Signings, Suggestions & Rumours Discussion

[innsaneink]

Brooks has always been surrounded by mid range or low talent players. Luai has always been in stacked teams. Come back in a year and we'll see what impact he has

Good teams attract good players and coaches
Dud teams attract duds

 

[Tigers4ever]

Any news on Taylan May? Hope we get him.

 

[innsaneink]

Any news on Taylan May? Hope we get him.

News looks bad

 

[rugbygoated]

I'd suggest blocking rugbygoated the account is a great combination of troll and clown in equal measure. The ignore function is incredibly underrated

It gets people upset because it spoils the truth. I was one of the first on here who said luai was coming to the club when he met Benji at his hunters hill home in late 2023 before the journos got hold of it. I'm one of the few who advocated for us to chase sitili tupouniua mid last year but got absolutely rinsed for even raising the opinion, have a look at how good he was for Bulldogs and his back end of 2024 for roosters. I'm not a product of the hivemind on this forum, nor am I a contrarian or conspiracist

 

[rugbygoated]

Good teams attract good players and coaches
Dud teams attract duds

So like benji, luai's only impact will be recruitment? Glad we paid for him. We need on field leadership

 

[Merlot]

I'm not the only one. But what I say is factual. Even if it is the harsh truth

hep ,its hard to gloss over a ballz up of a club ,wake me up when we are constantly winning

 

[rugbygoated]

News looks bad

So we're getting him?

 

[Tigers4ever]

News looks bad

Why, what's happened?

 

[innsaneink]

So like benji, luai's only impact will be recruitment? Glad we paid for him. We need on field leadership

Mate...why ask when you know it all.
We've had one game ffs...and.no one give a crap what you did or said whenever except you

 

[innsaneink]

Why, what's happened?

Just chammas saying he thinks it's not on

 

[Telltails]

Mate...why ask when you know it all.
We've had one game ffs...and.no one give a crap what you did or said whenever except you

Couldn't have said it better.

 

[Ecto-1]

Any news on Taylan May? Hope we get him.

Michael Chammas has been saying that he thinks we’re losing a bit of interest in him.
Might be our way of getting behaviour clauses in his contract.

 

[gregjm87]

So you think the club should’ve kept players who weren’t 100% committed to changing things?

No the club should be creating a culture where players are committed. Moving them on isn't necessarily the wrong decision. It is the reason why they wanted to move on that is the problem. We fans don't know that reason as neither party will tell us (nor probably should they) but this leaves to the speculation.
Everything from past club admin, coaching (past and present) and individual players have been blamed.

 

[Ermo]

Ridiculous that the NRL use this as a reason. So the AFL could attract thousands of law suits for all the players it has restrained via a draft???

Bit hard for the NRL when it’s a Supreme Court decision

 

[Ermo]

It gets people upset because it spoils the truth. I was one of the first on here who said luai was coming to the club when he met Benji at his hunters hill home in late 2023 before the journos got hold of it. I'm one of the few who advocated for us to chase sitili tupouniua mid last year but got absolutely rinsed for even raising the opinion, have a look at how good he was for Bulldogs and his back end of 2024 for roosters. I'm not a product of the hivemind on this forum, nor am I a contrarian or conspiracist

Team, round of applause for RG please

 

[liltiger]

Was the restraint of trade the Terry Hill one, or the Balmain Tigers guy in the 70's (Tutty maybe)?

You might be right

 

[Merlot]

Ridiculous that the NRL use this as a reason. So the AFL could attract thousands of law suits for all the players it has restrained via a draft???

no ,the afl players rolled over for a quick money grab via the new enterprise agreement and signed certain rights away,think at the time it was the massive foxtel deal (2nd faze).From memory it was a 1 of7% increase with a certain % of any new deal locked into wages(year 2007 ???)

 

[Bus 2 Terrigal]

Matamua has certainly stalled, but there’s no need to rewrite history. He was a gun at under 18, under 19 level.

I’d be interested to see what a Bellamy or Bennett could get out of young Justin

Can we get a show of hands of how many had him in the starting 13 this year?
Hasn't stood out in any grade above Ball - And there's no real evidence he stood out there either.
RM Cup is where he belongs.

 

[GNR4LIFE]

@GNR4LIFE was giving 500/1 he'd start in round one

Haven't heard a peep 👀

I’m not following Ink. I gave those odds, and not only did he not start in 13, he wasn’t even in the 17. Am I missing something?

 

[Buttface]

Player of the year last year, had one game. Give him a chance

I’m not taking his chance away from him, I believe you play better with better players around you and pushing you, or where you need to play better to keep others out. You’re probably not used to it, as we go for the Tigpies, but this is what good organisations do. 😎