Signings, Suggestions & Rumours Discussion

[user118245]

Guys/Gals, any chance I can get a summary of the last 10 pages or so? We have resigned Pole to 2 years?, and a good prospect from panthers (big), Miller gone, and even NAS (didn’t sound real)? Cheers

Miller gone🧌👋 ✅ pole in talks to extend for 2 years 💈2️⃣⌛️ 2 prospects, one big boppa from Manly and the other Harrison Hassett from Penrith I think 🦅🐾👶. NAS apparently in talks with WT ⚡️🗣️🐯

See emojis for bit of references

 

[JB9918]

Hunt out of the Dragons is ramping up. Douiehi has been mentioned & DT reported today we have no view to sign an extension. No major loss considering halves & backs depth. Don't see AD as a Backrower or Lock.

 

[Needaname]

Clubs must have 24 top 30 players by 5pm November 1. By Monday of Round 1 they must have 28 players in the top 30. 30 by 30 June (no mid season transfers after that).

I found this info earlier this year 👆

What does that mean when you have more contracted. In our case 31 after Nov 1 but before round 1?

 

[Tigerstigerstigers]

Hunt out of the Dragons is ramping up. Douiehi has been mentioned & DT reported today we have no view to sign an extension. No major loss considering halves & backs depth. Don't see AD as a Backrower or Lock.

Make sense .. low risk for dragons and Douehi with lots of upside.
Limited upside for us given the depth in the halves already

 

[Tito Santana]

Make sense .. low risk for dragons and Douehi with lots of upside.
Limited upside for us given the depth in the halves already

Lots of upside - for us!

He is so shit.

One good game a year.

Shit haircut too.

 

[Bula]

His teeth are flawless though.

 

[Year_of_the_Tiger]

Miller gone🧌👋 ✅ pole in talks to extend for 2 years 💈2️⃣⌛️ 2 prospects, one big boppa from Manly and the other Harrison Hassett from Penrith I think 🦅🐾👶. NAS apparently in talks with WT ⚡️🗣️🐯

See emojis for bit of references

Gold! I can’t do emjois like that. What a summary

 

[crazycat]

I'm not a great fan of Twal but Klemmer does a job. He rarely misses a tackle and can put then down one on one. His defence isn't in question. His attack has diminished the last year or two but he's been a marked man as our only big go forward man. Stef was a liability, Pole's defence needs a lot of work, Sione goes okay but he doesn't hurt anyone, Twal is just Twal. I've got high hopes for Johannssen and Sukkar and Johannssen has a younger brother who could turn out to be something special. Sam Fainu in the second row will be special and Seyfarth keeps getting better.
I think if we start with Klemmer and Hunt, they are hard enough to get off to a decent start and Pole and either Sukkar or Johannssen can come on and do some work. After that, if we get a few injuries, we may be in a bit of strife.

Agreed.

There is a certain kind of Wests Tigers madness where we sign people for 4 years and 1-2 years in we start wanting to punt them. It's not just the recent Bateman/Klemmer signings. It's Roberts/BJ Leulia. It's Reynolds, Packer and then just 1 year later Mbye signed on huge deals.

Klemmer does a job, He doesn't do it the best in the league but he puts his service. Without him our forwards would be pushed around a lot more.... So people run and say "Punt him!". Were not going to get his 800k value in a player swap, heck we were only paying him 400k for his first year.

Plus it's the pack, your not replacing Klemmer 1 for 1 with a player of equal talent. If Klem hangs around and becomes our 2nd, 3rd or 4th best front rower he is still useful.

We try to swap Klemmer out we would likely be paying another club 500k to take him. That only free's up 300k cap space. ... Why do this when we can only really downgrade!

Similar for Bateman, yet we haven't been getting anywhere near as much value out of Bateman. Still it shows very poorly on our club that we sign a 4 year contract and look to break it almost the instant the first year is up.

 

[Tim Sheens]

Sorry, I just realised I spelt Mason instead of Miller!

Hopefully the news about Simione Laifai is true and
he takes Millers Development spot. Here's hoping.

I wish that Miller was only taking up a development spot, then WT could have signed someone ready to play decent minutes whilst he developed.

 

[Camel2281]

They've got Bassingthwaithe waiting in the wings. Rooster might actually grow one of their own for once.

Once Manu comes back, they're just as likely to use him to fill the gap for a season or two.

Or not, who knows.

Fight out between Bassingthwaighte and Jai Callaghan on their books. Both schoolboy guns

 

[balmain boy]

https://www.zerotackle.com/australian-schoolboy-to-join-top-30-roster-in-2026-212575/

Is contracted to MW on a dev deal next season into top 30 for '26. Nice work if true.

Large was also contracted for 2 more years including development and NRL

 

[balmain boy]

When do we need to have our playing squad at 30 ??

Next June i think

 

[mtd#2]

Forum moderators, can you look at deploying an AI to summaries "what ive missed" since I last visited this thread?

 

[hank37w]

His teeth are flawless though.

That's because he religiously wears his mouth guard at all times and even if he were to lose it and have it fall on the ground, he would not hesitate to take time out mid game to retrieve it, such is his dedication.

 

[BlackWhiteGold]

Players return to training at Concord on Monday next week. It will be the top 30 squad minus those playing internationals & those long-serving players (Klemmer, Api, Olam & Twal) & players in finals (Royce Hunt) whilst I think T&T players join in from then too.

I'm sure WT content guys will be supplying images so will be interesting if we see Bud, Naden & AD for obvious reasons & also whether Jack Bird wants to get straight into it with his new team (or whether he is in the long-serving contingent returning a week or so later).

 

[TIGERS]

It’s a very competitive list of bad decisions:
- Hiring Jason Taylor
- Reinstating Pascoe after he was disqualified
- Signing off on Ivan’s crazy signings and letting him leave
- Appointing Sheens and Benji as coaches

Many more.

But moving onto the positive, at least he is gone.

Jason Taylor was hired by Grant Mayer after a stitch up report that was produced for the club by Brian Smith. it was before Pascoe and Lee. Marina Go was still Chair. The club was pretty broke in those days because Balmain had gone tits up. At that time the club had next to nothing for its football department, and the amount of cap money being paid to players not at the club was absolutely eye watering.

The clubs problems began when Stephen Humphries began paying overs and back-ending contracts in 2009. Yea we had a couple of terrific seasons in 10/11, but Injuries and cap issues followed the risky moves in roster management and its been problematic getting the balance right ever since.

We've never had that situation where we have great juniors maturing while having a healthy cap. Pascoe's greatest 'contribution' was sacking Jason Taylor having backed him against Robbie Farah the season before. He should have been sacked then. For what he did with our cap afterwards he should have gone to prison.

 

[anonymous!]

Don't be surprised if we see Douihi sign with the Broncos come next year. Source close to Madge said that he gave him a call last week as he has worked under him at the Tigers and Rabbits and is a big fan.

 

[Buttface]

Jason Taylor was hired by Grant Mayer after a stitch up report that was produced for the club by Brian Smith. it was before Pascoe and Lee. Marina Go was still Chair. The club was pretty broke in those days because Balmain had gone tits up. At that time the club had next to nothing for its football department, and the amount of cap money being paid to players not at the club was absolutely eye watering.

The clubs problems began when Stephen Humphries began paying overs and back-ending contracts in 2009. Yea we had a couple of terrific seasons in 10/11, but Injuries and cap issues followed the risky moves in roster management and its been problematic getting the balance right ever since.

We've never had that situation where we have great juniors maturing while having a healthy cap. Pascoe's greatest 'contribution' was sacking Jason Taylor having backed him against Robbie Farah the season before. He should have been sacked then. For what he did with our cap afterwards he should have gone to prison.

I think you will get a lot of love for that last bit.

 

[Demps]

Don't be surprised if we see Douihi sign with the Broncos come next year. Source close to Madge said that he gave him a call last week as he has worked under him at the Tigers and Rabbits and is a big fan.

AD was at South's 2018 and 2019.
Madge finished up 2017.

 

[colinbh]

Players return to training at Concord on Monday next week. It will be the top 30 squad minus those playing internationals & those long-serving players (Klemmer, Api, Olam & Twal) & players in finals (Royce Hunt) whilst I think T&T players join in from then too.

I'm sure WT content guys will be supplying images so will be interesting if we see Bud, Naden & AD for obvious reasons & also whether Jack Bird wants to get straight into it with his new team (or whether he is in the long-serving contingent returning a week or so later).

Bird has been training for some time.