Signings, Suggestions & Rumours Discussion

[batboy]

The blokes doing the firing keep doing the hiring. Muppets!

Doubtful......
Sheens Hired him - Sheens wouldn't have fired him.

either way - no one was sad.

 

[batboy]

This year was the clubs best ever recruitment drive and we need a new recruitment guy? Who’s done zero in a month. Our Board, Chairman and CEO are absolutely incompetent.

So tell me who the recruits you're referring to....
And what role McDonnell would have had to do with them joining the club.

 

[hank37w]

I'm assuming it's an innuendo piece because it says it results from internal differences in regard to re-signing Brooks. But Sheens and Marshall are the ones who want to re-sign him. So if McDonall is gone then that would suggest he is against it even though he is only in pathways now, suggesting he had some kind of falling out with Sheens or Marshall. Something doesn't make sense. The only logical person who could've been against it is Fulton now hes in charge of the top 30 , yet he is still there, and why would that push McDonnell out. 2 and 2 aren't adding up.

Maybe Ronald McDonell was the architect of the insulting low ball offer for Brooks which probably has upset Luke and his manager and that is why he was shown the door.

Just a thought, but I would think making an offer like that to a player that loves this club isn't a real good look.

Don't think Luke is going to bother getting out of bed of a morning for somewhere around the 500k mark, I'm sure most people on here would, but then not that many of us are NRL halves either.

 

[2041]

This year was the clubs best ever recruitment drive and we need a new recruitment guy? Who’s done zero in a month. Our Board, Chairman and CEO are absolutely incompetent.

Yeah I mean imagine delivering no major signings in <checks notes> May, which is traditionally such a hotspot for major NRL roster moves.

 

[hank37w]

600K is about fair value for Brooks based on the $ he’s taken in years gone by and his output. If he wants more it’s over to our fancy new recruitment guru to find someone else.

Don't think he stays here and gets out of bed every morning for 600k either.

He'll get more than that elsewhere.

 

[hank37w]

We'll all just have to wait and see what happens.

 

[batboy]

This year was the clubs best ever recruitment drive and we need a new recruitment guy? Who’s done zero in a month. Our Board, Chairman and CEO are absolutely incompetent.

Didn't think you'd back it up....
Big name signings Api and Papali'i done by Madge (Pre Sheens - Pre WMc)
Klemmer - Through Sheens (From his mouth)
Bateman, You'd think that was Sheens (Not saying WMc wasn't involved) But I would doubt it....

The one big signing WMc had full control over was Mitch Moses - How'd we go there?

Don't doubt he had something to do with a couple kids coming in last year - Maybe Bula and Pole....
But even a broken clock is right twice a day, And I would doubt he'd have suspected them coming on as they have...

Dogs have been in a hole for years after his work ended there....
I don't feel the game will miss him, Nor will we.

 

[tony soprano]

This year was the clubs best ever recruitment drive and we need a new recruitment guy? Who’s done zero in a month. Our Board, Chairman and CEO are absolutely incompetent.

The writing was on the wall after the mitchell moses negotiations. Simply not good enough.

 

[batboy]

Which Aussie club picks him up? They’re not lining up (it would seem).

I'd be more concerned with the silence, Moreso than the 'apparent' lack of Suitors....
There's no one not taking him for first drop 6,7 or 9 at 500k...
No one!!

Mbye has gone and got himself almost that!!

 

[GCfan]

He’d be eating baked beans on toast, not on much.

Be that as it may, I’ll still take AJ thanks

 

[2041]

Yeah no rush. Who needs halves in 2024 😂

Who would you have signed over the past month to play in the halves next year?

 

[Todd Packer]

I wonder if Parra will try to get Laurie for the rest of the year now that Brown is gone. Gutho to 6 and Laurie to 1?

 

[Stevec]

Tigers are finally playing reasonable football and I am starting to feel Pascoe is going to stuff it up . He hires Fulton without Sheens knowing about it . Fulton now telling a bunch of players to look elsewhere . He is interested in Shuster at well over $1mill .
One reason the team is competitive over a number of weeks is the team harmony ,everyone working together , Brooks finding form ,Our 3 big forward recruits starting to pay dividends .
Bula and Tupou looking like they could evolve into future stars .Toa getting better and better each week and Nofo having a bit of rebirth .Keeping the sams team on the field has allowed this improvement to happen .
All I hear about Fulton is he's like a Manly insider who can shift some of them from Brookvale to Concord but at what price . I don't want massive disruption rather develop what we've got and just add an additional center ( by the way Averillo has been allowed to look around and IMHO he's a gun ) add an additional playmaker to join Brooks and Wakeham ( need 3 playmakers to have deprh)
Also need another top class edge forward
Don't blow up the joint just a few select massages to our roster !

 

[tony soprano]

Tigers are finally playing reasonable football and I am starting to feel Pascoe is going to stuff it up . He hires Fulton without Sheens knowing about it . Fulton now telling a bunch of players to look elsewhere . He is interested in Shuster at well over $1mill .
One reason the team is competitive over a number of weeks is the team harmony ,everyone working together , Brooks finding form ,Our 3 big forward recruits starting to pay dividends .
Bula and Tupou looking like they could evolve into future stars .Toa getting better and better each week and Nofo having a bit of rebirth .Keeping the sams team on the field has allowed this improvement to happen .
All I hear about Fulton is he's like a Manly insider who can shift some of them from Brookvale to Concord but at what price . I don't want massive disruption rather develop what we've got and just add an additional center ( by the way Averillo has been allowed to look around and IMHO he's a gun ) add an additional playmaker to join Brooks and Wakeham ( need 3 playmakers to have deprh)
Also need another top class edge forward
Don't blow up the joint just a few select massages to our roster !

I am not confident at all the side has grown up to beat a side like the Titans.

 

[Stevec]

I am not confident at all the side has grown up to beat a side like the Titans.

I am confident based on maths
We put 66 pts on cowboys with their origin stars
Next cowboys go close to beating Parra without their origin stars
Next Cowboys thrash Storm 45-20 with their origin stars and we almost beat Raiders who had won 6 out of last 7 and without the refs howler should have . Tigers win !

 

[tony soprano]

I am confident based on maths
We put 66 pts on cowboys with their origin stars
Next cowboys go close to beating Parra without their origin stars
Next Cowboys thrash Storm 45-20 with their origin stars and we almost beat Raiders who had won 6 out of last 7 and without the refs howler should have . Tigers win !

Let's see.

 

[sparci]

I am confident based on maths
We put 66 pts on cowboys with their origin stars
Next cowboys go close to beating Parra without their origin stars
Next Cowboys thrash Storm 45-20 with their origin stars and we almost beat Raiders who had won 6 out of last 7 and without the refs howler should have . Tigers win !

Until you see the team we are versing is the Titans, whom we manage to lose against somehow everytime

 

[tony soprano]

360 mentioned manly players tigers looking at fainu brothers and Haumole Olakau'atu.

 

[Stevec]

Until you see the team we are versing is the Titans, whom we manage to lose against somehow everytime

Agree in the past AJ Brimson races 50m up the middle with inside pass . We are a much better defensive side these days

 

[Tiger-ferret]

Let's see.

I know you will remind us if we don’t