Signings, Suggestions & Rumours Discussion

supercoach said:
Any decent player who has another option other than us is highly unlikely to sign with us. So the chances of signing a elite no 7 are basically nil.

So we either find a old head journeyman with a great football brain or we try and find a young one from left field.

One thing for certain nothing is going to change with our current 6 and 7 set up.
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Open the coffers - money talks
 
Kaito said:
Another tidbit from him:

We can now reveal another key reason why the Wests Tigers are struggling … Some bright spark has made the decision to relegate legendary high performance guru Ronny Palmer from NRL duties to pathways. Ronny has been a leader in his field for 45 years. He’s been involved in Origin, premiership-winning sides and the Kangaroos. And the players love him. Seriously this relegation confirms there are people at the Wests Tigers making decisions that shouldn’t be. Palmer declined to comment when we contacted him on Sunday.
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Geez they like to make crap up. Our fitness levels aren’t the issue as we are playing stronger in the 2nd half than our opponents.
 
innsaneink said:
I guess Rothfield in big trouble then fabricating quotes from Mike Rush
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I'd be very surprised if Rush has made any public statements about Wests-Tigers. If it's come from anywhere I'd guess its Dodd's new agent. 90% of the stories which get written about SL in Australia are either made up or garbage or made-up garbage.
 
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Kaito said:
Another tidbit from him:

We can now reveal another key reason why the Wests Tigers are struggling … Some bright spark has made the decision to relegate legendary high performance guru Ronny Palmer from NRL duties to pathways. Ronny has been a leader in his field for 45 years. He’s been involved in Origin, premiership-winning sides and the Kangaroos. And the players love him. Seriously this relegation confirms there are people at the Wests Tigers making decisions that shouldn’t be. Palmer declined to comment when we contacted him on Sunday.
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tigertuff said:
I don’t remember any thing written when the Roosters or Panthers got rid of him. Why it is a problem now I don’t know. The bloke is a fruit loop.
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I've been waiting forever for him to be moved on....
He's been moved on from everywhere (And anywhere)
Surely he's past his used by date?

Can't forget when he was sprinkling the magic sparkles (Glitter) on the boys as they ran out....
- A real innovator....
Also oversaw the un-fittest team in the NRL for the last few years...

Heard Woods say when he first went to the Dogs it came as a surprise how far behind he was in the gym in the metrics / guidelines from the NRL...
"Nobody told me" he reckons.... That was under Ronnie you'd reckon
 
ovoevo said:
I'd be very surprised if Rush has made any public statements about Wests-Tigers. If it's come from anywhere I'd guess its Dodd's new agent. 90% of the stories which get written about SL in Australia are either made up or garbage or made-up garbage.
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“If you go to a Wests Tigers you could be wasting your time.”

“He’s still young and has only played 41 games.

“If he came and asked me for an opinion, I’d be happy to give him my thoughts on the better clubs to join.”

- Mike Rush, St Helens CEO
 
Wearyfan22 said:
Lots of carry on about how Ciraldo is some defensive boy genius to start the year. Conceded 80 points in 2 weeks. A couple of injuries buy still have their key players. Media being very kind to them as usual... maybe I'm just bitter?
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Spot on. Theyve lost a couple of wingers and forwards. Had the same spine every single game this year. Spare me the violins, they just suck.
 
batboy said:
I've been waiting forever for him to be moved on....
He's been moved on from everywhere (And anywhere)
Surely he's past his used by date?

Can't forget when he was sprinkling the magic sparkles (Glitter) on the boys as they ran out....
- A real innovator....
Also oversaw the un-fittest team in the NRL for the last few years...

Heard Woods say when he first went to the Dogs it came as a surprise how far behind he was in the gym in the metrics / guidelines from the NRL...
"Nobody told me" he reckons.... That was under Ronnie you'd reckon
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“Can't forget when he was sprinkling the magic sparkles (Glitter).” we beat manly that day at brookvale, after a couple of losses to I think, smartest thing Ronnie did his whole time here.

I can’t agree more there must be a young gun in that field that we could get, although we are still in the games in the second half so I think that is just another excuse, the problem is the halves in ability to create a single opportunity with all the field position given by the forwards and the inability for the outside backs to hold out a defensive raid, not to mention the fullback issues, oh yeah and the fact that it looks like the coaching team have NFI on how to improve a player and seem to be two weeks behind the moves that need to be made.
 
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DJG said:
Give Ben Hunt 2 years with us, make him the organiser and have Brooks running around.

2024 Spine

1. Bula
6. Brooks
7. Hunt
9. Api
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I would be ok with that if you got rid of brooks.
Hunt could be our Adam Reynolds, for the next couple of years while we blood the next one.
And yeah we’d have to pay over for Hunt
 
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DJG said:
Give Ben Hunt 2 years with us, make him the organiser and have Brooks running around.

2024 Spine

1. Bula
6. Brooks
7. Hunt
9. Api
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FFS, why the heck re-sign Brooks- he has done nothing to deserve it as a 7 and Sheens refuses to play him as a 6 so we can find out. If he doesnt play there and demonstrate good, consistent play there this season- why re-sign him into a new position 'on hope' for a further few years? Madness.

we need new 7 & 6.
 
magpies forever said:
FFS, why the heck re-sign Brooks- he has done nothing to deserve it as a 7 and Sheens refuses to play him as a 6 so we can find out. If he doesnt play there and demonstrate good, consistent play there this season- why re-sign him into a new position 'on hope' for a further few years? Madness.

we need new 7 & 6.
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The problem is we dont have a 7 so that we can test him at 6.
 
magpies forever said:
FFS, why the heck re-sign Brooks- he has done nothing to deserve it as a 7 and Sheens refuses to play him as a 6 so we can find out. If he doesnt play there and demonstrate good, consistent play there this season- why re-sign him into a new position 'on hope' for a further few years? Madness.

we need new 7 & 6.
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That's tough. Poor Brooksie's only been given a decade to get his act together.

Lucky Wakeham was given a whole game to show his wares (a young guy under major scrutiny) so he needed to be immediately dropped.
 
Buttface said:
“Can't forget when he was sprinkling the magic sparkles (Glitter).” we beat manly that day at brookvale, after a couple of losses to I think, smartest thing Ronnie did his whole time here.

I can’t agree more there must be a young gun in that field that we could get, although we are still in the games in the second half so I think that is just another excuse, the problem is the halves in ability to create a single opportunity with all the field position given by the forwards and the inability for the outside backs to hold out a defensive raid, not to mention the fullback issues, oh yeah and the fact that it looks like the coaching team have NFI on how to improve a player and seem to be two weeks behind the moves that need to be made.
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I've seen an abundance of opportunities created,
I've seen plenty of...
- Dropped balls,
- Bombed tries
- Centres rushing into no mans land - creating massive holes to be run / kicked through,
- Fullbacks no where near where they need to be in defense, And not even attempting to look like they wanna be where they need to be.
- Plenty of young blokes running horrible lines
- Standing flat footed and ball watching
- Over-rated Middle forwards running with absolutely no awareness (In front of the Ball Carrier) Obstructing defenders when they were never getting the ball leading dis-allowed tries.
- ZERO Pressure or Kick Chase

More than Plenty....
And your stats are deceiving, not once would I consider a game this year where has our forward pack dominated the opposition....
We scare no-one
- Bateman is the only smokey to making something happen.

It seems very easy here to say "We had possession and got no points" Shoot the halves.....
Halves aren't the (Only) ones giving away stupid penaltys, dropping good ball (Well, not the majority of the dropped balls) and not pressuring the opposition.
 
magpies forever said:
FFS, why the heck re-sign Brooks- he has done nothing to deserve it as a 7 and Sheens refuses to play him as a 6 so we can find out. If he doesnt play there and demonstrate good, consistent play there this season- why re-sign him into a new position 'on hope' for a further few years? Madness.

we need new 7 & 6.
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Only reason I put Brooks there is because who else is out there?

Yeah we can sign someone new but lets be real.. they'll be worse if not the same as him.

Halves shortage.. we missed the good ones..

I want Brooks gone as much as anyone, but if we bring in someone that is just like him then we're starting from scratch again
 
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