Signings, Suggestions & Rumours Discussion

[Westie]

dont know.but Ilias;s father said he wouldnt spit on WT if they caught fire

How many $$$ would change his opinion...
Add some grovelling from Lee.. (1 Greek to another).
This guy is keeping Taffe out of the starting side, and people are raving on a bit him for our halves.
He would be a definite improvement on what we have.
Big game experience as well.

 

[Asu Kepaoa's #1 Fan]

Come on WT, give us something. Something to keep us on this gravy train. I'll even take an Alex Seyfarth re-signing. Just...something, please. We haven't signed anyone since Bula was promoted to top 30 at the start of the season.

 

[Buttface]

We need to like practice 200 passes each session! 😜

2000 Tackles per sesh might have been the go considering the leakage of tries over the preceding years?
Defence has been our problem for over ten years and we practice passing the footy?

 

[jirskyr]

Tigers need to recruit an entire backline outside of fullback. Tupou has promise but he’s hit a wall and needs a spell. Kepoa, Toa, Naden, Nofa, Talau are all too inconsistent. Our halves are not first grade standard either. Teams just go wide as there is no point battling our forward pack when we have weak links out wide.

I agree that's fundamentally what it is. I would love to see the latest Left vs Centre vs Right tries conceded stats, because I don't think we've let in many tries up the guts (1 ordinary one last night).

Competing in the middle and making metres down the middle are not our major concern, in fact I think we are on a very good trajectory to compete with most forward packs in the comp with a rotation of Stefano-Api-Klemmer-IP-Bateman-Pole-Blore-Twal... Seyfarth does a job, but I'd want one more decent prop to sub in (that being said, two weeks in a row the injection of Blore and Twal turned our energy around into half-time).

But as soon as the opposition shifts and we get caught out - we won't win another match until that gets fixed. You can't just have the Knights halves running sideways to get the ball out to Ponga, then we panic and the winger scores in the corner. The Knights are not a great side, but they obviously practised their shift play and knew to use it at every possible opportunity, including going back to that play more than once per set, if it didn't work out the first time.

And after leaking several tries down our RHS, Knights shift to our left and I have this thought "oh maybe the LHS will cover this" and nope, they are as brittle as the other edge. The halves cannot defend, the centres and wing both make bad decisions and turn like ocean liners. Watching Dom Young sprint down a sideline and Talau and Tupou look like sloths in comparision - embarrassing.

Also our halves absolutely unable to put anything together in attack, to mount pressure on the opposition. Knights didn't even bother for short kick-offs, they "backed their defence" as the commentators said. Well not really, they simply bet against our impotent attack.

Knights were just waiting for the opportunity to defuse our rubbish kicks and then shift wide as soon as possible. Never in any real doubt.

 

[bathursttiger1]

We then to give Toa and Keapoa brain transplants

Who did you have in mind as a donor (Pascoe or Lee).😂

 

[hank37w]

Me too. Swans will always be trying.

But, but, but, "Wests Tigers are always in the f*ckin' game."

 

[bathursttiger1]

I've watched him a couple of times and he just isn't that good. Wakeham is slow but Hastings seems just as slow.

I was hoping that either Bateman or TT would flatten Hastings last night.

 

[hank37w]

Give them Simpkin, AJ and anyone else they want bar Bula for Sanders.

Yeah, just give them whatever they want and get the usual nothing in return, it's the Wests Tigers way.

 

[bathursttiger1]

Surely he can’t pick him there again next week… right?

Or left.

 

[hank37w]

A guy that we bought as a winger, who’s played mostly on the wing….

But unfortunately not very well.

 

[coivtny]

But, but, but, "Wests Tigers are always in the f*ckin' game."

Haha, wish they were.

 

[Todd Packer]

If the Bulldogs are looking to move on Jake LaMotta he'd be a good get for our centres.

 

[hank37w]

Not even an aggressive one?

Especially with Lee driving it.

 

[Halbrowne61]

Haha, wish they were.

At the 80th minute !!!

 

[Demps]

This bears team is better than our team


Few familiar faces in there

 

[Eternal Tiger]

If we have to spend 95% of our cap. FRONT LOAD CONTRACTS!

It's a win for the players and it's a win for us.

How is it a win?

 

[Todd Packer]

This bears team is better than our team


Few familiar faces in there

Stevanovic looking good again.

 

[hank37w]

Every game that we play makes us less desirable as a destination for any potential players.
I know that can’t be helped I ie we can’t stop playing) but I’m sure we all watch on the telly and see mistakes that you rarely see in well coached junior teams.
Dare I say it again “ FOCUS ON FUNDAMENTALS” - pleeeeese.

That is supposedly what we were doing all pre-season.

 

[Halbrowne61]

We did better with brooks in this team than without. I’ll expect we will go up a gear if he gets back this season. Only thing that could stop us getting another spoon.

So you’re saying he’s better than most people thought, and now he’s leaving.
You never know what you’ve got until it’s gone !

 

[Demps]

Stevanovic looking good again.

Bring Alan back 🔥