2burn]

Question: would people rather Widdop (1y)/Noffa (3y) or Laurie (4y)/Mansour(2y). If I had to choose I would probably take Laurie/Mansour

Hard call. Both scenarios have upside and downside.
On Nofoaluma, I really want him to re-sign as I value loyalty but if I’m honest, as footballers I thing him and mansour are interchangeable

Certainly not sure of why, but Nofo hasn’t seemed to be showing loyalty atm?

But I do think wingers are the easiest position to change, quick blokes are coming through every day.

I’ve heard Nofoaluma is getting itchy feet about wanting to play semi final footy and also thinks his value has gone up. You could call that disloyal but you could also call it fair. I think we are heading towards finals footy but we regressed on field in 2020 and maybe he’s had enough. I hope he stays though.

One hot season and he's out to play semis? He's the only other long term player aside from Brooks that can be associated with the repeated past failures. Bit rich to have good season and then start getting bullish about wanting finals footy. If that's his attitude he can go. Stay and build something here, or do a Tedesco/Moses/Woods and parachute into an already successful outfit. Good luck.

There is a reason why this club has not played finals in 10 seasons ..Nofoaluma should sign or move on ,obviously has tickets on himself ,wIngers are a dime a dozen Bigger / faster and can tackle ! Brooks
**will be lucky to see out the full season in the top grade.**

How about instead of bashing our halfback we support him...how many dally m position awards have we got in our current squad? Exactly

In a season where basically only nofa and Luciano had a good year, Brooks seems to be the common go to man for criticism

Maybe the reason we have no Dally M players is because of Brooks ......


Didn't Latrell say he didn't want to be our Marquee player .....gives you his opinion on Brooks ...I'm not saying LM's word is be all and end all ... ...even JAC thinks he is better off playing behind a 2 game veteran ......how many other players who rely on tries and try assists think the same about Brooks .....

Even during our golden period of 09-11 we couldn’t sign anybody so that is a myth. Who was our biggest signing? (Apart from Ellis)

Lote

So that’s it?

You aked for the biggest signing.

True....Lote gave us great value. I should have made my question more broad and asked which player did we sign that was heavily sought after at the time

 

[TheDaBoss]

Question: would people rather Widdop (1y)/Noffa (3y) or Laurie (4y)/Mansour(2y). If I had to choose I would probably take Laurie/Mansour

Hard call. Both scenarios have upside and downside.
On Nofoaluma, I really want him to re-sign as I value loyalty but if I’m honest, as footballers I thing him and mansour are interchangeable

Certainly not sure of why, but Nofo hasn’t seemed to be showing loyalty atm?

But I do think wingers are the easiest position to change, quick blokes are coming through every day.

I’ve heard Nofoaluma is getting itchy feet about wanting to play semi final footy and also thinks his value has gone up. You could call that disloyal but you could also call it fair. I think we are heading towards finals footy but we regressed on field in 2020 and maybe he’s had enough. I hope he stays though.

One hot season and he's out to play semis? He's the only other long term player aside from Brooks that can be associated with the repeated past failures. Bit rich to have good season and then start getting bullish about wanting finals footy. If that's his attitude he can go. Stay and build something here, or do a Tedesco/Moses/Woods and parachute into an already successful outfit. Good luck.

There is a reason why this club has not played finals in 10 seasons ..Nofoaluma should sign or move on ,obviously has tickets on himself ,wIngers are a dime a dozen Bigger / faster and can tackle ! Brooks
**will be lucky to see out the full season in the top grade.**

How about instead of bashing our halfback we support him...how many dally m position awards have we got in our current squad? Exactly

In a season where basically only nofa and Luciano had a good year, Brooks seems to be the common go to man for criticism

Maybe the reason we have no Dally M players is because of Brooks ......


Didn't Latrell say he didn't want to be our Marquee player .....gives you his opinion on Brooks ...I'm not saying LM's word is be all and end all ... ...even JAC thinks he is better off playing behind a 2 game veteran ......how many other players who rely on tries and try assists think the same about Brooks .....

Even during our golden period of 09-11 we couldn’t sign anybody so that is a myth. Who was our biggest signing? (Apart from Ellis)

Lote

So that’s it?

You aked for the biggest signing.

True....Lote gave us great value. I should have made my question more broad and asked which player did we sign that was heavily sought after at the time

Blair

 

[sleeve]

Its not just Madge,but the whole management,training,recruitement and development staff we have now that will lift West Tigers .Even though its early days,the professionalism is showing through.Madge did not have this level of support previously,we are now reaping the rewards from signing key personnel.

 

[cochise]

Question: would people rather Widdop (1y)/Noffa (3y) or Laurie (4y)/Mansour(2y). If I had to choose I would probably take Laurie/Mansour

Hard call. Both scenarios have upside and downside.
On Nofoaluma, I really want him to re-sign as I value loyalty but if I’m honest, as footballers I thing him and mansour are interchangeable

Certainly not sure of why, but Nofo hasn’t seemed to be showing loyalty atm?

But I do think wingers are the easiest position to change, quick blokes are coming through every day.

I’ve heard Nofoaluma is getting itchy feet about wanting to play semi final footy and also thinks his value has gone up. You could call that disloyal but you could also call it fair. I think we are heading towards finals footy but we regressed on field in 2020 and maybe he’s had enough. I hope he stays though.

One hot season and he's out to play semis? He's the only other long term player aside from Brooks that can be associated with the repeated past failures. Bit rich to have good season and then start getting bullish about wanting finals footy. If that's his attitude he can go. Stay and build something here, or do a Tedesco/Moses/Woods and parachute into an already successful outfit. Good luck.

There is a reason why this club has not played finals in 10 seasons ..Nofoaluma should sign or move on ,obviously has tickets on himself ,wIngers are a dime a dozen Bigger / faster and can tackle ! Brooks
**will be lucky to see out the full season in the top grade.**

How about instead of bashing our halfback we support him...how many dally m position awards have we got in our current squad? Exactly

In a season where basically only nofa and Luciano had a good year, Brooks seems to be the common go to man for criticism

Maybe the reason we have no Dally M players is because of Brooks ......


Didn't Latrell say he didn't want to be our Marquee player .....gives you his opinion on Brooks ...I'm not saying LM's word is be all and end all ... ...even JAC thinks he is better off playing behind a 2 game veteran ......how many other players who rely on tries and try assists think the same about Brooks .....

Even during our golden period of 09-11 we couldn’t sign anybody so that is a myth. Who was our biggest signing? (Apart from Ellis)

Lote

So that’s it?

You aked for the biggest signing.

True....Lote gave us great value. I should have made my question more broad and asked which player did we sign that was heavily sought after at the time

Honestly at the time it was about the retention of the marquee we already had, it needs to be remembered from 10-12 we had one of the best rosters in the comp. I'm not overly surprised we weren't overly chasing the big name players and when we did that is actually when things were falling apart.

 

[Rusty]

Just wanted to say how good is our front row rotation looking?
Tamou
Musgrove
Stefano
Twal
Ofahengaue
Mikaele
Packer
(Not to mention any of the younger lads coming through).
When Aloiai initially agitated for his release I thought we could be in strife, now I'm not sure that we even fit him in? Going to be an interesting season to say the least.

Aloiai would’ve started alongside Tamou, he’s been playing well and it sucks we’ve lost him. Musgrove hopefully takes the starting spot and have a big yesr now

Did Tamou sign with us before Aloiai went off the rails? Might explain his behavior...

 

[Deleted member 3518]

Just wanted to say how good is our front row rotation looking?
Tamou
Musgrove
Stefano
Twal
Ofahengaue
Mikaele
Packer
(Not to mention any of the younger lads coming through).
When Aloiai initially agitated for his release I thought we could be in strife, now I'm not sure that we even fit him in? Going to be an interesting season to say the least.

Aloiai would’ve started alongside Tamou, he’s been playing well and it sucks we’ve lost him. Musgrove hopefully takes the starting spot and have a big yesr now


Did Tamou sign with us before Aloiai went off the rails? Might explain his behavior...

Maybe. Maybe he knew how highly Madge thinks of Musgrove and Twal , with Stefano being on a wicket for a rookie and Tamou here , he saw his position in jeopardy. Maybe he saw what we all saw , in that he’s only had 1 good year , and he should cash in now !

 

[cochise]

Its not just Madge,but the whole management,training,recruitement and development staff we have now that will lift West Tigers .Even though its early days,the professionalism is showing through.Madge did not have this level of support previously,we are now reaping the rewards from signing key personnel.

What I like about what we are doing now is that it isn't reliant on one person, it is a group of people which gives us more redundancy in our processes. That is important if we lose a coach or a general manager for example, we aren't turning around and starting from scratch again.

 

[Speed2burn]

Question: would people rather Widdop (1y)/Noffa (3y) or Laurie (4y)/Mansour(2y). If I had to choose I would probably take Laurie/Mansour

Hard call. Both scenarios have upside and downside.
On Nofoaluma, I really want him to re-sign as I value loyalty but if I’m honest, as footballers I thing him and mansour are interchangeable

Certainly not sure of why, but Nofo hasn’t seemed to be showing loyalty atm?

But I do think wingers are the easiest position to change, quick blokes are coming through every day.

I’ve heard Nofoaluma is getting itchy feet about wanting to play semi final footy and also thinks his value has gone up. You could call that disloyal but you could also call it fair. I think we are heading towards finals footy but we regressed on field in 2020 and maybe he’s had enough. I hope he stays though.

One hot season and he's out to play semis? He's the only other long term player aside from Brooks that can be associated with the repeated past failures. Bit rich to have good season and then start getting bullish about wanting finals footy. If that's his attitude he can go. Stay and build something here, or do a Tedesco/Moses/Woods and parachute into an already successful outfit. Good luck.

There is a reason why this club has not played finals in 10 seasons ..Nofoaluma should sign or move on ,obviously has tickets on himself ,wIngers are a dime a dozen Bigger / faster and can tackle ! Brooks
**will be lucky to see out the full season in the top grade.**

How about instead of bashing our halfback we support him...how many dally m position awards have we got in our current squad? Exactly

In a season where basically only nofa and Luciano had a good year, Brooks seems to be the common go to man for criticism

Maybe the reason we have no Dally M players is because of Brooks ......


Didn't Latrell say he didn't want to be our Marquee player .....gives you his opinion on Brooks ...I'm not saying LM's word is be all and end all ... ...even JAC thinks he is better off playing behind a 2 game veteran ......how many other players who rely on tries and try assists think the same about Brooks .....

Even during our golden period of 09-11 we couldn’t sign anybody so that is a myth. Who was our biggest signing? (Apart from Ellis)

Lote

So that’s it?

You aked for the biggest signing.

True....Lote gave us great value. I should have made my question more broad and asked which player did we sign that was heavily sought after at the time

Honestly at the time it was about the retention of the marquee we already had, it needs to be remembered from 10-12 we had one of the best rosters in the comp. I'm not overly surprised we weren't overly chasing the big name players and when we did that is actually when things were falling apart.

Marshall & Farah were probably top 5 players in the game during those years & turned everything into gold. They even managed to turn pure plod (Ashford, Ryan) into half decent players ?

 

[cochise]

Question: would people rather Widdop (1y)/Noffa (3y) or Laurie (4y)/Mansour(2y). If I had to choose I would probably take Laurie/Mansour

Hard call. Both scenarios have upside and downside.
On Nofoaluma, I really want him to re-sign as I value loyalty but if I’m honest, as footballers I thing him and mansour are interchangeable

Certainly not sure of why, but Nofo hasn’t seemed to be showing loyalty atm?

But I do think wingers are the easiest position to change, quick blokes are coming through every day.

I’ve heard Nofoaluma is getting itchy feet about wanting to play semi final footy and also thinks his value has gone up. You could call that disloyal but you could also call it fair. I think we are heading towards finals footy but we regressed on field in 2020 and maybe he’s had enough. I hope he stays though.

One hot season and he's out to play semis? He's the only other long term player aside from Brooks that can be associated with the repeated past failures. Bit rich to have good season and then start getting bullish about wanting finals footy. If that's his attitude he can go. Stay and build something here, or do a Tedesco/Moses/Woods and parachute into an already successful outfit. Good luck.

There is a reason why this club has not played finals in 10 seasons ..Nofoaluma should sign or move on ,obviously has tickets on himself ,wIngers are a dime a dozen Bigger / faster and can tackle ! Brooks
**will be lucky to see out the full season in the top grade.**

How about instead of bashing our halfback we support him...how many dally m position awards have we got in our current squad? Exactly

In a season where basically only nofa and Luciano had a good year, Brooks seems to be the common go to man for criticism

Maybe the reason we have no Dally M players is because of Brooks ......


Didn't Latrell say he didn't want to be our Marquee player .....gives you his opinion on Brooks ...I'm not saying LM's word is be all and end all ... ...even JAC thinks he is better off playing behind a 2 game veteran ......how many other players who rely on tries and try assists think the same about Brooks .....

Even during our golden period of 09-11 we couldn’t sign anybody so that is a myth. Who was our biggest signing? (Apart from Ellis)

Lote

So that’s it?

You aked for the biggest signing.

True....Lote gave us great value. I should have made my question more broad and asked which player did we sign that was heavily sought after at the time

Honestly at the time it was about the retention of the marquee we already had, it needs to be remembered from 10-12 we had one of the best rosters in the comp. I'm not overly surprised we weren't overly chasing the big name players and when we did that is actually when things were falling apart.

Marshall & Farah were probably top 5 players in the game during those years & turned everything into gold. They even managed to turn pure plod (Ashford, Ryan) into half decent players ?

There was a year where they ran, I think, 2nd and 3rd in the Dally m. Stole points of each other costing them the Dally m.

 

[AdelaideTiger]

Just wanted to say how good is our front row rotation looking?
Tamou
Musgrove
Stefano
Twal
Ofahengaue
Mikaele
Packer
(Not to mention any of the younger lads coming through).
When Aloiai initially agitated for his release I thought we could be in strife, now I'm not sure that we even fit him in? Going to be an interesting season to say the least.

Aloiai would’ve started alongside Tamou, he’s been playing well and it sucks we’ve lost him. Musgrove hopefully takes the starting spot and have a big yesr now

For me Musgrove offers more when healthy.
Aloiai doesn't really have a regular offload, isn't a top meter eater for the comp (feel free to correct me but I wouldn't have said he was top 10 amongst props), isn't a noted enforcer (unless they bring back the biff), isn't consistent week to week. Yes he had a good year last year and he took the role of pack leader, but if last year was the peak of his powers I'm not that fussed about losing him.

He was our best forward every game this season really. There’s a hole there to fill, hopefully Musgrove can fill it and more, I’m a fan of his and he looks to be in phenomenal shape much better than early this year.

We’ll be okay without Aloiai. Still would’ve been way better to keep him and make our pack even better, but can’t blame the club as all for not giving him $600k+ a season

Keen to see how our pack goes. Lots of young guys being lead around by a few experienced heads, seems a good balance to me

I think we are on the same page here, although I think Luciano had a better year than Josh did. I also think that Twal's form over the first handful of games has been largely forgotten, there was more than a couple of suggestions of a SOO call up and not just from this forum. Safe to say he wasn't fully fit when he returned, hope he comes back 100%.

 

[AdelaideTiger]

Just wanted to say how good is our front row rotation looking?
Tamou
Musgrove
Stefano
Twal
Ofahengaue
Mikaele
Packer
(Not to mention any of the younger lads coming through).
When Aloiai initially agitated for his release I thought we could be in strife, now I'm not sure that we even fit him in? Going to be an interesting season to say the least.

Aloiai would’ve started alongside Tamou, he’s been playing well and it sucks we’ve lost him. Musgrove hopefully takes the starting spot and have a big yesr now


Did Tamou sign with us before Aloiai went off the rails? Might explain his behavior...

I'm sure it didn't help.

 

[JC99]

Just wanted to say how good is our front row rotation looking?
Tamou
Musgrove
Stefano
Twal
Ofahengaue
Mikaele
Packer
(Not to mention any of the younger lads coming through).
When Aloiai initially agitated for his release I thought we could be in strife, now I'm not sure that we even fit him in? Going to be an interesting season to say the least.

Aloiai would’ve started alongside Tamou, he’s been playing well and it sucks we’ve lost him. Musgrove hopefully takes the starting spot and have a big yesr now

For me Musgrove offers more when healthy.
Aloiai doesn't really have a regular offload, isn't a top meter eater for the comp (feel free to correct me but I wouldn't have said he was top 10 amongst props), isn't a noted enforcer (unless they bring back the biff), isn't consistent week to week. Yes he had a good year last year and he took the role of pack leader, but if last year was the peak of his powers I'm not that fussed about losing him.

He was our best forward every game this season really. There’s a hole there to fill, hopefully Musgrove can fill it and more, I’m a fan of his and he looks to be in phenomenal shape much better than early this year.

We’ll be okay without Aloiai. Still would’ve been way better to keep him and make our pack even better, but can’t blame the club as all for not giving him $600k+ a season

Keen to see how our pack goes. Lots of young guys being lead around by a few experienced heads, seems a good balance to me

I think we are on the same page here, although I think Luciano had a better year than Josh did. I also think that Twal's form over the first handful of games has been largely forgotten, there was more than a couple of suggestions of a SOO call up and not just from this forum. Safe to say he wasn't fully fit when he returned, hope he comes back 100%.

Luc was excellent and you’re spot on about Twal, he was killing it before his injury

 

[BZN]

Saw a photo of bj Leilua on twitter today, jesus christ the dude has changed so much, highly recommend everyone go have a lookie

Post it please dude?

Fit joey


First time i have ever seen BJ look cut
Let's hope that gives him more confidence to trample over his opposition

I read in an article the exact same thing happened when he joined Canberra. His first year there he was unfit and struggled, came back the next year cut a heap of weight and got fit and was dally m centre. He’s such a damaging ball runner, hopefully fixing his weight and mobility fixes his defence too.

When do you say enough? Wouldn't it be preferable to put our long term option in the centre and stick with him?

I think he’ll be good for us next year and if he’s playing good enough he’s gotta be in the team. Hard to know if Roberts will play and Talau could play wing or centre.

Pretty much regardless of contracts and age whoever’s playing the best should be starting and I think it’ll be Joey combining well with Doueihi on that right edge

Physical fitness and pyschological makeup are the difference between an outstanding player and the weakest link. Why do WTs believe they are different to the Raiders, Newcastle or the Roosters?

Covid is not going away. While overseas arrivals continue, the risk of the infection into the community is real. We may not see our families at Christmas and I would not be surprised if a bubble is not being planned for next season. So what will change?

None of what you said made sense. Literally nothing. Like what dyu even mean here?

"Physical fitness and pyschological makeup are the difference between an outstanding player and the weakest link. Why do WTs believe they are different to the Raiders, Newcastle or the Roosters?"

Lmao

It's pretty clear and one poster has responded. Like what don't you understand?

Paws, I rate you cos you seem very sure of yourself. But read the last few posts. The translations getting lost a bit.
Something I noticed about you, your hell bent on hating players immediately. Nofa, Bj, Luciano.

Also look at the rating on your last few posts, cos they are in the negatives mate, "specially the post in question"

regardless lets banter, I'll always be down.

I can't recall ever writing a negative post about Luciano.

Leilua J has been an extremely poor buy, so against the youth approach we have adopted.

My view on Nofoaluma is clear so I don't need to repeat it.

As for recruitment, I like to read Sir Alex Fergusons approach and note the synergies between him having little money and investing what he did have in youth and the WTs' approach.

https://www.opustalentsolutions.com/blog-news-and-social/sir-alex-fergusons-talent-strategy-how-to-build-a-successful-team

Usually , I am fairly positive towards the Club but this is a forum so views will differ. As for negative reps, who cares.

He was obviously a great man manager re..."Fergie would reserve the 'hairdryer' for players he knew could take it, treating others differently, perhaps offering a few quiet words of encouragement"
I would love to be a fly on the wall at Madge's team meetings to see how he handles various players in Our Team.

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Magpies,

This is a great article about Sir Alex's use of psychology interestingly directed towards referees, other managers and players. His capacity to change gameplans to target the psychological weaknesses of an individual player opposing MU is outstanding.

I never fail to be fascinated by his attention to detail and understanding that some of his stars never received the 'hair dryer' treatment if they didn't perform. He knew they would perform when needed.

A friend in the US advised many of the professional sports make prospective recruits undergo psychological assessment to ensure they are suitable for recruitment. I know one question asked by at least one baseball team to rcruits is 'Do you want to play for us?' If the answer isno then the process ends.

Thanks for your feedback.

https://www.skysports.com/football/news/11667/11980422/fergies-mind-games-dont-let-vieira-ref-the-match

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Gees, I reckon asking dorothy dix's like that is pretty heavy profiling :upside_down_face: :left-facing_fist: :joy:

 

[Leck]

Question: would people rather Widdop (1y)/Noffa (3y) or Laurie (4y)/Mansour(2y). If I had to choose I would probably take Laurie/Mansour

Hard call. Both scenarios have upside and downside.
On Nofoaluma, I really want him to re-sign as I value loyalty but if I’m honest, as footballers I thing him and mansour are interchangeable

Certainly not sure of why, but Nofo hasn’t seemed to be showing loyalty atm?

But I do think wingers are the easiest position to change, quick blokes are coming through every day.

I’ve heard Nofoaluma is getting itchy feet about wanting to play semi final footy and also thinks his value has gone up. You could call that disloyal but you could also call it fair. I think we are heading towards finals footy but we regressed on field in 2020 and maybe he’s had enough. I hope he stays though.

One hot season and he's out to play semis? He's the only other long term player aside from Brooks that can be associated with the repeated past failures. Bit rich to have good season and then start getting bullish about wanting finals footy. If that's his attitude he can go. Stay and build something here, or do a Tedesco/Moses/Woods and parachute into an already successful outfit. Good luck.

There is a reason why this club has not played finals in 10 seasons ..Nofoaluma should sign or move on ,obviously has tickets on himself ,wIngers are a dime a dozen Bigger / faster and can tackle ! Brooks
**will be lucky to see out the full season in the top grade.**

How about instead of bashing our halfback we support him...how many dally m position awards have we got in our current squad? Exactly

In a season where basically only nofa and Luciano had a good year, Brooks seems to be the common go to man for criticism

Luke winning the halfback Dally M in 2018 based on five tries, 10 try assists, 15 line-break assists is hardly star-studded stats. It was a weak field and he was the best of an average bunch

I like Luke but he’s definitely not proven to be a top 5 halfback or leader over his 7 year career

The writing is on the wall, he needs to show up in 2021 or shuffle on

 

[rihannafan1]

Question: would people rather Widdop (1y)/Noffa (3y) or Laurie (4y)/Mansour(2y). If I had to choose I would probably take Laurie/Mansour

Hard call. Both scenarios have upside and downside.
On Nofoaluma, I really want him to re-sign as I value loyalty but if I’m honest, as footballers I thing him and mansour are interchangeable

Certainly not sure of why, but Nofo hasn’t seemed to be showing loyalty atm?

But I do think wingers are the easiest position to change, quick blokes are coming through every day.

I’ve heard Nofoaluma is getting itchy feet about wanting to play semi final footy and also thinks his value has gone up. You could call that disloyal but you could also call it fair. I think we are heading towards finals footy but we regressed on field in 2020 and maybe he’s had enough. I hope he stays though.

One hot season and he's out to play semis? He's the only other long term player aside from Brooks that can be associated with the repeated past failures. Bit rich to have good season and then start getting bullish about wanting finals footy. If that's his attitude he can go. Stay and build something here, or do a Tedesco/Moses/Woods and parachute into an already successful outfit. Good luck.

There is a reason why this club has not played finals in 10 seasons ..Nofoaluma should sign or move on ,obviously has tickets on himself ,wIngers are a dime a dozen Bigger / faster and can tackle ! Brooks
**will be lucky to see out the full season in the top grade.**

How about instead of bashing our halfback we support him...how many dally m position awards have we got in our current squad? Exactly

In a season where basically only nofa and Luciano had a good year, Brooks seems to be the common go to man for criticism

Maybe the reason we have no Dally M players is because of Brooks ......


Didn't Latrell say he didn't want to be our Marquee player .....gives you his opinion on Brooks ...I'm not saying LM's word is be all and end all ... ...even JAC thinks he is better off playing behind a 2 game veteran ......how many other players who rely on tries and try assists think the same about Brooks .....

Even during our golden period of 09-11 we couldn’t sign anybody so that is a myth. Who was our biggest signing? (Apart from Ellis)

Tuqiri .....Wade McKinnon .....Matt Head ....Andrew Fifita .....Adam Blair and Gareth Ellis

Tuqiri was a huge get but McKinnon and Head were scrapheap and Fifita was a junior.

 

[Lauren]

Must admit I find myself lurking in The Kennel for a good laugh every now and then but can now see the interest in other team forums. It is quite funny to see other supporter bases lose their minds over us(our club) for once.
Shout out to the person who tagged the url/link.
https://forums.leagueunlimited.com/threads/rumoured-and-confirmed-signings-part-4.455990/page-1738#post-14480696