Signings, Suggestions & Rumours Discussion

[Bones]

I don't really want to wade into this ....but I think if a person wants to come out and make claims about being in the know they should at least own it when they are wrong ...if your not prepared to own your misinformation ...then don't post it ....Fair ????

Why does it matter though?

For example Pom posted that Brooks management advised the club he intended to sign with Newcastle. Now he’s copping it from some.

None of us know if that happened or not, but I do know that when contacts are being negotiated what is true today may not be true tomorrow, and what one party believes is true may not be true to the other. So if they are going to get hammered for posting what they hear, why would they bother?

Better to say nothing and not cop the flack, which doesn’t make for a great forum.

 

[tigermate]

This is a “rumors” thread.

Nothing is guaranteed until its signed, sealed and delivered meaning any rumour can change no matter how solid it is.

Therefore if people don’t want speculation aka rumors - you may as well wait until things are signed and you read about it in the media.

Some people on this forum are hear for the speculation but want people to apologize if their information is incorrect ??

Why would anyone post anything if they have to apologize particularly to people that are ungrateful.

I suggest if you want solid info wait for the media, otherwise stop complaining and hammering people who post what they hear.

 

[Tim Sheens]

Maybe you are right, but doesn't take away the fact in my opinion Moses was always and still is a better player than Brooks

Marginally, but yes as a footy player, and I have always shared the same opinion.

Not much between them, but as a whole person, Brooks easily the pick of the two.

 

[Jedi_Tiger]

Maybe you are right, but doesn't take away the fact in my opinion Moses was always and still is a better player than Brooks

don't agree bit there you go, since Moses left he has had a very good team to work with good forwards and backs Brooks has had rubbish to work with
Brooks will kill it with the 2023 team and 2024 team being built

 

[Cobarcats]

I don't really want to wade into this ....but I think if a person wants to come out and make claims about being in the know they should at least own it when they are wrong ...if your not prepared to own your misinformation ...then don't post it ....Fair ????

The forum really feeds off rumours. It's human nature to do so.
There are a few members of the forum who quote info and this info should be taken as rumours only as it's not official until they run out onto LO or CS wearing WT kit. Even our club states one thing and the goal posts change the next week.
The reason the POM was given VIP status was for his information (rumours) contributions and being humble at the same time.
If the information that the POM provides proves to be wrong it's not the end of the world....goal posts change as I said.
He doesn't need to justify anything. His credibility should be based on providing us content for discussion whilst being nice at the same time.

 

[teddy23]

There's a lot of noise about Moses leaving Parra which seems to get louder, whilst there's a lot of noise about Moses potentially coming to us and we seem somewhat confident (which is the mail I got as well) which also seems to get louder.... I thought about it and I think the lure to come to us is there, here's why:

- Sheens was at the club when Moses was a kid and from all reports they had a good relationship and Sheens is a very good operator I feel comfortable with him in control of recruitment selling the vision

- Benji will be the head coach in 2025, the lure of playing under your childhood hero at your boyhood club will be massive esp with Benji promoting the idea of Moses being able to play a brand of football which would intrigue him (that stuff matters) he went on Benji's show twice last year too... very good relo between the two and as soon as Benji was announced the next day the Moses news came out - there's a reason for that

- Playing with his best mate in the halves.... him and Brooks have and still hold a very tight relo together the idea of reuniting and rewriting there history together is promising

- Most importantly.... $ will be incredible for him he'll get more coin with us by all reports somewhere in the vicinity of 200-250k more a year - trust me on this with his young family money will be priority

- His relo with Farah (lebo connection) is also strong, Farah is a recruiter as well he'll be in his ear as well.... not sure about AD but they may be close too

- Our latest recruits will help attract stars Moses knows Papalili better than anyone in terms of ability as they had so much success together last season, also Api as his 9 he knows he'll have some space and quality helping him in the spine and mongrel forwards like Klemmer, Bateman and potentially Brown as well along with what we already have here and the hype around our juniors too

- We've held I think 2-3 meetings with Moses management from all reports, whenever he does a tour of our COE he'll know first hand the leaps we've taken from a facility perspective as he lived it in 2016 state of the art facilities will definitely be an attraction

Sorry for the bible verse... but the idea of Moses coming seems to be gaining traction and personally I think it isn't so far fetched we can be a powerhouse come 2024

 

[happy_tiger]

Why does it matter though?

For example Pom posted that Brooks management advised the club he intended to sign with Newcastle. Now he’s copping it from some.

None of us know if that happened or not, but I do know that when contacts are being negotiated what is true today may not be true tomorrow, and what one party believes is true may not be true to the other. So if they are going to get hammered for posting what they hear, why would they bother?

Better to say nothing and not cop the flack, which doesn’t make for a great forum.

Dealt with the same stuff

But if the info I provided was wrong I owned it ....apologized and moved on ...I think people can get that .....but when you start claiming your not wrong when clearly you were ......yes info changes daily ...nightly even

Even smoking gun was humorous ..but when he claimed that Braith was on take after a Friday night game .....

The bloke last year that continually claiming he was right or had got 1/6 of his predictions correct claimed he wasn't wrong ...well ....you lost me mate ...accountability is pretty important to me

 

[earl]

The bloke last year that continually claiming he was right or had got 1/6 of his predictions correct claimed he wasn't wrong ...well ....you lost me mate ...accountability is pretty important to me

I don't see it as this simple though. The situation can change pretty late in the piece.

 

[Cobarcats]

Dealt with the same stuff

But if the info I provided was wrong I owned it ....apologized and moved on ...I think people can get that .....but when you start claiming your not wrong when clearly you were ......yes info changes daily ...nightly even

Even smoking gun was humorous ..but when he claimed that Braith was on take after a Friday night game .....

The bloke last year that continually claiming he was right or had got 1/6 of his predictions correct claimed he wasn't wrong ...well ....you lost me mate ...accountability is pretty important to me

You could just ignore it happy.
I know we'll make the top 8 next year, I'm always right 🤣

 

[tony soprano]

There's a lot of noise about Moses leaving Parra which seems to get louder, whilst there's a lot of noise about Moses potentially coming to us and we seem somewhat confident (which is the mail I got as well) which also seems to get louder.... I thought about it and I think the lure to come to us is there, here's why:

- Sheens was at the club when Moses was a kid and from all reports they had a good relationship and Sheens is a very good operator I feel comfortable with him in control of recruitment selling the vision

- Benji will be the head coach in 2025, the lure of playing under your childhood hero at your boyhood club will be massive esp with Benji promoting the idea of Moses being able to play a brand of football which would intrigue him (that stuff matters) he went on Benji's show twice last year too... very good relo between the two and as soon as Benji was announced the next day the Moses news came out - there's a reason for that

- Playing with his best mate in the halves.... him and Brooks have and still hold a very tight relo together the idea of reuniting and rewriting there history together is promising

- Most importantly.... $ will be incredible for him he'll get more coin with us by all reports somewhere in the vicinity of 200-250k more a year - trust me on this with his young family money will be priority

- His relo with Farah (lebo connection) is also strong, Farah is a recruiter as well he'll be in his ear as well.... not sure about AD but they may be close too

- Our latest recruits will help attract stars Moses knows Papalili better than anyone in terms of ability as they had so much success together last season, also Api as his 9 he knows he'll have some space and quality helping him in the spine and mongrel forwards like Klemmer, Bateman and potentially Brown as well along with what we already have here and the hype around our juniors too

- We've held I think 2-3 meetings with Moses management from all reports, whenever he does a tour of our COE he'll know first hand the leaps we've taken from a facility perspective as he lived it in 2016 state of the art facilities will definitely be an attraction

Sorry for the bible verse... but the idea of Moses coming seems to be gaining traction and personally I think it isn't so far fetched we can be a powerhouse come 2024

Fingers crossed mate most likely 50/50 with parra.

 

[Stevec]

I've taken a break last few weeks after all it is the off season but can't make out latest facts on signings .What I know is weve signed Staines and Klemmer and lost Hastings? I think we've signed Jimmy Ngatlik ? What is story on Bateman and Brown ? Facts ?
The only recruitment that got me excited was Api and IPaps which happened in 2021 .Personally would love Bateman but not much interest in Brown .

 

[earl]

You could just ignore it happy.

To put it another way Happy could do the same thing everyone does to him.

 

[happy_tiger]

You could just ignore it happy.
I know we'll make the top 8 next year, I'm always right 🤣

Didn't realise people have issues of admitting when they are wwwwrrrong it's no big deal

I could have looked like the world's biggest tosser if I'd checked my emails at 1.00 am the day someone announced they were going to Canberra .... understand how quickly stuff changes ...

 

[Bones]

Dealt with the same stuff

But if the info I provided was wrong I owned it ....apologized and moved on ...I think people can get that .....but when you start claiming your not wrong when clearly you were ......yes info changes daily ...nightly even

Even smoking gun was humorous ..but when he claimed that Braith was on take after a Friday night game .....

The bloke last year that continually claiming he was right or had got 1/6 of his predictions correct claimed he wasn't wrong ...well ....you lost me mate ...accountability is pretty important to me

Yeah I can understand why people question certain things, I just feel like there a handful of people who are intent on discrediting anyone who might have any sort of inside information. What their reasons are for doing that I can only guess.

 

[teddy23]

Maybe we should start an inside info thread and discuss why people shouldn't be allowed to report on this forum what they hear?

Getting ridiculous guys come on.... people are allowed to feel how they want in terms of if someone tells them their info is wrong, if they stand strong with there mail and don't surrender that they're wrong just cause people weirdly want to be told they're right is more of an issue in itself

Believe what you want to believe - no ones forcing you to take any inside info seriously

 

[teddy23]

There's a lot of noise about Moses leaving Parra which seems to get louder, whilst there's a lot of noise about Moses potentially coming to us and we seem somewhat confident (which is the mail I got as well) which also seems to get louder.... I thought about it and I think the lure to come to us is there, here's why:

- Sheens was at the club when Moses was a kid and from all reports they had a good relationship and Sheens is a very good operator I feel comfortable with him in control of recruitment selling the vision

- Benji will be the head coach in 2025, the lure of playing under your childhood hero at your boyhood club will be massive esp with Benji promoting the idea of Moses being able to play a brand of football which would intrigue him (that stuff matters) he went on Benji's show twice last year too... very good relo between the two and as soon as Benji was announced the next day the Moses news came out - there's a reason for that

- Playing with his best mate in the halves.... him and Brooks have and still hold a very tight relo together the idea of reuniting and rewriting there history together is promising

- Most importantly.... $ will be incredible for him he'll get more coin with us by all reports somewhere in the vicinity of 200-250k more a year - trust me on this with his young family money will be priority

- His relo with Farah (lebo connection) is also strong, Farah is a recruiter as well he'll be in his ear as well.... not sure about AD but they may be close too

- Our latest recruits will help attract stars Moses knows Papalili better than anyone in terms of ability as they had so much success together last season, also Api as his 9 he knows he'll have some space and quality helping him in the spine and mongrel forwards like Klemmer, Bateman and potentially Brown as well along with what we already have here and the hype around our juniors too

- We've held I think 2-3 meetings with Moses management from all reports, whenever he does a tour of our COE he'll know first hand the leaps we've taken from a facility perspective as he lived it in 2016 state of the art facilities will definitely be an attraction

Sorry for the bible verse... but the idea of Moses coming seems to be gaining traction and personally I think it isn't so far fetched we can be a powerhouse come 2024

Just to add to this

Benny Elias could also be in his ear as his family also have a connection to the club, my point is Moses seems to have so many current connections to the Tigers that the possibility of him coming should be taken very seriously - esp if Parra start the year poor and we start scrapping some wins

Moses is a top 3 halfback in the game right now... if he's available you get him he makes your team better and would easily be NSW's number 7 if it wasn't for Cleary (best player in the world) - the thing we lack right now is a 7 who gets his hands on the ball which we had with Hastings but Moses is imo twice the player he would take us to the next level

If Sheens can get it done that's arguably the biggest signing in Wests Tigers history along with Api, Papalili, Klemmer and most likely Bateman we would be a top 6 team easily - compared to our recruitment previously we've improved immensely the last 12 months

Everyone was confused to why we wanted Hastings at 13 and got rid of him easily.... personally I feel like Sheens and Benji may have an inkling that Moses is a real possibility so much so they were willing to let there current 7 walk yet felt so strongly about Brooks just food for thought

Bateman and Moses share management also......

 

[Cobarcats]

Didn't realise people have issues of admitting when they are wwwwrrrong it's no big deal

I could have looked like the world's biggest tosser if I'd checked my emails at 1.00 am the day someone announced they were going to Canberra .... understand how quickly stuff changes ...

Didn't mean to upset you hap. Things can be taken out of context somewhat.
Chinese whispers play havoc on a forum.
At the end of the day, if we are entertained and didn't lose an eye doing so then it's ok isn't it?

 

[earl]

Didn't realise people have issues of admitting when they are wwwwrrrong it's no big deal

I don't even view it as wrong but you are right in that it's no big deal if it doesn't turn out to be true.

 

[earl]

Moses is a top 3 halfback in the game right now.

Maybe but the level of halves in the game is so low now whereas most other positions the players are fantastic.

I'm just wary about how much you pay for any half and what they provide in return.

 

[851]

don't agree bit there you go, since Moses left he has had a very good team to work with good forwards and backs Brooks has had rubbish to work with
Brooks will kill it with the 2023 team and 2024 team being built

I thought Moses was the better player when he was at the Wests Tigers, so they were working with the same forwards