Signings, Suggestions & Rumours Discussion

[Tiger-ferret]

You don’t have to pay your spine exorbitant salaries.
Wakeham and Bula are on chookfeed but I’d bet you if we had Manu on staff as a centre, we’d have a few more wins with the same spine.

Of course but we are aiming for GF glory arent we?
So you pay peanuts get monkeys for halves.
Or we pay Manu 1.1 a season to play centre because he won’t leave a quality club.

 

[426Tlgerland]

Wonder how it would have been if we signed Adam Reynolds to 7 Brooks to 6 , we could have been a much better team specially with Klemmer , Papai , API , Bateman , wow that would have been pretty good set up

 

[Mistymuzzle]

Based on todays news/announcement, maybe the swap is taking a little longer as Manly and WT may want to include Samuela Fainu and Brooks in an immediate swap also? I can imagine Brooks contract this year would be a stumbling block though.

Swap is Talau not Brooks

 

[Needaname]

Can’t help but think in typical Wests Tigers fashion that Fainu stays at Manly and in 3yrs Manly wins the comp with Brooks and Fainu in the halves.

Meanwhile we continue to hunt for some halves that can get us to at least 1st week of finals.

Hopefully we get a win, Fainu comes across and we get him to reach his potential in our jerseys.

I don’t think that will happen, however at this stage of his career plus with our team around him I can’t see Fainu being anymore effective for us than Sullivan is for St George. We still need an experienced half alongside him. A Foggerty or Townsend he’ll even offer the extra cash to Keary.

 

[426Tlgerland]

Swap is Talau not Brooks

Manly have announced Talau for 2024 , no mention of a swap this year
Brooks 4 years from 2024

 

[Mistymuzzle]

Manly have announced Talau for 2024 , no mention of a swap this year
Brooks 4 years from 2024

Patience..........

 

[Needaname]

I don't really get comments like this and others.
Talau was always going to Manly, nothing's changed there.
Signing Brooks only puts us in a stronger position now that Manly really needs to get him off their books.
Who cares if Fainu comes next week or next year. It makes no difference.

It matters because Fainu is still under contract.

 

[426Tlgerland]

Tigers fingers crossed are active and are saying nothing about incoming except the Benji no to Manly slug Shister .
if they have written this year off , its all about 2024
centre
half
5/8
another top grader in position

 

[gallagher]

Both Webster and Payton are absolute surprise successes.

I totally backed Kevie's comments and he knows he needed to ramp the pressure up. Pressure is a difficult thing to build, too much and people crumble, too little and people don't try.

Is Payten's success a surprise? He did really well with our 20s.

 

[Halbrowne61]

Is Payten's success a surprise? He did really well with our 20s.

And I still predict that he will be back, one day down the line.

 

[TigersFan101]

How good is it that most chat on our end is staying behind closed doors keeping us guessing
Very minimal word coming out ofTiger camp once again

 

[tony soprano]

Strange that this has been announced now given there was apparently an imminent swap coming.

Unless it’s announced today or tomorrow I’m concerned we’ve screwed it up with Fainu.

Manly have the upper hand given he should not be in a new contract until next year or when ever it is. He is contracted.

 

[GCfan]

Its getting alarming tbh... We had like 1.5m for Moses and missed, Joe O freed up anther 600k and now brooks frees up even more money but Tigers still crickets.. Can only hope they are doting the I and crossing the T on an announcement is very soon. Would love a mass signing like Manly just did but we can all dream..

it’s all good, we’ll sign Seyfarth on $850K

 

[Halbrowne61]

How good is it that most chat on our end is staying behind closed doors keeping us guessing
Very minimal word coming out ofTiger camp once again

It’s all a big surprise !!!!!

 

[weststigerman]

How good is it that most chat on our end is staying behind closed doors keeping us guessing
Very minimal word coming out ofTiger camp once again

Are you sure about that? The latest rumour is Benji and Fulton are not on the same page and Benji doesn’t want Schuster.

It is the first time in a while the club has rejected someone rather than being the other way around so that’s good.

 

[TigersFan101]

Are you sure about that? The latest rumour is Benji and Fulton are not on the same page and Benji doesn’t want Schuster.

It is the first time in a while the club has rejected someone rather than being the other way around so that’s good.

As I said ‘most’.
If it was last year or the year before we’d know every single one of our top 30 players contract situation to begin with

 

[KingRobbie]

Manly have the upper hand given he should not be in a new contract until next year or when ever it is. He is contracted.

I reckon he’s already signed with us and we’re just waiting to announce it to see if we can get an early swap.

 

[Mighty_Tiger]

Manly have announced Talau for 2024 , no mention of a swap this year
Brooks 4 years from 2024

If either are listed and play this week for the current teams then we at least know it won’t be this week.

 

[Halbrowne61]

If either are listed and play this week for the current teams then we at least know it won’t be this week.

Onya scoop 🤣

 

[TigerNeddyK]

Find it very odd that Manly choose Brooks as there 6 over either Schuster and Fainu....

Shhhhh 🤐