Signings, Suggestions & Rumours Discussion

Buttface said:
I hope he can defend better than the last rugby convert coz he was terrible on the weekend in reggies.
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One of the worst debuts you'd ever see. Woeful in defence and poor in attack. It was dreadful. In fairness he wasn't on his own. I'd only give Jimmy and Tupou a pass.
By the way, where was our fullback when Canterbury were chipping ahead and regathering to score.
 
Long Term Fan said:
I think WT has now hit rock bottom and maybe the spoon is a wake up call required.
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You wouldn’t think we’d require a wake-up call after suffering through a decade that has seen Sheens, Potter, Taylor, Cleary and MaGuire as well as a couple of interims, all fail to get the team to the finals.
 
Demps said:
Matt Doorey, RFM, Jackson Topine.
Tom Eisenhuth.
Nathan Brown.
Corey Harawira-Naera.
Pasami Saulo.
Isaiha Tass.
Tanieka Paseka & Ethan Bullemore.

From the depths of NSW cup:
Daeon Amituanai (Penrith)
Kyal Iro (Sharks)
Kade Dykes (Sharks)
Jesse Colquhoun (Sharks)
Naufahu Whyte (Bears)
Tyrell Sloane (Dragons)
Kaeo Weekes (Manly)
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WT should be talking to Royce Hunt.
 
coivtny said:
One of the worst debuts you'd ever see. Woeful in defence and poor in attack. It was dreadful. In fairness he wasn't on his own. I'd only give Jimmy and Tupou a pass.
By the way, where was our fullback when Canterbury were chipping ahead and regathering to score.
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That was Tupou, not in position &/or not quick enough between the ears or feet.
Then when he went of they put DilFart at FB he was in position a little better but got smashed returning. If it wasn’t my team I would have been pointing at the tv laughing.
JTJ did look like a good reggies player had a little snap.
 
Buttface said:
That was Tupou, not in position &/or not quick enough between the ears or feet.
Then when he went of they put DilFart at FB he was in position a little better but got smashed returning. If it wasn’t my team I would have been pointing at the tv laughing.
JTJ did look like a good reggies player had a little snap.
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Be nice if the NRL had a draft. We could at least take some solace that we were firming for the first overall pick, but alas, there isn't a viable independent "college like" competition or a draft, so all we can look forward to is a wooden spoon.

Even the NRLW has a system in place that would advantage teams like the NRL Tigers:
With a salary cap of $350,000, plus two marquee players who can be offered fulltime jobs outside the cap, contracts for leading players in the 2022 NRLW are expected to be worth about $35,000, plus representative payments. Marquee players can sign multi-year employment deals to enable clubs to help them with career development, and from next year there will be limit on the term of playing contracts. (from https://www.nrl.com/news/2022/03/15/stars-set-to-earn-fulltime-deals-in-expanded-nrlw/)
We could negotiate with the 3rd best player at a club and offer them a marquee spot. Say the Roosters: They might have Tedesco and Keary as their two. We then could offer a spot to Angus or Walker. Or the Storm: Hughes and Munster (imo), so we could go for Harry. Would be a nice way of evening up the elite talent. Our two new boys next year would be closest we have to elite. No one in our 2022 squad would be worth tagging. Just where we are at at present.
 
tiger_scott said:
Be nice if the NRL had a draft. We could at least take some solace that we were firming for the first overall pick, but alas, there isn't a viable independent "college like" competition or a draft, so all we can look forward to is a wooden spoon.

Even the NRLW has a system in place that would advantage teams like the NRL Tigers:
With a salary cap of $350,000, plus two marquee players who can be offered fulltime jobs outside the cap, contracts for leading players in the 2022 NRLW are expected to be worth about $35,000, plus representative payments. Marquee players can sign multi-year employment deals to enable clubs to help them with career development, and from next year there will be limit on the term of playing contracts. (from https://www.nrl.com/news/2022/03/15/stars-set-to-earn-fulltime-deals-in-expanded-nrlw/)
We could negotiate with the 3rd best player at a club and offer them a marquee spot. Say the Roosters: They might have Tedesco and Keary as their two. We then could offer a spot to Angus or Walker. Or the Storm: Hughes and Munster (imo), so we could go for Harry. Would be a nice way of evening up the elite talent. Our two new boys next year would be closest we have to elite. No one in our 2022 squad would be worth tagging. Just where we are at at present.
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I’m sure there’s lots the game could do to more evenly distribute talent. That would be an argument our bosses might like to take up… never mind.
 
coivtny said:
One of the worst debuts you'd ever see. Woeful in defence and poor in attack. It was dreadful. In fairness he wasn't on his own. I'd only give Jimmy and Tupou a pass.
By the way, where was our fullback when Canterbury were chipping ahead and regathering to score.
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The kids' played a handful of union games in past few years due to covid, hasn't played league in 5 years, and trained once or twice with the boys. There's no way in hell he should have been selected.

For a club that is talking about being a development club we repeatedly make absolutely terrible decisions that severely hamper the development of our players. Youngsters should largley be playing in the same position, in the same grade week after week. Injuries and suspensions may force a reshuffle here and there. But we repeatedly drop rotate players around positions, between squads, or just leave them out entirely. Look at Tupou, going between nsw cup, flegg, nrl, playing fullback, winger, centre, playing one half in one position then a different position in second half, playing 60 mins they benched so he can be 18th man. It's just appalling. Our new coach needs to steer this ship and tell whomever is currently making these calls (i presume Sheenius) to butt out of things.

Would be interesting who gave the order for him to play, that decision
 
balmain boy said:
The kids' played a handful of union games in past few years due to covid, hasn't played league in 5 years, and trained once or twice with the boys. There's no way in hell he should have been selected.

For a club that is talking about being a development club we repeatedly make absolutely terrible decisions that severely hamper the development of our players. Youngsters should largley be playing in the same position, in the same grade week after week. Injuries and suspensions may force a reshuffle here and there. But we repeatedly drop rotate players around positions, between squads, or just leave them out entirely. Look at Tupou, going between nsw cup, flegg, nrl, playing fullback, winger, centre, playing one half in one position then a different position in second half, playing 60 mins they benched so he can be 18th man. It's just appalling. Our new coach needs to steer this ship and tell whomever is currently making these calls (i presume Sheenius) to butt out of things.

Would be interesting who gave the order for him to play, that decision
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I understand your comments but I don't regard him as a kid. He's 23 and has had rep experience in both league and union. Having said that he was rather thrown in the deep end and didn't swim well.
 
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coivtny said:
I understand your comments but I don't regard him as a kid. He's 23 and has had rep experience in both league and union. Having said that he was rather thrown in the deep end and didn't swim well.
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He's a 23 year old who's barely played in years. And no he has no rep experience in League. he played 7s in rugby and got a handful of apps for the Tahs.
 
balmain boy said:
The kids' played a handful of union games in past few years due to covid, hasn't played league in 5 years, and trained once or twice with the boys. There's no way in hell he should have been selected.

For a club that is talking about being a development club we repeatedly make absolutely terrible decisions that severely hamper the development of our players. Youngsters should largley be playing in the same position, in the same grade week after week. Injuries and suspensions may force a reshuffle here and there. But we repeatedly drop rotate players around positions, between squads, or just leave them out entirely. Look at Tupou, going between nsw cup, flegg, nrl, playing fullback, winger, centre, playing one half in one position then a different position in second half, playing 60 mins they benched so he can be 18th man. It's just appalling. Our new coach needs to steer this ship and tell whomever is currently making these calls (i presume Sheenius) to butt out of things.

Would be interesting who gave the order for him to play, that decision
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Very hard to judge anyone's talent when the teams change constantly, we have signed some heralded juniours over the last year or two but everything above Flegg is broken.
 
balmain boy said:
He's a 23 year old who's barely played in years. And no he has no rep experience in League. he played 7s in rugby and got a handful of apps for the Tahs.
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He played junior reps in league for two clubs. He played Harold Matts for Newcastle and Ball for Souths. He's no stranger to league.
 
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