Signings, Suggestions & Rumours Discussion

Earl said:
Facts. Go and watch him play last season and tell me he doesn't have the best all round kicking game out of him AD and Hastings.

I think Brooks defense is a little overrated though. He still misses some tackles. You expect that from your halves but Cleary doesn't miss many.
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Every team in the comp targets the 7, 6 and 1. Brooks would have had to do twice the work of the top halves. AD was an arm grabber, our FB was poor, our forwards terrible'
. Storm-Cheese , Munster ,Paps, Panthers- Cleary, Lui, Edwards. Easts - walker, Cleary Teddy.

Can you imagine how much easier it would be, to have those players taking the pressure off you !
 
Mighty_Tiger said:
Interesting your argument is about attacking players between Brooks & Hastings?

Hastings in 63 nrl games has scored 3 times, has 22 try assists & 17 drop outs to his name.
Last year he had 1200 + receipts for 7 try assists.

Brooks 189 nrl games, 42 trys, 108 try assists, 93 drop outs
Last year he had 856 receipts, 2 trys, 10 try assists

Brooks is by far the more attacking player of the 2

If we look at last 5yrs 2022 was our worst year across the park attack, defensive, wins etc.
Last year we scored 150pts in the season and had double the wins.

Y - W / F v A D
22 - 4 / 352 v 679 -327
21 - 8 / 500/714 -214
20 - 7 / 440/505 -56
19 - 11 / 467 / 461 +6
18 - 12 / 367/409 -42

Brooks is a better attacking player than Hastings, Hastings is a better chief than Brooks.
They both have pro's con's. If you want to grind a win Hastings will be the pick, if we want to score points & who cares about defence Brooks is the pick
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Attacking can mean a lot of things.

It means we score more points. To clarify I don’t really look at last year because Hastings didn’t play halfback all that much - it’s just my personal opinion - as is this whole argument and I respect if you have a different one.

I think with Hastings we score more points as a team.

And I think with Hastings we win more games. ( easiest way to think about this is who do you think would win in a game - Api/Hastings or Api/Brooks.

People who continue to pull up stats about Brooks ability whether it be a bit attack or defense moss the point - it’s about winning games as a team and as the half back he takes a resonable piece of accountability for that.

That’s my point - apologize if the words I chose in the previous post didn’t articulate that properly.
 
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851 said:
You are a real piece of work, I have supported Wests/Wests Tigers longer than you have been alive, you really have no idea what you are talking about with statements like that, the forum was a much better place until people like you dragged their sorry butt in
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I've been supporting wests tigers since inception and Balmain long before that.
 
sleeve said:
FACT;- Hastings is gone !--get over it. FACT;- Brooks is playing in the halves in 2023. --love it or leave it- suck rocks. FACT;- AD will not get $900,000 or an extended contract. FACT; - there are few if any halves on the market better then Brooks at this time. Fact ;- Sheens will not keep anyone that does not benefit the club, including Brooks, Fact;- this is a good time for the Tigers, sensible signings, money in the cap, juniors coming through, and big money from off contract players in 2024. Enjoy while you can.
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true Hastings is Gooooone
 
CloudyGlock said:
Remind me again why the Roosters let a young gun with a surname Hastings go early?
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Roosters - attitude
Manly - DCE
Left Salford early to get better deal with Wigan (fair enough)
Wigan - left to get a shot back at nrl (fair enough)
Tigers, but he left here to play 7 and more cash so that is fair enough

Really only 2 clubs were due to falling out with club or players
 
Hastings from all reports is Knights bound so let's move on.

It will be interesting with the World Cup and players starting pre season later what impact this will have on early round games in 2023.

I hope Big Joe O is sole captain in 2023.
 
tigermate said:
Attacking can mean a lot of things.

It means we score more points. To clarify I don’t really look at last year because Hastings didn’t play halfback all that much - it’s just my personal opinion - as is this whole argument and I respect if you have a different one.

I think with Hastings we score more points as a team.

And I think with Hastings we win more games. ( easiest way to think about this is who do you think would win in a game - Api/Hastings or Api/Brooks.

People who continue to pull up stats about Brooks ability whether it be a bit attack or defense moss the point - it’s about winning games as a team and as the half back he takes a resonable piece of accountability for that.

That’s my point - apologize if the words I chose in the previous post didn’t articulate that properly.
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17 players, what is reasonable? I would say all 17 are accountable.
 
crazycat said:
Something people said about Dale Finucane at the Sharks.. "he upgraded our game".

What concerns me is our front row needs an upgrade, someone who will help them train better. I think Tamou could have been that but he can't carry the pack himself. Tamou working with Martin and Isaah and all those Penrith young players worked well for him. It did not happen here, and I don't get that.

We need to have a good hard look at the WT as to why Tamou and our pack did not fire. All attention seems ot be on 1-7. Without go-forward as we saw last year..... WE are dead. We had Nathan Cayless, a great player and we had Tamou with our pack. We were steamrolled. Why?
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I would've liked to see Tamou go around again next year with the boys we've signed up.
 
851 said:
You are a real piece of work, I have supported Wests/Wests Tigers longer than you have been alive, you really have no idea what you are talking about with statements like that, the forum was a much better place until people like you dragged their sorry butt in
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i could have worded it better mate
 
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I love what Lee H said about Sheen's comment to him..
Sheen said you will not recognise this team in 2023 and it's fair to say he is well and truly on the way to making that a true statement....
This is the best clean out we have every had and makes for a very exciting future.

Glass HALF FULL guys... We are not all going to like every decision made but overall we can all agree we have ungraded pretty much all players this off season that have left.
 
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