Signings, Suggestions & Rumours Discussion

[weststigerman]

Sullivan has a hamstring injury doesn’t he? I doubt he plays again this season is a ‘mid’ season release worthwhile?

Well it would be a Wests Tigers thing to sign someone mid season who is out for the season.

 

[Chipofftheoldblock]

Yeah but look deeper. Our forwards to 1 too many ball shifts for my liking. I’ve heard this many times, we have the forward pack to set the platform what platform?
What are our forwards actually achieving?
Are we getting quick play the balls and a fast ruck?
Are we seeing them belt the opposition and making it a tough game?
Are we seeing them bust tackles and making line breaks?
What they are getting is meters in possession but there is a lack of variety so would we really have an effective game plan on the back of our forward pack alone?

100% agree - we should be rolling through the middle and getting QPTB to provide space for the outside and edge. But we have turned 1 of the most dominant front rowers in the game into a pass first prop. Klemmer sucks in 3-4 players everytime if he runs run hard and straight over the advantage line.

I would just want our players to run strong hard lines punching through the tackle instead of ball playing before the line. All the defense does is move across as the ball is passed, you can already tell what they are doing before they do it.
If this is the Benji style of coaching, then he better think again because it is boring and u/7 like play. We have nothing in motion in attack hence majority of our tries are from luck or mis tackles.

 

[Needaname]

Well it would be a Wests Tigers thing to sign someone mid season who is out for the season.

Says due back round 26. So he’ll be available for two games.

 

[Tiger Stripes]

Still not an organising half, another running half. We need a Sanders, Pezet, etc in the mix, as who takes over from Sezer??

Spot on!

 

[kade7]

laurie last first grade game for the club
brooks likely back next week, no room in the cap this year for penrith

sullivan absolutely not an option this year

 

[BlackWhiteGold]

- laurie deal happend as expected, most likely his last game for the club last night
- no rush for the club to put latu into 6, sullivan is seen as a low risk high upside signing , still with sezer at 7, dragons would put up a little less then half to get him off the books, but watch the dogs make a play
- whispers that nick cotric may ask for a release from the raiders too, no interest from the tigers at this stage, but i would take him

We nearly landed Cotric last time. It was during Madge era but Sheens was involved so interest may develop.

Tigers confirm shock raid for Bulldogs’ versatile ex-Origin gun Nick Cotric

Tigers confirm shock raid for Bulldogs’ versatile ex-Origin gun

www.foxsports.com.au

If Laurie goes, we have 2 spots to fill by August 7 I think it is. I doubt we’d get Sullivan (injured) or Sezer this season, so maybe we just promote 2 internals immediately on low wage (Mansfield & Feledy) and plan Brooks/Wakeham as halves for rest of season with Will Smith & Api as backups. Or Talau & Fainu swap is on the cards.

A bit to play out.

 

[Needaname]

laurie last first grade game for the club
brooks likely back next week, no room in the cap this year for penrith

sullivan absolutely not an option this year

Your telling me the club would prefer to play Wakeham over Laurie?

 

[Pbulk]

We nearly landed Cotric last time. It was during Madge era but Sheens was involved so interest may develop.

Tigers confirm shock raid for Bulldogs’ versatile ex-Origin gun Nick Cotric

Tigers confirm shock raid for Bulldogs’ versatile ex-Origin gun

www.foxsports.com.au

If Laurie goes, we have 2 spots to fill by August 7 I think it is. I doubt we’d get Sullivan (injured) or Sezer this season, so maybe we just promote 2 internals immediately on low wage (Mansfield & Feledy) and plan Brooks/Wakeham as halves for rest of season with Will Smith & Api as backups. Or Talau & Fainu swap is on the cards.

A bit to play out.

We've filled our 30 spots for the year, even if a player leaves they still count so Ofa is still in our 30 contracted players. A bit of an odd one I know but that's how it's set up.

 

[BlackWhiteGold]

laurie last first grade game for the club
brooks likely back next week, no room in the cap this year for penrith

sullivan absolutely not an option this year

Any new mail on the assistant coach chase @kade7 ?

 

[Tiger4life43]

We've filled our 30 spots for the year, even if a player leaves they still count so Ofa is still in our 30 contracted players. A bit of an odd one I know but that's how it's set up.

That is not how it works. We still have one spot to fill before the august deadline because Joffa left.

 

[balmain boy]

Bloke has mad attitude problems. But he's very dangerous close to the line, which is the exact opposite of any current Tigers player.

You say this, but in reality over the past 4 seasons his total stats are something like 4 tries and 4 try assists from like 30 games.
And two of these tries were against us this season, so not sure they count.
So is he really that dangerous?

 

[Needaname]

You say this, but in reality over the past 4 seasons his total stats are something like 4 tries and 4 try assists from like 30 games.
And two of these tries were against us this season, so not sure they count.
So is he really that dangerous?

He is against us.

 

[palms]

Getting outplayed by seyfarth

In which world?

 

[jirskyr]

You say this, but in reality over the past 4 seasons his total stats are something like 4 tries and 4 try assists from like 30 games.
And two of these tries were against us this season, so not sure they count.
So is he really that dangerous?

Well if you dig a little deeper you see about half of his 27 matches were off the bench or starting hooker.

So it's more like 7 tries, 3 try assists, 6 offloads and 6 forced restarts from 15 games starting in the halves, plus bits and pieces. It's a decent strike rate for a 21 year old.

And my observation of him is he is most dangerous close to the try line, which is a distinct deficit of the Tigers.

 

[BZN]

I am sure a KFC diet will soon fix that

Or the Oporto chicken diet Joey Leulia was on.

 

[Tiger_Yoshi]

It took a full 3 years for our coaching staff to work out his optimal position and motivate him...not a simple task,but..
That's a big coaching fail for me

He signed and came here to play fullback, he wanted $600k per year (fullback $$) deal earlier this year

 

[balmain boy]

laurie last first grade game for the club
brooks likely back next week, no room in the cap this year for penrith

sullivan absolutely not an option this year

If Brooks is back we still only have one fit half. Laurie is still the best fit 5/8 at the club.
It would make no sense to dump him to NSW cup, and if Penrith don't have room where is he going? Or a swap with another club? We getting Latu early?

 

[Magpie_Magic]

If Brooks is back we still only have one fit half. Laurie is still the best fit 5/8 at the club.
It would make no sense to dump him to NSW cup, and if Penrith don't have room where is he going? Or a swap with another club? We getting Latu early?

Staines if ready?

 

[balmain boy]

That is not how it works. We still have one spot to fill before the august deadline because Joffa left.

That's not totally right. We can sign someone else, but we don't HAVE to sign/promote someone and can choose to include Joffas salary in our top 30 instead if we want

 

[balmain boy]

He is against us.

But if he joins us of course he won't get that luxury