Signings, Suggestions & Rumours Discussion

[kade7]

brother its a rumours page no need for an apology 🫡

also on the tupou front the deal with the dolphins is 3 year with a 4th as a player option capping out at 575k in the final year

tigers offered 3 year deal worth 300k capping 400 in the final year

the kid could be anything

 

[jirskyr]

Make of this what you will, some bloke on Facebook reckons it’s legit, even doubled down when challenged on it. So is this Luai or someone posing as him who wrote this

Personal experience 😳 what a shock the media and its expert fans have created & hyped up this drama about the signing of my contract. 🤔Now that it’s close to being done I can’t sit here and pretend it hasn’t affected me to a degree.
Imagine being in charge of a group of young men & go on to accomplish great achievements & become apart of the great culture and community for your Club. At some point you can’t keep all of us , but I came to you to tell you I have an opportunity to set myself and my family up for the future but then you turn your back on me and walk off & refuse to speak to me. But before all this you begged me to please stay 🙏 from a manipulative I mean an emotional point of view and now you cowardly sit there and watch all this unfold 🫡 if this was your own child mmmmm once again you are hard done by 🙄 I’m over it 😡 sick of this injustice bullshit. I’ll always be grateful for what you and the club have done for me, gives me an opportunity to give my family a better life I actually wanted your approval and thankyou but you made this bigger than it had to be. Walking out like you did on your previous club I’m not surprised.
If Jesus can love and help a prostitute then I wish you and your family a happy Christmas 🙏🫠

Even if it's not him the voicing is impressive.

 

[jirskyr]

I agree. It's an ego thing. I love Benji, and I'm excited by all the whispers about how players rate him. He has my support that's for sure. But if he keeps playing in the halves during training he will eventually annoy the players. Coaches stand back and coach. Yea maybe someone like him can get in and physically show a half something, but not actually "play" the entire role in a session.

Dude it's the first few weeks of the pre-season. Not even close to the entire season.

 

[jrtiger]

lol reading some of these supposed theories on luai are laughable

a timeline

- told cleary himself, penrith tipped the media off
- has been given the week off to finalise deal and rest shoulder, as there had been some swelling
- he is on speaking terms with everyone
- he met with the club today, penrith will waive 10 day clause once its done

mate, you heard anything about a late twist in the deal? ITK poster on Penrith's LU forums saying there's been some late developments. assuming Dragons in the wake of Dearden or the Dogs having one last crack. know anything?

 

[kade7]

mate, you heard anything about a late twist in the deal? ITK poster on Penrith's LU forums saying there's been some late developments. assuming Dragons in the wake of Dearden or the Dogs having one last crack. know anything?

heard nothing about it
the club has been so incredibly tight lipped about the process, all of the information is coming from penrith and them wanting to control the narrative

i would think it gets done and announced by friday

 

[davey_farrell]

brother its a rumours page no need for an apology 🫡

also on the tupou front the deal with the dolphins is 3 year with a 4th as a player option capping out at 575k in the final year

tigers offered 3 year deal worth 300k capping 400 in the final year

the kid could be anything

wow that would be hard to knockback, good luck to him

 

[Telltails]

mate, you heard anything about a late twist in the deal? ITK poster on Penrith's LU forums saying there's been some late developments. assuming Dragons in the wake of Dearden or the Dogs having one last crack. know anything?

Just got told a new "rumour" going around Penrith swap Luai for Burton...

 

[hammertime]

lol reading some of these supposed theories on luai are laughable

a timeline

- told cleary himself, penrith tipped the media off
- has been given the week off to finalise deal and rest shoulder, as there had been some swelling
- he is on speaking terms with everyone
- he met with the club today, penrith will waive 10 day clause once its done

I hope to God we aren't dawdling with the submission. It would be just like us to wait till the final second to start drafting the contract

 

[Tiger-ferret]

I couldnt see how Luai wouldn't be pissed at Ivan. His whole comments about luai being a risk at 7, could have directly impacted him and his family financially to a huge degree.

Really poor comments from a bloke who has personally benefited from luais hard work.

Cleary struggles to speak when he’s not getting his own way. It’s almost like his arrogance impairs him.

Examples; then.
When we beat them in Bathurst last year.
When we wouldn’t just release him from his coaching contract initially.

 

[tigerballs]

Finucane is contracted for '25 but his deal is apparently heavily front-loaded.

Reports suggest his deal goes from about $750-850k in 2024 to $300-325k in 2025.

A lesson there with Finucane. Storm let him go and old age crept up on him fairly quickly. Olam the same deal I reckon.

 

[SwervinMervin]

What happens if all 3 of Sullivan, Fainu and Galvin live up to expectation very quickly and become just as valuable to us as Luai ?

It’s called a good problem to have.

 

[Tiger_Fanatic3]

Kristian Woolf has declared Latu Fainu as Luai’s long-term WT halves choice

 

[GNR4LIFE]

Kristian Woolf has declared Latu Fainu as Luai’s long-term WT halves choice

That’s great. What club does he coach? 🤔

 

[boonboon]

Just got told a new "rumour" going around Penrith swap Luai for Burton...

Where that is a risk is Penrith would take that swap and Laurie would get his big pay check in 2024 instead of 2025. Still think he will be with us but won’t believe it till it’s announced

 

[crazycat]

Wasn’t that great signing, Finucine?? Remember people crying poor when we missed out. Dodged a bullet…

It was two odd choices at the time.

Finucane
TPJ

We went hard for TPJ and wanted him bad. Big unit who was very physical. Canterbury got him.
Sharks signed Finucane based off Culture and ethic. I did a double take as Cronulla had: Gallen, Lewis, Wade Graham, Matt Prior etc that seemed like older forwards who would instill culture.

As players. TPJ did nothing really special. Entered Origin and was quickly dropped.
Finucane as a player did not perform well either. Ok for a standard forward, laughable on the salary he was on. Yet what was Finucane's leadership at the Sharks like??

I don't know, but I suspect that Finucane added to the culture and helped keep a newer playing group together.

 

[WT46]

heard nothing about it
the club has been so incredibly tight lipped about the process, all of the information is coming from penrith and them wanting to control the narrative

i would think it gets done and announced by friday

I swear if we lose to dragons for luai..

 

[GNR4LIFE]

I swear if we lose to dragons for luai..

Lol nope

 

[Magpie_Magic]

heard nothing about it
the club has been so incredibly tight lipped about the process, all of the information is coming from penrith and them wanting to control the narrative

i would think it gets done and announced by friday

Was thinking it was to be announced today........but no.

Possibly the delay is to create negotiations for 24.

Happy we are saying nothing so I take that as an affirmative if he chooses to come next year. The sheer fact our club has abstained from even a disingenuous we'd like Jerome to see out his contract with Penrith is a good sign for 24.

I like the noise coming from Penrith.

 

[LeichhardtTiger]

What happens if all 3 of Sullivan, Fainu and Galvin live up to expectation very quickly and become just as valuable to us as Luai ?

We will have been blessed and will enjoy the W's. The most exciting times lay ahead. We've got 2 spoons and are now on the road for a set of Splades!

 

[skywalker]

I went to training today to watch the guys run around. They were playing a full contact game with a referee. Looked like an "A" side full of first grade players and a "B" side of those battling to get into first grade. A few things I saw...

The A team had Lobb on left wing, inside Toupu at centre. Right wing was Staines with Toa at centre. Benji was playing in the halves and looked as good as ever.

Noffa was in the B team on the right wing. One of the few breaks made was done his wing and John Morris was yelling at him and the centre (not sure who it was).

Plenty of guys not training or training by themselves. Klemmer had a bad leg/knee and was noticably limping. Joining him on his walks around the oval was Twal who looked fine and Douhie, who later on was walking with ice on his left leg.

Api was just watching, but looked uninjured. Was practicing kicking goals from the sideline.

When they were doing their running drills, Ice, Naden and Sezer were the too loud talkers, trying to motivate the younger boys. Sezer looked good in the game too and was very talkative in both offence and defence. Naden was playing in the halves for the B team and did a decent job, wearing a pink bib, so wasnt allowed to be tackled.

Galvin, Feledy plus a couple of other young guys were just doing running drills. Latu Fainu and Jordan Miller were not training at all but looked uninjured.

Sullivan was training by himself doing wrestling and running drills.

I miss my footy

Thanks alot. This type of post is always appreciated.