Signings, Suggestions & Rumours Discussion

Rugba said:
Might no be the correct thread to post to , but I see on wwwos website another article/podcast with Joey John’s trying to get Luke brooks to Newcastle .

The protracted and public attempts by that club to get brooks to break his contract is disgusting and I cannot believe tigers have not asked the nrl to dock Newcastle points for next season.

Nrl must put in a rule anyone employed by media cannot be involved with clubs. John’s using his mouth piece to lure brooks to break contract
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Maybe the tigers can start a new trend and get Newcastle to pay us to take Brooks. For mine it's a win win situation if this could happen.
 
ovoevo said:
Always darkest before the dawn, my friend. You want to spend the best part of thirty years as a Liverpool fan watching United take every trophy on offer. Brings a certain skewed perspective to life lol.
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😂😂😂 I am a massive Liverpool fan too. The Wests Tigers have become Everton...not threatening and by halfway in the Season, irrelevant.
 
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Telltails said:
And from the club's perspective if you sign a player 18 months in advance and you go backwards from then on, are in the wooden spoon position, and are talking about another two/three year rebuild - don't expect the player to not be questioning or regretful about the decision - especially when his current club is about to play in a premium final.
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Nah, when he signed, Papali'i knew exactly where WT were as a playing squad and with a coach that just had them finish 13th, having taken them backwards year on year.

Doubt that he is very surprised that they ended up falling another three places, nor unhappy that said coach is gone.

No excuses for Isaiah, because he knew well and truly enough when deciding.
 
Cobarcats said:
I agree mate, I like Braith.
There would be a bit of talk offset though. If people don't believe that, they have their head in the sand.
In one episode of 360, in the segment of 'Ask Kenty' ..Braith read out a fans letter that asked if Munster is a chance to play for the Weststigers and Kenty looked at Braith and smiled and said...'no way'
When asked by Braith why not he smiled again and said I know someone and he said noway. So he's telling Munsters manager noway??
If people don't believe Braith told Paul this being Musters manager trying to drum up business then that's crazy.
Surely Braith new the question from the fan or the question could have been scripted.
Getting back to the point about media personalities being involved with a club or players...this is an example of them manipulating their position for personal gain. If it wasn't and was purely coincidental then it's still wrong.
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If Braith privately told Kent that Munster wasn’t interested in joining the Tigers, what damage has that done to anyone?

Our own fans don’t even believe it’s a possibility. Where is the conspiracy?
 
weststigers said:
If Braith privately told Kent that Munster wasn’t interested in joining the Tigers, what damage has that done to anyone?

Our own fans don’t even believe it’s a possibility. Where is the conspiracy?
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It's not a conspiracy, it's a conflict of interest and makes WT look like losers. Like Munster is too good for us and surely Melbourne or Dolphins can up the dollar.
 
Telltails said:
And from the club's perspective if you sign a player 18 months in advance and you go backwards from then on, are in the wooden spoon position, and are talking about another two/three year rebuild - don't expect the player to not be questioning or regretful about the decision - especially when his current club is about to play in a premium final.
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Yeah I bet we couldn't back out if his form went to garbage, he signed a contract, needs to be a man and honour it.
 
Telltails said:
And from the club's perspective if you sign a player 18 months in advance and you go backwards from then on, are in the wooden spoon position, and are talking about another two/three year rebuild - don't expect the player to not be questioning or regretful about the decision - especially when his current club is about to play in a premium final.
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You realise we were crap when he signed with us, right? It's not as if we were a top 8 club and miraculously collapsed. We've sucked for 10 years, he was fully aware of that when he signed with us. He felt our position and contract offer was not only acceptable but preferable to parras offer.

If anything we're in a better position now than we were a year ago. We have and continue to get rid of a lot of dead wood, on and off the field, have an elite hooker joining us plus we have state of the art training facilities now.
 
Camel2281 said:
Chad Townsend has been an astute signing for them and a massive reason why they're going so well
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Yes he has been great , BUT he is working behind a great youthful pack , players like nanai, Gilbert, cotter and neame have come out of no where , and they have brought the best out of the older forwards , our kids other than pole are way behind them
 
formerguest said:
Nah, when he signed, Papali'i knew exactly where WT were as a playing squad and with a coach that just had them finish 13th, having taken them backwards year on year.

Doubt that he is very surprised that they ended up falling another three places, nor unhappy that said coach is gone.

No excuses for Isaiah, because he knew well and truly enough when deciding.
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Parra is losing a lot of good players next season 4 or 5 I think and maybe Moses. . They might get the spoon.
 
Cobarcats said:
It's not a conspiracy, it's a conflict of interest and makes WT look like losers. Like Munster is too good for us and surely Melbourne or Dolphins can up the dollar.
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Where’s the conflict of interest?

If the Tigers approach him and put in an offer, he’s entitled to speak with the Dolphins and the Storm and say…Hey…I have a club that thinks he’s worth more than you’re willing to pay…how about you up your offer!?

If they are going around saying he’ll never sign with the Tigers regardless of what we pay him, that just plays into the Dolphins or Storms hands because they know he’s not serious about taking the money on the table from the Tigers.

As an agent, his job is to get the best deal for his player.
 
weststigers said:
Where’s the conflict of interest?

If the Tigers approach him and put in an offer, he’s entitled to speak with the Dolphins and the Storm and say…Hey…I have a club that thinks he’s worth more than you’re willing to pay…how about you up your offer!?

If they are going around saying he’ll never sign with the Tigers regardless of what we pay him, that just plays into the Dolphins or Storms hands because they know he’s not serious about taking the money on the table from the Tigers.

As an agent, his job is to get the best deal for his player.
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Yeh I know that, that's his job to get the highest dollar but not by running a club down and using the media that he's involved with to do it. Made us look look stupid, did you see the episode. It was smug journalism. It came across as..Cameron going to the tigers, are you joking!
 
weststigers said:
Where’s the conflict of interest?

If the Tigers approach him and put in an offer, he’s entitled to speak with the Dolphins and the Storm and say…Hey…I have a club that thinks he’s worth more than you’re willing to pay…how about you up your offer!?

If they are going around saying he’ll never sign with the Tigers regardless of what we pay him, that just plays into the Dolphins or Storms hands because they know he’s not serious about taking the money on the table from the Tigers.

As an agent, his job is to get the best deal for his player.
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Anyways, what are you doing up so late?
 
balmain boy said:
You realise we were crap when he signed with us, right? It's not as if we were a top 8 club and miraculously collapsed. We've sucked for 10 years, he was fully aware of that when he signed with us. He felt our position and contract offer was not only acceptable but preferable to parras offer.

If anything we're in a better position now than we were a year ago. We have and continue to get rid of a lot of dead wood, on and off the field, have an elite hooker joining us plus we have state of the art training facilities now.
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We are always in a better position in the off season when we are not playing because it is all speculative about what is going to happen the following year.
When he signed in November you can guarantee he was sold a vision that we were on the up and up that didn't include the reality - that being the wooden spoon, the coach who was signing him to be sacked mid year before he even gets to the club, or getting beat during the season 72 -6 culminating in the worst season in our history.
On paper a great deal for us especially after stellar year - for IP and his stage of career perfectly understandable why he may have big regrets.
 
Cobarcats said:
Yeh I know that, that's his job to get the highest dollar but not by running a club down and using the media that he's involved with to do it. Made us look look stupid, did you see the episode. It was smug journalism. It came across as..Cameron going to the tigers, are you joking!
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I’m not sure I can agree. I did see the segment you’re referring to, and while it hurts to see us mocked in the media, Anasta and Kent aren’t the only ones that stick the boot in.

We need to look past what is said in the media and fix the root causes of why people are bagging us.

We are a laughing stock because we do things as a club that are, quite frankly, laughable.

If we start to become more professional as a club, we may get a little bit of respect in the media.
 
851 said:
Because poor old Luke, it's never his fault, fair dinkum, those crap forwards made him kick out on the full, kick dead repeatedly, and made him take the wrong option almost at will, those forwards caused his poor game management too I suspect
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Why not - they had the same effect on Doueihi and Madden at the back end of the year…
 
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