There’s 3 at the raiders, two are brothers, I’m pretty certain the one I’m talking about is the hard, line running backrower.
Signings, Suggestions & Rumours Discussion
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With another new team to be introduced then the raiding of clubs is going to continue. And not a peep from the NRL.
It disenfranchises the fans.
How on earth they think with the additional travelling and the already lack of decent/ quality players available - another two teams is going to be good for the game?
PNG WA added to NTh QLD and NZ the travelling demands week to week - it's nuts from where I stand.
It disenfranchises the fans.
How on earth they think with the additional travelling and the already lack of decent/ quality players available - another two teams is going to be good for the game?
PNG WA added to NTh QLD and NZ the travelling demands week to week - it's nuts from where I stand.
BAGNF05
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I’ve seen nothing like 750K form from KPP. That’s probably why he’s available.
Dennisspicer1
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I'm not appealing for a Balmain side, I am and for last 25 years am calling for the West Tigers to be exactly that, the West Tigers.
Don't see why there should be anything other than that.
Being an original Balmain Tiger Supporter, from the day of amalgamation, I became a West Tiger Supporter and have been ever since, And I never watched the Balmain reserve grade again after the joint venture happened, and if it ever became solely the Magpies that would be the end of my Supporter days.
And I dare say, quite a lot of West Tiger Supporters would definitely not support the Magpies.
And, here we go again.
GNR4LIFE
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3 weeks, all the anticipation. Only to announce we extended Naden and To’a.
GNR4LIFE
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If you claim to be so behind the club, at least get the name right. Wests Tigers, with an S. Not West.
426Tlgerland
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And TDS.
liltiger
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Dennis I agree, I have the exact same sentiment, all junior teams should be branded as Wests Tigers. Though for the foreseeable future it won't happen. Imo while Holman Barnes Group operate Ashfield as Wests there will always be a Wests reserve grade team. If Holman Barnes Group one day decided to rebrand Wests Ashfield as Wests Tigers Ashfield, it would probarbly happen then. I would prefer it as Wests Tigers aswell, though have no issue as Wests Magpies, they're fitting the bill atm.
Gareth Tuiaki
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TigerNeddyK
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Taylan may, Dylan Lucas and Selwyn Cobbo
TigerNeddyK
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A real Smokey 🤣
The idea is that, over time, expansion franchises add talent to the comp by building pathways in places the game isn't currently reaching. It's going to take time, of course: the playing base in Perth is tiny and it'll be years before they are finding more players than they need to be signing from elsewhere. But it's also got a lot of potential. The reality is, most of the sports young kids in WA are looking at want a pretty similar body type: tall with elite cardio fitness, basically. If you're a big unit there isn't much for you in AFL, soccer, basketball or cricket - so it's not really a question of winning people over from those sports but finding the elite athletes who aren't suited to them.
All it takes is one sports teacher or family friend or whatever to say "hey, have you ever thought about giving rugby league a go?" That's not to mention the fact there's already a big Pasifika community in Perth.
I suspect the early years will be really tough for Perth - much more so than they have been for the Dolphins, who had a ready made Q Cup pathways system and a big player base to pull from. So yeah, it is going to add pressure on the existing talent pool for a while. But you don't grow the game by standing still or adding more teams in the same areas.
Actually, if anything it should be good for the Tigers. More bidding on free agents means bigger contracts means less value - so, all else being equal, you'd want to be a team that produces its own talent rather than signing it on the open market. We need to be chucking absolutely everything we've got at Macarthur and our other scouting networks. If some of those players piss off to Parra and chew up all their salary cap, so be it - we need to have the next ones coming through on a quarter of the money.
Because somehow they are allowed to buy players and then move them on without completing contracts and no drama surrounding it.
I would love to see the number of player or % of players not seeing out the full contract whilst Gould being at dogs and Penrith
They copped a lot of heat. Just shut up and delivered results year 2.
Rock Hopper Steve
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The whole NRL likes them too stephen but there's no way you could prise them out of their clubs, maybe we could search their lockers for hair samples and clone them from the follicles.
Yeah I know I should stop watching so much ScyFy.
hank37w
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Halasima is a beast and I think he can play centre as well as second row or do I have him mixed up with someone else?
Dream on about Martin. 🤣
hank37w
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liltiger
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If he runs at me I'm running away.
hank37w
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Now that I think about it, so does his mother.
