Signings, Suggestions & Rumours Discussion

[TonyTiger]

it's a game of centimetres..

I tell the ladies it’s a game of inches....

How many?

I have 2 feet (to stand on ?)

 

[Snake]

Harley Smith-Shields is playing tonight - Does anyone know if we should be watching him closely tonight or not?

Looked hungry, fast and dangerous - we need all attributes

Yeah he is a gun. Will be good for us if we get him over the line

Nuffie can play reserve grade next season …

 

[the road runner]

Gee snake you seem a miserable sod.I bet you bbq alone

 

[GNR4LIFE]

Harley Smith-Shields is playing tonight - Does anyone know if we should be watching him closely tonight or not?

Looked hungry, fast and dangerous - we need all attributes

Yeah he is a gun. Will be good for us if we get him over the line



Nuffie can play reserve grade next season …

Can he? Let’s see how that works out.

 

[Lukic]

The rest of Reynolds', Packer's and some of Mbye's (if he goes to the Dragons) money will come off the books. Joey Leilua off the books too.

The money is most definitely there for Manu on a long-term deal.

You know what, I'd rather overpay for a superstar than overpay for mediocre players. It's all well and good to snap up young talents like the Stefanos, Blores, Lauries etc. Shrewed pick ups like Maumalo below value are good too. But at some point you need a marquee and our strategy in recruiting of late is what should let us go over the top for elite talent.

 

[tony soprano]

The rest of Reynolds', Packer's and some of Mbye's (if he goes to the Dragons) money will come off the books. Joey Leilua off the books too.

The money is most definitely there for Manu on a long-term deal.

You know what, I'd rather overpay for a superstar than overpay for mediocre players. It's all well and good to snap up young talents like the Stefanos, Blores, Lauries etc. Shrewed pick ups like Maumalo below value are good too. But at some point you need a marquee and our strategy in recruiting of late is what should let us go over the top for elite talent.

Strong argument there mate he's definitely quality

 

[Tiger-ferret]

The rest of Reynolds', Packer's and some of Mbye's (if he goes to the Dragons) money will come off the books. Joey Leilua off the books too.

The money is most definitely there for Manu on a long-term deal.

You know what, I'd rather overpay for a superstar than overpay for mediocre players. It's all well and good to snap up young talents like the Stefanos, Blores, Lauries etc. Shrewed pick ups like Maumalo below value are good too. But at some point you need a marquee and our strategy in recruit otherwise is what lets us go over the top for elite talent.

This is a genuine question. Is Manu a genuine marquee? I watch a lot of league and he’s never stood out to me from a commentators bias point of view if that makes sense. I can’t remember a time where they sit and rant for 5 minutes about him like other players like cleary, tedesco ado carr, cronk etc.

To me a million gets you teddy, turbo or Mitchell. Hunt and Taylor level doesn’t interest me for a million stuffing your cap for 4 years.

Would love him in tigers colours obviously.

 

[Needaname]

Does anyone know much about a guy called Tony Sukkar from our 2021 Balmain Tigers Harold Matthews squad.
Souths forum are talking him up and wondering if he is under contract or not and if he goes ok.

Front rower and captain of the Balmain Harold Matts this year, so only very young still. Souths juniors are middle of the road, kind of like Balmain this year so it wouldn't surprise me if they made a play for him.

Looks like a different middle forward of our Balmain team is lost to South’s for next year.

https://www.rabbitohs.com.au/news/2021/08/12/rabbitohs-sign-five-young-prospects-on-extended-contracts/

Jaxson Rahme, 17, is a middle forward that has committed to the Rabbitohs for the next two seasons. Rahme won the most valuable player award for NSW Combined Catholic Colleges this year and is in line for selection in the Australian Schoolboys squad to be announced later this year. He joins the Rabbitohs from the Balmain Tigers junior representative system, also having captained his school side, Holy Cross Ryde, in the 2021 GIO Schoolboys Cup.

 

[balmain boy]

Does anyone know much about a guy called Tony Sukkar from our 2021 Balmain Tigers Harold Matthews squad.
Souths forum are talking him up and wondering if he is under contract or not and if he goes ok.

Front rower and captain of the Balmain Harold Matts this year, so only very young still. Souths juniors are middle of the road, kind of like Balmain this year so it wouldn't surprise me if they made a play for him.

Looks like a different middle forward of our Balmain team is lost to South’s for next year.

https://www.rabbitohs.com.au/news/2021/08/12/rabbitohs-sign-five-young-prospects-on-extended-contracts/

Jaxson Rahme, 17, is a middle forward that has committed to the Rabbitohs for the next two seasons. Rahme won the most valuable player award for NSW Combined Catholic Colleges this year and is in line for selection in the Australian Schoolboys squad to be announced later this year. He joins the Rabbitohs from the Balmain Tigers junior representative system, also having captained his school side, Holy Cross Ryde, in the 2021 GIO Schoolboys Cup.

Sad to lose him but you can't keep them all. Hopefully we've chosen the right props and losing Rahme and Tuifua won't come back to bite us. Lots of good prospects to choose from.

Sukkar is a backrower, seemed to be determined and work hard at that age group but nothing mind blowing

 

[LeichhardtTiger]

The rest of Reynolds', Packer's and some of Mbye's (if he goes to the Dragons) money will come off the books. Joey Leilua off the books too.

The money is most definitely there for Manu on a long-term deal.

You know what, I'd rather overpay for a superstar than overpay for mediocre players. It's all well and good to snap up young talents like the Stefanos, Blores, Lauries etc. Shrewed pick ups like Maumalo below value are good too. But at some point you need a marquee and our strategy in recruit otherwise is what lets us go over the top for elite talent.

This is a genuine question. Is Manu a genuine marquee? I watch a lot of league and he’s never stood out to me from a commentators bias point of view if that makes sense. I can’t remember a time where they sit and rant for 5 minutes about him like other players like cleary, tedesco ado carr, cronk etc.

To me a million gets you teddy, turbo or Mitchell. Hunt and Taylor level doesn’t interest me for a million stuffing your cap for 4 years.

Would love him in tigers colours obviously.

You should go to Spec Savers tomorrow/today. Manu is Multi-talented. He was never a Centre but played a role at Chooks . When he played 5/8 he tore game apart. We almost got him!

 

[TigerWest]

Brett Read on Triple M this afternoon and backing up @THE_POM confirming Mbye to Dragons is a done deal.

Did we get Lomax in the deal?

 

[PJ_]

With so many clubs chasing Manu, we will have to pay some serious overs to jag him.
Imo the chooks will keep him. They lost corner and friend so they've got some spare coin, prob about 5 mill

 

[Guest]

Harley Smith-Shields is playing tonight - Does anyone know if we should be watching him closely tonight or not?

He is too short for a winger

Is he shorter than To’o?

To'o is 176
HSS is 180

HSS is listed at 183.

No way To'o £@ 176

That's shorter than me

To'o is short, but over 100kg

Penrith website has 182.
Google says 176.

Remember all the Ivan Cleary lies.
Telling Porkies is standard practice for Penrith.

 

[JC99]

Harley Smith-Shields is playing tonight - Does anyone know if we should be watching him closely tonight or not?

He is too short for a winger

Is he shorter than To’o?

To'o is 176
HSS is 180

HSS is listed at 183.

No way To'o £@ 176

That's shorter than me

To'o is short, but over 100kg

Penrith website has 182.
Google says 176.

Remember all the Ivan Cleary lies.
Telling Porkies is standard practice for Penrith.

The NRL site is consistently wrong with player weights and heights for some reason, they must just guess.

 

[Guest]

Harley Smith-Shields is playing tonight - Does anyone know if we should be watching him closely tonight or not?

He is too short for a winger

Is he shorter than To’o?

To'o is 176
HSS is 180

HSS is listed at 183.

No way To'o £@ 176

That's shorter than me

To'o is short, but over 100kg

Penrith website has 182.
Google says 176.

Remember all the Ivan Cleary lies.
Telling Porkies is standard practice for Penrith.

The NRL site is consistently wrong with player weights and heights for some reason, they must just guess.

They'd get the stats. from the clubs who all think they're in the WWE.
You know "from parts unknown at 7 feet 3 inches and 500 pounds" and out walks a guy the size of Brooks.

 

[Eyeofthetiger 0]

Brett Read on Triple M this afternoon and backing up @THE_POM confirming Mbye to Dragons is a done deal.

Did we get Lomax in the deal?

Nothing mentioned about it by Read. Don’t think it’s been picked up yet by the media.

 

[Tiger-ferret]

The rest of Reynolds', Packer's and some of Mbye's (if he goes to the Dragons) money will come off the books. Joey Leilua off the books too.

The money is most definitely there for Manu on a long-term deal.

You know what, I'd rather overpay for a superstar than overpay for mediocre players. It's all well and good to snap up young talents like the Stefanos, Blores, Lauries etc. Shrewed pick ups like Maumalo below value are good too. But at some point you need a marquee and our strategy in recruit otherwise is what lets us go over the top for elite talent.

This is a genuine question. Is Manu a genuine marquee? I watch a lot of league and he’s never stood out to me from a commentators bias point of view if that makes sense. I can’t remember a time where they sit and rant for 5 minutes about him like other players like cleary, tedesco ado carr, cronk etc.

To me a million gets you teddy, turbo or Mitchell. Hunt and Taylor level doesn’t interest me for a million stuffing your cap for 4 years.

Would love him in tigers colours obviously.

You should go to Spec Savers tomorrow/today. Manu is Multi-talented. He was never a Centre but played a role at Chooks . When he played 5/8 he tore game apart. We almost got him!

Brooks tore it up in his first game as 7 for us.

Has he been the chooks 6 every game since keary injured though? (Actually that’s a point in itself, how much is keary worth? I certainly wouldn’t sign him on a million at the tigers)

It’s not as if he’s the chooks 2nd best 6 so to me he’s not worth a million.

 

[coivtny]

Harley Smith-Shields is playing tonight - Does anyone know if we should be watching him closely tonight or not?

He is too short for a winger

Is he shorter than To’o?

To'o is 176
HSS is 180

HSS is listed at 183.

No way To'o £@ 176

That's shorter than me

To'o is short, but over 100kg

Penrith website has 182.
Google says 176.

Remember all the Ivan Cleary lies.
Telling Porkies is standard practice for Penrith.

The NRL site is consistently wrong with player weights and heights for some reason, they must just guess.

They'd get the stats. from the clubs who all think they're in the WWE.
You know "from parts unknown at 7 feet 3 inches and 500 pounds" and out walks a guy the size of Brooks.

I love that wrestling hype. I remember a guy called the Mongolian Stomper who was once described as being from parts unknown.

 

[TigerTone]

CLUB’S SUSPECT OFFERS

Which high-profile club official has set tongues wagging around the great game of rugba league by offering up some “extras” when it comes to player contract negotiations?

What’s equally as dangerous is the club in question has form in the department of being previously pinched for salary cap rorting.

 

[rihannafan1]

Brett Read on Triple M this afternoon and backing up @THE_POM confirming Mbye to Dragons is a done deal.

Did we get Lomax in the deal?

I think the deal is we get rid of Mbye and get 400k back.